Space Game Junkie Podcast

By Brian Rubin

A love letter to space gaming, with interesting topics and developer interviews.... more

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October 29, 2015 SGJ Podcast #128 – Void Destroyer 2
Hey folks, welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim and I sit down with friend-of-the-show (this is his third time on, our first threepeat!) Paul Zakrzewski about his currently Kickstarting sequel to Void Destroyer, Void Destroyer 2! We also talk about the original game, how to run a Kickstarter campaign, the intricacies of marketing and much more. It’s a very fun discussion, and the game is a lot of fun too, even in this early stage!
The Kickstarter has a week left, and could use your help, so please check it out! You can also download an early version of the game here and try it out for yourself! Next week we’ll bring back the devs behind the amazing Rebel Galaxy! Yay! Thanks for listening/watching folks!

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2h 8min
October 22, 2015 SGJ Podcast #127 – Descent Underground
Hello my friends, and welcome back to the Space Game Junkie podcast after a small and unintended hiatus! In this week’s episode, Jim and I sit down with some of the key folks behind Descent: Underground, including Director of Fun Eric Peterson, Creative Director Rob Irving and Community Manager Keith McCormick all of Descendent Studios. First,...
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1h 29min
October 22, 2015 SGJ Podcast #127 – Descent Underground
Hello my friends, and welcome back to the Space Game Junkie podcast after a small and unintended hiatus! In this week’s episode, Jim and I sit down with some of the key folks behind Descent: Underground, including Director of Fun Eric Peterson, Creative Director Rob Irving and Community Manager Keith McCormick all of Descendent Studios. First, however, we wax nostalgically about Conquest: Frontier Wars and much more! As Conquest is one of my all-time favorite RTS games (maybe my all-time favorite, it’s hard to tell), I was just giddy to talk to Eric about the game (though now I’m kicking myself not talking to Rob about SWAT 4). We then play Descent itself and have a blast talking about the game, its Kickstarter, the road to Steam early access and more. It’s a VERY fun show, and we had a great time making it.
We hope you have as much fun listening/watching the episode as we had creating it. :) Next week, we’ll bring back our old buddy Paul Zakrzewski to talk about his currently Kickstarting sequel to Void Destroyer, which looks amazing. Thanks for watching and/or listening!

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1h 29min
October 19, 2015 Mecha Game Junkie Audio Q&A – Battletech with Mitch Gitelman
Hey folks, check this out! While my PC was still down for the count, Jim arranged a Mitch Gitelman, who is currently working on the Battletech Kickstarter. Mitch has been with mechas a long time, going back to the MechCommander 1 days, so he’s the perfect fella to talk to. Jim is joined by podcast-cohost-in-absentia Hunter and...
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1h 17min
October 02, 2015 Space Game Junkie Episode 126 – Evochron and Catching Up
Welcome to this week’s podcast, folks. This week, since our guest had to reschedule, Jim and I spent some time talking about a game we’ve been kind of enamored with of late, Evochron Mercenary. While we play, we get caught up on news, new games, new Kickstarters and much more. It’s a fun, laid back...
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1h 24min
October 02, 2015 Space Game Junkie Episode 126 – Evochron and Catching Up
Welcome to this week’s podcast, folks. This week, since our guest had to reschedule, Jim and I spent some time talking about a game we’ve been kind of enamored with of late, Evochron Mercenary. While we play, we get caught up on news, new games, new Kickstarters and much more. It’s a fun, laid back conversation that we need to have more of.
Next week, if all goes well, we’ll be talking to the folks behind Descent: Underground, so stay tuned for that, and thanks for listening/watching!

Show Notes/Stuff We Talked About
News:

* Lots of Elite: Dangerous Stuff
* Starpoint Gemini 2 Titans DLC Incoming
* First Stellaris Dev Diary
* Beyond Sol Delayed

New Kickstarters:

* Sol Trader
* Lord of Rigel

New Games Released:

* Psycho Starship Rampage
* Navpoint
* Project Tarvotan

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1h 24min
September 25, 2015 SJG Podcast #125 – Ascendancy
Welcome to this 125th episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Nate from Explorminate joins Jim and I to talk about a game very near and dear to our hearts (though admittedly his more than mine), 1995’s Ascendancy from The Logic Factory. This is a really special 4X game that has truly alien...
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2h 17min
September 25, 2015 SJG Podcast #125 – Ascendancy
Welcome to this 125th episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Nate from Explorminate joins Jim and I to talk about a game very near and dear to our hearts (though admittedly his more than mine), 1995’s Ascendancy from The Logic Factory. This is a really special 4X game that has truly alien races (over twenty of them), turn-based gameplay that feels real-time, excellent pacing, charming graphics, fun gameplay and some of the best music you’ll hear in all of space gaming. We talk about the game, its history, what might’ve happened to the vanished iOS port and more. It’s a fun time, so thank you for listening and/or watching!
Join us next week wherein we’ll talk to the developer of the Starflight-inspired Project Daedalus – The Long Journey Home! Talk to y’all then!

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2h 17min
September 17, 2015 SGJ Podcast #124 – X-COM Interceptor
Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! In this episode, Jim and I sit down and try to dissect 1998’s X-COM Interceptor from Microprose. It’s a very confusing situation, as this sim doesn’t get one particular part of its gameplay spot on right, and as best we could find, none...
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1h 21min
September 17, 2015 SGJ Podcast #124 – X-COM Interceptor
Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! In this episode, Jim and I sit down and try to dissect 1998’s X-COM Interceptor from Microprose. It’s a very confusing situation, as this sim doesn’t get one particular part of its gameplay spot on right, and as best we could find, none of the folks who worked on it had either previous space sim OR X-COM experience, so we’re left wondering (Edit: Okay, this is wrong, I’ve come to find out the lead designer — David Ellis according to Mobygames — wrote the strategy guides for the three previous X-COM games, so there IS a connection)…how did this game get made? WHY did this game get made? Sadly we never really figure it out, nor do we find the fun, as the game has just such a head-scratchingly bad interface it’s almost as if the developers were striving to make it frustrating. If that was their goal, they succeeded, because as much as I want to love this game for its strategic elements like its dynamic campaign, it’s horrid UI and ridiculous flight model just basically ruin the whole experience, sadly. We actually end up talking about other stuff for much of the podcast because gah, this game.
Next week, we’ll go back even further in time to talk about 1995’s fabulous 4X, Ascendancy, with our friend Nate from eXplorminate. Thanks for listening/watching folks, and enjoy the show!

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1h 21min

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