Space Game Junkie Podcast

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 Command Simulator 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 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 Junkie.

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 Game Junkie.

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 – Astrobase Command appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

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 first on Space Game Junkie.

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 Junkie.

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 Frontier appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

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 Space Game Junkie.

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 Dogfighting Kings of the Kill appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

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 Junkie.

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.

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 on Space Game Junkie.

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 Junkie.

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 Game Junkie.

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 New Contest!) appeared first on Space Game Junkie.

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 Junkie.

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 first on Space Game Junkie.

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.