Space Game Junkie Podcast

Welcome to episode 198 of the SJG podcast my friends! This week, Jim (sadly he was ill and couldn’t join us), Hunter and I sit down with Francois (tsunamayo) and Ray (Raiben), developer and faction designer respectfully of the upcoming building and exploration game, Skywanderers! I knew a little bit about the game going in, but little did... The post SGJ Podcast #198 – Skywanderers appeared first...

Welcome to the podcast this week folks! Let me start off by, AGAIN, apologizing for technical issues we had. Discord was NOT happy and my PC HATES Space Engineers so it was basically a recipe for fuckery. EVEN THOUGH I used the record button on my mixer, something about Space Engineers caused it to crash,... The post SGJ Podcast #197 – Game Mechanics appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this week’s podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter and I bring back on our friend, Chase “Scharmers” Dahl — formerly of the Flight Sim Follies and a bunch of other stuff — to talk shop with us. I invited him on because, other than another gentleman who sadly couldn’t join us, I consider... The post SGJ Podcast #196 – The Flight Sim Show appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with Philip Devine, Owner of Riveted Games, to talk about their upcoming shooty buildy blocky game, Lightspeed Frontier. A couple of things about this show. First, due to a technical issue on my end (which was... The post SGJ Podcast #195 – Lightspeed Frontier appeared first on Space Game J...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast y’all! This week I (sadly sans Hunter and Jim since it was a morning show) talk to some folks at THQ Nordic about their work on recent space games such as Nexus and Imperium Galactica. Joining me are Reinhard Pollice, Business and Product Development Director at THQ Nordic... The post SGJ Podcast #194 – THQ Nordic appeared first on Space Gam...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter and I bring on friend-of-the-show Travis (known as “Khronoe” on our Discord server) to talk about the gaming phenomenon known as “grind”. This came up during last week’s Jumpgate stream, wherein we discussed grind in games and why, to me, Jumpgate... The post SGJ Podcast #193 – Embracing The Grind (Also, a...

Hey friends, welcome to the Space Game Junkie Podcast (again, a little late, sorry, the week got away from me). This week, Jim, Hunter and I welcome back Director of Fun at Descendent Studios, Eric Peterson, to talk mostly about one of the finest space RTS games you’ll ever play, Conquest: Frontier Wars. We also... The post SGJ Podcast #192 – Conquest: Frontier Wars appeared first on Space Game Ju...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter and I do something a little different. Since the show fell on Valentine’s Day, we figured we’d do something a little different. We therefore ran a contest in which we solicited love letters or poems written to people’s favorite space games.... The post SGJ Podcast #191 – Space Games We (and You) Love appeared f...

Hey friends, welcome to this (fairly late, sorry) episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter and I take a trip down memory lane to talk about 1995’s fantastic space combat sim, Interactive Magic’s Star Rangers. We really like the game a lot, but going down memory lane means, as usual, we meander a... The post SGJ Podcast #190 – Star Rangers appeared first on Space Game Junkie...

Welcome my friends to this latest episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter and I (sadly as it was a morning show, they couldn’t join us) and eventually friend-of-the-show Alex Sczakiel sit down with Konstantin Kronfeldner and Philipp Erhardt, developers of the exciting new shoot ’em, build ’em and mine ’em up, Avorion! We talk... The post SGJ Podcast #189 – Avorion appeared...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Hunter (welcome back!) and I welcome back our buddy Joe Mastroianni — host of the Upper Memory Block Podcast, co-host of the Star Wars Stacks Podcast, and a Star Wars aficionado — to discuss one of the landmark series of space games, the X-Wing series,... The post SGJ Podcast #188 – X-Wing/TIE Fighter Series appeared f...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim and I sit down with F.J. Lennon, successful author and also the producer, director and writer of 1994’s space fighter sim classic, Star Crusader. We talk to F.J. about a lot of the games he’s worked on (he was at Microprose y’all!... The post SGJ Podcast #187 – Star Crusader appeared first on Space Game Junk...

