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The Sausage Factory

Chris O"Regan

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The Sausage Factory Episode 220: Bony Yousuf

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2019/03/15

Show host Chris O'Regan chats to Bony Yousuf about the design and development of Almost There. Precision is something many platform games failed to appreciate. All too often the concept of moment becomes the key driver to the mechanics of platform games and that is something Bony Yousuf has taken exception to. So much so that he has made Almost There, a puzzle platform game that demands the player embrace precision while employing a heavy dose of lateral

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The Sausage Factory Episode 219: Long Hat House

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2019/03/08

Show host Chris O'Regan chats to Lucas Mattos of Long Hat House about the design and development of Dandara. When confronted with a platform that struggles with real time controls yet you're keen to make a game that relies on them, they're only one thing you can do, mix real time with turn based interaction. This is exactly what Long Hat House did when creating Dandara, a Metroidvania platformer that was originally designed for iOS and Android platforms where the player pointed where they wanted

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59:24

The Sausage Factory Episode 218: Sabrephrog

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2019/03/01

Show host and producer Chris O'Regan chats to Adrian Mills of Sabrephrog about the design and development of Shudder. Do you remember Every Extend Extra & Every Extend Extra Extreme? They were the strange puzzle games on the PSP and Xbox 360 that had the player creating chain reactions via explosions. Shudder, the topic of this episode of The Sausage Factory is very similar to the Every Extend Extra games in that the player does not shoot anything but instead gathers items to cause an explosion

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57:58

The Sausage Factory Episode 217: Solar Sail Games

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2019/02/22

Show host Chris O'Regan talks to Neil Millston and Tancred Dyke Wells of Solar Sail Games about the development of the open world action adventure game, Smoke and Sacrifice. A parent's bond with their children is something that is both intangible yet incredibly strong. Smoke and Sacrifice builds on this by having the player take on the role of a mother trying to recover her child that she thought had died 7 years

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The Sausage Factory Episode 216: Conifer Games

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2019/02/15

In this episode of The Sausage Factory, show host and producer Chris O’Regan talks to Jon Shafer of Conifer Games about the development of At the Gates There are periods in humanity's history that people generally like to gloss over. One of them is so ignored that it is even given a name that implies nothing really happened during it. That name and period is known as the 'Dark Ages'. It spanned from approximately 400 AD to the 14th Century during which time Western Europe suffered from decline and

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58:27

The Sausage Factory Episode 215: Team Jolly Roger

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2019/02/08

In this episode of The Sausage Factory, show host and producer Chris O'Regan talks to Sasu Kemppainen of Team Jolly Roger about the development of Worbital. There has been a long history of stationary projectile firing emplacement based tactical combat games dating back to Scorched Earth on the PC, which was then copied in the form of Death Tank on the Sega Saturn and of course the Worms franchise that started in the 1990's and continues to thrive to this day. But there is one question no one ever

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1:09:54

The Sausage Factory Episode 214 : Melbot Studios

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2019/02/01

Show host Chris O'Regan chats to Iván Expósito Sánchez and Josema Roig of Melbot Studios about the creation of Melbits World. Some may remember the 1990's how an Amiga game known as Lemmings took off and created a relatively long living franchise that only petered out in the mid 2000's. The appeal of guiding characters rather than directly controlling them remains, however, and Melbits World goes back to that mechanic but adds the dimension of local multiplayer to the experience that turns it into

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The Sausage Factory Episode 213 : Firebrand Games

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2019/01/25

This week show host Chris O'Regan talks to Alex Knight of Firebrand Games about their game Solar Flux. Few titles utilise the touch screen on the Nintendo Switch, yet it is more than capable of being used as an interactive tool for a variety of game as the iPad and Android tablets would attest to. Solar Flux was a game that was originally released in 2013 on those platforms and developer Firebrand Games decided that the Nintendo Switch would make an excellent platform for the game. Show host

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1:09:17

The Sausage Factory Episode 212 : Chainsawesome Games

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2019/01/18

Show host and producer Chris O'Regan talks to Laurent Mercure of Chainsawesome Games about the design and development of Aftercharge. Team play in videogames can date back to as far back as Gauntlet with four players all working together to acquire as much treasure as possible before they were either killed by monsters or their health ran out. Things have advanced significantly since then with the arrival of MOBAs, MMOs and of course team based shooters. Aftercharge is a game by Canadian developers

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1:07:46

The Sausage Factory Episode 104 remastered: The Game...

