Space Game Junkie: Recent Episodes
Brian Rubin
Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I have a fascinating discussion about games that don’t really respect your time, but that’s okay because they’re still fun. This could be grinding for better gear or for a better ending, for example! We came up...
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Today on the show, we'll talk about games with our favorite sound design, like voice acting, music and more!
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Today on the show, we'll do one of our regular check-ins!
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Today we'll discuss MMO games that were officially killed, but resurrected by dedicated fans.
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Today on the show, we'll talk about whether we prefer sandboxes to more driven campaigns.
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Today we'll return to the topic of games that draw you in for the long haul!!
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Hey friends, and welcome to this week’s show! First off, two apologies. First, that this is a day late, sorry, yesterday got away from me and two, I forgot two hit record on the mixer so this is using the backup recording from OBS, so the audio might be a bit funky. Also, I was...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I discuss things in video games that have been lost to the sands of time. For example, I talk about physical strategy guides. I mean sure, we now have wikis and Steam guides these days, but there’s something about a physical strategy...
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Hello friends, and welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I welcome back Mosgrom to talk about the long, long, loooooong road to the 1.0 release of one of my all-time favorite games, Taxinaut. As this is Mosgrom’s fourth appearance on the show, if you recall his previous appearances, you might...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I have one of our regular check-ins, wherein we talk amongst ourselves (and the chat) about how we’re doing and what we’re playing, and let me tell you, things aren’t collectively going great for us all right now. That said, we are...
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Hey friends, welcome to a new year and a new podcast! Yay! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about the games we’re really looking forward to coming out and playing this year, and my goodness, there are a lot of them, the list of which you can see below! There are many...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I talk about the things we’re thankful for in what’s been a pretty tumultuous year. We discuss both gaming and non-gaming things we’re thankful for, and surprisingly, we come up with quite a few. What are you thankful for? On our next...
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Hey friends, welcome to the podcast! First off, let me apologize for the audio. VoiceMeeter — the program I use to typically record our sessions — had a kerfuffle, and so I’m relying on the backup recording from OBS, which is the raw audio. It’ll likely be a little louder than usual, so I apologize...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I have a semi-regular check-in, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. Since we’re missing Jacob — who was sadly under the weather — it’s a slightly shorter show than usual, but it’s a fun one, and we...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! Sorry this is a day late, yesterday was a real fustercluck! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I discuss long-haul games, including our first game that we sank dozens, if not hundreds, of hours into. We also explore what it takes for a game to truly capture our...
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Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the show! First off, an apology. Restream had technical issues yesterday. For some reason only five seconds of our stream went out, and then stopped. Therefore there’s no YouTube copy of this episode, only the MP3. To their credit, Restream fixed the issue relatively quickly, and hopefully this...
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Hey friends, welcome to this milestone episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I look back at the seminal games of the last twelve years — since we began the podcast — and talk about how special they, and their developers, are to us. We covered a lot of games, and had a lot of...
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Hey friends, two apologies. First, sorry for it being a day late, yesterday got away from me, and secondly, I forgot to hit record on my mixer, so the audio is taken directly from the OBS video. I hope that’s okay. So, some big news this week. This week, the primary topic is that we’re...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! I am sorry the MP3 was uploaded a bit late, real life conspired against me the last couple of days! Anywhoooo, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about spiritual successors! These are games that aren’t part of a series, but are a love letter/homage to a...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about mods. Why we love them, and which are some of our favorites, the list of which you can see below! Mods are a wonderful way to extend the life of a game, and there are a lot that we...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about free-to-play games…eventually. I, sadly, misunderstood the assignment and thought we were talking about totally free games, not games that are initially free but have a range of buy-in mechanics to help monetize the game. Once we get on...
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Hey friends, welcome back to the show. As I said at the top of the episode, apologies for missing a couple of weeks, but it couldn’t be helped, as some — relatively minor — stuff was out of our control. We’re back though, and this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I do one of...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I conclude our series on mobile gaming by talking about actual games you can play on various mobile devices, the list of which you can see below. These are games we’ve...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show!!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about emulation. Well, I mostly talk about emulation, namely the emulators that you can use to (LEGALLY) play your old games. I mostly talk Android, because we’re focusing on handheld devices and that’s where most of the best one’s...
