Space Game Junkie Podcast

Welcome to episode 03 of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! While we will usually try to do one of these a week, this week you get two for the price of one! In this episode, we talk to Michael Juliano, the programmer behind Rogue System. He’s running a Kickstarter and we want to give him as much help as possible in its final two weeks, so we sat down and asked him all sorts of his questions about his background, his game, his Kickstarter and so on. Jim did most of the talking this time because I still have a cough and didn’t wanna cough all over the interview, sadly :/ Notes for the show are below the cut as always. If you have any quesitions or comments, please leave ’em in the comments below or on the forum. Don’t forget to follow us through RSS or iTunes, and thanks for listening. :) Podcast #03 Show Notes Kickstarters Mentioned * Elite Dangerous Kickstarter * Limit Theory Kickstarter * Rogue System Kickstarter * Star Citizen Kickstarter * Starlight Inception Kickstarter Games Mentioned * Close Combat Series * Falcon 4.0 * Freespace 2 * Tornado * Wing Commander Saga * Wing Commander Series Miscellanious Information * The B-1 Lancer Bomber

Hey everyone, welcome to episode #02 of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim and I try to become more streamlined and efficient (me especially), yet still discuss some news, some games, and our main topic, the best music from spacey games! All the notes for the show are below, and feel free to comment on the show either here in the comments or on our forum. Thanks for listening, and don’t forget if you want to subscribe, you can use the icons in the sidebar on the left for our RSS feed or iTunes page. Thanks again! Podcast #02 Notes News: * Homeworld – IP up for sale in May. * Strike Suit Zero – Major patch added, adds new targeting, a cockpit view, checkpoint saves and difficulty settings. * Void of Darkness – New Starflight clone in the works. * Freespace 2 – Latest version of Freespace Open is out. Games We Played This Week: * Brian – None! Whuuuuuuuut? * Jim – Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, Mechwarrior Online Miscellaneous Links: * Trance Around the World Topic – Music from Space Games: Conquest: Frontier Wars Developer/Date: Fever Pitch Studios, 2001 | Composed by: James Hannigan and Andrew Sega | Sample Track: Terran Game Music | Get it at GOG [audio:http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/music/Conquest-Frontier-Wars-Terran-Game-Music-Sample.mp3] Distant Worlds Developer/Date: Code Force, 2010 | Composed by: Unknown | Sample Track: Action 2 | Get it from Matrix Games [audio:http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/music/Distant-Worlds-Action2-Sample.mp3] Emperor of the Fading Suns Developer/Date: Holistic Design, 1996 | Composed by: Tim Carrol, Ernie Ernest, Scott Moskos, Colin Rea and Barry Suttle | Sample Track: Madrigal | Get it from Amazon [audio:http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/music/Emperor-of-the-Fading-Suns-Madrigal-Sample.mp3] Endless Space Developer/Date: Amplitude Studios, 2012 | Composed by: Fly By No/Game Audio Factory | Sample Track: Falling Night Stars | Get ...

Hello, and welcome to episode 01 of the SGJ Podcast. Join Jim from the Bad Movie Podcast and me as we try to adapt something of a format in order to have some more focus and structure! ;) We talk about some news, some games we’re playing, and our topic for this week, which games that are still worth playing even though their graphics and UI are on the archaic side. We also look at the opposite side of the coin, games that have held up well over the years. We also have an iTunes page now, as well as our RSS feed! Yay! Thank you for listening, and please find our show notes under the cut. :) Also, since I’m still pretty new to this podcasting thing (it’s old hat to Jim, thankfully), please don’t hesitate to give me constructive criticism on how I can improve my performance either in the comments below or in the forum. :) Hope the length is okay with y’all, but again, new to this stuff, still trying to be efficient. ;) Thanks again! :) Podcast #01 Show Notes News * Drox Operative Expansion in The Works * Rogue System and Beyond Beyaan Kickstarters * Ring Runner Semi-Finalist on The Next Game Boss * Endless Space Expansion #4 – Virtual Awakening Space Games We’re Playing * Brian – TIE Fighter, Kerbal Space Program * Jim – Wing Commander Prophecy, System Shock 2, Starlancer, Freelancer, TIE Fighter, Independence War 2, Privateer Gemini Gold, Homeworld 2; all over the place with my whole collection this week trying to get everything installed and working again. What Non-Space Games We’re Playing * Brian – Teleglitch, Battlezone 2 + Updated Patch * Jim – System Shock 2 (+ SS Rebirth Mod + SHTUP texture upgrade), As much Mechwarrior Online as I can manage to squeeze in. Games That Haven’t Aged Well Graphically – Are They Still Worth Playing? * Rules of Engagement 1/2 * Starflight 1/2 * Sentinel Worlds

Hey y’all, welcome to the first episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! I’ve thought about doing one of these for a while, but never really thought anyone would wanna do one with me. Therefore, when my friend Jim from Broken Forum said “We need to do a podcast, man”, it seemed like a totally natural fit. :) Therefore, we sat down last night and talked for ages, and some of it was even recorded. ;) We talk about things like TIE Fighter, DOSBox and other gamey stuff, as well as a boatload of other topics, so please join Jim and I on the first of what we hope will be many fun podcast episodes. Don’t worry though, in the future we’ll have actual topics to keep us focused. ;) Links to Stuff Mentioned in The Show * Open Broadcaster Software – The software I’ve been using to make TIE Fighter videos. Awesome stuff. * DOSBox Game Launcher – The fantastic DOSBox front end I’ve been using to make sure games like TIE Fighter work properly. Thanks for listening folks, and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to throw us a comment below, or hit us up in the forum! Thanks again! Edit: Sorry folks, forgot to mention, we have a separate RSS feed for podcasts as well, which I hope you find useful!

A little while back, on one of my Let’s Play Rules of Engagement 2 videos, the video received a comment from one of the gentlemen behind the game, Maurice Molyneaux. Maurice worked on both Rules of Engagement games, so we got to talking on YouTube and through email. I eventually asked if he’d like to do a Q&A, and he said he would, but he’d also like to get the game’s lead programmer, Thomas Carbone, on board as well. Well, you can imagine my delight when I finally got to sit down and talk to both Thomas and Maurice about both the Universe games and the Rules of Engagement games that they both worked on at Omnitrend. Below is the audio recording of that interview, at around an hour in length, and I hope y’all enjoy it. :) Now, below the cut, Maurice provided a bunch of art from his days at Omnitrend, which I’m including in a gallery as more behind the scenes stuff that I hope y’all will enjoy. Thanks for visiting, and enjoy both the interview and the artwork. :)

There was some new media released for browser-based Star Trek ship-to-ship combat game, Star Trek: Infinite Space today, such as some new renders, in-game screenshots and videos. Click below to see all the pretties.