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
Heather Anne Campbell, comedian, screenwriter (Rick and Morty).
My guest today is an Emmy-nominated writer, sketch comedian, voice actor and performer. As a teenager she studied improv comedy at the famous ImprovOlympic studio in her home city of Chicago, training...
20 Feb 20231h 4min
Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress.
My guest today is the American co-creator of one of the longest-running and most popular independent games yet made. In high school he and his older brother Zach designed adventure games based on fant...
14 Feb 20231h 6min
Dara Ó Briain, comedian.
My guest today is a stand-up comedian, television presenter and Irish national treasure. He studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University College, Dublin, where during a debate, he cracked...
7 Feb 202359min
