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The Sausage Factory

Chris O"Regan

The videogame discussion podcast

leisure video games

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The Sausage Factory: 101 – Will Glow the Wisp by Part...

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2016/11/04

Part Time Indie is a developer who has made an incredibly fun and challenging game in the form of Will Glow the Wisp. Centered on the concept of gravity and quick yet subtle movements, Will Glow the Wisp caught the attention of show host Chris ORegan thanks to Nickolas Crisci of Part Time Indie contacting the show. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/sausage/TSF_Episode101.mp3

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The Sausage Factory: 100 – Forced Showdown by Beta Dwarf

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2016/10/28

In November 2013 SPOnG.com created The Sausage Factory, a show dedicated to pick the brains of those who make video games. Almost three years later the 100th Episode is now released and the person who is being interviewed was also on Episode 1.Steffen Kabbelgaad agreed to be the guinea pig to what has turned out to be an amazing project that has received award nominations and an ever-expanding audience. He is the CEO of Beta Dwarf, the developer behind Forced Showdown, and show host Chris ORegan

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The Sausage Factory: 99 – Legends of Callasia by Boom...

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2016/10/21

While at PAX East 2016 show host Chris ORegan encountered Legends of Callasia within the Indie Megabooth. Legends of Callasia is a strategic area control game that has players controlling empire building heroes. It is entirely icon driven and resembles games like Small World and Risk but plays very differently, thanks to the nature of increasing the player's powers as they build their armies.Chris O'Regan chats to Chris Natsuume of Boom Zap Games, the makers of Legends of Callasia about how the game

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The Sausage Factory: 98 – Meridian Squad 22 by Head...

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2016/10/14

RTS games are now few and far between, yet they were once everywhere you looked. In an attempt to fill this void Head Case Games have made Meridian Squad 22, an RTS game that is actually and entirely single-player experience. Show host Chris ORegan chats to Ede Tarsoly of Head Up Games about the making of Meridian Squad 22 amongst many other things. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/sausage/TSF_Episode98.mp3

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The Sausage Factory: 97 – Lumo by Triple Eh? Games

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2016/10/07

Lumo is a throwback to isometric games from the 1980s that were ten a penny at the time but have long since vanished from the realm of video games. Gareth Noyce of Triple Eh? Games decided to bring the genre back in the form of Lumo and show host Chris ORegan talks to Gareth Noyce about Lumo as well as his storied history in British game development. Topics discussed cover everything from how game development has evolved over the last 30 years and how the Amiga was such an important machine when it

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The Sausage Factory: 96 – Epistory by Fishing Cactus...

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2016/09/30

Typing of the Dead was a very strange game that was released for the DreamCast towards the end of its short existence. It required players to type words in order to kill the zombies that were shuffling towards them. Belgian studio Fishing Cactus were inspired by this very odd game and the Zelda franchise and Epistory was born from this strange mix. Show host Chris ORegan talks to David Bailly and Thibaut Hanson of Fishing Cactus about Epistory as well as many other

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The Sausage Factory: 95 – Perfect Universe by Will...

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2016/09/23

Will Sykes is an industry veteran who has been developing games for many years on a whole host of formats. After many years of working for developers, both large and small, he has now struck out to form a new company so that he can be the master of his own destiny. His first game is Perfect Universe and he chats to Chris O'Regan about his lengthy career as well as the unique design decisions he made while making the

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The Sausage Factory Episode 94: Tom Lean

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2015/08/28

Something quite odd and wonderful happened in the early '80s in the UK. It was the sudden arrival of 8 bit computers on the high street, and the nation became gripped by these underpowered computers that no-one knew what to do anything with. These machines ushered in the UK's videogames development industry. Tom Lean chats to show host Chris O'Regan about his recently released book, Electronic Dreams, which charts the history of this key part of computing

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The Sausage Factory Episode 93: Tindalos Interactive

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2015/08/21

Battlefleet Gothic Armada is a strategic combat game that focuses on the interstellar combat set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. In this episode we cover how tabletop games are increasingly finding their home on the PC and also delve into how such a rich a vast world that is Warhammer 40,000. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/sausage/TSF_Episode93.mp3 The Sausage Factory 93 was edited by Chris O'Regan

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The Sausage Factory Episode 92: Slitherine

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2015/08/14

Slitherine Games is both a developer and publisher, but lately it has been focussing its efforts in the publishing side of things. Show host Chris O'Regan chats to Marco Minoli from Slitherine about how it has carved out its very own corner of the video game industry by publishing turn based strategy games for the PC and iOS and Android tablet platforms. Marco has been working in the industry for a very long time and his breadth of experience shines through in this show along with his continued

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The Sausage Factory Episode 91: Revolution

