Space Game Junkie Podcast

SGJ Podcast #512 – Long Games that Draw You In for the Long Haul, Part Deux

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:16:00 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I return to the topic of long-haul games that keep us engaged for a long time. It’s a topic that we broached several episodes ago, and it was actually a happy accident that we’re returning to it again. Regardless, we had...

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SGJ Podcast #511 – Rediscovering Gems You Initially Skipped

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:25:14 +0000

Hey friends, and welcome to this week’s show! First off, two apologies. First, that this is a day late, sorry, yesterday got away from me and two, I forgot two hit record on the mixer so this is using the backup recording from OBS, so the audio might be a bit funky. Also, I was...

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SGJ Podcast #510 – Video Gaming’s Lost Arts

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:22:51 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I discuss things in video games that have been lost to the sands of time. For example, I talk about physical strategy guides. I mean sure, we now have wikis and Steam guides these days, but there’s something about a physical strategy...

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SGJ Podcast #508 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:20:40 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I have one of our regular check-ins, wherein we talk amongst ourselves (and the chat) about how we’re doing and what we’re playing, and let me tell you, things aren’t collectively going great for us all right now. That said, we are...

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SGJ Podcast #507 – The Games We’re Looking Forward To in 2026

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:26:14 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to a new year and a new podcast! Yay! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about the games we’re really looking forward to coming out and playing this year, and my goodness, there are a lot of them, the list of which you can see below! There are many...

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SGJ Podcast #506 – The Games of 2025

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:25:45 +0000

Welcome, my friends, to our last show of 2025, and what a year it’s been for gaming! For example, my curator page’s best of list for this year is longer than any other year since I began keeping lists! On the topic of games of 2025, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I look...

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SGJ Podcast #505 – Things (Gaming and Non-Gaming) We’re Thankful For

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:53:40 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I talk about the things we’re thankful for in what’s been a pretty tumultuous year. We discuss both gaming and non-gaming things we’re thankful for, and surprisingly, we come up with quite a few. What are you thankful for? On our next...

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SGJ Podcast #504 – Technical Marvels in Gaming

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:19:00 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the podcast! First off, let me apologize for the audio. VoiceMeeter — the program I use to typically record our sessions — had a kerfuffle, and so I’m relying on the backup recording from OBS, which is the raw audio. It’ll likely be a little louder than usual, so I apologize...

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SGJ Podcast #503 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:29:22 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I have a semi-regular check-in, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. Since we’re missing Jacob — who was sadly under the weather — it’s a slightly shorter show than usual, but it’s a fun one, and we...

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SGJ Podcast #502 – Long Games that Draw You In for the Long Haul

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:31:41 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! Sorry this is a day late, yesterday was a real fustercluck! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I discuss long-haul games, including our first game that we sank dozens, if not hundreds, of hours into. We also explore what it takes for a game to truly capture our...

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SGJ Podcast #501 – Games in Which Direct Combat Isn’t a Factor

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:19:24 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the show! First off, an apology. Restream had technical issues yesterday. For some reason only five seconds of our stream went out, and then stopped. Therefore there’s no YouTube copy of this episode, only the MP3. To their credit, Restream fixed the issue relatively quickly, and hopefully this...

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SGJ Podcast #500 – A Celebration of Space Game Development

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:58:47 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this milestone episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I look back at the seminal games of the last twelve years — since we began the podcast — and talk about how special they, and their developers, are to us. We covered a lot of games, and had a lot of...

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SGJ Podcast #499 – Change and Burnout (i.e. Change is Coming to the Podcast)

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:10:25 +0000

Hey friends, two apologies. First, sorry for it being a day late, yesterday got away from me, and secondly, I forgot to hit record on my mixer, so the audio is taken directly from the OBS video. I hope that’s okay. So, some big news this week. This week, the primary topic is that we’re...

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SGJ Podcast #498 – Spiritual Successors

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:16:20 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! I am sorry the MP3 was uploaded a bit late, real life conspired against me the last couple of days! Anywhoooo, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about spiritual successors! These are games that aren’t part of a series, but are a love letter/homage to a...

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SGJ Podcast #497 – Mods

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:23:19 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about mods. Why we love them, and which are some of our favorites, the list of which you can see below! Mods are a wonderful way to extend the life of a game, and there are a lot that we...

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SGJ Podcast #496 – Free-to-Play Games, Mostly

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:59:37 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about free-to-play games…eventually. I, sadly, misunderstood the assignment and thought we were talking about totally free games, not games that are initially free but have a range of buy-in mechanics to help monetize the game. Once we get on...

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SGJ Podcast #495 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:21:27 +0000

Hey friends, welcome back to the show. As I said at the top of the episode, apologies for missing a couple of weeks, but it couldn’t be helped, as some — relatively minor — stuff was out of our control. We’re back though, and this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I do one of...

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SGJ Podcast #494 – Recommended Mobile Space Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:22:38 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I conclude our series on mobile gaming by talking about actual games you can play on various mobile devices, the list of which you can see below. These are games we’ve...

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SGJ Podcast #493 – Let’s Talk Emulation (for Mobile Gaming)

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:32:10 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show!!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about emulation. Well, *I* mostly talk about emulation, namely the emulators that you can use to (LEGALLY) play your old games. I mostly talk Android, because we’re focusing on handheld devices and that’s where most of the best one’s...

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SGJ Podcast #492 – The Best Windows, Android and iOS Devices for Portable Gaming

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:26:37 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Jacob, David and I talk about the best hardware to play portable Windows, Steam, Android and iOS games. There are a lot of devices to go through, but thankfully, I’ve included the list below. Depending on what you’re looking for and what you want to...

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A Short, Unintended Break for the Podcast

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:04:43 +0000

Hey friends, apologies, but due to forces beyond our control, we’ve been off the podcast for a couple of weeks (last week and this week). Nothing serious, thankfully, but I just wanted to let y’all know and apologize for any inconvenience. Hopefully, we’ll be back in force next week. Have a lovely day, y’all!

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SGJ Podcast #491 – Topic Creation Roundtable

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:36:09 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode of the show. I have to apologize for the audio because VoiceMeeter took a dump later in the episode, so I had to resort to the backup recording. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down and work with the chat and each other to...

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SGJ Podcast #490 – Spin the Wheel

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:42:06 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do another episode of Spin the Wheel, wherein we have a bevy of topics and choose them at random thanks to the wheel at Wheel of Names! We get some fun questions, and it’s a fun, breezy way to...

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SGJ Podcast #489 – Games Respecting Your Time, or Not

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:11:10 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show. First off, I have to apologize for the audio around the end of the show. VoiceMeeter kept, to use the vernacular, shitting the bed, and every time I reset it, it happened seconds later. No idea why, sorry. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again as VoiceMeeter usually behaves itself. As...

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SGJ Podcast #488 – Replayability, Part Two – Our Most Replayed Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:31:58 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I further our discussion of replayability by talking about the games we’ve replayed the most over our gaming careers. This takes us further into why these and other games like them are so replayable to us, and what makes games...

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SGJ Podcast #487 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:26:48 +0000

Hello friends, and welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our semi-regular check-ins, wherein we talk about what we’re playing, and how we’re doing. It’s a pretty fun show, though it does get a teensy but morose at times. Sorry about that, can’t rally be helped...

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SGJ Podcast #486 – Replayability, Part One

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:57:57 +0000

Welcome to the show, my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I try to start to tackle the concept of replayability. It’s a topic suggested by RockinRowl on our Discord, but it’s such a big topic we’ve split it up into a couple of episodes. In THIS episode, we’ll talk about the...

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SGJ Podcast #485 – Finding Positive Online Communities

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:07:44 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about finding positive online communities. We all need a place to fit in, especially in tough/dark/interesting times such as these. Some of us do better in online spaces than those in the real world, so we talk about...

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SGJ Podcast #484 – Your Most Satisfying “Got Gud” Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:13:38 +0000

Hey friends, welcome back to the show! After a short break, we’re back with what we hope you’ll think is a fun topic! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about those game that were most satisfying to “get gud” at. You know, the games in which we invested many hours and...

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Site Stuff: A Planned and Unplanned Break

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:38:08 +0000

Friends, you might have noticed that we didn’t do a podcast last week. Well, that was because some of our folks were gonna miss it, and it was a topic I was excited about. SADLY, I’ve since come down with a TERRIBLE cold. First cold since the pandemic began, and it’s kicking my booty. So,...

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SGJ Podcast #483 – Top Gaming Moments

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:11:30 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our top gaming moments. You know, the moments that floored us, that made us exhausted, that we remember for years or decades afterward. We all had a lot of great entries, and we enjoyed the topic so...

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SGJ Podcast #482 – Spin the Wheel

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:45:12 +0000

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I take another turn of the random wheel of questions, since we had so much fun with it last time. We have more fun with it this...

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SGJ Podcast #481 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:57:16 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do a check-in, and do we get angry. Like, it’s a rough time, and we usually avoid politics, but we get very political in this episode, so you can skip this one if you’d like, I’ll totally understand. Next...

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SGJ Podcast #480 – Looking Forward to 2025

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:24:53 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the games we’re most looking forward to hopefully coming out this year, whether into early access or from early access to 1.0. We cover a LOT of games, and surprisingly few toes were stepped upon! Check out...

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SGJ Podcast #479 – beyond.frontiers

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:32:26 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the first show of 2025! I’m sorry if the audio isn’t up to our usual standards, as I could have SWORN I hit record on my mixer, but I can’t find the file, so I had to use the audio ripped from the video as a backup. Anyways, this week, Spaz,...

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SGJ Podcast #478 – A Look Back at 2024

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:17:42 +0000

Hello friends, and welcome to this, the final show of 2024! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I look back on what a year it’s been, both personally and in our gaming lives, to find out what surprised us, what disappointed us, and so on, all of which you can see below. If...

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SGJ Podcast #477 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:46:38 +0000

Hey friends, welcome back to the show! Again, apologies for the longer-than-anticipated break, but cataract surgery waits for no man. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do a check-in and talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. The games we’re playing are all over the map, as are our mental...

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SGJ Podcast #476 – Space Legs

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:19:05 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I (OMG full crew again) talk about space legs. You know, when you can walk around your ship, stations and the like. We found out that it seems to work more often than not, but when it doesn’t work, it’s...

