Space Game Junkie Podcast

Haaaaaaaaaaay guys, welcome to the latest edition of the Space Game Junkie podcast. This week Jim and I sit down to talk to some of the folks behind the sweet space shooter Galactose. Specifically programmers John O’Meara and David Wikman, music composer Matthew Pablo and artist Mignon Kramp. It sets the record for most guests on one of our podcasts! ;) The discussion talks about the game, but as always veers all over the place (which, honestly, should kinda be expected by now). ;) We hope y’all enjoy it. :) As always, we welcome your comments below, and invite you to subscribe to us on iTunes or through RSS. Thanks for listening! :) Episode #18 Show Notes: Space Games Mentioned: * EVE Online * Evochron Mercenary * Galactose (Steam Greenlight) (Alpha download) * Limit Theory * SOL Exodus * Star Citizen * X Series Other Games Mentioned: * Crazy Taxi * Final Fantasy VII * Kung Fu Rider * Natural Selection 2 * Project Zomboid Guest’s Websites: * Matthew Pablo’s Website * Mignon Kramp’s Newgrounds and Deviant Art Pages Miscellany: * Alan Silvestri * Galactose Preview * James Horner * Microsoft Kinect * Nobuo Uematsu * Oculus Rift * Open Game Art * Playstation Vita * Razer Edge * Razer Hydra * Rochester Institute of Technology

Welcome to the latest episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim and I sit down to talk to Paul Zakrzewski, lead developer for the currently-Kickstarted game Void Destroyer. Paul talks about the history of the game, his aspirations for it, working with the community to fix bugs and much more. It’s a lively discussion about a pretty fun game, even in this early stage of its lifespan, and we hope you enjoy it. :) As always, we welcome your comments below, and invite you to subscribe to us via RSS or iTunes. Thanks for listening! :) Episode #17 Show Notes: Kickstarters Mentioned: * Void Destroyer Space Games Mentioned: * Elite: Dangerous * Freespace 2 * Limit Theory * Skyjacker * Star Citizen Other Games Mentioned: * Dark Souls * Double Dragon * Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim * Mark of the Ninja * Mount & Blade * The Last of Us Miscellany: * Bullet Physics Physics Engine * CEGUI GUI Engine * Greatest George Clooney Story Ever * Ogre 3D Rendering Engine * OpenAL Sound Engine

Welllllllcome to episode #16 of the Space Game Junkie podcast. This week, Jim and I have no guest and the baaaaarest thread of a topic. This results in what has to be the most random, off-topic podcast we’ve done yet. I mean what other space game podcast (is there one?) talks about space pirates, Marvel Heroes, Squirrel Girl, being renamed Paul and so on? I blame the fatigue my own self. ;) We would love it if y’all would chime in about your stories of being a pirate in space games, because honestly that career path doesn’t much fit us, you know? :) We look forward to your stories, as well as your comments, below, and invite you to subscribe to us if you’ve not already. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! :) Episode #16 Show Notes: Kickstarters Mentioned: * Void Destroyer Space Games Mentioned: * Black Market * Distant Worlds: Shadows * Drifter * Elite * Enemy Starfighter * Eterium * EVE Online * Evochron Mercenary * Flotilla * Freelancer * Homeworld * Independence War: The Edge of Chaos * Jumpgate: The Reconstruction Initiative * Kerbal Space Pirate Program * Pirate Galaxy * Space Pirates * Space Pirates and Zombies * Space Rangers 2 * Space Rogue * Starshatter * Star Citizen * Star Trek Online * Star Trek: Starfleet Command – Orion Pirates * Star Wars Galaxies * Trade Wars * Treasure Planet: Battle of Procyon * Wing Commander: Privateer * X3: Albion Prelude Other Games Mentioned: * 1942: Pacific Air War * Dope Wars *

Howdy folks, and welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim and I sit down with one of the creators of Ring Runner – Flight of the Sages, Enrique Dryere, to talk about the long road between the conception and the upcoming release of this awesome upcoming top-down Newtonian space combat RPG thing. :) As with all of our podcasts, the conversation veers off in several different directions, but that’s one of the constants of our chats, isn’t it? ;) As always, we look forward to your comments below, and invite you to follow us through RSS or Itunes. :) Thanks for listening, and have an awesome day! Podcast #15 Show Notes: Space Games Mentioned: * Asteroids * Distant Worlds: Shadows * Drox Operative * FTL * Limit Theory * Ring Runner – Flight of the Sages * SubSpace Other Games Mentioned: * Bioshock Infinite * Diablo * Mass Effect Series * Unreal Tournament * Wolfenstein 3D * World of Warcraft * XCOM: Enemy Unknown Miscellany: * Benson, Arizona (Song at the end of the podcast) * Ring Runner Q&A * The Next Game Boss * What is Ring Runner? Video

