Space Game Junkie Podcast

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Brett Lowey, creator and owner of BrainGoodGames, to talk about his spacey card board colonization game, Solar Settlers! Knowing next to nothing about board and card games my own self, I was super happy to have Spaz, Jim and Hunter on hand because they knew soooo much more than I did. We talked a lot about the game, as well as Brett’s other games, their evolution as board games, his background as a board gamer and much more. It was a fun and lively conversation! :) Next week on the show, we’re doing an early show (6 AM my time) to talk to the developer of the space exploration and crew management game, Galactic Crew! As always, if you have a question or comment, drop them in the comments below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Show Notes Games Mentioned * Minos Strategos * Militia * Axes and Acres * SkyBoats * Agricola * Space Station 13 * Crusader Kings II * Stellaris * Emperor of the Fading Suns * Noble Armada * Battlefleet Gothic: Armada * Dune * Battletech * Duskers * Robo-Rally * Colt Express * Omega * RimWorld * Gnomoria * StoneHearth

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast folks! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Adam Solo (Developer & Game Designer) and Hugo Rosado (Developer and Art Direction) of Praxis game to talk about their upcoming Master of Orion 2 homage, the really fun spacey 4X game Interstellar Space: Genesis! We discuss the origins of the game, the legacy left by MoO2 that still affects game design to this day, the current state of the 4X genre and much more. It’s a really fun and lively discussion, and the game, even in its pre-alpha state, is looking great. Next week on the show, we’re back at our normal time to talk to the developer of the fantastic space settling card game, Solar Settlers! As always, if you have a question or comment, feel free to drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Thanks so much for watching/listening, my friends, and enjoy the show. Show Notes Games Mentioned * Master of Orion Series * Civilization Series * Emperor of the Fading Suns * Alpha Centauri * Star Trek: Birth of the Federation * Stardrive 2 * Pandora: First Contact * Dominus Galaxia * Endless Space Series * Sword of the Stars Series

Welcome to episode 217 of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I have an early morning (for us) show so we can talk to our guest Milos Zivkovic, Game Designer and Story Writer at Zero Gravity Games, who was calling us from Belgrade, Serbia to talk about spacey survivalley game Hellion!! In this episode, we talk not only about the game quite a bit, but science fiction in general (we’re all BIG Expanse fans y’all), the ins and outs (but mostly ins) of early access and more. While I am TERRIBLE at the game — as the video will attest — I have to respect what it’s trying to do. Full orbital mechanics with weapons, orbiting station modules and more! It’s an ambitious game, but it’s also a labor or love, which is completely clear after talking to Milos. Up next week on the show, we’re having another early morning show to talk to the folks behind the upcoming 4X, Interstellar Space: Genesis! As always, if you have a question or comment, drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Show Notes Games Mentioned   FTL Rust DayZ Just Cause Space Engineers PULSAR: Lost Colony

Welcome to this episode of the Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Mark Baldwin, who worked on the Star Fleet, Empire and Perfect General series’, to talk about his time in the gaming industry, his favorite games he worked on, how the industry has changed and much more. I have to apologize though, as we had a couple of technical difficulties this time around. First, Mark’s headset died right before the show started, so he has to use his laptop mic, which cut out every so often. Secondly, the pedal I use for push-to-talk began malfunctioning, so I had to have an open mic the whole time. Ugh. Overall though, it was a fun show, and I hope these issues don’t hamper your enjoyment of it. Next week on the show, it’s a morning (for us) show as we talk to the developers behind the spacey survival game, Hellion! As always, if you have a question or comment about this episode, you can drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Thanks for watching/listening, and we hope you enjoy the show! Show Notes Games Mentioned * Star Fleet Series * Empire Series * Perfect General Series * Lost Admiral Series * Rules of Engagement series * Breech Series * Sun Tzu’s Art of War * Star Legions * Lensman Wargame * Galaxis * Deer Hunter * Battle Isle Series * Great Big Wargame * Advanced Wars Series * Doom * Quake * Simpsons Tapped Out * Candy Crush * XCOM 2