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2019/01/11

Chris O'Regan talks to Emeric Thoa of The Game Bakers about Furi* and asks how it came to be and its gestation into the amazing combat game we see today. Some say boss battles are the bane of video games, but not The Game Bakers. They subscribe to the view that they are the linchpin of action adventure games to the point where their latest game, Furi, consists almost entirely of boss battles.*This is a reprise of an old episode of The Sausage Factory. It features The Game Bakers and their action

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51:29

The Sausage Factory Episode 211: Question

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2019/01/04

This week, show host and producer of The Sausage Factory Chris O'Regan chats to Jordan Thomas of Question about the development of The Blackout Club. What if you were powerless and you only had your wits and your faith in your friends to aid you? What if you faced seemingly insurmountable odds and happen to be living in a small town in the US in the early 2000's? What if that small town had been overtaken by a powerful and malevolent force that only you and your friends could see? Well you'd

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The Sausage Factory Episode 210: Gory Detail

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2018/12/28

This week, Chris O'Regan chats to Chris Seavor and Shawn Pile of Gory Detail about the creation of The Unlikely Legend of Rusty Pup. A vast majority of puzzle platform games grant direct control of the main protagonist and demands the player understands the complexities of solving puzzles while overcoming dexterity based challenges. Some, however, go a different route by demanding the player alter the environment the character is in to ensure their passage to through a level is safe and productive

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The Sausage Factory Episode 209: Failbetter Games

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2018/12/21

This week, Chris O'Regan chats to Haley Uyrus of Failbetter Games about how Sunless Skies was developed and how it compliments their other two titles. Failbetter Games have created three games that are based in the same alternate reality universe where the laws of physics we enjoy in our own do not apply. These three games are Fallen London, Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies. The last title is the subject of this episode of The Sausage Factory and show host and producer Chris O'Regan chats to Haley

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The Sausage Factory Episode 208: MuHa games

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2018/12/14

This week host Chris O'Regan chats to Mila Ilek of MuHa games, the creators of Thea 2: The Shattering about how it came to be. Many medieval based games gloss over how hard life was in those times. The safety nets we enjoy today were utterly absent and life was a constant struggle. Thea: The Awakening and its sequel Thea 2: The Shattering are titles that are based in a mystical realm where magic is real and strange monsters lurk in almost every dark corner and pulls no punches as it models how harsh

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The Sausage Factory Episode 207: Butterscotch ...

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2018/12/07

Crashlands is one of those rare breed of games that approaches a genre that is tough to develop for yet pulls it off with some very clever design decisions driven by relentless playtesting. We are referring to survival action adventures that first came into being with the arrival of Minecraft. Chris O'Regan chats to Sam Coster of Butterscotch Shenanigans about the development of Crashlands and how it broke free from the shackles of the aimlessness game play experience that blights many titles in

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The Sausage Factory Episode 206: Space Mace

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2018/11/30

This week, Chris O'Regan chats to Space Mace about their autorunner/puzzle platformer for 1-4 players, Joggernauts. Runners have become the mainstay of many a mobile and console game. Titles like Canabalt, Bit Trip Runner and Alto's Adventure have all gathered a significant following. The major negative against them is the lack of multiplayer component. Space Mace, the creators of Joggernauts spotted this and decided to fill that gap by creating a 4 player co-op runner game that has players

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The Sausage Factory Episode 205: Sky Goblin

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2018/11/23

This week, Chris O'Regan chats to Theodore Waern, Henrick Englund, and Mathias Jonhansson of Sky Goblin about their soon to be released title, Hellfront: Honeymoon. What if you took the manic attacking play that occurs over a period of a minute in a 45 minute long RTS game and made it into an arcade shooter? Well that is exactly what Sky Goblin have done with Hellfront: Honeymoon. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/sausage/TSF_Episode205.mp3 The Sausage Factory 205 was edited

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The Sausage Factory Episode 204: The Voxel Agents

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2018/11/09

This week, Chris O'Regan chats to Simon Joslin of The Voxel Agents about how The Gardens Between was dreamt up. Time is the 4th dimension, or so we are told. So what happens when you alter matter within the flow of time, is it the river Einstien claimed it to be? Well not if The Gardens Between is anything to go by! After playing this thought provoking and mind bending game at PAX West 2018, show host Chris O'Regan had to have the developers on as guests of The Sausage Factory.

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1:07:55

The Sausage Factory Episode 203: Refract Studios

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2018/11/02

Host Chris O'Regan chats to Jordan Hemenway of Refract Studios about how Distance was originally conceived and brought into being. When is a driving game a platformer with amazing electronic trance music and saw blades the size of a house that can slice bits off of a car? Well that's when it becomes Distance, the puzzle platform game by Refract Studios. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/sausage/TSF_Episode203.mp3 The Sausage Factory 203 was edited by Chris O'Regan

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The Sausage Factory Episode 202: Systence Games

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2018/10/26

Host Chris O'Regan talks to Andrew (Dru) Erridge of Systence Games about how they created The Maestros. When genres collide it can leave a bit of a mess at times, with one gameplay type struggling against the other. But with The Maestros that is far from the case. A wonderful blend of FPS, MOBA and RTS all meshed into a really engaging team based multiplayer game that asks a lot of questions of the genres it is built

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