Hey folks, welcome to the first podcast this year celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Freespace 2, still the best space combat sim around (yeah, I said it). In this installment, Jim and I talk to Fabian “The E” Woltermann, currently elected leader of the Freespace Source Code Project (whose home is at Hard Light Productions)....

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Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim and I have neither topic nor guest, so we just go off on a random tirade of gaming, looking at some of the recent releases such as The Last Federation, Eterium and others, and just basically catch up with what we’ve...

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Hello folks, and welcome to this week’s Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim and I sit down with the developer of the fun, open worldy space game Space Salvager, Sam Albon, to talk about his game, developing on XNA, the British school system and a lot more. We did this at 6 AM my...

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Hey folks, welcome to this week’s episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast. This week, Jim and I sit down with John Brewer, developer of the hard sci-fi 4X game Slower than Light, which is currently going through a Kickstarter campaign. As the name might suggest, in this universe, light is indeed the speed limit,...

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Hey folks, welcome to this latest episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! Now, this week we did something a bit different. Rather than talk to a game developer, as is our usual, we brought on author John Hemry. Under the pen name Jack Campbell, he has written an entire series of books called the...

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Hey folks, welcome to the latest episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim and I take a look back at the games we’ve covered on the podcast and basically ask, “Where are they now?”. In some cases, the games we’ve looked at have come a long way, but in some cases, sadly...

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Welcome, folks, to this week’s podcast. This time Jim and I are trying something new. Using the IRC and Twitch channels, we’re gonna start doing these things live (you can tune in here, by the by) and this first run through has us talking to Douglas Triggs of Lensflare Games about his MacOS/iOS tactical space...

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A little while back, I got an email from the developer of Ascent – The Space Game, James Hicks, telling me about his game. I love when I get emails like this because I can’t track down all the space games myself, you know? ;) So after playing the Unity-based browser space sim (and don’t...

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So as of this week guys, Jim and I have been doing this show for a whole year. While we’ve missed a week here and there for various reasons, we’ve done this thing almost weekly for an entire year, so not only are we hitting our anniversary, but also our fiftieth show, so double milestone!...

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Hey folks, welcome to this week’s episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week Jim and I sit down with Lead Programmer Andrew Hume and Lead Designer Richard Clifford of MinMax Games to talk about their recently announced piece of amazingness, Space Pirates and Zombies 2. It’s a lengthy podcast that I actually prepared for...

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