Space Game Junkie Podcast

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to discuss a topic that was Spaz’s idea: the journey in video games. Whether the destination/ending is worth it or not, which games help make the journey memorable. We talk about a LOT of games that gave... The post SGJ Podcast #247 – It’s All About the Journey. Man. appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! First off, let me apologize for the audio here, for some reason my recording stopped three minutes in (I think it happened when I turned off Dropbox), so I had to rip the audio from the YouTube video. I hope it’s okay for y’all. ;) This week, Jim,... The post SGJ Podcast #246 – Solar Warden appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s podcast episode, my friends! I have to apologize for this episode for a couple of reasons, first off. First, it was late, which made it shorter, because I was having some stupid technical issues in regards to voice chat (which we did get resolved). Secondly, I’m a terrible DJ, so the... The post SGJ Podcast #245 – Space Games with Excellent Music appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to the podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I try to take a higher-level look at the industry and how it’s doing. This includes stuff like loot boxes, DLC, problems with Steam and other digital distributors and much more. It’s a fairly lively discussion that covers a broad range of topics... The post Episode 244 – How’s The Industry Doing? appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s show my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to talk spacey MMOs while playing some EVE Online live! We talk about the first MMOs we played, which are our favorites, why some of our beloved games endure even when officially shot down, why some MMOs just don’t... The post SGJ Podcast #243 – Spacey MMOs appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with David Strachan, developer of the currently-Kickstarted co-op space combat game, Undercrewed! We talk to David about the history of the game, the struggles of running a Kickstarter campaign and much more. We also spend time playing the game live,... The post SGJ Podcast #242 – Undercrewed appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

On this week's podcast, we talk about our dream space games! The post SGJ Podcast #241 – Our Dream Space Games (And Yours)! appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s show my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk about capital ships. Those large ships that are inconsistently used in so many space games. We discuss games that do them well, games that do them poorly, why there aren’t more games that focus on them and much more. We... The post SGJ Podcast #240 – The Much Maligned Capital Ship appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with David Baity, the creator of the latest iteration in the long-running MegaWars series, Dawn of the Third Age, to discuss this massively multiplayer online exploration, colonization and conquest game. We do play the game live, so you might have... The post SGJ Podcast #239 – MegaWars appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I are joined by our friend Dennis (Denacity in our Discord group) to discuss the game we love to whinge about, Elite Dangerous. Now don’t get me wrong, we actually love Elite, it’s just that we see all these other games doing some... The post SGJ Podcast #238 – Venting about Elite: Dangerous appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends. This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Tyler Millershaski to discuss their currently-Kickstarting space station sim, Starmancer! We talk about the game in depth, as well as the Kickstarter campaign itself, which is a fascinating insight into the mind of the Kickstarter backer. ;) We also,... The post SGJ Podcast #237 – Starmancer appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I welcome back Steve Hawkins — for the third time — to talk about his character-driven grand space strategy game, Alliance of the Sacred Suns. We discuss the game’s history, it’s major ideals, all the moving parts under its hood and much... The post SGJ Podcast #236 – Alliance of the Sacred Suns appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this latest podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with two of the folks at Strangely Interactive — – Josh “Strangelet” Grafton and Mikolaj “Farseer” Jarzin — to discuss their fantastic combined-arms first and third person ground and space shooter, Angels Fall First. My friends, we played the game live,... The post SGJ Podcast #235 – Angels Fall First appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s episode of the Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to discuss 4X games. We’ve been in something of a deluge of them, but so many of them follow the formula established by Master of Orion 2 over twenty years ago. We discuss which... The post SGJ Podcast #234 – A Deep Dive into 4X Games appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this episode of the podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talked nostalgia, thanks to a topic idea from Hunter. Basically, we all went back to the year when we were twenty, which is as follows: Jim = 1990 Brian = 1993 Spaz = 1999 Hunter = 2007 And talked... The post SGJ Podcast #233 – Can You Go Home Again? appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this episode of the Podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with David Hernly, Founder and CEO of Mythric Studios, to talk about (and play) his starship bridge simulator game, Starship Horizons! Due to the multiplayer nature of this game, we thought it might be fun to actually play it,... The post SGJ Podcast #232 – Starship Horizons Bridge Simulator appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this latest episode of the podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk to the developer (another Paul, the first in a long time!) of one of my favorite games of 2017, and one of the biggest surprises of late, Orbital Racer! We talk to Paul about the impetus for... The post SGJ Podcast #231 – Orbital Racer appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Andrew and Cory Trese of the Trese Brothers to discuss the latest (and third game) in their long-running Star Traders series, Star Traders: Frontiers. For this episode, we talk a lot about mobile gaming (which... The post SGJ Podcast #230 – Star Traders: Frontiers appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this late episode of the SGJ Podcast! Sorry it took so long to get this up, but this past week was CRAZY. Anyway, in this episode, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I look back at the crazy year that was 2017, and talk about the games that surprised us, disappointed us, and quite a... The post SGJ Podcast #229 – A Look Back at 2017 appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

Welcome to this week's podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to discuss a rather serious problem for both gamers and developers: discoverability. The post SGJ Podcast #228 – Discoverability appeared first on Space Game Junkie.