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2015/08/07

There are very few developers that can boast about remaining in existence for 25 years and Revolution is one of them. Launched in 1991, the developer made its debut with Lure of the Temptress, a point and click adventure game that show host Chris O'Regan remembers very fondly playing on his Atari ST back in the dim and distant past. After all these years Chris finally meets one of the founders of Revolution in the form of Charles Cecil; a veteran of the video game development community he has been

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The Sausage Factory Episode 90: Nodbrim Games

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2015/07/31

The cross over between board game and video game continues to blur, especially with the arrival of Acaratus from Nodbrim Games. Show host Chris O'Regan talks to Martin Kupski about how he and his small team came up with Acaratus along with how he sees the merger of two very different forms of gaming continues to become less and less tangible. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/sausage/TSF_Episode90.mp3 The Sausage Factory 90 was edited by Chris O'Regan

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The Sausage Factory Episode 89: Gary Plowman

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2015/07/24

Show host Chris O'Regan first got his taste for programming on a Sinclair ZX81 way back in the distant past of the early 1980s. 35 years later Gary Plowman creates and publishes a book last in 2015 called ZX Spectrum Games Code Club, which is on the development of games on the ZX Spectrum. Chris immediately jumped on it and started making games on one of his many Spectrums to relearn the skills that left him many years ago. The strength of the book is the crystal clear description of what the code

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The Sausage Factory Episode 88: Foam Sword Games

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2015/07/17

The brilliantly named Foam Sword Games join Chris O'Regan on The Sausage Factory to talk about their recently announced and crowd funded game, Knights and Bikes. Moo Yu is one half of the developer who has been making games for quite a long time and he has worked with Insomniac Games as gameplay programmer for the Ratchet and Clank games and Media Molecule on Little Big Planet titles. Moo talks about his studies at UCLA and his eventual migration to the UK where he found a place to make non-violent

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The Sausage Factory Episode 87: Edge Case Games

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2015/07/10

There has been quite a renaissance in space games of late and Fractured Space is a relatively new title that has been brought into existence by Edge Case Games. Their previous title was the excellent Strike Suite Zero, which was well received despite publishers declaring it to be a non starter because it was set in space. Show host Chris O'Regan chats to James Brooksby the CEO of Edge Case Games about Fractured Space along with his very storied history in the video game

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The Sausage Factory Episode 86: Delve Interactive

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2015/07/03

Show host Chris O'Regan stumbled upon Poncho at EGX Rezzed in 2015 and was drawn to the incredible graphical style and animation it offered along with the very odd use of depth of field in its gameplay. Almost a year later Danny Hayes, the lead developer of Poncho, is a guest on The Sausage Factory where he chats how he made his start making free to play games on mobile platforms and eventually broke out into the realm of indie games via

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The Sausage Factory Episode 85: Double Damage Games

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2015/06/26

Erich Schaefer is one half of Double Damage Games, the other being Travis Baldree. These two used to work at Runic Games where they made Torchlight 1 and 2. Now they have spun off and made Rebel Galaxy, a spaceship captain simulator that has blasted its way onto Steam recently and is getting a lot of attention. Show host Chris O'Regan chats to Erich about Rebel Galaxy as well as his involvement with Blizzard and the creation of the Diablo

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The Sausage Factory Episode 84: Noio and Licorice

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2015/06/19

Show host Chris O'Regan happened upon Kingdom at PAX Prime 2015 and was drawn to its simple interface hiding a very deep and complex game. With the game now out on Steam and heading to Xbox One, Chris chats to developer Marco Bancale, an Italian ex-pat who lives in Iceland about Kingdom as he is one half of the team that made the game. The other being Thomas van den Berg, who is based in Holland. The pair have made an astonishingly compelling game that is very deep yet has a minimalistic interface

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The Sausage Factory Episode 83: OtherSide Entertainment

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2015/06/12

Paul Neurath has been making games for over 30 years and he has co-founded OtherSide Entertainment and by doing so brought about the creation of Underworld Ascendant, the 3rd game in the Ultima Underworld series, which does not have the word Ultima before it. This is because EA still own the rights to the Ultima series and so the 3rd game in the series cannot take on that moniker. Be that as it may, OtherSide Entertainment has forged ahead and crowd funded a new game based within the celebrated

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The Sausage Factory Episode 82: Campfire Games

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2015/06/05

The American Civil War has been the subject of video games on a few occasions, with North and South being one of the most celebrated. What Campfire Games, creators of War of Rights hope to bring this conflict back under the video game spotlight by bringing a squad-based FPS into being. Chris O'Regan chats to Clark Morningstar, who is the historical advisor for War of Rights about the difficulties the team faced when simulating muzzle loaded

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