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SGJ Podcast #475 – Exploration

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:37:18 +0000

Welcome back to the show, folks! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about exploration, both in space and other types of games. We go through which games we feel nail it — of which there aren’t a ton — which games we feel could do better, and more. It’s a fun...

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SGJ Podcast #474 – UI/UX

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:28:18 +0000

Hey friends, sorry this is a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about user interfaces and the user experience, how they relate to gaming, and which games do them well and which could do better. It’s a fun and spirited discussion, and we...

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SGJ Podcast #473 – Professions in the Future

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:34:17 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the jobs we’d like to have if we lived in a space video game. The conversation got pretty lively, and we all came up with some really fun answers! Next week, we’ll be talking user interfaces and...

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SGJ Podcast #472 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:55:58 +0000

(welcome text here) This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It’s a varied show, as we talk about a lot of games, but also how the current world situation is affecting us. We’re still working on our topic for next week, but it’ll surely...

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SGJ Podcast #471 – Spin the Wheel

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:00:44 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! So sorry this is late. First, last week got away from me, THEN the site was down for several days! UGH. Anyway, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I try something a little different. In lieu of one topic, we spin a wheel and tackle several. We’ve...

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SGJ Podcast #470 – Starcom: Unknown Space

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:37:14 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Lin of Wx3 Labs to talk about his sophomore entry into the Starcom series, Starcom: Unknown SpaceE! We talk a lot about the changes to the new game, Kevin’s history and game development philosophy, and more....

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SGJ Podcast #469 – Loans and Debt in Gaming

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:57:57 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I take the barest thread of a topic, loans in gaming, and turn it into almost an hour of banter! Hooray! It’s a pretty fun show, so we hope you enjoy it! We are off next week, but we’ll be...

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SGJ Podcast #468 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:55:49 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. Sorry for the delay in getting it out, I’ve been swamped at work and the week got away from me. So, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our regular check-ins, where we talk about what we’re playing (which you can see below)...

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SGJ Podcast #467 – Ostranauts

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:31:58 +0000

Hello, my friends, and welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Daniel Fedor of Blue Bottle Games to talk about his upcoming “Firefly episode generator,” OstranautsE! Now, we do talk about the game, but we also go on a LOT of fun tangents in this...

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SGJ Podcast #466 – Taxinaut

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:30:53 +0000

Hey friends, welcome back to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Jasper Pol, to talk about his amazing game, Taxinaut. The game just hit a major milestone, so we talk about its journey so far, why I personally find it so compelling, and ideas for the future. It’s...

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SGJ Podcast #465 – Favorite Gaming Vacation Spots

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:41:53 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about video game locations at which we’d like to take a vacation or holiday. Independently, three of us came up with The Citadel from Mass Effect, but there were a lot of other great entries too, as you can...

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SGJ Podcast #464 – Favorite Gaming Soundtracks

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:26:44 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I discuss our favorite video game soundtracks, the list of which you can see below! It’s a pretty wide-ranging list, and we had a lot of fun talking about all this wonderful music. Next week on the show, we’ll talk...

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SGJ Podcast #463 – Beat Hazard 3

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:56:38 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show. First, let me apologize for the audio. I forgot to hit record on my mixer, so the audio is taken straight from the video file I record as a backup. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Steve Hunt of Cold Beam Games to talk about...

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SGJ Podcast #462 – Fast Travel

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:00:27 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode of the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I build on our traversal topic from a couple of weeks ago and this time, we talk about fast travel. I wasn’t honestly sure we could make it into a full-blown topic, but lo and behold we...

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SGJ Podcast #461 – One-Hit Wonders, Part Two

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:27:50 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I revisit the topic of one-hit wonders in gaming, and we have even more fun games to talk about, the list of which you can see below. I’d not heard about many of these, some I’d forgotten about (like SimEarth),...

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SGJ Podcast #460 – Traversal in Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:32:17 +0000

Hey friends, welcome back to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about games with the best traversal, or movement. This idea came to me while I was traveling, recently. Sometimes game does a great job allowing you to move through the world, and we talk about a lot of...

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SGJ Podcast #459 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 17 May 2024 21:17:58 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show, This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do one of our regular check-ins to talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It’s a fun, laid back show that should be a fun listen for y’all. :) So, we’re off for two weeks, as I’m...

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SGJ Podcast #458 – Gaming Cinderella Stories

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 09 May 2024 21:29:55 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I talked about games that had a Cinderella story. You know, they had a rough start and have since flourished. We came up with a pretty fun list, which you can see below! Next week, we’ll do our regular check-in!...

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SGJ Podcast #457 – Gaming Disasters

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:34:32 +0000

Hello friends, and welcome! Sorry this episode is late, last week totally got away from me. Again. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about gaming disasters. These can be in-game disasters, or games that ended up being a disaster, and things get a bit spicy, in a good way. We have...

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SGJ Podcast #456 – One-Hit Wonders

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:03:49 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. Also apologies for the audio, my mixer took a dump in the middle of the stream so we’re using the video output’s audio. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our favorite gaming one-hit...

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SGJ Podcast #455 – Underspace

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:54:48 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Brock, Lead Developer at Pastaspace Interactive, to talk about his now-on-Steam-in-early-access space adventure, Underspace (SteamE, GOG)! I am disgustingly excited about this game, so I was just as excited to talk to Kevin about it, and we...

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SGJ Podcast #454 – Architect of Worlds

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:53:26 +0000

Hello my friends. Sorry this is a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week on the show, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I welcome John Zeigler to talk about his upcoming worldbuilding sourcebook, Architect of Worlds. We talk a lot about actual science — much of which goes over my dumb...

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SGJ Podcast #453 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:17:30 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry the MP3 is a day late, but yesterday just totally got away from me! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our regular check-ins, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. A lot of awesome games came up,...

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SGJ Podcast #452 – Tie-in Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:43:20 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about tie-in games, and we come up with a really fun list. We actually had so much fun with this episode we’ll likely do more of them, as we all had multiple games we wanted to talk about....

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SGJ Podcast #451 – Breaks and Moderation

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:51:44 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry again for the unannounced/unscheduled break, but we’re back! Also apologies for the weird audio in the middle of the show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I, even though we’re all damned tired, spend time talking about the importance of breaks and moderation for one’s...

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SGJ Podcast #450 – Welcome Onboarding

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:36:50 +0000

You guys, I am so sorry about the lateness on this one. Last week got away from me and somewhere in my brain I had SWORN I’d uploaded this. So, so sorry. So, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I bounce off our last topic to talk about onboarding, what it is, which...

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SGJ Podcast #449 – The Expectations of In-Game Information

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:13:41 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show this week! Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday got away from me for a variety of reasons. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a lively debate about how much information should be given to the player in a given game. The fun thing is, we...

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SGJ Podcast #448 – Economic Space Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:46:39 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I talk about space games with an economic focus, along with our firsts and so on. It’s a fun topic, thought up by Julie, and we covered a lot of ground and had a ton of fun on the way. Next...

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SGJ Podcast #447 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:59:33 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this episode! Sorry for the lateness, last week totally got away from me! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a regular check-in, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It does wonders for our mental health and it’s fun to talk about what...

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SGJ Podcast #446 – The New Rise of the Accessible Flight Sim

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:38:54 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry, it’s a day late, sadly yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down to talk about the new rise in accessible, approachable flight sims/games. This includes games like Tiny Combat Arena, Nuclear Option, and Helicopter Gunship DEX, amongst...

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SGJ Podcast #445 – Looking Ahead to 2024

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:46:45 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. First off, let me apologize for the sound, rather than using the recorder in my mixer…I forgot to turn it on, so the audio is a direct rip from the video file. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about many the games we’re hopeful...

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SGJ Podcast #444 – 2023 in Review

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 22:35:05 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show, the last of 2023! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I pick our top space and non-space games of 2023, and while there are some usual suspects on the list, there are a lot of surprises as well. We’re off next week, see you back in here in...

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SGJ Podcast #443 – Winter Sales

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:18:21 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show. Sorry this is a day late, but yesterday got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about deals. Winter sale season is upon us, so we list the tools you should be using to find the best deals, and the games we feel...

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SGJ Podcast #442 – Offline Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:59:52 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! So friends, this is an interesting one This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I were originally, I thought, going to talk about offline gaming, in terms of which games you should have on hand if you lose your Internet connection. Thorsten, shortly before we went live, suggested...

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SGJ Podcast #441 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:50:07 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I can’t settle on a topic, so we decide to do a simple check-in, to see how we’re doing and what we’re playing. Let me tell y’all, the burnout is reeeealllll. We had a fun talk about games and such...

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SGJ Podcast #440 – Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander 2.0

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 21:39:59 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Trevor Sorensen to talk about the newly-released Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander 2.0 (Steam, GOG)! We talk about the long, long journey it took to bring this new version of the game to sale, Trevor’s extensive experience...

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SGJ Podcast #439 – Games Preservation

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:28:46 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast. Sorry this one is a little late, last week totally got away from me. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the sticky subject of games preservation. While there are some bright spots, most of the time we express our frustration as...

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SGJ Podcast #438 – Our Essential Gaming Hardware

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:42:52 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the hardware that’s important to us, whether it’s a joystick, a portable console, a gamepad and so on. It was a really fun chat and a lot of fun pieces of kit came up, which you can...

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SGJ Podcast #437 – Hidden Gems of our Steam Libraries

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 21:05:35 +0000

Welcome to the show folks! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I look back into the depths of our Steam libraries to talk about games that are still worth playing, yet have been forgotten to the sands of time. We come up with quite the great list, as you can see below, and...

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SGJ Podcast #436 – Let’s Talk About Unity

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 21:09:27 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down for a (mostly) serious discussion about the ongoing Unity debacle. If you’re unaware, Unity changed their revenue deal a week or so ago, which sent pretty much the entirety of gaming up in arms against them. It’s...

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SGJ Podcast #435 – I Love You 9,000

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:58:28 +0000

Hey friends, sorry this one is a bit late, last week totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I play some Rifftrax: The Game, in order to celebrate 9,000 subscribers on YouTube. Since this is primarily a visual game, you might do better by watching the YouTube video, FYI....

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SGJ Podcast #434 – WarpVector

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:48:05 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show, friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I welcome Brian and Max of Forbidden Realm Simulations to discuss their game, WarpVector! We talk a LOT about their game, roguelikes in general, and much more. It’s a really fun time! Next week, to celebrate our YouTube channel reaching 9,000...

