
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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 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 Mars 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 Mars 20231h 14min





