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(welcome text here) This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It’s a varied show, as we talk about a lot of games, but also how the current world situation is affecting us. We’re still working on our topic for next week, but it’ll surely...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! So sorry this is late. First, last week got away from me, THEN the site was down for several days! UGH. Anyway, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I try something a little different. In lieu of one topic, we spin a wheel and tackle several. We’ve...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Lin of Wx3 Labs to talk about his sophomore entry into the Starcom series, Starcom: Unknown SpaceE! We talk a lot about the changes to the new game, Kevin’s history and game development philosophy, and more....
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Friends, more and more often, I’m finding games that use generative “artificial intelligence,” or as I like to call them, “plagiarism engines.” Recently, Steam added an area where devs can add an “AI” disclaimer like this: Which, for me, has been great, as I hate this “AI” nonsense. I see it primarily as stealing other...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I take the barest thread of a topic, loans in gaming, and turn it into almost an hour of banter! Hooray! It’s a pretty fun show, so we hope you enjoy it! We are off next week, but we’ll be...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. Sorry for the delay in getting it out, I’ve been swamped at work and the week got away from me. So, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our regular check-ins, where we talk about what we’re playing (which you can see below)...
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Hello, my friends, and welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Daniel Fedor of Blue Bottle Games to talk about his upcoming “Firefly episode generator,” OstranautsE! Now, we do talk about the game, but we also go on a LOT of fun tangents in this...
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Hey friends, welcome back to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Jasper Pol, to talk about his amazing game, Taxinaut. The game just hit a major milestone, so we talk about its journey so far, why I personally find it so compelling, and ideas for the future. It’s...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about video game locations at which we’d like to take a vacation or holiday. Independently, three of us came up with The Citadel from Mass Effect, but there were a lot of other great entries too, as you can...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I discuss our favorite video game soundtracks, the list of which you can see below! It’s a pretty wide-ranging list, and we had a lot of fun talking about all this wonderful music. Next week on the show, we’ll talk...
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Welcome to this week’s show. First, let me apologize for the audio. I forgot to hit record on my mixer, so the audio is taken straight from the video file I record as a backup. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Steve Hunt of Cold Beam Games to talk about...
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Hello my friends, long time no post! I’m writing this because, honestly, I feel like my streaming schedule has gotten, for me, a little stale. I love space game Mondays and flight sim Fridays, but the other three days? I find myself getting less and less interested in doing random games, and there are some...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode of the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I build on our traversal topic from a couple of weeks ago and this time, we talk about fast travel. I wasn’t honestly sure we could make it into a full-blown topic, but lo and behold we...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I revisit the topic of one-hit wonders in gaming, and we have even more fun games to talk about, the list of which you can see below. I’d not heard about many of these, some I’d forgotten about (like SimEarth),...
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Hey friends, welcome back to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about games with the best traversal, or movement. This idea came to me while I was traveling, recently. Sometimes game does a great job allowing you to move through the world, and we talk about a lot of...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show, This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do one of our regular check-ins to talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It’s a fun, laid back show that should be a fun listen for y’all. :) So, we’re off for two weeks, as I’m...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I talked about games that had a Cinderella story. You know, they had a rough start and have since flourished. We came up with a pretty fun list, which you can see below! Next week, we’ll do our regular check-in!...
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Hello friends, and welcome! Sorry this episode is late, last week totally got away from me. Again. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about gaming disasters. These can be in-game disasters, or games that ended up being a disaster, and things get a bit spicy, in a good way. We have...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. Also apologies for the audio, my mixer took a dump in the middle of the stream so we’re using the video output’s audio. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our favorite gaming one-hit...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Brock, Lead Developer at Pastaspace Interactive, to talk about his now-on-Steam-in-early-access space adventure, Underspace (SteamE, GOG)! I am disgustingly excited about this game, so I was just as excited to talk to Kevin about it, and we...
