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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 20231h 14min
Phil Wang, comedian.
My guest today is the British-Malaysian stand-up comedian and comedy writer Phil Wang. Born in the UK, when he was one week old his parents moved to Malaysia, where he attended school until the age of...
13 Mar 20231h 5min
Shahid Ahmad, former director, Sony PlayStation.
Shahid Ahmad was a schoolboy living on a London council estate when he sold his prized BMX bike to raise money for programming books and taught himself to write computer games. After several knock-bac...
6 Mar 202354min
Phil Fish, creator of Fez.
My guest today is the reclusive designer of one of the greatest video games yet made. He studied game design in Montreal and, after a brief stint working at Ubisoft, left to begin work on a game of hi...
27 Feb 20231h 8min