Heyyyy folks, welcome to this edition of the Space Game Junkie Podcast. In this episode, Jim and I sit down with Brendan Anthony, former Bethesda developer who is currently working on an awesome space game called Rodina. We talk about the game at length, but due to a good deal of wine on my part I think, the conversation goes all over the place as well. It’s a fun ride, and we hope you enjoy it. As always, we welcome your comments/critiques below in the comments or on the forum, and invite you to follow us on the RSS or the iTunes thingamajig. Thanks for listening, and have an awesome day! Podcast #14 Show Notes Space Games Mentioned: * Beat Hazard * Freelancer * Freespace * FTL * Kerbal Space Program * Lunar Lander * Rodina * Star Fox * Star Wars: TIE Fighter * Wing Commander * Wing Commander: Privateer * X3: Albion Prelude Other Games Mentioned: * Façade * Fallout 3 * Infamous * Mark of the Ninja * Petz * Super Metroid * The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall * The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind * The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion * The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

Hey kids, welcome to episode #13 of the Space Game Junkie! This time, Jim and I get up early in the morning to talk to Malcolm Sparrow, the lead developer of space combat and trading game Dominium (formerly known as Dominion) and it’s current Kickstarter campaign. This podcast is a bit shorter than usual because we did it at 6 AM my time, and I had to rush to work afterwards, just so y’all know. ;) As a treat, you’re all hearing me pre-coffee. ;) As always, we invite you to comment on the podcast below, invite you to subscribe to us via RSS or iTunes, and thank you for listening. Enjoy! :) Episode #13 Show Notes Kickstarters Mentioned: * Dominium (Formerly Dominion) Space Games Mentioned: * Drifter * Elite * Independence War * Infinity * Limit Theory * Rogue System * Star Citizen * Star Wars: TIE Fighter * Wing Commander: Privateer Other Games Mentioned: * Minecraft Miscellany: * Blink (Doctor Who Episode) * RocketHub

Haaaaaaaaayyyy guuuuuuuuys, how are ya? Sorry for the delay in this week’s podcast episode, but Jim and I were both busier than usual this week with the real life nonsense. That said, we had no guest this past week, so we just caught up on what we’ve been playing, the news and all sorts of other stuff. It was a fun time, so we hope you enjoy it. As always, please feel free to comment on the podcast below (I’m not creating specific forum threads anymore, no one uses ’em ;) and follow us using RSS and/or iTunes. Thanks for listening! Podcast #12 Show Notes Kickstarters Mentioned: * Dominion Space Games Mentioned: * Cosmic Encounter Online * Dark Space * Distant Worlds * Drox Operative * Earth & Beyond * Eclipse * Endless Space * Escaping Titan * EVE Online * FTL * Icarus Ascends * Independence War * Limit Theory * Jumpgate * Legends of Pegasus * Master of Orion * Omega Boost * Rodina * Salvation Prophecy * StarDrive * Star Citizen * Star Command * Star Trek: Klingon Academy * Star Trek: Starfleet Command -Orion Pirates * Strike Suit Infinity * Unstoppable Gorg * X3: Albion Prelude Non-Space Games Mentioned: * Aquanox * Archimedian Dynasty * Elder Scrolls: Morrowind * Elder Scrolls: Oblivion * Elder Scrolls: Skyrim * Euro Truck Simulator 2 * Galaxy Trucker * Jane’s Combat Simulatio...

Helllooooooooooo everyone, and welcome to episode number eleven of the Space Game Junkie Podcast. This week, Jim and I bring on long-time friend, former video games journalist and fellow Star Trek afficianado, Denny Atkin, to talk about the highs and lows of Star Trek gaming. With the recent movie-based game hitting virtual shelves, I thought it’d be fun to have a look back at what is likely the most inconsistent franchise in all of gaming. ;) We hope you enjoy what is, so far, our longest podcast. :) As always, we invite your thoughts in the comments or on the forum, and we ask that you subscribe to us via RSS or iTunes. :) Thanks for listening! Episode #011 Show Notes Star Trek Games Mentioned: * Trek Core’s Comprehensive List (What, you thought I was gonna list ’em all individually?) ;) YouTube Videos of Specific Star Trek Games (Thanks Jim!): * Star Trek: Kobayashi Alternative * Star Trek: Promethian Prophecy * Star Trek: Rebel Universe * Star Trek: Transinium Challenge * Star Trek: 25th Anniversary * Star Trek: Judgement Rites * Star Trek The Next Generation: A Final Unity * Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Harbinger * Star Trek: Borg * Star Trek: Klingon * Star Trek: Generations * Star Trek: Starfleet Academy * Star Trek The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard * Star Trek: The Game Show * Star Trek The Next Generation: Birth of the Federation * Star Trek: Hidden Evil * Star Trek: Starfleet Command * Star Trek: Armada * Star Trek: Conquest Online * Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen * Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force * Star Trek: Klingon Academy * Star Trek: New Worlds * Star Trek: Starfleet Command 2 * Star Trek: Starship Creator Warp 2 * Star Trek: Armada 2 * Star Trek: Away Team * Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars * Starfleet Command Orion Pirates * Star Trek: Bridge Commander *