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SGJ Podcast #433 – The Banished Vault

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:30:14 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode. First, I must apologize for this not being our best outing this week, which is entirely my fault. The sound went wibbly in the middle of the show — which forced me to use the YouTube recording for audio — and then I had some cat drama happening...

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SGJ Podcast #432 – Games That Should’ve Spawned a Genre

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:50:41 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a topic show in which we talk about games we feel should’ve launched their own genres, like Doom or Command and Conquer, for example. We went through a lot of games, and it was a really fun discussion....

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SGJ Podcast #431 – Space Cats Tactics

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:02:40 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, we’re doing something a little different. Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Alex Nicola of Mitzi Games to talk about his new game, Space Cats Tactics…but not in the voice chat. You see, Alex has a day job, so he couldn’t join us...

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SGJ Podcast #430 – The Trade Prince

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 22:43:22 +0000

Friends, welcome to this week’s podcast, and I apologize, but it’s a weird one, and it’s totally my fault. Our guest was late because I sent him the wrong time on the Google Calendar invite. First (and hopefully last) time I’ve ever done that. So, for the first fifteen to twenty minutes, Spaz, Julie, Thorston,...

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SGJ Podcast #429 – Artemis Cosmos

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:19:04 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back to the show Thomas Robertson of Incandescent Workshop LLC to talk about the latest entry in his long-running series of bridge crew simulators, Artemis Cosmos! We talk about the history of the series, the rise of bridge...

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SGJ Podcast #428 – Delta V: Rings of Saturn

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:36:44 +0000

Welcome to this week’s episode y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Koder from Kodera Software to talk about his about-to-it-1.0 space mining game, ΔV: Rings of Saturn! We talk a lot about the game’s origins, using godot, sticking to realistic physics and a lot more. It’s a real fun discussion,...

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SGJ Podcast #427 – Star Shift Origins

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:31:38 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Doug of Psychronic Game Studios to talk about his current prologue game, Star Shift Origins, as well as the upcoming games in the series, Rebellion and Legacy! It’s a really fun discussion about game design, engines...

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SGJ Podcast #426 – Localization

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:57:44 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast, so sorry for its lateness but last week totally got away from me. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about localization, which goes far, far beyond just translating text. There are whole levels of nuance one needs to do a good localization,...

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SGJ Podcast #425 – Lodestar

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:23:55 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Shaun Randall of Edenic Era to talk about their upcoming spacey co-op adventure game, Lodestar! We talk a lot about the amazingness of Unreal, how the game levels are built, the idea for the game, and...

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SGJ Podcast #424 – RPGs

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:20:09 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down to talk about RPGs, and boy, do we talk a LOT about RPGs. This episode is the first in what will be a series of free-flowing discussion on various RPGs and types of RPGs. For example, in...

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SGJ Podcast #423 – Documentation

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 18 May 2023 22:02:34 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about paper, specifically documentation. We wax and wane about the “olden days” when games came in boxes along with printed manuals (and other fun stuff too). It’s a fun, free-flowing discussion in which we had a lot of...

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SGJ Podcast #422 – Astra Protocol 2

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:50:45 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Dan of Slice Bar Games to talk about his cassette-future space exploration, combat and death game, Astra Protocol 2! We’re just fascinated by this game, so we have a LOT of questions about it, which does lead...

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SGJ Podcast #421 – Check-in

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 04 May 2023 20:35:04 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a loosey goosey check-in about what we’ve been playing and what we’re excited about. It turns out, we’ve all been playing quite a lot of awesome stuff, and you can see the list below! Next week, we’ll welcome on...

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SGJ Podcast #420 – Taking Breaks

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:02:00 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the necessity of taking breaks. Whether it’s taking a break from gaming entirely, specific games, or other things, breaks can be good for one’s mental health. We have a tangent or two, but we mostly stay on topic...

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SGJ Podcast #419 – Retro Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:25:24 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a discussion on retro games, which will likely be our first of many. This time around, we talk about our first PC and first console (if applicable) and which games on those systems were our firsts as well....

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SGJ Podcast #418 – Stellar Sovereigns

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:04:46 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast. I am so sorry about the lateness of this episode, but my week got away from me, so I thank you for your patience! This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Zoltan Borbas to talk his new space 4X game, Stellar Sovereigns! We...

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SGJ Podcast #417 – Ambitious Indies

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:09:40 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about indie developers who we’re particularly impressed with due to their ambition and work ethic. We talk about a lot of specific developers and their games, and heap all the deserved praise, and it ends up being a...

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SGJ Podcast #416 – Relic Space

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:18:35 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Jonah Wilberg of Four Fold Games to talk about his upcoming procedural space tactical adventure, Relic Space. We have a lot of fun with some tangents, some great talk about the board, similar board games and more. It...

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SGJ Podcast #415 – Games that Deserved Better, Part 2

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 21:48:09 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I revisit a topic we hit a few weeks ago, games we felt deserved better. We had so much fun and didn’t get to all our picks, that we’re back for round two, and my goodness, are there some excellent...

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SGJ Podcast #414 – Trappist

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:37:20 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Peter Oost to talk about his upcoming spacey colony game, Trappist! While we had a lot of fun, and got to learn a lot about the game, I have to apologize for my own behavior, as I...

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SGJ Podcast #413 – Chaotic Era

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 22:36:00 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Kevin Donnelly and Gabriel O’Flaherty of Bobby Technology to talk about their upcoming survival RTS, Chaotic Era! We had an entertaining discussion about the game’s inspirations, how it’s meant to be brutal and challenging, and much more. It...

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SGJ Podcast #412 – Rifftrax

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 22:22:09 +0000

Friends, so sorry this one is late, last week completely got away from me. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I pass some time playing Rifftrax: The Game. The reasons for this are numerous, so I won’t bore you with the why. I will say though that, since Rifftrax is a very visual...

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SGJ Podcast #411 – Games that Deserved Better

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:35:03 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about games we feel deserve better, whether they came out and bombed, or were unfinished and got better, we talk about games that didn’t get a fair shake. We had so many games to talk about we’re likely...

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SGJ Podcast #410 – Ad Astra Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:52:45 +0000

Welcome to the show folks! Sorry this episode was late, work got away from me this month. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Ken Burnside of Ad Astra Games to talk about his current selection of detailed space (and air) combat boardgames. I know nothing about boardgames, so Jacob took...

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SGJ Podcast #409 – Bouncing Back

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:55:51 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I take a listener topic request (thanks tsubasanut!) and talk about games we initially bounced off and then returned to later, and finally clicked with. It’s a pretty varied list, as you can see below, and we had fun talking...

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SGJ Podcast #408 – Looking Forward to 2023

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:09:33 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the five games we’re most looking forward to in 2023, and my goodness it was tough whittling it down to five. Spaz couldn’t even do so, which isn’t surprising as a lot of good stuff hopefully will...

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SGJ Podcast #407 – 2022 in Review

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:21:21 +0000

Hello my friends, and welcome to our first show of 2023! Happy new year!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I look back on the games that made our 2022, and boy do we have a lot of games we played last year. You can see the list below, but suffice it to...

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SGJ Podcast #406 – What We’re Playing

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:07:52 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a laid-back episode wherein we talk about what we’re playing. Turns out, we’ve been playing a lot of varied stuff! It’s a really fun time and we talked about a lot of games. No show next week, so we’ll...

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SGJ Podcast #405 – Deals and Sales

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:52:11 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the tools and sites to use to find the best deals on games. I’m a big, big deal hunter, and have as much fun finding deals as I do playing games. I’ve linked the tools below for...

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SGJ Podcast #404 – Thankfulness

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:01:01 +0000

Welcome to the show my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the things we’re thankful for. It’s been a weird year or three, so expressing thankfulness can really help center someone, and boy do we have a lot to be thankful for collectively. Next week, as the final sales...

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SGJ Podcast #403 – Beat Hazard 3

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:17:39 +0000

Welcome to the show my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Steve Hunt of Cold Beam Games to talk about the latest in his series of music-based, twin-stick shooters, Beat Hazard 3! We talk a LOT about the design of the game, how the series has evolved, and Steve’s...

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SGJ Podcast #402 – Starcom: Unknown Space

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:45:11 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Lin of Wx3 Labs to talk about the next game in his Starcom series, Starcom: Unknown Space! We around here loved the first game, so we were VERY excited to talk to Kevin about the new...

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SGJ Podcast #401 – Capital Command

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:13:35 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Alex of Hellride Games to talk about his upcoming cap ship battle extravaganza, Capital Command! We had a TERRIFIC time with the game so we gush to Alex about it, as well as come up with suggestions, and...

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SGJ Podcast #400 – Rifftrax!

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:35:09 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to our 400th episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I are doing something a little bit different for our big 400th episode. We were thinking, what could we all do together that would be fun, and Spaz came up with some Rifftrax! So I therefore recommend y’all watch the...

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SGJ Podcast #399 – Favorite Ship Designs

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:27:46 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our favorite ship designs! This might be one where you wanna watch the YouTube video below as we show images of all the ships we talk about as we discuss them. Taking the idea from this Spaceshipper Tweet,...

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SGJ Podcast #398 – Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:27:16 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I take a break from guests and check in with ourselves and our audience to see how everyone is doing. It gets a bit raw at times, but overall it was a positive and fun exercise. Next week we’ll talk about...

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SGJ Podcast #397 – Rank: Warmaster

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 20:17:35 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Arthur Moyer and Paul Blessing Laser Beams & Particle Streams Software, Inc. to talk about their upcoming space combat city builder thing, Rank: Warmaster! We talk a LOT about the origins of the game (it was originally...

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SGJ Podcast #396 – Taxinaut

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:21:52 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Jasper Pol, the developer behind my most anticipated game, the space taxi driver game known as Taxinaut (which just hit Steam by the way so you should all buy it, or buy it on Itch and get...

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SGJ Podcast #395 – Things About Gaming That We Love

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:21:43 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do show antithetical to the one we did last week, wherein this time we talk about things in gaming that we love. Not just specific games either, but things in multiple games that just speak to us. It’s a fun...

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SGJ Podcast #394 – Airing of Grievances

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:35:17 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have some things we need to get off our chests. Typically during a show, one of our tangents involves our continued disappointment with two of the biggest names in space gaming: Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen. Well in this episode,...

