Dan Vecchitto, gamemaker (Trombone Champ).
My guest today is Dan Vecchitto, the American creator of one of 2022’s funniest games. In Trombone Champ, you play as a trombonist and must blast your way through a setlist of classical pieces, nation...
20 Huhti 20231h 5min
Charles Cecil MBE, gamemaker (Broken Sword, Beneath a Steel Sky).
My guest today is the legendary British video game designer, Charles Cecil. While a student at Manchester University, a friend invited him to write a text adventure which led him to work for the video...
17 Huhti 202357min
Grace Curtis, science fiction author (Frontier, Floating Hotel).
My guest today is Grace Curtis, a video game critic and one of the most exciting new voices in science fiction writing. Born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, she graduated from the UEA with a degree in English L...
13 Huhti 20231h 3min
Erik Wolpaw, writer Portal 1 & 2.
My guest today is Erik Wolpaw, the American writer for some of the funniest video games yet made. In the nineties he and a friend founded the website Old Man Murray, a satirical online publication tha...
10 Huhti 20231h 12min
Sir Ian Livingstone, co-founder Games Workshop.
My guest today is the English fantasy author and champion of the video game industry, Sir Ian Livingstone. In 1975, while in his mid-twenties, he founded a boardgame company, Games Workshop, which soo...
6 Huhti 202352min
Susan Calman, comic, writer, presenter.
My guest today is the Scottish comedian, television presenter and writer, Susan Calman. While studying law at the University of Glasgow, she spent three months in North Carolina working with criminals...
3 Huhti 202359min
Henk Rogers, the man who sold Tetris.
My guest today is the Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur, Henk Rogers. While a student at the University of Hawaii, he’d while away the hours playing Dungeons and Dragons with his friends. Aft...
27 Maalis 20231h 6min
Jake Solomon, game designer (Marvel’s Midnight Suns; XCOM: Enemy Unknown.)
My guest today is the American designer of some of the finest strategy video games yet made. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Computer Science in 2000, he accepted a j...
21 Maalis 20231h 14min
