It’s been almost a year since the demo for MOTHER Encore released after Mother Direct 2023, and the direction that got it there was thanks to Pkdotts! What inspired the changes to the original MOTHER, and how did Pkdotts become a fan? Find out in this interview!

Step into a Dimensional Slip: intermittent interludes in “MOTHER,” She Wrote’s journey – where Cat Blackard and Jessica Mudd speak with guests from a multitude of backgrounds and delve deeper into the themes, media, and fandom that make up the tapestry of the EarthBound experience.

The story of the MOTHER series in the United States is a wild one – filled with twists, turns, marketing mishaps, game cancellations, Internet movements, and at its heart: a generation of people brought together by a heartfelt work of art. These games have changed lives, and now that saga has been documented in EarthBound, USA a feature film documentary directed by Jazzy Benson.

In this episode, Jess and Cat are joined by Benson to discuss the film, she and her team’s incredible decade-long journey to create this amazing work of multimedia art, her formative fan film series: EarthBound Saga, and the ways that art, artists, and fans inform and inspire one another.

A conversation with Aaron Cargile: EarthBound, USA’s Archival Producer. Interview conducted by ThaneGaming, transcribed & reworked for Mother Forever. They talk copyright & fair use (in YouTube and in film), Fangamer, and the EarthBound fandom!

An interview asked by Remie_REM_Sleep, best known amongst the MOTHER community as the creator of the Ultimate Mother Iceberg on YouTube. In that video, one topic was the Mother Toy Theatre Production, a formerly unknown, nearly two hour long retelling of Mother/Earthbound Beginnings, the first game in the trilogy. What made this video especially intriguing was the unlikely storytelling medium through which it was told, paper theatre.

The videos creator, Tyler Banadyga, sent Remie an email shortly after reuploading the iceberg in July. From there, Remie asked about an interview, and a few months later, that’s exactly what happened.

Step into a Dimensional Slip: intermittent interludes in “MOTHER,” She Wrote’s journey – where Cat Blackard and Jessica Mudd speak with guests from a multitude of backgrounds and delve deeper into the themes, media, and fandom that make up the tapestry of the EarthBound experience.

The story of EarthBound is two-fold: the story within games and the story of their cultural impact – how they’ve shaped the world around them. In this Dimensional Slip, we’re examining the uncanny life of Kody NOKOLO, Webmaster of the fan site Mother Forever and Director at the game design studio, NOKOGODO. Theirs is a tale of how the MOTHER fandom expands and self-perpetuates across generations – while inspiring enthusiasts to create their own art, without boundaries. These games speak to their players – not just figuratively, but literally, and that’s become a reciprocal dialogue.

In this episode they discuss NOKOLO’s investigative origins in the modern MOTHER fandom, the phenomena of “MOTHERlike” games, the power of breaking the fourth wall, and how all these concepts are in conversation with their forthcoming game, GNOMONIC.

Take it from somebody who appreciates every single one, there’s nothing better than passionate fans. Gaming communities can run the gambit from welcoming to toxic, engaging to gatekeeping. Whenever people are around people, people will do people things.

The community surrounding Earthbound is unique in both its welcoming nature and wide variety of people involved. Over 30 years worth of fans populate sites like starmen.net and mother4ever.net. And they all have one thing in common: an overflowing love for an incredible series.

On this week’s episode A Gamer Looks At 40, Bill Tucker chats with three people representative of the community as a whole: a curator, a YouTube creator and a couple brought together by the power of an epic game franchise.

Have you seen MOTHER 3’s clay figures? …Actually, it didn’t have any! But if you thought it did, you might’ve thought of the work of Ruy, aka FlintofMother3! Ruy professionally sculpts and draws, like for his comic MACOATL. Hear how MOTHER and clay captivated him!

Lend an ear to Livvy94, ROM hacker and composer for SNES hacking projects! Learn about Livvy’s MOTHER history, experiences with PK Hack, and stories about composing for HS’s MOTHER Remake in the 2010s or creating hacks like MOTHER: Photographic Beginnings!

Rockin! Ferris and McThrillington have been hard at work composing and reimagining tracks for MOTHER Encore! Listen to how they discovered MOTHER, entered the community, and eventually started working on Encore and other projects like HYPERSOMINA!

Need pixel art or a game? Better call Benichi, artist and programmer for MOTHER Encore and co-creator of MOTHER: ROOTS! Hear about how he’s recently gotten involved with the MOTHER community and all these fan projects!

Mother: Cognitive Dissonance, the legendary MOTHER fan game, released in 2009 and has had a following within the MOTHER community ever since. It was directed by “Handish2000,” otherwise known as “Otherhand!” We reached out to Otherhand to find out more about his experiences with the MOTHER series, with the MOTHER community, and with the development of Mother: Cognitive Dissonance (CogDis for short)!

It’s a clash of the ages in this extra long and thoughtful interview with Reid Young, the original webmaster of Starmen.net who currently runs things at the gaming merchandise website Fangamer! This interview was from March 2020, but was posted later, in November 2020.

An interview with Echoes, one of the founders of Mother Forever and an experienced researcher of EarthBound 64 and the original Super Mario Bros. movie.

In this grand interview, we speak to Shesez of Boundary Break! If you haven’t heard of Boundary Break, it’s a YouTube webshow where Shesez and his team take the camera of any video game anywhere they want and try to find hidden, new, and interesting things in our favorite video games. Shesez happened to have done Boundary Break episodes on our favorite games, EarthBound and MOTHER 3! So, with this in mind, we decided to tap into the brains of Shesez and see how these episodes are made and what his thoughts are on the MOTHER series.

Following our interview with Shane Mesa, we were granted the gracious opportunity to speak with Jeffman, a veteran MOTHER community member who headed programming on the MOTHER 3 Fan Translation! Over the course of this interview, we discuss everything that led to the development of the fan translation itself; all the smiles and tears, as far back as Jeffman’s early days of learning programming while delving into the PK Hack community.