Welcome to the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, guest host and resident Space Engineers expert Alex Sczakiel and I sit down with CEO, CTO and Founder at GoodAI and Keen Software House, Marek Rosa, along with Community Manager and Media Producer at Keen Software House Joel Wilcox to talk about the aforementioned Space Engineers. It’s an early morning show for me... The post SGJ Podc...

Welcome to 2017 my friends, and the first Space Game Junkie Podcast of the new year!  This week, Jim and I talk about what we’re looking forward to in terms of not only games, but movies and TV as well! We talk about a LOT of games (you can see the list below), and with so... The post SGJ Podcast #185 – Looking Forward to 2017 appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to the last SGJ Podcast of 2016 y’all! This week, Jim, Hunter and I talk about the just-launched Steam Sales, and what we think are the best deals you should look out for (you’ll need Enhanced Steam for the best experience). We cover both space and non-space games as well, so I hope the list... The post SGJ Podcast #184 – Sales, Gifts and a Look Back at 2016 appeared first on Space Game Ju...

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with Dr. Mirko Seithe, creator of the top-down space exploration, combat and construction game, BossConstructor. We talk about the game, the engine that makes it tick (OMG it’s JAVA y’all), the varied game modes, all the work... The post SGJ Podcast #183 – BossConstructor appeared first on...

Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with  Marty Caplan, Executive Producer at No, You Shut Up Games (I serously love that name) to talk about their early access spaceship building and combat game, Atomic Space Command! Since the game is very multiplayer... The post SGJ Podcast #182 – Atomic Space Command appeared fir...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with some of the folks who’ve been working on the Halo-based mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion entitled Sins of the Prophets! We talk to team members Unikraken (lead developer and community manager), Lavo (lead balance designer and coder, Malcontent and... The post SGJ Podcast #181 –...

Welcome to this week’s Space Game Junkie Podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with Virgil Wall, founder of Knuckle Cracker, about his fantastic space combat, tower defense and strategy game, Particle Fleet: Emergence, as well as the Creeper World games that preceded it. It was a very fun podcast wherein we talked about Virgil’s... The post SGJ Podcast #180 – Particle Fleet: Emergen...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter and I sit down with Ryan Bemowski (Design, Programming and Business), Kevin Barthman (Design and Programming) and Aaron Koback (Design and Audio) of Mind Grown Software to talk about their upcoming space combat, exploration, resource gathering and territory conquering game, Convicted Galaxy! While we do tal...

Welcome, my friends, to this week’s episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter and I talk to Sergey Komar, founder of Mizar Games, about his multi-platform spacey MMO, Nebula Online, which was released out of early access as of today!! We talk about running the game on multiple platforms, its economy, its play... The post SGJ Podcast #178 – Nebula Online appeared first on Spa...

Welcome back to Space Rogue my friends! In this entry, I don’t die as much, yay! However, I do play a spot of hive, trade some more goods and hopefully make a little more progress in the universe. I’ve got a statuette I’m supposed to deliver to someone, but without maps I’ve no idea how... The post Space Rogue (1989) – Kind of Lost – Let’s Play Entry 4 appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter and I welcome back four-time returning guest, Paul Z, to talk about his latest creation, now in Steam early access: Void Destroyer 2! We talk a lot about what Paul learned while making the first game in the series, how he’s... The post SGJ Podcast #177 – Void Destroyer 2 appeared first on Space Game Junkie...

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends!   This week, Jim, and I (sans Hunter, sadly, since it’s an early morning show) sit down with Romain de Waubert — Creative Director and Co-Founder Amplitude Studios — to talk about their recently-released, hotly-anticipated space 4X strategy game, Endless Space 2! In our... The post SGJ Podcast #176 – Endless Space 2 appeared firs...

Welcome to the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter and I welcome a couple of industry legends, namely David Wessman (of the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series) and Jack Mamais (of games such as Heavy Gear 2 and Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries) to talk about their upcoming multiplayer space combat game, Starfighter Inc.! We... The post SGJ Podcast #175 – Starfighter, Inc. appeared first...