Welcome back to the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! We’re back from hiatus, and this week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk the games we’ve been playing, some news, and discuss what a surprise and delight 2017 has been so far in terms if space games. Over two dozen space games have been fully released (i.e. hit 1.0, not early access) this year, and we’re on track to beat 2016 in terms of releases. Not only have there been a lot of games, but many of them have just come out of nowhere and shocked us with how great they are. Star Fleet Armada, Icarus, Nevalia and more! It’s been such a great year so far. We’ve also been playing a lot of other awesome games (as you can see below, we talked about a LOT, and I likely missed some). It’s a pretty loose show, but it was a lot of fun to record, so we hope you enjoy it. Next week on the show, we’ll be having the other half of the team that brought us the original Star Fleet games, Mark Baldwin. We’ll not only talk about those, but his work on the Empire games as well! Yay! As always, if you have a suggestion, comment or request, drop it below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Thanks for listening! Show Notes Games Mentioned * Total War: Warhammer Series * Conan Exiles * Skyrim * Starcraft Series * ARK * Warhammer: Mark of Chaos * Sonic Mania * Sonic Generations * No Man’s Sky * Deadhold * Helium Rain * Lord of the Rings Online * LOGistICAL * Battleborn * Titanfall 2 * Jurassic World: Evolution * Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis * Planet Coaster * Elite Dangerous * Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition * Battletech * Mechwarrior Online * Heroes of the Storm * Airmech * Planetary Annihilation * Total Annihilation * XCOM 2 Series * Ticket to Ride * Shadow Warrior 2 * Absolver * Ogre * Star Wars: Battlefront II * Mass Effect Series * Icarus SCS * Star Citizen * Everspace * Galaxy of Pen and Paper * Children of a Dead Earth * X3 * Player Underground Battlegrounds * Starcraft Remastered * Space Tyrant * Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

Edit: Welcome to the second of two rerun shows we’ll be playing while we’re out on break. This episode is one of our biggest surprises of our entire run, and still one we look back to very fondly, so we hope you enjoy it, and we’ll see you back on the horse next week! Thanks y’all! Original: Life has a way of surprising you sometimes, and every now and again, these surprises can be so awesome they can take you to places you never expected. Such is the case when Jim and I sat down to talk to Thomas Robertson, developer of the popular Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator. I won’t spoil it for you, but let’s just say Jim and I were wholly surprised and delighted to discover some of the projects Thomas had worked on prior to Artemis…but don’t worry, we talk Artemis too. ;) It’s, I think, an excellent podcast, and I hope you enjoy it. As always, we look forward to your comments and invite you to subscribe via iTunes or RSS. Thanks as always for listening! :) Episode #28 Show Notes: Space Games Mentioned: * Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator * Master of Orion 1+2 * Quintet * Spaceteam * Spaceward Ho! * Star Trek: Klingon Academy * Star Trek: Starfleet Academy * Star Wars: TIE Fighter * Star Wars: X-Wing Other Games Mentioned: * All Star Baseball 2002/2003 * Battlepets * Blade Mistress * Champions Online * Doom * Freedom Force * Guardians: Agents of Justice * GunRaven * Harpoon * Master of Magic * Sid Meier’s Civilization * The Sims (PS2) * Starcraft * Star Trek: 25th Anniversary * Star Trek: Judgement Rites * Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury * Superhero League of Hoboken * Warcraft 3 * X-COM: UFO Defense Miscellany: * Edge of Reality * New Starship Foundation * Shuttlecraft Galileo Restoration Project (Video,

