Space Game Junkie Podcast

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Frank Nicolaas de Boer, creator of the spacey survival RPG thing that is Titan Outpost. We talk a lot about the game, it’s narrative challenges, its RPG elements and much more, as well as juggling life and developing games.... The post SGJ Podcast #315 – Titan Outpost appeared first on Sp...

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about recent gaming news, not just in spacey gamey stuff, but in general, and it’s a really fun discussion, which also includes what we’ve been playing of late! Next week we’ll welcome on the developer of Titan Outpost to talk... The post SGJ Podcast #314 – News Roundtable and Catch Up...

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Ray Fowler, lead developer of the free Master of Orion 1-styled space 4X game, Remnants of the Precursors! We talk a lot about the game, but also about programming, 4X games in general, a LOT of Master of... The post SGJ Podcast #313 – Remnants of the Precursors appeared first on Space Game Jun...

Hello friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Tony Romanelli and Richard Ebanks, CEO and COO respectfully, and co-founders of Frontwire Studios to talk about their Battlefront homage, Galaxy in Turmoil. Hot on the heels of a sadly unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign, we dive into the... The post SGJ Podcast #312 – Galaxy in Turmoil ap...

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Joshua “Halkun” Walker, who worked on the Windows port for the amazing 1991 starship tactical combat game, Rules of Engagement! We discuss getting the rights to the game, the trials of working with thirty-year-old code, learning how to... The post SGJ Podcast #311 – Rules of Engagem...

Hey friends, welcome back to the Space Game Junkie Podcast as well as a new decade! Yay! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Brian Jamison, Creative Director at Jumpdrive Studios, to talk about his currently-in-early-access spaceship, crew, fleet and resource management game, XO. This is a fascinating game reminiscent of Battlestar... The post SGJ Podcast #310 – XO appeared firs...

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about mobile games. While we try to focus primarily on space games — of which there are a lot, surprisingly — we also diverge into all sorts of mobile gaming, and discuss why, on the whole, we’re not big mobile... The post SGJ Podcast #309 – Mobile Space Games appeared first on Space G...

Hey friends, sorry this was so late! We did it right before Thanksgiving and that week got crazy for me so this slipped beneath my fingers. In this episode, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about how being an introvert can affect your multiplayer gaming and gaming-based socializing. We talk about a lot of games... The post SGJ Podcast #308 – Introvertedness and Multiplayer Gaming appeared first...

(welcome text here) This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Chris Park of Arcen Games to talk about their latest masterpiece, the amazing AI War 2. We talk about how brilliant the game is — it really is y’all — its journey through early access, listening to its testers and fans in order... The post SGJ Podcast #307 – AI War 2 appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about a game that has taken over our Discord server: Star Trek Online. After Aron Eisenberg’s death, and the touching memorial they had for him in the game, we all found ourselves back in this huge, deep... The post SGJ Podcast #306 – Star Trek Online appeared first on Space Game Junki...

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Jesse Dannenbring, designer for Void Eclipse, to talk about his mix of 4X, story and card-battling across an expansive universe. We talk a lot about the game, but because I’m not feeling too great, it’s not as tight a... The post SGJ Podcast #305 – Void Eclipse appeared first on Spa...

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast. This week, Jim (who was sadly still ill with boat plague), Spaz, Hunter and I go down several categories in which we look at the best and worst games of this last decade. We have ten categories in all, and there were some that surprised even... The post SGJ Podcast #304 – A Look Back at the Last Decade appeared first on Space Game J...

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Jeff Graw of Starchart Interactive to talk about their currently-Kickstarting Master of Orion 1-inspired 4X, Dominus Galaxia! We talk a lot about the game itself, 4X games, mobile Stellaris and much more. It’s a really fun discussion that really... The post SGJ Podcast #303 – Dominus Gala...

Welcome to this this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome Erik Schrader of Rockfish Games to discuss their currently-Kickstarting sequel to Everspace, the amazing and open-world Everspace 2! We were blessed with an early build of the game, so thankfully we were able to ask Erik a lot of... The post SGJ Podcast #302 – Everspace 2 appeared first on Space...

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about our first space games, and yours. It’s a really fun trip down memory lane, with classics such as Lunar Lander, Asteroids, Starflight and Starfox all in attendance. Next week on the show, we’ll look back at the decade and... The post SGJ Podcast #301 – First Space Games appeared first...

Hello, my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have a party on the Orville — thanks to The Orville – Interactive Fan Experience — because it’s our 300th episode y’all! YAY! We have a lot of silly fun ragdolling all over the Orville — which is super... The post SGJ Podcast #300 – This Is Sparta! appeared firs...

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have a lot of tangents, but the main topic is games to which we wish we could get sequels. This isn’t the obvious stuff either like TIE Fighter 2 or Freespace 3, but games that were one-hit wonders that deserved better. It... The post SGJ Podcast #299 – Sequels We Wish We’d See appeared first on...

Welcome to this week’s latest podcast. This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about games as a service! This includes streaming services like Playstation Now, subscription download services such as Microsoft Gamepass or Uplay+, or even individual games like The Division. It’s a pretty lively discussion that I’m sadly not a... The post SGJ Podcast #298 – Games a...

Welcome to this episode of the podcast, my friends! I apologize for the lateness, but due to some sudden freelance work, the entire week got away from me. I’ll do better. Now, in this episode, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about some topic ideas for upcoming shows, as well as what... The post SGJ Podcast #297 – Topic Brainstorming & Catching Up appeared first on Space G...

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about not only how one deals with having a massive library of games — a great problem to be sure — but the choice paralysis that can go with it. It’s a fun show with a lot of fun tangents.... The post SGJ Podcast 296 – Juggling All Your Games appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this episode of the podcast y’all. Sorry it’s so late, but my god this switch to daily streaming has thrown off everything else. ;) This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about expectations. The idea came from the VERY weird expectations people seem to have had for Rebel Galaxy... The post SGJ Podcast #295 – Weird and Wonky Expectations appeared first on S...

Welcome to this latest show y’all. Sorry it was a little late, last week was INSANE! This time, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have one of the most random episodes that ever episoded an episode. We did talk about the proposed topic — the games of 1999 — but wow were we also all over... The post SGJ Podcast #294 – A Look Back at 1999 appeared first on Space Game Junkie .

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about mods. We’ve always mentioned them in the periphery, but now it’s time to dive deep and full-on go into them. We talk about all the different types of mods, from content additions to total conversions, as... The post SGJ Podcast #293 – Marvelous Mods appeared first on Space...

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast. I super apologize that it’s late, but that particular week was hell on me, so I hope y’all understand. ;) This time, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about gamepads. Why we love ’em, their relative new adoption in the PC realm, why folks are resistant... The post SGJ Podcast #292 – Evolution of the Gamepad appeared first on S...

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter (welcome back!) and I talk about post-release support in games. This was inspired by the recent — and amazing — 2.0 patch for Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr, which made it into almost an entirely new game. We talk about games that get... The post SGJ Podcast #291 – Post-Release Support app...