UMBCast 035 - Master of Orion




The Upper Memory Block show

Summary: It's time for episode 35, where we talk about the 1993 Simtex 4X strategy game, Master of Orion. Before that, news time: Bethesda announces the Elder Scrolls Anthology containing all Elder Scrolls games from Arena to Skyrim: Dragonborn. John Carmack joins Oculus VR as CTO. He is not leaving id however his work at Oculus will take priority. The history of Sierra Online film project I mentioned in a previous show did not fund. However the film will still be made. Finally, Precinct, Jim Walls' new game has cancelled its Kickstarter before it ended and is now adopting a tiered funding structure. Instead of trying to raise 500,000 dollars they are trying to raise 25,000 dollars to build a prototype. We then get into Master of Orion where we run through all the usual suspects plus some great emails from listeners. Buy Master of Orion 1 & 2 on GoG: http://www.gog.com/game/master_of_orion_1_2 Buy Master of Orion 3 on GoG: http://www.gog.com/game/master_of_orion_3 Next time, I'll be covering the 1991 Psygnosis puzzle platformer, Lemmings. Stream the show live: [audio src="http://umbcast.com/podcast/035-UMBCast-Master-of-Orion.mp3"] Direct download: http://umbcast.com/podcast/035-UMBCast-Master-of-Orion.mp3