Space Game Junkie Podcast

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Jim and I sit down with designers Adam and James Rorabaugh of Rhombus Studios to talk about their upcoming 4X space strategy game, Lord of Rigel. LoR strives to bridge the gap between the classic 4Xs of old that everyone loves and that many 4X devs aspire to, with more modern sensibilities, and it looks like it’s coming along wonderfully, as even in this very, very early phase of the game, it feels like something pretty dang special. It’s a great talk about the game itself, game design in general, preparation for their Kickstarter campaign, some Freespace stuff (since one of the designers worked on both Descent Freespace: The Silent Threat expansion and the amazing total conversion Diaspora) and more! Join us next week when we’ll sit down with the developer of the recently released early access strategy combat game, Galactic Conquerers. Thanks as always for watching and listening, and we’ll see you next week!

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim and I sit down with several folks from Artifice Studio, including  Co-founders  Yan Pepin and Vincent Blanchard, along with community manager Adam Rotondo, to discuss their chicken-friendly physics-based tactical space combat game Conflicks! It’s a really fun time as we discuss the game and its origins, the rigors of dealing with Steam as an indie, and much more. Next week we’ll be talking to the developers of the upcoming space 4X game, Lord of Rigel, so stay tuned for that, and as always, hit us up at hail@spacegamejunkie.com if you’d like to suggest a guest or a topic for a future show. Thanks for watching/listening folks, and we’ll see you next week!

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim, Hunter (welcome back!) and I sit down with Michael Schade, CEO of Rockfish Games, to talk about their currently Kickstarting space shooter roguelike, Everspace! We also talk about their previous space games, the Galaxy on Fire games. It’s a lengthy and fun discussion on game design, Kickstarter marketing and quite a bit more! Thanks so much to Michael for joining us, and for those in the chat rooms who joined us at 6 AM this morning (my time, at least ;). This is one game we can’t WAIT to play, so check out the podcast for a ton of great info about it! See you next time, and thanks for listening/watching!

Welcome to this installment of the Space Game Junkie podcast! In this episode, Jim and I go through our (and the community’s) favorite spaceships from movies and TV shows, from the weird to the wonderful. We go through a lot of ships, from Space 1999’s Eagle to Battle Beyond the Stars’ Mother. We also talk about the movies and TV shows these ships are in as well, which makes it a varied show! It’s a really fun discussion, so we hope you enjoy it! You can find images of all the ships we talked about below the video…below. Join us next week for a special early podcast (due to time zones) where we talk to the developers of the upcoming and currently Kickstarting space shooter rougelike, Everspace! See you then, and thanks for listening/watching!

Welcome to this installment of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim and I (Hunter is in the midst of unpacking) talk about games that can be played quickly, either entirely in one sitting, or wherein you can get a lot done in one sitting. We talk about various roguelikes, adventure games, small 4X games and so on, and it’s a fun discussion of what makes a short game worthwhile, short games we’d like to see, and so on. It’s a really fun show in which we cover a lot of ground, which makes sense since we missed a week. ;) The games I played on the stream include the following in order of appearance: * Ascii Sector * Weird Worlds in Infinite Space * Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars * Approaching Infinity * Cogmind * Sword of the Stars: The Pit * 10 Minute Space Strategy * Naev * Galcon 2 * FTL Join us next week when we discuss our favorite spaceships from popular culture beyond video games, such as movies, TV shows and more. As always, if you have a suggestion for a topic or guest, hit us up at hail@spacegamejunkie.com. Thanks for listening/watching, and enjoy the show!

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim, Hunter and I (and eventually Nate from eXplorminate) talk the best manuals and strategy guides we’ve run into, our favorite memories around manuals and a lot more. We talk a lot about some specific guides, some manuals that we love and so on, and it’s great. We also talk about a LOT of other stuff, which makes sense given we have no guest, but still, it’s a damned fun time no matter how ya slice it. ;) As always, we thank you for listening, and hope you’ll join us next week when we discuss coffee break space games. Have a great day! Now, as a final treat for y’all, here are downloads to the PDFs of the manuals and strategy guides we talked about in the show! :) Enjoy! * Alpha Centauri * Distant Worlds: Universe * Freespace 2 * Homeworld * Homeworld: Cataclysm * Imperium Galactica * I-War * Privateer 2 * Rules of Engagement * Rules of Engagement 2 * Space Rogue * Starflight * Starflight 2 * Starshatter * Star Trek: Klingon Academy * Star Trek: Starfleet Command * Star Wars: Rebellion * Star Wars: TIE Fighter * Star Wars: X-Wing * Wing Commander

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, we bring back friend-of-the-show Chris Stockman of Bit Planet Games to talk about their recently revamped, re-engineered and redone space combat game, The Battle of Sol. We not only talk about the game, but Star Citizen, game development, the possibilities of modding the game and much more. It makes for a very lengthy yet vibrant podcast in which we discuss a LOT of topics including the game, so I hope you enjoy it as much as we did, for it was a FUN episode to record. As always, we thank you for listening, and invite you to tune in next week when we lament the death of the manual and the strategy guide, as well as talk about some of the best examples the genre has to offer. See you then!

