About this episode
Hannah discusses her experience watching 51 movies in 2025 and the inspiration she found for game design.
Hannah watched 51 movies in 2025. Not all of them were helpful for game design, but there was inspiration to be found everywhere—in the form of left-behind robots, edgy existential planets, sci-fi noir, and Mother. Mother? Mother! Follow along and find every movie mentioned in the episode here: https://letterboxd.com/hanbandit/diary/films/for/2025/by/added-earliest/ Watch movies through your library on Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/ More Links: Turtlebun Discord: https://discord.gg/XD4WVDjvbz Support our work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/turtlebun Our games: https://turtlebun.com/ Credits: Design Doc intro/outro theme by ipaghost: https://www.ipaghost.com/ Episodes edited by Rob Abrazado: https://robabrazado.com/ Get in touch: Designdocpod (at) gmail (dot) com Instagram: instagram.com/turtleandbun Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/turtlebun.com
People in this episode
Hosts: Hannah Shaffer, Evan Rowland
Topics covered
- movies
- game design
- inspiration
- sci-fi
- film analysis
Keywords
- movies
- game design
- inspiration
- sci-fi
- film
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Kanopy, Turtlebun, Design Doc
Books & works: Mother
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