Square Waves FM Podcast

The beeps are quelled until next year! Our last episode is an extra special one thanks to the return of the hardest working podcaster in the biz, Joe Mastroianni! (seriously, the dude’s doing 3 podcasts in 3 days!) Our intent was to talk about mechs and gundams and other sorts of big stompy robot duders […]

These shows ain’t getting any shorter, eh? This week we get around to discussing modding, total conversions, and game hacking. Lots of letters and a voicemail this week – thanks a million, listeners! The song at the end of this week’s show is Skywall by Derek Duke from World of Warcraft. Show notes: Francisco Twitches […]

Crikey, Graham! It’s a poooisonous snake. Luckily we have the inimitable Jess Haskins and Francisco Gonzalez to tame it with witty and insightful observations about storytelling and narrative in games. We also had some great discussions about journals, audiologs, environmental storytelling, story pacing in open worlds, and of course Francisco makes with the ha ha […]

Interface with this, bub! We’re talking about UIs and the ways games communicate information to players this week. Thanks to all our listeners who contributed comments via Twitter – we loves ya! Apologies from Brian for being so scatterbrained this show. He’s still collecting his marbles after a week of being icky sicky. The song […]

There’s no better follow-up to a Friday the 13th than to scareify ourselves talking about the games we hate. We welcome Darth Helmet and the Space Quest Historian himself Troels Pleimert for a foul-mouthed miasma of head shaking and regret. Also, we apologize for spending so much time discussing wonderful games that we adore. We’ll […]

Satya Nadella seriously poops in Brian’s cornflakes this week – he vents with great vengeance and fuuuurious anger at Microsoft for giving OneDrive the shaft. We also talk about emergent gameplay and doing stuff we oughtn’t! The song at the end of this week’s episode is Phart Noquer by Quasimojo of Chill Productions. P.s., please […]

It’s a huge pleasure to have Robert Menes join us this week to talk about Linux and Linux accessories. We discuss the philosophy of free open source software, alternatives to commercial software, gaming in Linux, and veer off on a wild meandering tangent for a good hour or so to talk about the finer things. […]

Aaaaahhhhhhhhkago is back to spookify us with frightening game recommendations! Boo and eek and other scary noises and shit! Also Octobery things like candy and pumpkins and having to wear a jacket for the first time in a while. Autumn is great but I kinda miss summer. Short pants, amirite? It’s kickass getting to show […]

Phew!! At 3.5 hours this was our longest show ever, but time absolutely flies when we’re talking with our dear friend Troels Pleimert. Troels, Bianca, and Brian are all hobbyist game developers with more ideas than finished products, so this week we talk about games we’ve conceptualized or started but never finished. The song at […]

Dum dee doodily dooAAH! Don’t sneak up on me like that! I was just skipping down the street singing a happy song and you jumped out at me from behind a corner! Aww man, you made me drop my sandwich. Look at the mayonnaise smeared on the sidewalk. Why did you have to startle me […]