Fringe Game History Podcast

Fringe Game History Podcast

By Jeremy PennerLeisureVideo Games
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Fringe Game History Podcast episodes

  • Episode 6 - Shawn Hargreaves

    Shawn Hargreaves talks about the Allegro game programming library and the community that sprung up around it in

    the late 1990s. We talk about what happens when your hobby project accidentally turns into something with a life
    of its own, the inexplicable popularity of games involving the murder of Barney the Dinosaur, and the vital role
    of accessible tooling in providing a path to learning.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 5 - Leonard Richardson

    Leonard Richardson talks about a number of free and open-source games he made, as well as his time running a

    goofy BBS as a kid. We discuss the experience of having dozens of strangers create their own riffs of a game he
    tossed together in a couple of days, writing interactive fiction as a stepping stone to writing non-interactive
    fiction, and Nethack code patches as a form of fanfiction.

    1 hr 31 min
  • Episode 4 - Jonah Davidson

    Jonah Davidson talks about his time as part of the rpg2knet RPG Maker community. We talk

    about the desire to push the limits of the tool's strange constraints, the rite of passage
    of dealing with terrible translations, and how a community can spend a lot of effort trying
    to emulate the games it loves, only to slowly discover that the games that break out are
    the ones that are nothing like them.

    1 hr 17 min
  • Episode 3 - Roman Banias

    My childhood best friend Roman Banias talks about the games he made for fun as a young

    child. We discuss the magic and wonder of type-in programming books, the home computer
    as a toy, the act of creation as a natural extension of childhood play, and the Alien
    Zit Cinematic Universe.

    1 hr 21 min
  • Episode 2 - Phil Salvador

    Phil Salvador of The Obscuritory talks about his tenure as an administrator of the Mario

    Fan Games Galaxy. We discuss the driving energy behind goofy joke games, the fragile
    nature of early internet communities, the interconnected nature of fan sites, and Waligie,
    a community icon born from a random poster's terrible spelling.

    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 1 - Kirk Israel

    Kirk Israel talks about JoustPong, a game he has made and remade many times over the years.

    We dive into the homebrew community surrounding the Atari 2600 in the early 2000s, the strain
    of obsessive assembly coding on relationships, and the challenge of finding a supportive community.

    1 hr 24 min

About Fringe Game History Podcast

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A podcast dedicated to finding out where outsider games come from.