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SGJ Podcast #393 – The Co-Op Show

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:42:38 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the joy of a good co-op game. We discuss our favorites, what we think goes into a really good co-op game, what we wish some games did better, and a lot more. Next week, we’ll be airing...

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SGJ Podcast #392 – Pilot Sim vs. Plane Sim

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:21:38 +0000

Friends, I am so sorry this is late. Somehow last week got away from me. Anyway. this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about a topic near and dear to my heart: pilot sims versus plane sims. I love flight sims, particularly pilot-focused sims like Tornado, EF2000, 1942: Pacific Air War, whereas...

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SGJ Podcast #391 – Is Gaming Heading for a Crisis?

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:22:50 +0000

Hey friends, sorry this was so late, I had it all ready to go last week before I went out of town, but the site was down so I couldn’t make a post! So sorry! Anyway, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our concern over gaming and whether CEOs are...

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SGJ Podcast #390 – MicroProse

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:16:58 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David (new co-host) and I fully intend to sit down and talk about the legendary developer/publisher house that was and is MicroProse. We START talking about it, and then find out that Why485, the developer of Tiny Combat Arena — an amazing MicroProse-inspired...

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SGJ Podcast #389 – Gatekeeping

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 21:46:14 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I sit down to (mostly, with some tangents) talk about gatekeeping, especially in gaming. This happens all the time to marginalized folks for a variety of reasons, and my god I had no idea just how bad it was. I learned...

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SGJ Podcast #388 – Genre Stagnation

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:46:04 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about genres that we feel have gotten stale, or stagnated, the more we’ve played them. We start with space 4X games and just go off on several genres, plus a bunch of tangents. It’s a fun show where we cover...

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SGJ Podcast #387 – Interstellar Space: Genesis – Evolving Empires

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:07:17 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Adam Solo, formerly of SpaceSector.com, currently of Praxis Games, to talk about the latest expansion to their excellent spacey 4X, Interstellar Space: Genesis, entitled Evolving Empires! We talk about the leap from blogger to game developer, what goes into...

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SGJ Podcast #386 – Licensed Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 20:29:12 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I have a short but sweet conversation about licensed games. We had a hard stop at an hour, so it’s a bit shorter than usual, but we had a lot of fun being pleasantly surprised and sadly shocked at not only...

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SGJ Podcast #385 – AI War 2: The Neinzul Abyss

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 19 May 2022 21:56:19 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Chris McElligott Park, and welcome for the first time Willard Davis, both of Arcen Games, to talk about AI War 2 and it’s latest expansion, the Neinzul Abyss! We talk about both Arcen’s long history, the long history of...

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SGJ Podcast #384 – Old World

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 12 May 2022 20:35:12 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I sit down with Leyla and Soren Johnson, both of Mohawk Games, to talk about their upcoming historical, character-driven 4X, Old World. We’re all giddy as heck about this game, so it was a thrill to talk to Leyla and Soren...

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SGJ Podcast #383 – Millikan’s Reach

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:26:02 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I sit down with Andrew Watson, the sole developer of the PC and mobile space adventure game, Millikan’s Reach! While we do talk about the game, but also talk a lot about science fiction, unity development, space gaming and a lot more....

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SGJ Podcast #382 – Representation

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:58:54 +0000

Welcome to the show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about representation in video games, how it’s going, how it’s reacted to and so on. We primarily talk about ethnic and LGBTQ representation, but also the representation of the disabled as well. It’s a spicy topic that covers a lot of...

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SGJ Podcast #381 – X4: Tides of Avarice

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:30:40 +0000

Welcome to this episode of the podcast! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Egosoft Co-Founder Bernd Lehahn to talk about Tides of Avarice, the latest expansion for X4, as well as the whole series as a whole. It’s a very lively chat in which we talk about the game, the series,...

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SGJ Podcast #380 – Star Dynasties

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:25:33 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Glen Pawley to talk about the new Bloodlines expansion for this character-driven space strategy game, Star Dynasties! It’s a very fun show in which we talk about how expansions come about, balance and much more. Next week we’ll welcome...

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SGJ Podcast #379 – Accessibility

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:44:09 +0000

Welcome to the show folks! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome Julie’s friend Chris “roundpeg” Dodson to talk about accessibility in gaming. Chris has his own accessibility issues, and we’ll talk about how he still plays games regardless, as well as the importance of allowing anyone who wants to be able to...

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SGJ Podcast #378 – Free Space Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 22:17:53 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show, my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about free space games, both true freeware and free-to-play games. There are a lot of games we discussed, so they’re listed below! Next week on the show we’ll be discussing the topic of accessibility! As always, if you have...

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SGJ Podcast #377 – This Means Warp

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:09:36 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk to Matt and Paul, the developers of the amazing space adventure game, This Means Warp! This is a really fun show, as we talk about the game, game development, getting together with other developers and so much more. These guests were...

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SGJ Podcast #376 – Space Piracy and Boarding!

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:32:52 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s of the podcast! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about games with piracy and boarding elements, of which there are a lot more than you might think. Do they do them all well though? Some do, but some are like….why? It’s a fun discussion, and we...

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SGJ Podcast #375 – Entitled Gamers and Rage

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:54:45 +0000

Hey folks, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about the entitlement of gamers and how it damages our industry as a whole. Even though one might think we get very negative, we do strive to find positivity among the muck. It’s a very fun discussion overall. Next...

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SGJ Podcast #374 – Hunternet Starfighter!

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:55:43 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston and I welcome back Fernando Z, the creator and developer of one of my most-anticipated games, Hunternet Starfighter! We talk about how far the game has come since we last had Fernando on, successful crowdfunding, the foundations of a successful dogfighting game and...

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SGJ Podcast #373 – Remnants of the Precursors

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:32:44 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back Ray Fowler, the developer of the Master of Orion-inspired spacey 4X, Remnants of the Precursors! We talk about the costs of developing a game, expectations, community involvement, and oh yes the game itself! ;) It’s a fun show, so...

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SGJ Podcast #372 – Quick Catch Up

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:50:21 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I just basically shoot the shinola for an hour. We talk about what we’ve been playing, mostly. It’s a simple show, but a good one. Not without technical issues though, and those were on me. Next week, we’ll welcome back the developer...

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SGJ Podcast #371 – The Wonderful World of Warhammer

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 23:34:28 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk Warhammer games! It’s one of the most prolific licenses in video games, for good and ill, so we talk about the good games, the bad games, the problems with Games Workshop and more! It’s a fun time! Next week...

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SGJ Podcast #370 – A Look Back at 2021

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:43:00 +0000

(welcome text here) This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about how our 2021s were in terms of gaming. Our biggest surprises, disappointments and more. It’s a fun discussion where a LOT of games came up, so have a notepad handy so you can fill up your wishlists! Next week we’ll be talking...

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SGJ Podcast #369 – Unexplored Game Tropes

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:17:09 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about tropes we’d like to see in games. Like, why isn’t there more rescuing in space games? Why does mining always have to include violence? Why is there so much pew-pew? And why can’t we play Darth Vader’s accountant? All...

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SGJ Podcast #368 – Selective Game Lobotomy

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 23:38:24 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I ask each other, if you could selectively remove the memory of a game, and play it again for the first time ever, which game(s) would you choose. We had a lot of fun answers, from Skyrim to Final Fantasy Six to...

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SGJ Podcast #367 – Existential Fear and Terror (Games Giving Us the Feels)

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 21:12:44 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk about games that gave us the feels. It began with me feeling an astounding amount of dread when playing The Outer Wilds. We talk about a lot of games that made us feel things, from Subnautica to Spec Ops:...

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SGJ Podcast #366 – Approaching Infinity

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:52:06 +0000

Welcome to the show my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I welcome back the developer of the amazing space roguelike, Approaching Infinity — Bob Saunders — to talk about not only the game’s journey but how it’s going since he’s switched to full-time development! We talk about a lot of the layers...

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SGJ Podcast #365 – Fly Dangerous

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 19:04:21 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk to the developer of the upcoming space racing game, Fly Dangerous (which you can download on Itch and wishlist on Steam)! This game was inspired by the user-created racing scene in Elite Dangerous, so of course we talk about that...

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SGJ Podcast #364 – Licensed Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:41:12 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the podcast This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I talk licensed games! First we talk books and such we’d love to see made into games, followed by several tangents, including licenses that are used way too often. It’s a fun and lively discussion and we hope you enjoy it! Next...

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SGJ Podcast #363 – Breaking Up with a Game

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:49:51 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob and I discuss breaking up with games. This could be for a variety of reasons, from the fun running out, to legit phobias and everything in between. We also have a few fun tangents which will likely lead to further podcast topics....

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SGJ Podcast #362 – Catch Up, Introducing New Co-Hosts

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:08:37 +0000

Welcome back to the podcast, my friends!This week, Spaz and I welcome our new co-hosts, Julie, Thorston and Jacob as we get to know their stories, and then we all talk about what we’ve been playing and what we’re looking forward to, as well as a few tangents. This is a really light and breezy...

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The Podcast is Returning 10/13/21!!

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:48:13 +0000

Friends, good news! Spaz and I thought long and hard about who our next co-hosts should be, and after asking our candidates, they all said yes! So please welcome to the show Julie, Jacob and Thorsten! We’re also going international as Jacob is in Poland and Thorsten is in Germany (Julie is in Illinois if...

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Podcast on Hold/Hiatus

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 20:34:41 +0000

Friends, as of today our podcast is on hiatus. One of our co-hosts, Hunter, has to step away, so we need to regroup and figure out our next steps. I truly think we shine with three or four co-hosts, so we need to figure out how the show will look going forward. Thanks y’all!

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SGJ Podcast #361 – Pets

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:43:48 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show, my friends. This week, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about pets in games, such as Fallout and several Far Cries. We talk about some of our favorite pets, games we wish had pets and a lot more. It’s a fun conversation. Next week we’ll talk about rage quitting! As always,...

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SGJ Podcast #360 – Favorite Characters

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:44:17 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about our favorite characters from all sorts of game, such as Alpha Protocol, Mass Effect and many more. We had a lot of fun and we hope you do too! Next week we’re gonna talk games with pets! As always, if...

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SGJ Podcast #359 – RTS Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 27 May 2021 21:15:12 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about the classic genre of real-time strategy games. We talk about where the genre has come, our favorites, and a lot more. A lot of great games are discussed, so it’s a very fun trip down memory lane. Next week we’ll be...