Edit: Hey folks, this is a rerun show to have something in the feed while we’re off for two weeks. I hope you enjoy it! Original: Welcome to this special impromptu edition of the Space Game Junkie Podcast!! In this special episode, Jim and I sit down with some folks who worked directly on the best game of all time (yeah, I said it), Freespace 2! Joining us are Adam Pletcher  (Lead Game Designer on Freespace 2, currently Studio Architect for Technical Art at Volition), Mike Kulas (Executive Producer on Freespace 2, Founder of Volition, Co-founder of Parallax Software), Dave Baranec (Lead Programmer on Freespace 2, currently Studio Architect for Core Systems at Volition) and Jason Scott (Designer and Writer on Freespace 2, currently Studio Design Director at Volition). To say I was nervous and trying NOT to fanboy all over these rock stars of the genre is something of an understatement. ;) That said, it was a damned fun show, and really informative as well. Y’all need to definitely tune in if you have any passing interest at all in either Freespace 2 or space gaming in general. If you weren’t able to join in the fun on Twitch, don’t fret. Apparently more folks from the original team wanna come on and do follow up episodes! OMGOMG I’m still on something of a bit of a high after all this, I kid you not, and knowing that it could happen AGAIN? Well…it’s just a bit overwhelming. That said, I truly hope you enjoy the show, and thank you for listening.  

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I get up at 6 AM Pacific time to talk to Eric “RexSpaceman” Flynn and Shaun “Stuffie” Hutchinson, creator and co-creator respectfully of the co-op miney, shootey, buildy, craftey warpey space game, Space Impossible! We have a fun discussion about Unity (and why it gets a bad reputation), early access, community feedback, implementing multiplayer and much more. It’s a really, really fun discussion, and we hope you enjoy it. The next two weeks will be reruns, since the site is going on something of a hiatus for a couple of weeks. I’ve chosen what I feel are my favorite episodes (though I do love them all, these are special to me), so I hope you enjoy them, and we’ll see you in a few weeks when we return with a new podcast on 8/22! As always, if you have a question or comment, please drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Thanks for listening/watching! Show Notes Games Mentioned * Minecraft * Terraria * Wing Commander: Privateer * Everquest * Star Citizen

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Isaac Aubrey (Overwürm) and Dave Quinn (Lead Engineer) at Blue Wizard Digital to talk about their rougelite fast-paced “5X” galactic conquest game, Space Tyrant! It was a very, very fun discussion about game design, UI design, mobile vs. PC design and much more. These guys have been in the industry a while, so it was great to hear their insights on the industry. Plus, the game is awesome, so learning how it got to where it is today was fascinating. Next week on the show, we’ll be doing an early morning (for us) show to talk to the folks behind the co-op buildy shootey spacey game, Space Impossible! As always, if you have any questions or comments, please drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Show Notes Games Mentioned * Master of Orion 2 * Spaceward Ho! * 10 Minute Space Strategy * FTL * Into the Breach * Star Chamber * Aurora4X * Dominions 4 * Master of Orion: Beyond the Stars * Warlords * Warlords II * Warlords 3: Darklords Rising

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk news, the games we’re playing and stories in sci-fi games. Since our guest had to cancel, we kinda threw this together, but it was a fun talk all around. Sadly we had some technical issues with Discord, and only too late did we remember we could switch servers to try and fix our issues. We did that, but there’s still a span in there where we kept cutting out for each other, so sorry about that. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy the show despite this. ;) Next week on the show, we’ll be welcoming the folks behind the recently-released spacey “5X”, Space Tyrant! As always, if you have a question or comment, drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Thanks for listening! Show Notes Games Mentioned * Tanglewood * World’s Adrift * VoidExpanse * Warhammer 40,000: Regicide * Alien Swarm * 3030 Deathwar Redux * Endless Sky * Incubation * Roll for the Galaxy * Master of Orion 2 * Master of Orion * Endless Legend * Master of Magic * Civilization * Distant Worlds * StarDrive 2 * Endless Legend * Endless Space * Endless Space 2 * Dungeon of the Endless * Homeworld Cataclysm/Emergence * Renegade Legion Interceptor * Starcrawlers

Welcome to this latest of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Walter LaCroix of Blue Blaze Gaming to talk about his amazing space exploration and combat roguelike, Star Fleet Armada Rogue Adventures. This game is one of the biggest surprises of 2017, so Spaz and I were excited and eager to talk to Walter about it. We start by talking about his game development experience back in the Commodore 64 days (which ages us all, really), moving up to GameMaker, keeping track of the updates to a game a deep as this, dealing with the Steam community and much more. It was an EXCELLENT conversation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. :) Next week is still a bit up in the air, as the guest I offered the date to has yet to confirm. It’ll either be them or a topic, as soon as I’m sure I’ll add it to the calendar.  As always, if you have questions or comments, drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Show Notes Games Mentioned * Daily Double Horse Racing * Pro Boxing (C64) * Beach Blanket Volleyball * Starflight * Star Control * Star Control 2