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Hello my friends. Sorry this is a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week on the show, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I welcome John Zeigler to talk about his upcoming worldbuilding sourcebook, Architect of Worlds. We talk a lot about actual science — much of which goes over my dumb...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry the MP3 is a day late, but yesterday just totally got away from me! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our regular check-ins, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. A lot of awesome games came up,...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about tie-in games, and we come up with a really fun list. We actually had so much fun with this episode we’ll likely do more of them, as we all had multiple games we wanted to talk about....
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry again for the unannounced/unscheduled break, but we’re back! Also apologies for the weird audio in the middle of the show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I, even though we’re all damned tired, spend time talking about the importance of breaks and moderation for one’s...
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You guys, I am so sorry about the lateness on this one. Last week got away from me and somewhere in my brain I had SWORN I’d uploaded this. So, so sorry. So, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I bounce off our last topic to talk about onboarding, what it is, which...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show this week! Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday got away from me for a variety of reasons. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a lively debate about how much information should be given to the player in a given game. The fun thing is, we...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I talk about space games with an economic focus, along with our firsts and so on. It’s a fun topic, thought up by Julie, and we covered a lot of ground and had a ton of fun on the way. Next...
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Hey friends, welcome to this episode! Sorry for the lateness, last week totally got away from me! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a regular check-in, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It does wonders for our mental health and it’s fun to talk about what...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry, it’s a day late, sadly yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down to talk about the new rise in accessible, approachable flight sims/games. This includes games like Tiny Combat Arena, Nuclear Option, and Helicopter Gunship DEX, amongst...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. First off, let me apologize for the sound, rather than using the recorder in my mixer…I forgot to turn it on, so the audio is a direct rip from the video file. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about many the games we’re hopeful...
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Welcome to this week’s show, the last of 2023! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I pick our top space and non-space games of 2023, and while there are some usual suspects on the list, there are a lot of surprises as well. We’re off next week, see you back in here in...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show. Sorry this is a day late, but yesterday got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about deals. Winter sale season is upon us, so we list the tools you should be using to find the best deals, and the games we feel...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! So friends, this is an interesting one This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I were originally, I thought, going to talk about offline gaming, in terms of which games you should have on hand if you lose your Internet connection. Thorsten, shortly before we went live, suggested...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I can’t settle on a topic, so we decide to do a simple check-in, to see how we’re doing and what we’re playing. Let me tell y’all, the burnout is reeeealllll. We had a fun talk about games and such...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Trevor Sorensen to talk about the newly-released Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander 2.0 (Steam, GOG)! We talk about the long, long journey it took to bring this new version of the game to sale, Trevor’s extensive experience...
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Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast. Sorry this one is a little late, last week totally got away from me. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the sticky subject of games preservation. While there are some bright spots, most of the time we express our frustration as...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the hardware that’s important to us, whether it’s a joystick, a portable console, a gamepad and so on. It was a really fun chat and a lot of fun pieces of kit came up, which you can...
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Welcome to the show folks! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I look back into the depths of our Steam libraries to talk about games that are still worth playing, yet have been forgotten to the sands of time. We come up with quite the great list, as you can see below, and...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down for a (mostly) serious discussion about the ongoing Unity debacle. If you’re unaware, Unity changed their revenue deal a week or so ago, which sent pretty much the entirety of gaming up in arms against them. It’s...
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Hey friends, sorry this one is a bit late, last week totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I play some Rifftrax: The Game, in order to celebrate 9,000 subscribers on YouTube. Since this is primarily a visual game, you might do better by watching the YouTube video, FYI....
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Welcome to this week’s show, friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I welcome Brian and Max of Forbidden Realm Simulations to discuss their game, WarpVector! We talk a LOT about their game, roguelikes in general, and much more. It’s a really fun time! Next week, to celebrate our YouTube channel reaching 9,000...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode. First, I must apologize for this not being our best outing this week, which is entirely my fault. The sound went wibbly in the middle of the show — which forced me to use the YouTube recording for audio — and then I had some cat drama happening...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a topic show in which we talk about games we feel should’ve launched their own genres, like Doom or Command and Conquer, for example. We went through a lot of games, and it was a really fun discussion....
