Space Game Junkie Podcast

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 .

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do another episode of Spin the Wheel, wherein we have a bevy of topics and choose them at random thanks to the wheel at Wheel of Names! We get some fun questions, and it’s a fun, breezy way to... The post SGJ Podcast #490 – Spin the Wheel appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, welcome to the show. First off, I have to apologize for the audio around the end of the show. VoiceMeeter kept, to use the vernacular, shitting the bed, and every time I reset it, it happened seconds later. No idea why, sorry. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again as VoiceMeeter usually behaves itself. As... The post SGJ Podcast #489 – Games Respecting Your Time, or Not appeared first on...

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I further our discussion of replayability by talking about the games we’ve replayed the most over our gaming careers. This takes us further into why these and other games like them are so replayable to us, and what makes games... The post SGJ Podcast #488 – Replayability, Part Two – Our Most Replayed Games...

Hello friends, and welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our semi-regular check-ins, wherein we talk about what we’re playing, and how we’re doing. It’s a pretty fun show, though it does get a teensy but morose at times. Sorry about that, can’t rally be helped... The post SGJ Podcast #487 – Check-In appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to the show, my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I try to start to tackle the concept of replayability. It’s a topic suggested by RockinRowl on our Discord, but it’s such a big topic we’ve split it up into a couple of episodes. In THIS episode, we’ll talk about the... The post SGJ Podcast #486 – Replayability, Part One appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about finding positive online communities. We all need a place to fit in, especially in tough/dark/interesting times such as these. Some of us do better in online spaces than those in the real world, so we talk about... The post SGJ Podcast #485 – Finding Positive Online Communities appeared first o...

Hey friends, welcome back to the show! After a short break, we’re back with what we hope you’ll think is a fun topic! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about those game that were most satisfying to “get gud” at. You know, the games in which we invested many hours and... The post SGJ Podcast #484 – Your Most Satisfying “Got Gud” Games appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our top gaming moments. You know, the moments that floored us, that made us exhausted, that we remember for years or decades afterward. We all had a lot of great entries, and we enjoyed the topic so... The post SGJ Podcast #483 – Top Gaming Moments appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I take another turn of the random wheel of questions, since we had so much fun with it last time. We have more fun with it this... The post SGJ Podcast #482 – Spin the Wheel appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do a check-in, and do we get angry. Like, it’s a rough time, and we usually avoid politics, but we get very political in this episode, so you can skip this one if you’d like, I’ll totally understand. Next... The post SGJ Podcast #481 – Check-In appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the games we’re most looking forward to hopefully coming out this year, whether into early access or from early access to 1.0. We cover a LOT of games, and surprisingly few toes were stepped upon! Check out... The post SGJ Podcast #480 – Looking Forward to 2025 appeared first on Space Game J...

Hey friends, welcome to the first show of 2025! I’m sorry if the audio isn’t up to our usual standards, as I could have SWORN I hit record on my mixer, but I can’t find the file, so I had to use the audio ripped from the video as a backup. Anyways, this week, Spaz,... The post SGJ Podcast #479 – beyond.frontiers appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hello friends, and welcome to this, the final show of 2024! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I look back on what a year it’s been, both personally and in our gaming lives, to find out what surprised us, what disappointed us, and so on, all of which you can see below. If... The post SGJ Podcast #478 – A Look Back at 2024 appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, welcome back to the show! Again, apologies for the longer-than-anticipated break, but cataract surgery waits for no man. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do a check-in and talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. The games we’re playing are all over the map, as are our mental... The post SGJ Podcast #477 – Check-In appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I (OMG full crew again) talk about space legs. You know, when you can walk around your ship, stations and the like. We found out that it seems to work more often than not, but when it doesn’t work, it’s... The post SGJ Podcast #476 – Space Legs appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome back to the show, folks! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about exploration, both in space and other types of games. We go through which games we feel nail it — of which there aren’t a ton — which games we feel could do better, and more. It’s a fun... The post SGJ Podcast #475 – Exploration appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, sorry this is a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about user interfaces and the user experience, how they relate to gaming, and which games do them well and which could do better. It’s a fun and spirited discussion, and we... The post SGJ Podcast #474 – UI/UX appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the jobs we’d like to have if we lived in a space video game. The conversation got pretty lively, and we all came up with some really fun answers! Next week, we’ll be talking user interfaces and... The post SGJ Podcast #473 – Professions in the Future appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

(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... The post SGJ Podcast #472 – Check-In appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

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... The post SGJ Podcast #471 – Spin the Wheel appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

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.... The post SGJ Podcast #470 – Starcom: Unknown Space appeared first on Spa...

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... The post SGJ Podcast #469 – Loans and Debt in Gaming appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

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)... The post SGJ Podcast #468 – Check-In appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

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... The post SGJ Podcast #467 – Ostranauts appeared first on Space Game Junkie .