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… Read More »
On this week’s episode of the podcast, Jim and I sit down with designers Adam and James Rorabaugh of Rhombus Studios to talk about their upcoming 4X space strategy game, Lord of Rigel. LoR strives to bridge the gap between the classic 4Xs of old that everyone loves and that many 4X devs aspire to, with… Read More »
In our recent podcast on Freespace 2‘s 15th birthday, we talked about all sorts of mods and campaigns available for the game, but the Battlestar Galactica total conversion Diaspora never came up. We were jokingly taken to task for such a horrid omission, but it made me think that I’ve barely covered this amazing total… Read More »
Hey folks, welcome to the first podcast this year celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Freespace 2, still the best space combat sim around (yeah, I said it). In this installment, Jim and I talk to Fabian “The E” Woltermann, currently elected leader of the Freespace Source Code Project (whose home is at Hard Light Productions).… Read More »
Heeey guyyyyyss! Sorry about the delay with the news AGAIN! :/ It’s been a REALLY weird week. The holiday weekend REALLY kicked my ass through general lack of sleep, and I’ve really not caught up at all during the week (I love living in Los Angeles, but sometimes its temperature fluctuations can be problematic), so… Read More »
Welcome to episode #09 of the Space Game junkie Podcast! In this episode, Jim and I bring on Gamers With Jobs CEO Shawn “Certis” Andrich to discuss if space games are just “chasing a dot”, as he called them previous. In a surprise — to me at least, and pleasantly so — the discussion evolves… Read More »