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SGJ Podcast #358 – VR Gaming

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 May 2021 21:05:43 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter (finally returned from his big move, yay!) and I sit town to talk VR gaming. I was pretty against virtual reality for a long time, but Hunter eventually convinced me to get an Oculus Quest 2, which is truly an amazing piece of...

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SGJ Podcast #357 – AI War 2

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:54:31 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Chris McElligott Park from Arcen Games to talk about all of the changes that have been made to AI War 2 as well as its upcoming expansion, Zenith Onslaught. Chris is always a great guest and this time is no...

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SGJ Podcast #356 – Star Dynasties

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 22:35:57 +0000

Hey folks, welcome to this week’s podcast. SO SORRY it’s late, the week totally ran away from me. This week, Spaz and I welcome back Glen Pawley to talk about the recently released into early access character-driven space strategy game, Star Dynasties! We learn a lot about all the moving parts behind this massive game,...

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SGJ Podcast #355 – X4: Cradle of Humanity

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:39:06 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Bernd Lehahn, the CEO of Egosoft, to talk about the latest expansion to their current magnum opus, X4: Cradle of Humanity. We talk about the lengthy series’ history, the process of coming up with both an expansion pack and...

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SGJ Podcast #354 – SpaceNET

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:59:38 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I get up early in the morning to talk to Vincent Rateau of Sonejo Studios, calling us from Freiberg, Germany, to talk about his retro space adventure game, SpaceNET. We talk a lot about programming, retro adventure games, old computers and a...

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SGJ Podcast #352 – Power of Ten

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:22:52 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome Andrew Richardson, the developer of the spacey roguelike, Power of Ten! We talk a lot about the game, but also how scary it can be to be an indie developer, classic Mac gaming and a lot more. It’s a fun...

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SGJ Podcast #351 – SSG with Roger Keating and Gregor Whiley

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:12:58 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Roger Keating and Gregor Whiley, Senior Vice President and Vice President respectfully at Strategic Studies Group (SSG), calling in from Sydney Australia. These guys have long careers in the industry, so it was fascinating to hear their stories about...

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SGJ Podcast #350 – Capital Command

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:20:08 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Alex Trofin of Hellride Games to talk about his upcoming capital ship combat game, Capital Command! We talk a lot about the UI, the plans for the campaign, the ballistics-based weaponry and much more. It’s a very fun discussion...

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SGJ Podcast #349 – NEBULOUS: Fleet Command

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:08:11 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends. Before we begin, let me apologize for the audio this week. After unplugging everything this past weekend to dust out the PC, Windows audio had a FIT, and I had to reinstall VoiceMeeter and everything. I THOUGHT I’d had everything working properly before the show, but that wasn’t...

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SGJ Podcast #348 – Shooting the Shinola

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:11:56 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have no set topic. We talk mostly about this news regarding the new LucasFilm Games, which is pretty big, but we pretty much go all over the place. We had fun though, and we hope you do too. Next week we’ll...

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SGJ Podcast #347 – Starship Horizons

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:10:26 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back David Hernly of Mythric Studios to talk about his upcoming multiplayer starship bridge simulator, Starship Horizons! We actually play the game while we talk to, so hopefully it’s not too annoying for folks wanting to listen solely to the...

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SGJ Podcast #346 – Alliance of the Sacred Suns

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:16:12 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Steve Hawkins from KatHawk Games to talk about Alliance of the Sacred Suns, the Emperor-focused, character-driven grand space strategy game that’s currently running a Kickstarter! We talk about the game a LOT, as it has a lot of wonderful...

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SGJ Podcast #345 – A Personal Look Back at 2020 in Gaming

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:06:03 +0000

Friends, welcome to this week’s podcast !This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit back and talk about the games that personally affected us in 2020. A lot of unsurprising names made our lists, from Yakuza to Bloody Rally Show to Sea of Thieves, while it seemed to be something of a muted year in...

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SGJ Podcast #344 – In the Black

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 23:20:57 +0000

Welcome to the show this week y’all. Sorry for its lateness, yesterday got away from me. This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I get up early in the morning to welcome back Jack Mamais and David Wessman, Director and Producer respectfully at Impeller Studios, to talk about how In the Black is coming along. The...

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SGJ Podcast #343 – Earth Analog

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:13:56 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show, folks! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Roy van Ophuizen of Funcraft Games, in the Netherlands, to talk about his upcoming space flight exploration game, Earth Analog. I apologize for being very much sleepy and out of it for the show, but we managed to find...

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SGJ Podcast #342 – The Pegasus Expedition

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:06:43 +0000

Hey friends, and welcome to this week’s show! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I get up early in the morning to sit down with Narrative director Jaakko Vesterinen and Composer Adam Al-Sawad of Kalla Gameworks in Kuopio, Finland to talk about their upcoming space 4X game, The Pegasus Expedition, which is currently Kickstarting as...

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SGJ Podcast #341 – A Look at 2020 in Gaming So Far

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:28:46 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about what a wacky year in gaming this has been. We talk about what’s come out, what we’re looking for in the remainder of the year and so on. It’s a fun show, and we hope you enjoy it! No show...

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SGJ Podcast #340 – Do We Want Shiny Graphics?

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:12:47 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast. This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I intended to talk about whether we need shiny graphics or not, it basically turned into a collective dump on Star Wars: Squadrons. It was a fun show though! Next week I’m not sure yet, as I’ve got several irons on the...

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SGJ Podcast #339 – Interstellar Rift

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:35:28 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back the folks from Split Polygon, namely Jimmy van den Bergh, Joost Meulenkamp and Paul Mertens — all from the Netherlands — to talk about their space combat/mining/trucking/building sim, Interstellar Rift. We have a really fun time talking about the game’s...

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SGJ Podcast #338 – Ironseed

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:18:51 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Jeremy Stanton and Rob [Last Name Redacted] about the new 25th anniversary edition of their classic space exploration game, Ironseed! It’s a really fun discussion on 90s difficulty, coming up with a game from nothing, and much more! Next...

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SGJ Podcast #337 – Hunternet Starfighter

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:48:46 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Fernando Zapata, calling in from Pamplona, Spain, to talk about his amazing space fighter combat game, Hunternet Starfighter. We got a chance to play with Fernando last Saturday, to prep for the show, and my god did we have...

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SGJ Podcast #336 – Rank: Warmaster

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:22:52 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome Arthur D. Moyer (President/Leader Coder) and Paul Blessing (UI Designer) of Laser Beams and Particle Streams to talk about their upcoming space fighter/RTS game, Rank: Warmaster, which also just launched an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign this very day! We talk quite...

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SGJ Podcast #335 – Old Games, Man

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 21:12:21 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk old games, not only the old games we’re playing, but what we’ve been doing to get them working and the joy we’ve found in getting them to work, especially networked via a virtual LAN we’ve been testing. It’s a fun...

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SGJ Podcast #334 – Gaia Beyond

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:40:14 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Tobias Offermanns and Devendra Pohly of Warp Turtle to talk about their recently-out-of-early-access adventure game, Gaia Beyond! We talk about the trials and tribulations of early access, the expectations around release and much more. It’a fun and frank discussion...

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SGJ Podcast #333 – Absolute Territory

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 01:34:04 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this latest podcast. Sorry it’s late, my PC down the day after we recorded this and I just got it back. This time, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Dan Woods of Digitum Software to talk about his space action combat game, Absolute Territory, which comes out in a...

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SGJ Podcast #332 – Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:32:00 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back the creator and lead designer of the Star Fleet series of games, Trevor Sorensen. Since diving into the Amazing Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander, I’ve been itching to welcome Trevor back to take a deep dive into the game. Dive...

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SGJ Podcast #331 – Shooting the Shirt

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:46:57 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast, sorry it’s a bit late, lat week got away from me. This episode, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I just sit down and shoot the breeze. Kinda literally. We hang out on Risa in Star Trek Online, which has become our default online hang. It’s a fun...

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SGJ Podcast #330 – Approaching Infinity

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:49:48 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with our first guest in months! This week we welcome Bob Saunders, the creator of the FANTASTIC space roguelike, Approaching Infinity. The game was trapped in a weird limbo for years due to being stuck on Shrapnel Games, but...

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SGJ Podcast #329 – MicroProse Then and Now

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:19:17 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about the classic gaming company, MicroProse. After dominating PC gaming for nearly two decades, MicroProse became defunct in the early 2000s. Their time with us, however, brought us many games we’re still playing to this day, such as Civilization, XCOM, Master...

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SGJ Podcast #328 – Steam Sale 2020

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:02:15 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about the Steam sale that JUST ended as I write this. So this info will be a little out of date, but it’s still a fun discussion of sales, the proper tools and also what to keep an eye on...

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SGJ Podcast #327 – Star Wars: Squadrons Speculation

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:49:10 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to discuss all we know about the surprise Star Wars starfighter sim that was announced last week, Star Wars: Squadrons! Thanks to a few detailed articles, which I’ll cite below, we do know a lot, but there’s still so much...

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SGJ Podcast #326 – Rambling

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:17:47 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I hang around Quark’s on the Promenade in Deep Space Nine to shoot the breeze, as it were. No topic, just fun chat. Next week, I’ve no idea. Probably Star Wars: Squadrons talk, if anything else. As always, if you have any questions...

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SGJ Podcast #325 – Crazy for Co-op

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:02:30 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I take on the discussion of co-op games. What makes them good, what we wish they did better, our favorites and so on. We do this while playing one of the best co-op games ever: Deep Rock Galactic. Sadly we had some...

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SGJ Podcast #324 – Building in Space Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:19:46 +0000

Welcome to the podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about space games that have a focus on building something, whether it’s a building or a probe or a ship or a whole space station. We talk about what a lot of games do right, what a lot do wrong, what...

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SGJ Podcast #323 – Racing in Space Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 May 2020 22:42:23 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about racing in space games, and why it isn’t more of a thing. There are many games that have racing as an element, but they’re still a minority in the genre, and fewer still space games that focus on racing....

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SGJ Podcast #322 – Space Survival Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 May 2020 20:13:28 +0000

Welcome to the podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk space survival games, such as Space Engineers, Empyrion and so forth. We get into a fun discussion about how far they’ve come and how far they still have to go, in many cases. Next week on the show, we’ll...