Welcome to the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim, Hunter and I talk to Drew Morrow, designer/artist at Three Phase Interactive about their current build-it-and-lose-it space combat and adventure game, Defect. In the episode, we not only talk about the game, but movies, the differences between Australian and American culture, and much more. It’s a very fun episode focusing on a VERY fun game. Seriously, this game is a BLAST folks, definitely worth checking out. I mean, I can’t STAND ship building stuff because I am TERRIBLE at it, but here it clicks, and it works really well, so check out the game and watch it below on the vidcast as well! Next week we’ll be bringing back Chris Stockman to talk about his recently early-access-released space game, Battle for SOL! Thanks for listening/watching folks, and we’ll see you next week!

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with the founder of Raconteur Games, Nicholas Laborde, to talk about their upcoming fleet-based space shooter, Close Order. What resulted was a very entertaining discussion on indie development, space games, Mark Hamill movies and much more, and Nicholas was certainly an exuberant guest in his own right. ;) The game itself is also a ton of fun, and has a great amount of potential to be an amazing space shooter. Overall it was a very fun show, and we hope you enjoy it. :) Tune in next week when we have the folks behind the currently kickstarting game Defect to talk about the player’s seemingly losing battle to keep their ship! Thanks for listening/watching!

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with Paul Turbett, Lead Developer at Black Lab Games (and nice enough to join us at 10 AM, Australia time), to talk (more like gush, really, it’s that good) about their recently-released tactical starship combat game, Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy. All of us are pretty smitten with this game, so we had a lot of questions for Paul. We ended up having a lovely discussion with Paul about the first game in the series, Star Hammer: Tactics, along with lots of great technical information about The Vanguard Prophecy. Thanks for watching and listening folks, and tune in next week when we talk about Close Order with creator Nicholas Laborde. As always you can hit us up at hail@spacegamejunkie.com if you have any suggestions or questions. Thanks for watching/listening! ;)

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim, Hunter and I sit down to talk about our favorite gaming peripheral: Joysticks! We talk about the sticks we’ve used, the weirdest we’ve encountered, our favorites, our most seminal and so on, and cover sticks from CH Products, Saitek, Thrustmaster and so much more. It’s a really fun and lengthy discussion, and we hope you enjoy it. :) On next week’s show we’ll have  Paul Turbett of Black Lab Games to discuss Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy, which I’m not sure if you can tell, but I am seriously enjoying. ;) Now below after the video, I’ll include all of the screenshots we had up during the stream. There’s a lot of them, so have fun with this trip down memory lane!

Hey folks, welcome to this special edition of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim (sadly neither Hunter nor I were able to attend) was able to track down and have a conversation with David Wessman, who is currently Kickstarting a multiplayer space arena combat game called Starfighter Inc. Possibly more notably, Mr. Wessman worked on the entire series of X-Wing games back in the day, covering gameplay, mission and story design (so we can blame him on that one X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter mission we’re stuck on ;). What results is a conversation about Starships Inc, TIE Fighter, the lore around the Star Wars games he worked on and much more. The Kickstarter is about to end as I write this, so if you like what you hear, please head on over and check it out. Thanks for listening, and have a great weekend!

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with our old friend Joe Mastroianni of the Upper Memory Block Podcast to talk Star Wars games. The great, the terrible, the odd, and everything in between. In between reminiscing about our earliest Star Wars gaming memories along with our favorite titles, we talk about long-forgotten games, games that we’re confused by and much more. It was a really fun show, ultimately. As always, we welcome your suggestions and critiques at hail@spacegamejunkie.com! Next week, we’ll be talking hardware with our favorite and most memorable joysticks! Thanks for listening!

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim, Hunter and I talk to the co-creators of OSnap Games — Ryan Luck and Franklin Barrientos — about their just Greenlit multiplayer space shooter game Quasar! We also talk about the trials of indie development, the grueling process of going through Steam Greenlight, the perks of using the Unreal Engine and much more. It’s a really fun show, so we hope you enjoy it. :) Next week, we will likely be talking about the inconsistencies among Star Wars games, which will hopefully be as fun as the Star Trek show we did a while back. If you would like to suggest a guest or topic, please hit us up at hail@spacegamejunkie.com! Thanks for listening, and again, enjoy the show.

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, James, Hunter and I sit down to talk to Charles Zapata, founder of Escape Fuel, to discuss their upcoming space action adventure game, Commander Kamala. As you can imagine, when someone mentions Starflight — from which this game is inspired, along with Star Control — I immediately needed to know more, so we talk to Charles about the game’s influences, its writing (which is hilarious), its gameplay and much more. It’s a fun and spirited discussion, so we hope you enjoy it, and thank you for listening/watching! As always, if you have a guest or topic you’d like us to discuss, let us know at hail@spacegamejunkie.com! Next week we’ll be talking to the developer of the multiplayer space shooter Quasar, so stay tuned, and again, thanks for listening or watching! Enjoy!