Space Game Junkie Podcast

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Mike Stankiewicz, Founder and Lead Developer at MT Worlds, to discuss his spacey trading and economic survival game, Interstellar Transport Company. We spend a lot of time comparing his game favorably to Space Bucks (yay!) and of course, some... The post SGJ Podcast #221 – Interstellar Transport Company ap...

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I get up super early our time to talk to our guest, who’s in Germany! Joining us is Benjamin Rommel, the developer of Galactic Crew. This game is clearly based on FTL, but has a lot of its own style and... The post SGJ Podcast #220 – Galactic Crew appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Brett Lowey, creator and owner of BrainGoodGames, to talk about his spacey card board colonization game, Solar Settlers! Knowing next to nothing about board and card games my own self, I was super happy... The post SGJ Podcast #219 – Solar Settlers appeared first on Space Game Junk...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast folks! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Adam Solo (Developer & Game Designer) and Hugo Rosado (Developer and Art Direction) of Praxis game to talk about their upcoming Master of Orion 2 homage, the really fun spacey 4X game Interstellar Space: Genesis! We... The post SGJ Podcast #218 – Interstellar Space: Genesis appeared fir...

Welcome to episode 217 of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I have an early morning (for us) show so we can talk to our guest Milos Zivkovic, Game Designer and Story Writer at Zero Gravity Games, who was calling us from Belgrade, Serbia to talk about spacey survivalley game Hellion!!... The post SGJ Podcast #217 – Hellion appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this episode of the Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Mark Baldwin, who worked on the Star Fleet, Empire and Perfect General series’, to talk about his time in the gaming industry, his favorite games he worked on, how the industry has changed and much more. I have to apologize... The post SGJ Podcast #216 – Mark Baldwin appeared first on Space Game Jun...

Welcome back to the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! We’re back from hiatus, and this week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk the games we’ve been playing, some news, and discuss what a surprise and delight 2017 has been so far in terms if space games. Over two dozen space games have been fully released... The post SGJ Podcast #215 – A Hodge Podge of a Show appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Edit: Welcome to the second of two rerun shows we’ll be playing while we’re out on break. This episode is one of our biggest surprises of our entire run, and still one we look back to very fondly, so we hope you enjoy it, and we’ll see you back on the horse next week! Thanks... The post Rerun – SGJ Podcast #28: The Treasure Trove That is Thomas Robertson (i.e. We Kinda Talk Artemis…) appeared firs...

Edit: Hey folks, this is a rerun show to have something in the feed while we’re off for two weeks. I hope you enjoy it! Original: Welcome to this special impromptu edition of the Space Game Junkie Podcast!! In this special episode, Jim and I sit down with some folks who worked directly on the... The post Rerun – SGJ Podcast #85 – (Some of) The Brilliant Minds Behind Freespace 2!!!OMG!!! appeared f...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I get up at 6 AM Pacific time to talk to Eric “RexSpaceman” Flynn and Shaun “Stuffie” Hutchinson, creator and co-creator respectfully of the co-op miney, shootey, buildy, craftey warpey space game, Space Impossible! We have a fun discussion about... The post SGJ Podcast #214 – Space Impossible ap...

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Isaac Aubrey (Overwürm) and Dave Quinn (Lead Engineer) at Blue Wizard Digital to talk about their rougelite fast-paced “5X” galactic conquest game, Space Tyrant! It was a very, very fun discussion about game design, UI design, mobile vs. PC design... The post SGJ Podcast #213 – Space Tyrant appeared first...

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk news, the games we’re playing and stories in sci-fi games. Since our guest had to cancel, we kinda threw this together, but it was a fun talk all around. Sadly we had some technical issues with Discord, and only too... The post SGJ Podcast #212 – News, Games and Stories appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this latest of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Walter LaCroix of Blue Blaze Gaming to talk about his amazing space exploration and combat roguelike, Star Fleet Armada Rogue Adventures. This game is one of the biggest surprises of 2017, so Spaz and... The post SGJ Podcast #211 – Star Fleet Armada Rogue Adventures appeared first o...

Welcome to this latest podcast my friends! Sorry for the slight delay, this week TOTALLY got away from me. This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Daniel (Artist), Guilherme (Programmer) and Thiago (Sound Designer) of Bitten Toast Games to discuss their feline-based shooter series made up of Spacecats with Lasers : The Outerspace and Spacecats with Lasers VR.... The post SGJ Podcast #210...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down and talk with Steve Boyette of Midwest Video Games about his excellent first person captain simulation, Icarus Starship Command Simulator. We talk about game development, the usefulness of a good audience, building goodwill, dealing with... The post SGJ Podcast #209 – Icarus Starship Co...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Ryan Hewer, Project Director at Little Red Dog Games, to discuss their currently Kickstarting space exploration and spaceship management game, Deep Sixed! While we start on a major E3 tangent — which is pretty... The post SGJ Podcast #208 – Deep Sixed appeared first on Space Game J...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I get up super early in the morning (6 AM our time) to talk to some of the folks behind the Freelanceresque MMO, Sirius Online. Joining us from Germany is the game’s creator and Lead Creative Developer Dex, while Community Manager Cayne... The post SGJ Podcast #207 – Sirius Online appeared first on Space Gam...

Welcome to this latest Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Dave Williams – Co-Founder and Everything Designer at Jellyfish Games — to talk about their recently successfully Kickstarted space station building and personality meshing sim, Astrobase Command. While we didn’t get to touch the game our own selves,... The post SGJ Podcast #206 – Astrobas...

Welcome to this latest episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I welcome Ray Fowler, developer of Remnants of the Precursors! If you’re unaware, Remnants of the Precursors (formerly JavaMOO) is an homage/update to Master of Orion 1, not 2, which is what EVERYONE ELSE is trying to do. ;)... The post SGJ Podcast #205 – Remnants of the Precursors appeared...

Welcome to episode 204 of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Sindroms, one of the server admins behind the genius Freelancer mod, Discovery Freelancer. We talk about the long history of the mod (a decade at least), the ins and outs of Freespace modding, why... The post SGJ Podcast #204 – Discovery Freelancer appeared first on Space Game Junki...

Welcome to episode 203 of the Space Game Junkie Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with John Carr of Galdor Studios to discuss his upcoming real-time strategy game, Empyrean Frontier (Itch.io, Steam). We had a great discussion about the game, it’s history, it’s ongoing development, the differences between Itch.io and Steam for... The post SGJ Podcast #203 – Empyrean F...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, newly-minted co-host Spaz and I sit down with Mike (or MjnMixael as he’s known online) to talk about his extensive Freespace 2 total conversion mod continuation thing, Between the Ashes. We talk to Mike for a while about the history of the... The post SGJ Podcast #202 – Between the Ashes appeared first on...

Hey friends, welcome to the two hundredth and first (wow) episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I welcome friend of the show Rogelio Martinez to discuss a topic he suggested: why TIE Fighter and Freespace 2 are still the best dogfighting game roughly two decades after their respective releases. Rogelio is working on... The post SGJ Podcast #201 – The Dogfightin...

Welcome to the 200th episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! Wow, 200 of these here things. I can barely believe it. This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I step back and give this genre a critical look see. While we’re all super duper happy that we have a vibrant space game genre again, with new... The post SGJ Podcast #200 – A Critical Look at the Genre appeared first on Space Game Junki...

Welcome to this last 100s episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter (who is away on vacation) Spaz and I sit down to look at the “classic” space combat game, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. I came up with the idea for this topic because, usually when we look at classic games like... The post SGJ Podcast #199 – Starfleet Academy appeared first on Space Game Junkie .