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SGJ Podcast #321 – Developer Check-In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:20:22 +0000

Welcome to the podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I invite in our developer friends from our busy Discord server to share their stories about how they’re doing, how their games are coming along, etc etc. It’s a very fun discussion about working from home, coping with change and a lot more. As...

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SGJ Podcast #320 – Playing Games During a Pandemic

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:04:13 +0000

Welcome back to the podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about how we’re all doing, and what games y’all should have on hand during a quarantine. We also talk movies and stuff. It’s fun to be back! Next weel we’ll do a developer round-table check-in. As always, if you have any...

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Podcast Announcement: A Tiny Hiatus

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 23:21:42 +0000

Friends, just a quick note to say that the podcast will be on hold until 4/21, since we’re all super stressed and what not. You can still hang out with us on all our communities, and we invite you to let us know how you’re doing. Stay safe, be well, and be there for each...

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About the Podcast

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:52:30 +0000

Friends, just a quick update. With all that’s going on, a lot of us have unusual amounts of stress, or changes in schedule, or whatever else, that might keep us from doing the podcasts in the near future. Us co-hosts are gonna check in with each other each Tuesday to see how we feel about...

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SGJ Podcast #319 – Taxinaut

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 22:31:31 +0000

Welcome to the show folks! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Jasper Pol, who joined us all the way from Ireland, to talk about his fascinating game of space taxi driving, Taxinaut. We talk a lot about the game, the movie Taxi Driver and much more. It’s a GREAT show, and...

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SGJ Podcast #318 – Avorion

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:38:46 +0000

Welcome to the podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have an early morning (for us) sit down with Konstantin Kronfeldner, the lead developer and designer of the about-to-leave-early-access spaceship adventure and builder game, Avorion! We talk about the game’s amazing journey through early access, how it manages both single and multiplayer...

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SGJ Podcast #317 – Void Destroyer 2

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:22:51 +0000

Welcome back to the podcast you guys! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with five-time guest — now a record — Paul Zakrzewski to talk about his recently, and finally, released open space epic, Void Destroyer 2! We have a great talk about the game, some side chatter about other games, and...

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SGJ Podcast #316 – Astra Exodus

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:27:54 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Fernando Rey, developer of Astra Exodus, who kindly took time out of his lovely holiday in Uruguay to talk to us about his game, games of the nineties and much more. It was a really fun and free-flowing...

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SGJ Podcast #315 – Titan Outpost

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:10:12 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Frank Nicolaas de Boer, creator of the spacey survival RPG thing that is Titan Outpost. We talk a lot about the game, it’s narrative challenges, its RPG elements and much more, as well as juggling life and developing games....

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SGJ Podcast #314 – News Roundtable and Catch Up

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:07:54 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about recent gaming news, not just in spacey gamey stuff, but in general, and it’s a really fun discussion, which also includes what we’ve been playing of late! Next week we’ll welcome on the developer of Titan Outpost to talk...

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SGJ Podcast #313 – Remnants of the Precursors

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:43:10 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Ray Fowler, lead developer of the free Master of Orion 1-styled space 4X game, Remnants of the Precursors! We talk a lot about the game, but also about programming, 4X games in general, a LOT of Master of...

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SGJ Podcast #312 – Galaxy in Turmoil

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 22:33:14 +0000

Hello friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Tony Romanelli and Richard Ebanks, CEO and COO respectfully, and co-founders of Frontwire Studios to talk about their Battlefront homage, Galaxy in Turmoil. Hot on the heels of a sadly unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign, we dive into the...

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SGJ Podcast #311 – Rules of Engagement Windows Port

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:01:51 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Joshua “Halkun” Walker, who worked on the Windows port for the amazing 1991 starship tactical combat game, Rules of Engagement! We discuss getting the rights to the game, the trials of working with thirty-year-old code, learning how to...

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SGJ Podcast #310 – XO

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:38:01 +0000

Hey friends, welcome back to the Space Game Junkie Podcast as well as a new decade! Yay! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Brian Jamison, Creative Director at Jumpdrive Studios, to talk about his currently-in-early-access spaceship, crew, fleet and resource management game, XO. This is a fascinating game reminiscent of Battlestar...

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SGJ Podcast #309 – Mobile Space Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:39:00 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about mobile games. While we try to focus primarily on space games — of which there are a lot, surprisingly — we also diverge into all sorts of mobile gaming, and discuss why, on the whole, we’re not big mobile...

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SGJ Podcast #308 – Introvertedness and Multiplayer Gaming

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:30:36 +0000

Hey friends, sorry this was so late! We did it right before Thanksgiving and that week got crazy for me so this slipped beneath my fingers. In this episode, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about how being an introvert can affect your multiplayer gaming and gaming-based socializing. We talk about a lot of games...

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SGJ Podcast #307 – AI War 2

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:32:42 +0000

(welcome text here) This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Chris Park of Arcen Games to talk about their latest masterpiece, the amazing AI War 2. We talk about how brilliant the game is — it really is y’all — its journey through early access, listening to its testers and fans in order...

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SGJ Podcast #306 – Star Trek Online

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:12:46 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about a game that has taken over our Discord server: Star Trek Online. After Aron Eisenberg’s death, and the touching memorial they had for him in the game, we all found ourselves back in this huge, deep...

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SGJ Podcast #305 – Void Eclipse

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:00:02 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Jesse Dannenbring, designer for Void Eclipse, to talk about his mix of 4X, story and card-battling across an expansive universe. We talk a lot about the game, but because I’m not feeling too great, it’s not as tight a...

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SGJ Podcast #304 – A Look Back at the Last Decade

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:02:05 +0000

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast. This week, Jim (who was sadly still ill with boat plague), Spaz, Hunter and I go down several categories in which we look at the best and worst games of this last decade. We have ten categories in all, and there were some that surprised even...

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SGJ Podcast #303 – Dominus Galaxia

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:32:37 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Jeff Graw of Starchart Interactive to talk about their currently-Kickstarting Master of Orion 1-inspired 4X, Dominus Galaxia! We talk a lot about the game itself, 4X games, mobile Stellaris and much more. It’s a really fun discussion that really...

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SGJ Podcast #302 – Everspace 2

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:50:34 +0000

Welcome to this this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome Erik Schrader of Rockfish Games to discuss their currently-Kickstarting sequel to Everspace, the amazing and open-world Everspace 2! We were blessed with an early build of the game, so thankfully we were able to ask Erik a lot of...

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SGJ Podcast #301 – First Space Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:24:35 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about our first space games, and yours. It’s a really fun trip down memory lane, with classics such as Lunar Lander, Asteroids, Starflight and Starfox all in attendance. Next week on the show, we’ll look back at the decade and...

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SGJ Podcast #300 – This Is Sparta!

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:53:40 +0000

Hello, my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have a party on the Orville — thanks to The Orville – Interactive Fan Experience — because it’s our 300th episode y’all! YAY! We have a lot of silly fun ragdolling all over the Orville — which is super...

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SGJ Podcast #299 – Sequels We Wish We’d See

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 16:16:29 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have a lot of tangents, but the main topic is games to which we wish we could get sequels. This isn’t the obvious stuff either like TIE Fighter 2 or Freespace 3, but games that were one-hit wonders that deserved better. It...

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SGJ Podcast #298 – Games as a Service

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 23:31:46 +0000

Welcome to this week’s latest podcast. This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about games as a service! This includes streaming services like Playstation Now, subscription download services such as Microsoft Gamepass or Uplay+, or even individual games like The Division. It’s a pretty lively discussion that I’m sadly not a...

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SGJ Podcast #297 – Topic Brainstorming & Catching Up

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:33:44 +0000

Welcome to this episode of the podcast, my friends! I apologize for the lateness, but due to some sudden freelance work, the entire week got away from me. I’ll do better. Now, in this episode, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about some topic ideas for upcoming shows, as well as what...

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SGJ Podcast 296 – Juggling All Your Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:50:41 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about not only how one deals with having a massive library of games — a great problem to be sure — but the choice paralysis that can go with it. It’s a fun show with a lot of fun tangents....

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SGJ Podcast #295 – Weird and Wonky Expectations

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:57:47 +0000

Welcome to this episode of the podcast y’all. Sorry it’s so late, but my god this switch to daily streaming has thrown off everything else. ;) This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about expectations. The idea came from the VERY weird expectations people seem to have had for Rebel Galaxy...

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SGJ Podcast #294 – A Look Back at 1999

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:40:16 +0000

Welcome to this latest show y’all. Sorry it was a little late, last week was INSANE! This time, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have one of the most random episodes that ever episoded an episode. We did talk about the proposed topic — the games of 1999 — but wow were we also all over...

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SGJ Podcast #293 – Marvelous Mods

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:00:21 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about mods. We’ve always mentioned them in the periphery, but now it’s time to dive deep and full-on go into them. We talk about all the different types of mods, from content additions to total conversions, as...

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SGJ Podcast #292 – Evolution of the Gamepad

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:39:30 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast. I super apologize that it’s late, but that particular week was hell on me, so I hope y’all understand. ;) This time, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about gamepads. Why we love ’em, their relative new adoption in the PC realm, why folks are resistant...

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SGJ Podcast #291 – Post-Release Support

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:44:56 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter (welcome back!) and I talk about post-release support in games. This was inspired by the recent — and amazing — 2.0 patch for Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr, which made it into almost an entirely new game. We talk about games that get...

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SGJ Podcast #290 – Space Game Economies

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 20:50:30 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! Sorry for the lateness of the post, the July 4th holiday totally threw me off. This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I talk about space games with good, mediocre and poor economies. There are a ton of space games in which the economy is supposed to matter, and...

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SGJ Podcast 289 – Underspace

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:51:55 +0000

Welcome back to the podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Kevin Brock, Lead Developer Pasta Space Interactive, to talk about his upcoming open space combat, exploration and trading game, Underspace (which coincidentally just launched its Kickstarter!). We got a chance to play the demo — which is now...

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SGJ Podcast #288 – Interstellar Transport Company

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:35:52 +0000

Hey friends, and welcome to this very late episode of the podcast. I apologize for the lateness of this one, but tragedy struck a couple of days after we recorded this, and I’m only now recovering. You can learn more by listening to the podcast itself, if you’d like. For this episode, Jim, Spaz, Hunter...