No, seriously. ;) This week Jim and I sit down with Iikka Keranen and Rich Carlson of Digital Eel games (who first met while working on Daikatana, no lie), the folks who created the Infinite Space series of Starflight-like roguelikes Strange Adventures in Infinite Space and Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.  They have a Kickstater underway for their third game in the series, Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars, so we thought we’d bring ’em on and grill them with deep, probing questions about the game. Ultimately, we went all over the place, but we had a fun time, and we hope you will too. As always, we invite you to leave your comments below and in the forums, and you can find the show notes below. Thanks as always for listening, and have an awesome day! Podcast #10 Show Notes Kickstarters Mentioned: * Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars Space Games Mentioned: * Endless Space * Escape Velocity: Nova * FTL * Homeworld Series * Rules of Engagement Series * Strange Adventures in Infinite Space * Starflight Series * Star Control 2 * Starship Kingdom * Starships Unlimited * Starships Unlimited: Divided Galaxies * Star Wars: TIE Fighter * Trek73 * Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space * Wing Commander: Academy * Wing Commander: Armada * Wing Commander 2 * Wing Commander: Privateer * Wing Commander: Prophecy Other Games Mentioned: * Aliens: Colonial Marines * Borderlands * Daikatana * Data Jammers: Fast Forward * DoomRL *

Welcome to episode #09 of the Space Game junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim and I bring on Gamers With Jobs CEO Shawn “Certis” Andrich to discuss if space games are just “chasing a dot”, as he called them previous. In a surprise — to me at least, and pleasantly so — the discussion evolves and turns into an intervention where we discuss how space action games have become kinda samey in terms of lack of space, lack of place and so on to help Shawn find some new games. It was a fun, spirited discussion. :) We talked about a looooooot of games, and you can find links to all of them below in the show notes. We hope you enjoy the show, and invite you to comment here or on the forum, as well as use our RSS or iTunes feeds to subscribe to us. Thanks for listening, and have a great day! :) Podcast #09 Show Notes Space Games Mentioned: * Dangerous * Darkstar One * Diaspora * Drox Operative * EVE Online * Evochron Mercenary * Freelancer * Freespace 2 * Freespace Open (Installation Guide) * Frontier: Elite II * FTL * Galaxy on Fire Series * Homeworld * Independence War 2 * Limit Theory * Rules of Engagement Series * SkyJacker * Space Rangers 2 * Star Citizen * Starshatter Open Source * Star Wars: TIE Fighter * Star Wars: X-Wing * Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance * Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter * Strike Suit Zero * Wing Commander * Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn * X Series Non-Space Games Mentioned: * 1942: Pacific Air War * Age of Wushu *

With emotions over LucasArts own legacy still running high (for me at least), Jim and I are joined by Chase “scharmers” Dahl to talk about the rise, fall, and sad kersplat that was LucasArts (they made me watch video of Kinect Star Wars for Pete’s sake! Poor Pete!). We hope you enjoy hearing us ramble about both the good and bad days of LucasArts, and invite you to leave any comments below or on the forum. Thanks as always for listening and subscribing! :) Podcast #08 Show Notes LucasArts Games Mentioned: * List of LucasArts Developed Games from MobyGames (What, didya think We’d list ’em all individually? ;) * Jim’s Spreadsheet of LucasArts Game Scores (XLSX Format | Image) Other Games Mentioned: * Beat Trip Hazard * Company of Heroes * Dungeons and Dragons * Giants: Citizen Kabuto * Imperium Galactica II * Master of Orion/Master of Orion II * Pokemon Gold * Sierra’s ImagiNation Network * Spaceward Ho! * Super Hexagon * Sword of the Stars: The Pit YouTube Videos of Various LucasArts Games For Your Viewing Pleasure: * Afterlife * Armed and Dangerous * Ballblazer * Battlehawks 1942 * Fracture * Full Throttle * Ghoul Patrol * Gladius * Grim Fandango * Habitat * Indiana Jones and the Emperors Tomb * Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine * Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Action Game * Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure * Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings * Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures * Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis * Kinect Star Wars * Koronis Rift * Labyrinth * Lego Indiana Jones 1-2

