Space Game Junkie Podcast

Hey friends, welcome to the show! Quick note, OBS cut out about ten minutes into our recording, so there’s not really a video, but the audio is unaffected. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about games with our favorite sound design. We have a nice, varied list, which you can see below,... The post SGJ Podcast #516 – Our Favorite Sound Design in Gaming appeared first...

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz (who couldn’t connect to Riverside at the time, but we’ve fixed it!), Julie, Thorston (who is under the weather), Jacob, and I have one of our semi-regular check-ins, wherein we talk about how we’re doing and what we’re playing. Turns out TWO of us have... The post SGJ Podcast #515 – Check-In appeared...

Hey friends, welcome to the show. This is our second time using Riverside, and I did a bit of tweaking so it SHOULD sound better this time. Let me know if you have any feedback! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about resurrected MMOs, like my beloved Jumpgate! I had no idea... The post SGJ Podcast #514 – Resurrected MMOs appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s show! First off, before discussing the show itself, a bit of housekeeping. This episode was the first we recorded with a new piece of software called Riverside, a piece of software dedicated to recording podcasts, interviews and such. It’ll probably sound a little different, and hopefully better... The post SGJ Podcast #513 – Campaigns...

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I return to the topic of long-haul games that keep us engaged for a long time. It’s a topic that we broached several episodes ago, and it was actually a happy accident that we’re returning to it again. Regardless, we had... The post SGJ Podcast #512 – Long Games that Draw You In for th...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #511 – Rediscovering Gems You Initially Skipped appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

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... The post SGJ Podcast #510 – Video Gaming’s Lost Arts appeared firs...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #508 – Check-In appeared first on Space G...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #507 – The Games We’re Looking Forward To in 2026 appeared first on Spa...

Welcome, my friends, to our last show of 2025, and what a year it’s been for gaming! For example, my curator page’s best of list for this year is longer than any other year since I began keeping lists! On the topic of games of 2025, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I look... The post SGJ Podcast #506 – The Games of 2025 appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

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... The post SGJ Podcast #505 – Things (Gaming and Non-G...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #504 – Technical Marvels in Gaming appeared fi...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #503 – Check-In ap...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #502 – Long Games that Draw You In for the Long Haul appeared fi...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #501 – Games in Which Direct...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #500 – A Celebration of Space Game Development appeared first on Space Ga...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #499 – Change and Burnout (i.e. Change is Coming to the Podcast) appear...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #498 – Spiritual Successors appeared first on Space Game Ju...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #497 – Mods appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

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... The post SGJ Podcast #496 – Free-to-Play G...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #495 – Check-In appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

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... The post SGJ Podcast #494 – Recommended Mobile Space Games appeared first...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #493 – Let’s Talk...

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Jacob, David and I talk about the best hardware to play portable Windows, Steam, Android and iOS games. There are a lot of devices to go through, but thankfully, I’ve included the list below. Depending on what you’re looking for and what you want to... The post SGJ Podcast #492 – The Best Windows, Android and iOS Devices f...

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode of the show. I have to apologize for the audio because VoiceMeeter took a dump later in the episode, so I had to resort to the backup recording. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down and work with the chat and each other to... The post SGJ Podcast #491 – Topic Creation Roundtable appeared first on Space Game Junkie .