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SGJ Podcast #287 – Landinar: Into the Void

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 10 May 2019 21:42:27 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast y’all. This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I get up early in the morning to sit down with Roy Hornstra (2D artist, designer and co-founder) and Sander de Visser (designer, scripter, business and co-founder) of Convoy Games to talk about their newly-released space adventure, Landinar: Into the Void! We have...

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SGJ Podcast #286 – Store Wars

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 03 May 2019 20:47:00 +0000

Welcome to the podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I have no guest, so we settle in (eventually) on the topic of the current store wars between primarily well-established Steam and newcomer Epic. We talk about a lot more, sure — it is a topic show after all — but we also have...

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SGJ Podcast #285 – Stellar Nomad

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:54:08 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this (very late, sorry) entry of the podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Evan Williams, the programmer, artist, game designer on the upcoming space sandbox game, Stellar Nomad, which you can try for free right now on Itch.io. Despite technical issues we had during the stream...

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SGJ Podcast #284 – Worbital

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:00:49 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode of the podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Sasu Kemppainen, Game Designer at Team Jolly Roger, to talk about their latest orbital artillery bombardment masterpiece, Worbital. We had Sasu on ages ago to talk about their last game, Interplanetary, which was a turn-based game...

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SGJ Podcast #283 – Warp Nexus

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:20:29 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Scott Brown, president of Wyrmbyte, former president of Netdevil and the creator of Jumpgate, to talk about his new masterpiece, Warp Nexus. Warp Nexus strives to be something very different from Jumpgate: a quick, accessible experience wherein everyone on...

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SGJ Podcast #282 – AI War 2

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 21:14:19 +0000

Hey friends, sorry for the delay, but welcome to this week’s podcast episode! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Chris Park of Arcen Games to talk primarily AI War 2. We also talk about Arcen’s other games, new-to-us terms such as “GPU Instancing,” all kinds of tech stuff, dealing with Steam...

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SGJ Podcast #281 – Objects in Space

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:58:02 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends!!! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I with Elissa Harris, Lead Developer and Co-Designer of Objects in Space, a game we’re all horrifically excited about. We talk to Elissa about the long road from getting a game from conception to 1.0, arduino support in games, the struggle to...

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SGJ Podcast #280 – Structure Test Drive

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:47:33 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I don’t have a guest, so we thought this would be the perfect time to test out a new structure we’ve been working on internally. This allows us to not only focus on a topic or a guest, but to cover some...

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SGJ Podcast 279 – Starsector

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:15:22 +0000

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast episode! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down with Alex Mosolov, the creator and developer of the amazing space sandbox that is Starsector, to talk about that game’s long and amazing journey through its pre-release period. For about a decade, this game has morphed...

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SGJ Podcast #278 – Rodina

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:58:54 +0000

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Brendan Anthony — owner at Elliptic Games — to talk his amazing game of space exploration, discovery and combat, Rodina. We had Brendan on way back in episode 14, so it’s my fault he’s...

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SGJ Podcast #277 – Apolune

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:41:12 +0000

Hey folks, sorry this one was so late in going up to the feed. Life’s been insane of late. Anyway, in this most recent episode, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I welcome back Herbert Elwood Gilliland III of Lost Astronaut Studios to talk about his latest creation, Apolune! On the next podcast, we’ll welcome back the...

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SGJ Podcast 276 – Check In

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 21:54:09 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I take a look back at the games we’ve previously covered on the show, to see how they’re doing. Our criteria was games in which we talked to the developer that weren’t already fully released when we spoke to them. To that...

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SGJ Podcast #275 – Usability and the User Experience in (Space) Gaming

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:17:28 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz, Hunter and I sit down to talk about usability and the user experience in games, mostly space games (of course) but a few others as well. We first define what goes into usability and the user experience, for the purposes of our discussion, and...

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SGJ Podcast #274 – Hypergate

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:54:52 +0000

Welcome to this week’s episode of the podcast folks. Sorry it’s a touch late, this week has totally run away from me. Anyway, this week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with Geoff Nagy to talk about his fantastic space fighter combat game, Hypergate! We talk not only about the game, but game development, academia...

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SGJ Podcast #273 – Star Dynasties

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:35:30 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the first podcast of 2019!! This week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with Glen Pawley, the designer and developer of the currently-in-alpha intrigue-driven space strategy game, Star Dynasties! This is very much a kind of Crusader Kings in space type of thing, and after we played it a bit, we...

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SGJ Podcast #272 – 2018 Year in Review/2019 Looking Ahead

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:54:52 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz and I close out 2018 by looking back at this busy year and talk about what surprised us, what depressed us and a lot more. We talked about a LOT of games, so it’s a pretty long episode, but we covered a lot, and...

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SGJ Podcast #271 – X4: Foundations (And the Series in General)

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:28:17 +0000

In this episode, we talk to the CEO of Egosoft about the recent release of X4: Foundations and the entire series as a whole.

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SGJ Podcast #270 – Interstellar Rift

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:21:41 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz and I get up super early in the morning to talk to our guests in The Netherlands, Jimmy van den Bergh and Alex Immerzeel, developers of the fascinating flying and building space game, Interstellar Rift! It was a fun show, in which we talked...

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SGJ Podcast #269 – Holiday Buying Guide

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:30:07 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz and I talk about deals. There will be an overabundance of sales this coming holiday season, not just the big ones from Steam, but sale from folks like Fanatical and Green Man Gaming, who’ve just been knocking it out of the park in terms...

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SGJ Podcast #268 – Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:05:24 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with CEO Travis Baldree and Art Director Howie Day of Double Damage Games to talk about their upcoming masterpiece, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw! We talk a lot about the game itself, why it will neither have VR nor DLC, the grind of...

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SGJ Podcast #267 – ADIOS Amigos

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:50:44 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz and I get up very super early in the morning to welcome our guests, Filip Karlsson and Niclas Forsell, the coder and designer respectfully of the amazing game of space exploration, ADIOS Amigos. This game is not only super fun, but in its own way,...

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SGJ Podcast #266 – Helium Rain

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 19:13:57 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz and I get up really early in the morning to welcome back onto the show Gwennaël Arbona, the lead developer of the amazingly wonderful Helium Rain. We had a lovely chat about the game’s journey through early access to release, properly managing the expectations of...

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SGJ Podcast #265 – Starcom: Nexus

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:41:38 +0000

Hey folks, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with Kevin Lin of Wx3 Labs to talk about his currently-in-development space exploration and combat game, Starcom: Nexus! We had such a fun time talking about this game — which we’re all giddy about — and it’s rather unique history (it’s...

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SGJ Podcast #264 – Noble Armada: Lost Worlds

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:59:08 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! Sorry it’s a little late, yesterday got away from me. Anyway, this week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with Andrew Greenberg — Director, Holistic Design Inc. — to talk Noble Armada: Lost Worlds. Since this is a game set in the amazing Fading Suns universe, we also...

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SGJ Podcast #263 – Universal Combat

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:23:47 +0000

This week we talk to the one, the only Derek Smart about Universal Combat and a whole lot more.

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SGJ Podcast #262 – Executive Assault 2

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:10:52 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! Sorry I uploaded this a little late, it’s been an INSANE week. This week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with Robert Hesketh, Owner of Hesketh Studios, to talk about his upcoming mix of RTS, FPS and space combat, Executive Assault 2. We talk a lot about the game,...

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SGJ Podcast #261 – Starflight 3

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 23:41:48 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with the Founder and Head of HumaNature Studios, Greg Johnson, and Project Lead for Starflight 3, Anthony Vaughn, to talk Starflight (and other things I guess)!!!! Greg Johnson was the lead on both original Starflight games, so for someone like me...

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SGJ Podcast #260 – Between the Stars

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:31:06 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! Apologies that this is a little late, but this week was CRAAAAZY. This week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with Alexander Poysky, Executive Producer at Isolated Games, to talk about their upcoming space combat adventure roguelike game which is currently in Kickstarter called Between the Stars (and you...

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SGJ Podcast #259 – Star Traders: Frontiers

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:47:44 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show, folks! This week, Jim, Spaz and I sit down with Andrew and Corey Trese of Trese Brothers Games to talk about their latest, and probably largest, game to date: Star Traders: Frontiers! We talk a LOT about their amazing early access period, the game’s mechanics, the lore than propagates over...

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SGJ Podcast #258 – Landinar: Into the Void

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:28:23 +0000

[welcome text here] This week, Jim, Spaz and I get up super early in the morning to sit down with Sander de Visser (Co-owner/Designer/Jack of all trades) and Ryanne Keulen (Community manager) from Convoy Games to talk about their upcoming space adventure game, Landinar: Into the Void. It’s a really fun discussion on not just the game...

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SGJ Podcast #257 – Random Podcast is Random

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:18:50 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Spaz and I — sadly Hunter stepped down from the show — talk about a billion different things. The issue was Hunter originally came up with the topic we were to use for this week, but when he left, and I didn’t fully understand his...

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SGJ Podcast #256 – Scott Brown: The Man Behind Jumpgate

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:55:26 +0000

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Scott Brown, formerly of Netdevil and Cloud Imperium, now at Wyrmbite, to talk primarily about one of my favorite games, good ol’ Jumpgate. We get a LOT of great design talk, a ton of behind-the-scenes stuff...

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SGJ Podcast #254 – Woovit (and a General PR Discussion)

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:21:18 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Richard Kain of Woovit, which is a digital distribution platform aimed solely at creators. As gaming coverage changes, and can be done by almost anyone, the ways to get games into the hands of the right creators must...

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SGJ Podcast #253 – DLC (Damn Lacking Content)

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:44:47 +0000

Welcome, my friends, to another Podcast episode! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to revisit the topic of DLC, but from a different tack as from our last show on the subject. We start by looking at whether games can be approachable with a lot of DLC, as recommended by community member...

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Site Note – Upper Memory Block Wing Commander Podcast!

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:00:36 +0000

Hey friends, just a quick note to let y’all know I was on the Upper Memory Block Podcast a couple of weeks ago to talk Wing Commander with friend-of-our-podcast, Joe Mastroianni. While we were gonna initially talk Wing Commander II, we spoke for nearly two hours on the series as a whole. Head over to UMBcast.com...

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SGJ Podcast #252 – Starfighter: Infinity

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:24:19 +0000

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I get up really in the morning, our time, sit down with Ben Olding, creator and developer of the current-in-alpha MMORPG, Starfighter: Infinity. I’ve been playing the alpha for a couple of months now, so I was super silly...