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, we’re doing something a little different. Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Alex Nicola of Mitzi Games to talk about his new game, Space Cats Tactics…but not in the voice chat. You see, Alex has a day job, so he couldn’t join us...
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Friends, welcome to this week’s podcast, and I apologize, but it’s a weird one, and it’s totally my fault. Our guest was late because I sent him the wrong time on the Google Calendar invite. First (and hopefully last) time I’ve ever done that. So, for the first fifteen to twenty minutes, Spaz, Julie, Thorston,...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back to the show Thomas Robertson of Incandescent Workshop LLC to talk about the latest entry in his long-running series of bridge crew simulators, Artemis Cosmos! We talk about the history of the series, the rise of bridge...
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Welcome to this week’s episode y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Koder from Kodera Software to talk about his about-to-it-1.0 space mining game, ΔV: Rings of Saturn! We talk a lot about the game’s origins, using godot, sticking to realistic physics and a lot more. It’s a real fun discussion,...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Doug of Psychronic Game Studios to talk about his current prologue game, Star Shift Origins, as well as the upcoming games in the series, Rebellion and Legacy! It’s a really fun discussion about game design, engines...
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Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast, so sorry for its lateness but last week totally got away from me. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about localization, which goes far, far beyond just translating text. There are whole levels of nuance one needs to do a good localization,...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Shaun Randall of Edenic Era to talk about their upcoming spacey co-op adventure game, Lodestar! We talk a lot about the amazingness of Unreal, how the game levels are built, the idea for the game, and...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down to talk about RPGs, and boy, do we talk a LOT about RPGs. This episode is the first in what will be a series of free-flowing discussion on various RPGs and types of RPGs. For example, in...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about paper, specifically documentation. We wax and wane about the “olden days” when games came in boxes along with printed manuals (and other fun stuff too). It’s a fun, free-flowing discussion in which we had a lot of...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Dan of Slice Bar Games to talk about his cassette-future space exploration, combat and death game, Astra Protocol 2! We’re just fascinated by this game, so we have a LOT of questions about it, which does lead...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a loosey goosey check-in about what we’ve been playing and what we’re excited about. It turns out, we’ve all been playing quite a lot of awesome stuff, and you can see the list below! Next week, we’ll welcome on...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the necessity of taking breaks. Whether it’s taking a break from gaming entirely, specific games, or other things, breaks can be good for one’s mental health. We have a tangent or two, but we mostly stay on topic...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a discussion on retro games, which will likely be our first of many. This time around, we talk about our first PC and first console (if applicable) and which games on those systems were our firsts as well....
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Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast. I am so sorry about the lateness of this episode, but my week got away from me, so I thank you for your patience! This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Zoltan Borbas to talk his new space 4X game, Stellar Sovereigns! We...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about indie developers who we’re particularly impressed with due to their ambition and work ethic. We talk about a lot of specific developers and their games, and heap all the deserved praise, and it ends up being a...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Jonah Wilberg of Four Fold Games to talk about his upcoming procedural space tactical adventure, Relic Space. We have a lot of fun with some tangents, some great talk about the board, similar board games and more. It...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I revisit a topic we hit a few weeks ago, games we felt deserved better. We had so much fun and didn’t get to all our picks, that we’re back for round two, and my goodness, are there some excellent...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Peter Oost to talk about his upcoming spacey colony game, Trappist! While we had a lot of fun, and got to learn a lot about the game, I have to apologize for my own behavior, as I...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Kevin Donnelly and Gabriel O’Flaherty of Bobby Technology to talk about their upcoming survival RTS, Chaotic Era! We had an entertaining discussion about the game’s inspirations, how it’s meant to be brutal and challenging, and much more. It...
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Friends, so sorry this one is late, last week completely got away from me. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I pass some time playing Rifftrax: The Game. The reasons for this are numerous, so I won’t bore you with the why. I will say though that, since Rifftrax is a very visual...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about games we feel deserve better, whether they came out and bombed, or were unfinished and got better, we talk about games that didn’t get a fair shake. We had so many games to talk about we’re likely...