Welcome to this latest podcast my friends! Sorry for the slight delay, this week TOTALLY got away from me. This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Daniel (Artist), Guilherme (Programmer) and Thiago (Sound Designer) of Bitten Toast Games to discuss their feline-based shooter series made up of Spacecats with Lasers : The Outerspace and Spacecats with Lasers VR. We’ve only played the non-VR version, but we had a lot of fun with it, so we talk about the game, visibility on Steam, their other games and much more. It’s a fun show, and a bit on the short side due to me being just so bloody tired. Still, we hope you enjoy it! :) There will not be a show next week because it’ll be the July 4th holiday here in the States, so we’re taking the week off! The week AFTER that, however, on 7/11 (hah!),  we’re VERY excited to talk to the developer of Star Fleet Armada Rogue Adventures, a game that’s truly one of the most pleasant surprises of the year so far. As always, if you have a question or comment, drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Thanks as always for watching/listening, and we’ll see you next time! Show Notes Games Mentioned * Space Pirate Trainer * Asteroids * SmashTV * Berzerk * Shooteroids * Astroneer * Left for Dead * Deep Rock Galactic * Gauntlet * Minecraft * Tabletop Simulator * EVE * Zone of the Enders * War Tech Fighters * Renowned Explorers * Mario Galaxy * Mario Cart

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down and talk with Steve Boyette of Midwest Video Games about his excellent first person captain simulation, Icarus Starship Command Simulator. We talk about game development, the usefulness of a good audience, building goodwill, dealing with old game engines, humor in space games and much more. It’s a fun and vibrant conversation that was really enjoyable! Next week on the show, we welcome the developers of the awesomely-themed Spacecats with Lasers : The Outerspace! As always, if you have a question or comment, please drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Thanks for listening, and we hope you enjoy the show! Show Notes Miscellaneous Items * Freesound * id Tech 4 Games Mentioned * FTL * Elite Dangerous * Viscera Cleanup Detail * Iracing * Star Wars Galaxies * Distant Worlds

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Ryan Hewer, Project Director at Little Red Dog Games, to discuss their currently Kickstarting space exploration and spaceship management game, Deep Sixed! While we start on a major E3 tangent — which is pretty funny overall, really — we eventually do talk a lot about the game, the company’s history, their Kickstarter and much more. Ryan was a really funny guest, so there’s a lot of laughter, which is awesome. At one point I just couldn’t stop laughing, so it was great. I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making it. Next week on the show, we’ll welcome the developer of the really fun spaceship captain sim, Icarus Starship Command Simulator! If you have any questions or comments, as always, you can drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Show Notes Games Mentioned * Objects in Space * Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes * Rogue State * Space Alert * Weird Worlds * Red Shirt * Elite: Dangerous

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I get up super early in the morning (6 AM our time) to talk to some of the folks behind the Freelanceresque MMO, Sirius Online. Joining us from Germany is the game’s creator and Lead Creative Developer Dex, while Community Manager Cayne joined us from Ireland. As you might expect from a show that early in the morning, I am super duper groggy, but I think we manage to make a fun show. We had a lot of great questions from the audience too! We end up talking about the game itself, the perils of indie development (i.e. repeated homelessness) and much more. It’s a really fun time! Next week on the show, we’ll be talking to the devs of the currently Kickstarting space exploration and ship management sim, Deep Sixed! If you have any questions or comments, as always you can drop them below, email us at hail@spacegamejunkie.com or hit us up on the forums. Show Notes Games Mentioned * Freelancer * Darkstar One * X: Beyond the Frontier * X3: Terran Conflict * Jumpgate * Elite Dangerous * X Rebirth * Skyrim * Morrowind