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Next week: Top 5 games you would use to introduce your eight and a half year old to gaming.
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Episode 28 – Hot, Hot Games
It’s been a hot, hot week! We’ve been feeling the burn both inside and out what with the ever increasing attacks from our lord The Sun and our love of chilli. Also popular games have been happening including Ben’s smoking hot wife Black Ops 2, Paul’s burning desire Little Inferno, and James’ heat related pun involving Ragnarok Odyssey. Combine that with our usual Kickstarters, News and delightful banter and you’ve got yourself a stew.
WARNING: If you were look forward to the new Gaemclub this week I’m sorry to inform you that it has been delayed until next week due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Show notes After the break.
An Interview with Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart
The following is a transcript of our interview with Obsidian CEO, Feargus Urquhart. You can listen to the interview in our weekly podcast available here.
Paul: We might as well start from the beginning, what do you say, James?
James: It’s a good a place to start as any.
Paul: So, with Kickstarter, how much did the Kickstarter exceed early expectations of what you thought you’d get? Obviously you thought you’d get a pretty good response with your guys prestige.
Feargus: It’s interesting, a lot of people are like “Oh, you should have known you’d get like 4 million dollars.”, and that’s where I think game developers are maybe a little bit different than the rock stars that sometimes people think we are. Our egos are pretty much kept in check – there’s of course a few of us that they’re not.
James, Paul, Feargus: [Laughs]
When we looked at it, we were of course hoping for a good amount to be able to make a really awesome game, but it was really surprising, and we had to scramble a little bit. We had no idea we were going to hit our goal in… I think it was 27 hours.
Top 5 – City Builders
This episode was built brick by brick by a team of experts. Do not attempt to build your own city at home.
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Next week: Top 5 games that represent another member of Eight and a Half Bit (Blame Paul for the most self indulgent concept ever)
Episode 27 – We Heart Urquhart
We have an exciting treat for our listeners this episode. Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian Entertainment joins us to discuss their recently kickstarted Project Eternity plus the state of the industry. That’s not all however! We also force Ben to play an indie game, play a bunch of Halo 4, discus the trend of custom load outs and attack the news so hard we’ve got a restraining order to ignore.
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Show notes after the jump
Elevator Pitch – Infinity Wars
We talk to Elphie Coyle about Lightmare Studio‘s beautifully animated digital trading card game, Infinity Wars.
Contribute to their Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elphie/infinity-wars-animated-trading-card-game
Official Site: http://www.lightmare.com.au/infinity-wars/
Top 5 – Pretty Games
What a bunch of good lookin bits we’ve got for you today! A feast for your ear eyes as we count down our top 5 pretty games.
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Next week: Top 5 City Builders
Game Club – Dreamweb
Having finished up with the excellent Black Mesa, it’s time to move on to our next Game Club. Over the next couple of months we will be playing through the classic PC adventure game, Dreamweb. It’s broken into four parts, and we will focus on one part every fortnight.
Dreamweb is available free to play using ScummVM, and you can grab it here. Make sure to grab the UK version too, because the US version is censored.
The first milestone will be to the end of Part 1, and we will discuss it at the end of the show, in a couple of weeks.
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