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Welcome to the show folks! Sorry this episode was late, work got away from me this month. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Ken Burnside of Ad Astra Games to talk about his current selection of detailed space (and air) combat boardgames. I know nothing about boardgames, so Jacob took...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I take a listener topic request (thanks tsubasanut!) and talk about games we initially bounced off and then returned to later, and finally clicked with. It’s a pretty varied list, as you can see below, and we had fun talking...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the five games we’re most looking forward to in 2023, and my goodness it was tough whittling it down to five. Spaz couldn’t even do so, which isn’t surprising as a lot of good stuff hopefully will...
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Hello my friends, and welcome to our first show of 2023! Happy new year!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I look back on the games that made our 2022, and boy do we have a lot of games we played last year. You can see the list below, but suffice it to...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a laid-back episode wherein we talk about what we’re playing. Turns out, we’ve been playing a lot of varied stuff! It’s a really fun time and we talked about a lot of games. No show next week, so we’ll...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the tools and sites to use to find the best deals on games. I’m a big, big deal hunter, and have as much fun finding deals as I do playing games. I’ve linked the tools below for...
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Welcome to the show my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the things we’re thankful for. It’s been a weird year or three, so expressing thankfulness can really help center someone, and boy do we have a lot to be thankful for collectively. Next week, as the final sales...
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Welcome to the show my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Steve Hunt of Cold Beam Games to talk about the latest in his series of music-based, twin-stick shooters, Beat Hazard 3! We talk a LOT about the design of the game, how the series has evolved, and Steve’s...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Lin of Wx3 Labs to talk about the next game in his Starcom series, Starcom: Unknown Space! We around here loved the first game, so we were VERY excited to talk to Kevin about the new...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Lin of Wx3 Labs to talk about the next game in his Starcom series, Starcom: Unknown Space! We around here loved the first game, so we were VERY excited to talk to Kevin about the new...
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Hey friends, I am super excited about this new thing I’ll be doing on Fridays, now that I’ve finished Yakuza. I had so much fun over these last several months playing my favorite classic sims that I’m going to make it a weekly thing! Each week, we’ll go through one campaign in one sim until...
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Hey friends, I am super excited about this new thing I’ll be doing on Fridays, now that I’ve finished Yakuza. I had so much fun over these last several months playing my favorite classic sims that I’m going to make it a weekly thing! Each week, we’ll go through one campaign in one sim until...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Alex of Hellride Games to talk about his upcoming cap ship battle extravaganza, Capital Command! We had a TERRIFIC time with the game so we gush to Alex about it, as well as come up with suggestions, and...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Alex of Hellride Games to talk about his upcoming cap ship battle extravaganza, Capital Command! We had a TERRIFIC time with the game so we gush to Alex about it, as well as come up with suggestions, and...
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Hey friends, welcome to our 400th episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I are doing something a little bit different for our big 400th episode. We were thinking, what could we all do together that would be fun, and Spaz came up with some Rifftrax! So I therefore recommend y’all watch the...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our favorite ship designs! This might be one where you wanna watch the YouTube video below as we show images of all the ships we talk about as we discuss them. Taking the idea from this Spaceshipper Tweet,...