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SGJ Podcast #251 – Remnant

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 20:34:36 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Scott McCallum, the lead developer on the fascinating and currently-Kickstarting 4X, Remnant. I say fascinating because this game eschews so many of the tropes we’ve come to expect from a 4X, and strives to me something truly unique, such...

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SGJ Podcast #250 – The Double-Edged Sword of Early Access

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 31 May 2018 21:30:25 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk about the good and bad that is the current early access model. While early access via closed alphas and betas has been a thing for quite some time, the early access model pioneered by Steam has proven to be both...

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SGJ Podcast #249 – The Beginning, Middle and Eventual End of the Space Game Renaissance

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 25 May 2018 15:46:53 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk about the current space game resurgence we’re in the midst of, what ignited it, how it’s going, and what we think will bring it down. As these things happen in cycles, the current amazing pace of space game development can’t...

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SGJ Podcast #248 – Age of Space

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 17 May 2018 19:49:27 +0000

Welcome to this latest podcast, folks! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Anders Lindås and Øyvind Lundenes to talk about their upcoming space resource gathering and combat game, Age of Space. We talk about the game’s future, its inspirations, how it’s being partially funded by the Norweigan government (links below on that) and...

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SGJ Podcast #247 – It’s All About the Journey. Man.

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 10 May 2018 22:01:48 +0000

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to discuss a topic that was Spaz’s idea: the journey in video games. Whether the destination/ending is worth it or not, which games help make the journey memorable. We talk about a LOT of games that gave...

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SGJ Podcast #246 – Solar Warden

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 03 May 2018 18:31:49 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! First off, let me apologize for the audio here, for some reason my recording stopped three minutes in (I think it happened when I turned off Dropbox), so I had to rip the audio from the YouTube video. I hope it’s okay for y’all. ;) This week, Jim,...

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SGJ Podcast #245 – Space Games with Excellent Music

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:27:21 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast episode, my friends! I have to apologize for this episode for a couple of reasons, first off. First, it was late, which made it shorter, because I was having some stupid technical issues in regards to voice chat (which we did get resolved). Secondly, I’m a terrible DJ, so the...

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Episode 244 – How’s The Industry Doing?

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:02:12 +0000

Welcome to the podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I try to take a higher-level look at the industry and how it’s doing. This includes stuff like loot boxes, DLC, problems with Steam and other digital distributors and much more. It’s a fairly lively discussion that covers a broad range of topics...

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SGJ Podcast #243 – Spacey MMOs

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:53:09 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to talk spacey MMOs while playing some EVE Online live! We talk about the first MMOs we played, which are our favorites, why some of our beloved games endure even when officially shot down, why some MMOs just don’t...

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SGJ Podcast #242 – Undercrewed

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 02:43:45 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with David Strachan, developer of the currently-Kickstarted co-op space combat game, Undercrewed! We talk to David about the history of the game, the struggles of running a Kickstarter campaign and much more. We also spend time playing the game live,...

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SGJ Podcast #241 – Our Dream Space Games (And Yours)!

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:14:26 +0000

On this week's podcast, we talk about our dream space games!

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SGJ Podcast #240 – The Much Maligned Capital Ship

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:39:45 +0000

Welcome to this week’s show my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk about capital ships. Those large ships that are inconsistently used in so many space games. We discuss games that do them well, games that do them poorly, why there aren’t more games that focus on them and much more. We...

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SGJ Podcast #239 – MegaWars

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:29:06 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with David Baity, the creator of the latest iteration in the long-running MegaWars series, Dawn of the Third Age, to discuss this massively multiplayer online exploration, colonization and conquest game. We do play the game live, so you might have...

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SGJ Podcast #238 – Venting about Elite: Dangerous

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:59:09 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I are joined by our friend Dennis (Denacity in our Discord group) to discuss the game we love to whinge about, Elite Dangerous. Now don’t get me wrong, we actually love Elite, it’s just that we see all these other games doing some...

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SGJ Podcast #237 – Starmancer

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:43:01 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends. This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Tyler Millershaski to discuss their currently-Kickstarting space station sim, Starmancer! We talk about the game in depth, as well as the Kickstarter campaign itself, which is a fascinating insight into the mind of the Kickstarter backer. ;) We also,...

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SGJ Podcast #236 – Alliance of the Sacred Suns

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:46:13 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I welcome back Steve Hawkins — for the third time — to talk about his character-driven grand space strategy game, Alliance of the Sacred Suns. We discuss the game’s history, it’s major ideals, all the moving parts under its hood and much...

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SGJ Podcast #235 – Angels Fall First

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:41:15 +0000

Welcome to this latest podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with two of the folks at Strangely Interactive — – Josh “Strangelet” Grafton and Mikolaj “Farseer” Jarzin — to discuss their fantastic combined-arms first and third person ground and space shooter, Angels Fall First. My friends, we played the game live,...

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SGJ Podcast #234 – A Deep Dive into 4X Games

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:13:14 +0000

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s episode of the Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to discuss 4X games. We’ve been in something of a deluge of them, but so many of them follow the formula established by Master of Orion 2 over twenty years ago. We discuss which...

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SGJ Podcast #233 – Can You Go Home Again?

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:55:54 +0000

Welcome to this episode of the podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talked nostalgia, thanks to a topic idea from Hunter. Basically, we all went back to the year when we were twenty, which is as follows: Jim = 1990 Brian = 1993 Spaz = 1999 Hunter = 2007 And talked...

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SGJ Podcast #232 – Starship Horizons Bridge Simulator

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:07:32 +0000

Welcome to this episode of the Podcast y’all! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with David Hernly, Founder and CEO of Mythric Studios, to talk about (and play) his starship bridge simulator game, Starship Horizons! Due to the multiplayer nature of this game, we thought it might be fun to actually play it,...

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SGJ Podcast #231 – Orbital Racer

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:40:42 +0000

Welcome to this latest episode of the podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I talk to the developer (another Paul, the first in a long time!) of one of my favorite games of 2017, and one of the biggest surprises of late, Orbital Racer! We talk to Paul about the impetus for...

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SGJ Podcast #230 – Star Traders: Frontiers

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 21:49:23 +0000

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Andrew and Cory Trese of the Trese Brothers to discuss the latest (and third game) in their long-running Star Traders series, Star Traders: Frontiers. For this episode, we talk a lot about mobile gaming (which...

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SGJ Podcast #229 – A Look Back at 2017

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 19:09:21 +0000

Welcome to this late episode of the SGJ Podcast! Sorry it took so long to get this up, but this past week was CRAZY. Anyway, in this episode, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I look back at the crazy year that was 2017, and talk about the games that surprised us, disappointed us, and quite a...

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SGJ Podcast #228 – Discoverability

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:56:20 +0000

Welcome to this week's podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down to discuss a rather serious problem for both gamers and developers: discoverability.

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SGJ Podcast #227 – Astrox Imperium (with a Contest!!!)

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:01:11 +0000

Welcome to this latest episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast y’all! This week, we sit down with the Masulas to talk their upcoming sequel to Astrox, Astrox Imperium!

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SGJ Podcast #226 – Roguelikes

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 21:37:19 +0000

Friends, I’m so sorry this is late, but life has been crazy. In this episode, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I have to deal with a missing guest, so we talk roguelikes at Spaz’s suggestion. It’s a very random, yet fun show that I hope you enjoy, even though it’s all over the place. ;) Next...

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SGJ Podcast #225 – Daath Origins

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:35:21 +0000

Welcome to this latest podcast, my friends! Sorry it’s a tad late, but man has this been an insane week. This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Jeff Quindlen of Black Lodge Games to talk about his currently-in-early-access spacey RPG, Daath Origins. As the game has something of a learning curve, I didn’t get...

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SGJ Podcast #224 – Helium Rain

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:18:09 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Gwennaël Arbona to talk about his amazing space trading, combat and economics game, Helium Rain! We’re pretty gaga over the game, so we talk a LOT about it, and are delighted to learn about the detailed background simulation that...

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SGJ Podcast #223 – Nightstar/Nightstar: Rogue Wings

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:00:01 +0000

Hey folks, welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Bruno de Araujo of Solidmesh games to discuss his games, Nightstar and Nightstar: Rogue Wings, both action space shooter games that are a lot of fun. Since the first game in the series in...

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SGJ Podcast #222 – Cosmoteer

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:40:18 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter (who wasn’t feeling great), Spaz (who possibly had to evacuate due to a massive fire) and I sit down with developer Walt Destler to talk about his insanely popular and free space building and combat game, Cosmoteer. In this episode, we talk about the game, its community,...

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SGJ Podcast #221 – Interstellar Transport Company

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 22:04:03 +0000

Welcome to this week’s podcast, my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Mike Stankiewicz, Founder and Lead Developer at MT Worlds, to discuss his spacey trading and economic survival game, Interstellar Transport Company. We spend a lot of time comparing his game favorably to Space Bucks (yay!) and of course, some...

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SGJ Podcast #220 – Galactic Crew

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:31:11 +0000

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I get up super early our time to talk to our guest, who’s in Germany! Joining us is Benjamin Rommel, the developer of Galactic Crew. This game is clearly based on FTL, but has a lot of its own style and...

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SGJ Podcast #219 – Solar Settlers

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:06:13 +0000

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Brett Lowey, creator and owner of BrainGoodGames, to talk about his spacey card board colonization game, Solar Settlers! Knowing next to nothing about board and card games my own self, I was super happy...

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SGJ Podcast #218 – Interstellar Space: Genesis

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:25:16 +0000

Welcome to this episode of the Space Game Junkie Podcast folks! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Adam Solo (Developer & Game Designer) and Hugo Rosado (Developer and Art Direction) of Praxis game to talk about their upcoming Master of Orion 2 homage, the really fun spacey 4X game Interstellar Space: Genesis! We...

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SGJ Podcast #217 – Hellion

hail@spacegamejunkie.com (Brian Rubin) — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 22:37:12 +0000

Welcome to episode 217 of the Space Game Junkie Podcast! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I have an early morning (for us) show so we can talk to our guest Milos Zivkovic, Game Designer and Story Writer at Zero Gravity Games, who was calling us from Belgrade, Serbia to talk about spacey survivalley game Hellion!!...

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