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This time Jim and I talk to Paul Tobia, or Rorschach on several forums, who is something of an expert on the Sword of the Stars series. I was fairly “meh” on Sword of the Stars II a little while back, so we asked Paul on to help convince us (and hopefully, you folks), that the game is worth our time. We hope you enjoy this week’s episode, and as always, invite your comments either below or on the forum. Thanks for listening! Podcast #07 Notes Games Mentioned: * Endless Space * Galactose * Homeworld * Homeworld: Cataclysm * Homeworld 2 * Kerbal Space Program * Northstar * Prison Architect * Rogue System * Sins of a Solar Empire * Star Citizen * Sword of the Stars * Sword of the Stars II: Lords of Winter * Sword of the Stars: The Pit * The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim * Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon * Wing Commander * Wizadry 8 Miscellany: * Paul Tobia’s Sword of the Stars II Videos

Hey folks, welcome to the latest episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast. This week, Jim and I discuss the bottom of the barrel in terms of space gaming. We talk about games we hated, were disappointed by, or just generally disliked, all in the hopes of helping y’all avoid the same mistakes I’ve made (trust me folks, I’m a professional). ;) If you have a space game you hated that we didn’t cover, or anything else you’d like to chime in on, don’t forget to hit us up below or in the forums. Thanks for listening, as always, and enjoy! Podcast #06 Notes Games Mentioned (To Avoid): * Dark Horizon * Darkstar One * Darklight Conflict * Forced Alliance: The Glarious Mandate * Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain * Privateer 2: The Darkening * Space Empires V * Space Empires: Starfury * Star Raiders (2011) * Star Trek: Starfleet Academy * Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter * The Tomorrow War * X-COM: Interceptor * XF5700 Mantis Games Mentioned (Other): * Beyond Beyaan * Distant Worlds * Endless Space * Imperium Galactica II * Independence War * Master of Orion/Master of Orion II * Spaceward Ho! * Space Empires IV * Starbase Orion * StarDrive * Starshatter * Star Control II * Star General * Star Rangers *

Hey folks, sorry for the lateness of this week’s podcast. CRAZY week. That being said, this week Jim and I sat down with Asa Gillette, Chris Cheng and Tyler Yohe from Broken Crown Games about their Escaping Titan sourcebook Kickstarter, the game itself, and bunch of other random nonsense. ;) We hope you enjoy it, and as always, and feel free to leave any comments or questions below or in the forum. Sorry for the shortness of this post, but I have to get back to doing all this work. Also, there are some more adult-oriented themes at the end of this one, so if you have kids in the room, be careful (the convo got a bit wonky, but hopefully funny). ;) Enjoy! Episode #05 Show Notes Games Mentioned: * Mass Effect Series Kickstarters Mentioned: * Escaping Titan Movies Mentioned: * Showgirls

Oh. My. God. I’m still so flabbergasted and amazed we got to talk to this industry legend that I can mostly talk in one-two word sentences. Oh.  My. God. ;) Seriously, Jim and I were lucky enough to sit down to talk to the man himself about his games and his movies, and it was completely fascinating. Mr. Roberts was very generous with his time and his candor, and we can’t thank him enough for spending some of his valuable time with us. Oh, and OMG, he said he liked my site. SQUEEEEEEE! Seriously, I’m still on a cloud folks, no lie. :) We hope you enjoy the podcast, and invite your comments and questions below in the comments or on the forum. Thanks for listening, and please feel free as always to follow our RSS feed or iTunes feed. :) Have a great day! Episode #04 Show Notes Games Mentioned: * King Kong * Wizadore * Match Day * Stryker’s Run * Times of Lore * Bad Blood * Wing Commander Series * Ultima Series * Battlehawks 1942 * Mechwarrior Online * Freelancer * Star Citizen * Guild Wars 2 * Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn * EVE Online Movies/TV Shows Mentioned: * The Last Starfighter * Wing Commander * Outlander * Battlestar Galactica (1978) * Space Battleship Yamato * Lord of the Rings * I Know What You Did Last Summer * Lord of War Kickstarters Mentioned: * Star Citizen * Rogue System * Limit Theory People Mentioned: * Denis R. Lubet * Richard Garriott * Chris Taylor * Lawrence Holland * Paul Issac