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A year and a half ago, roughly, I received an E-Win Gaming Chair for review. Overall it’s been a damned fine chair. Adjustable and comfortable and no back problems or anything after sitting in it for eight to ten hours a day, five days a week (I try not to use my PC on weekends,...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I take a break from guests and check in with ourselves and our audience to see how everyone is doing. It gets a bit raw at times, but overall it was a positive and fun exercise. Next week we’ll talk about...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Arthur Moyer and Paul Blessing Laser Beams & Particle Streams Software, Inc. to talk about their upcoming space combat city builder thing, Rank: Warmaster! We talk a LOT about the origins of the game (it was originally...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Arthur Moyer and Paul Blessing Laser Beams & Particle Streams Software, Inc. to talk about their upcoming space combat city builder thing, Rank: Warmaster! We talk a LOT about the origins of the game (it was originally...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Jasper Pol, the developer behind my most anticipated game, the space taxi driver game known as Taxinaut (which just hit Steam by the way so you should all buy it, or buy it on Itch and get...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Jasper Pol, the developer behind my most anticipated game, the space taxi driver game known as Taxinaut (which just hit Steam by the way so you should all buy it, or buy it on Itch and get...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do show antithetical to the one we did last week, wherein this time we talk about things in gaming that we love. Not just specific games either, but things in multiple games that just speak to us. It’s a fun...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do show antithetical to the one we did last week, wherein this time we talk about things in gaming that we love. Not just specific games either, but things in multiple games that just speak to us. It’s a fun...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have some things we need to get off our chests. Typically during a show, one of our tangents involves our continued disappointment with two of the biggest names in space gaming: Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen. Well in this episode,...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the joy of a good co-op game. We discuss our favorites, what we think goes into a really good co-op game, what we wish some games did better, and a lot more. Next week, we’ll be airing...
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Friends, I am so sorry this is late. Somehow last week got away from me. Anyway. this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about a topic near and dear to my heart: pilot sims versus plane sims. I love flight sims, particularly pilot-focused sims like Tornado, EF2000, 1942: Pacific Air War, whereas...
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Hey friends, sorry this was so late, I had it all ready to go last week before I went out of town, but the site was down so I couldn’t make a post! So sorry! Anyway, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our concern over gaming and whether CEOs are...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David (new co-host) and I fully intend to sit down and talk about the legendary developer/publisher house that was and is MicroProse. We START talking about it, and then find out that Why485, the developer of Tiny Combat Arena — an amazing MicroProse-inspired...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I sit down to (mostly, with some tangents) talk about gatekeeping, especially in gaming. This happens all the time to marginalized folks for a variety of reasons, and my god I had no idea just how bad it was. I learned...
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about genres that we feel have gotten stale, or stagnated, the more we’ve played them. We start with space 4X games and just go off on several genres, plus a bunch of tangents. It’s a fun show where we cover...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Adam Solo, formerly of SpaceSector.com, currently of Praxis Games, to talk about the latest expansion to their excellent spacey 4X, Interstellar Space: Genesis, entitled Evolving Empires! We talk about the leap from blogger to game developer, what goes into...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I have a short but sweet conversation about licensed games. We had a hard stop at an hour, so it’s a bit shorter than usual, but we had a lot of fun being pleasantly surprised and sadly shocked at not only...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Chris McElligott Park, and welcome for the first...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I sit down with Leyla and Soren Johnson, both of...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I sit down with Andrew Watson, the sole developer of the...
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Welcome to the show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about representation in video games, how it’s going, how it’s...
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Welcome to this episode of the podcast! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Egosoft Co-Founder Bernd Lehahn to talk about...
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Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Glen Pawley to talk about the new Bloodlines...
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Hey friends, how are you? Been a while since I updated this thing with anything other than a podcast, I know, but I wanted...
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Welcome to the show folks! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome Julie’s friend Chris “roundpeg” Dodson to talk about accessibility in...
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Welcome to this week’s show, my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about free space games, both true freeware and...
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Welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk to Matt and Paul, the developers of the amazing space...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s of the podcast! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about games with piracy and boarding...
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Hey folks, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about the entitlement of gamers and how it...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston and I welcome back Fernando Z, the creator and developer of one...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Ray Fowler, the developer of the Master of...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I just basically shoot the shinola for an hour. We talk...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk Warhammer games! It’s one of the most prolific...
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(welcome text here) This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about how our 2021s were in terms of gaming. Our biggest surprises,...
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Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about tropes we’d like to see in games. Like,...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I ask each other, if you could selectively remove the memory...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about games that gave us the feels. It...
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Welcome to the show my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back the developer of the amazing space roguelike, Approaching...
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Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk to the developer of the upcoming space racing game,...
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Hey friends, welcome to the podcast This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk licensed games! First we talk books and such we’d...
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I discuss breaking up with games. This could be for...
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