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... The post SGJ Podcast #478 – A Look Back at 2024 appeared f…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #477 –…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #476 – Space Legs appeared fir…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #475 – Exploration appeared first on Space G…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #474 – UI/UX appeare…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #473 – Professions in the…

(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... The post SGJ Podcast #472 – Check-In appeared f…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #471 – Spin the Wheel appeare…

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.... The post SGJ Podcast #…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #469 – Loans and Debt in Gaming appeare…

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)... The post SGJ Podcast #468 – Check-In appeared first …

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... The post SGJ Podcast #467 – Ostranauts appear…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #466 – Taxinaut appear…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #465 – Favorite Gaming Vaca…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #464 – Favorite Ga…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #463 – Beat Hazard 3 appeared first on …

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... The post SGJ Podcast #462 – Fast Travel appeared firs…

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),... The post SGJ Podcast #461 – One-Hit Wonders…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #460 – Traversal in Games …

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... The post SGJ Podcast #459 – Check-In appeared first on Space …

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!... The post SGJ Podcast #458 – Gaming Cinder…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #457 – Gaming Disaste…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #456 – One-Hit Wonder…

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...…

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... The post SGJ Podcast #454 – Architect…