Waking Up in Known Mysteries

Today we're talking about Known Mysteries by Kara Stone! A game about people helping people and surrealist art movements in the face of fascistic systems.

Play Known Mysteries for free on solarserver.games! Check out Kara Stones' other work on her website!

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Discussed in the episode

• Known Mysteries is a lo-fi climate fable that runs off a solar-powered server on its developer's balcony by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell for Rock Paper Shotgun

Additional links

• The quest for the solar-powered gaming console by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell for TechRadar

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Art by Tara Crawford

Theme music by _amaranthine

Additional sounds by Boqeh

Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
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Timecodes:

• (00:00) - Philadelphia AJ is here and he's ready to punch
• (06:15) - What is Known Mysteries?
• (10:52) - The visual aesthetics
• (16:43) - Kim has a question
• (17:26) - Oh right, the main thrust of the game
• (21:28) - The Solar Server
• (23:47) - Welcome to Spoilers
• (24:21) - Chapter 1 | Spoilers
• (34:28) - Chapter 2 | Spoilers
• (51:32) - Chapter 3 | Spoilers
• (01:02:40) - Kim's Big Takeaway
• (01:05:08) - AJ's Big Takeaway
• (01:07:06) - Chase's Big Takeaway
• (01:14:15) - Really good video game
• (01:14:54) - Organize!!!

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Art by Tara Crawford
Music by _amaranthine
Additional sounds by Boqeh
Produced and Edited by AJ Fillari