PODCAST

The Sausage Factory

Chris O"Regan

The videogame discussion podcast

leisure video games

All Episodes

59:20

The Sausage Factory Episode 81: Praxia Entertainment

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/05/29

The 4x game is easy to play and very hard to master, thanks primarily to the known unknowns that are presented to the player. Beyond Sol is a game that ostensibly looks like a 4x game, but turns out to be something more akin to an RTS. The player starts out creating and city and flying around space in a ship they are given from the outset that has some limited capabilities. Eventually other cities appear and factions start to exert their authority across vast swathes of space. Chris O'Regan chats to

en-GB

56:05

The Sausage Factory Episode 80: Cherry Pop Games

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/05/22

Pool and snooker games have been a staple of video games almost since their inception. The draw of ball physics seemingly too strong for game developers to resist. Pool Nation FX is the latest in a long line of these games and developers Cherry Pop Games hope to bring the genre into the current generation of consoles and now PCs. Topics covered in this show include the intricacies of creating multiplayer-focused games and the sheer fun to be had doing trick

en-GB

1:13:21

The Sausage Factory Episode 79: Once More with Gusto

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/05/22

Some developers start out in their career only to drift away from it for decades until they find themselves drawn to it again. This is the story of Philip Pardoe who joins show host Chris O'Regan as he describes how he forms half of Once More with Gusto, an indie developer who has made Eternal Step that is out now on Steam. A Rogue like, it is a deeply challenging yet compelling game to play that exudes

en-GB

1:02:39

The Sausage Factory Episode 78: Spilt Milk Studios

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/05/15

You would be surprised how many full games are born from game jams. Tango Fiesta is just such a game as it came into being during EGX Rezzed 2012 where Andrew Smith joined with a collection of other developers to make a game that is set in the 1980s. Three years later and a lot of development and effort the game is now out on Steam and Andrew chats to Chris about his beginnings making mods through to being a full blown game

en-GB

1:08:58

The Sausage Factory Episode 77: Untame Games

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/05/08

What will happen to the Earth after we are gone? This is a question that Mushroom 11, a puzzle platformer that needs mouse control attempts to answer. Show host Chris O'Regan delves deep into the post apocalyptic soil along with Untame Games, the makers of Mushroom 11, to try and discover if the answer the game provides is sufficient. Topics covered includes the need to make games for the sake of it, the teaching of odd game play mechanics and subtlety of story telling without insulting the players

en-GB

1:44:49

The Sausage Factory Episode 76: SIGTRAP games

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/05/01

Descent is a game that has a special place is show host Chris O'Regan's heart. So when he happened upon Sublevel Zero at this years Rezzed it took a great deal of effort for him to not well up and shed a tear or two. So impressed was he by Sublevel Zero that he wrote this hands on preview of it here. Chris invited SIGTRAP games onto The Sausage Factory during Rezzed and six months later they finally agreed to take part in the show following the full release of Sublevel Zero. Many things are

en-GB

1:05:26

The Sausage Factory Episode 75: Rogue Rocket Games

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/04/24

Giants: Citizen Kabuto was a very unique action adventure game that had the players trying to take on a mountainous giant who seemed initially invincible but could eventually be overcome. Carrying on from this concept, Rogue Rocket Games has started developing First Wonder, a game that takes a great deal of inspiration from Giants: Citizen Kabuto. This does not come as any great surprise as one of the founders of Rogue Rocket Games is Nick Bruty, the very person who also designed Giants: Citizen

en-GB

1:08:03

The Sausage Factory Episode 74: Supergiant Games

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/04/17

Show host Chris O'Regan regularly bumps into Greg Kasavin at PAX East and PAX Prime as a key member of the Supergiant Games team. They made Bastion and now Transistor for console, PC and mobile platforms and Chris and Greg chat about the recent port of Transistor to iOS. Topics covered include Greg's move from video game journalism to creating games and how he was inspired by the works of the now defunct Orion

en-GB

1:02:38

The Sausage Factory Episode 73: Spacetime Studios

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/04/10

Show host Chris O'Regan stumbled upon Call of Champions at PAX Prime 2015 and met with Gary Gattis of Spacetime Studios, the Austin TX based developer of the MOBA that happens to be on mobile. With a traditionally long-form game being squeezed into a mobile platform, Chris was impressed with how Spacetime Studios had seemed to pull off the impossible by making a compelling MOBA on mobile platforms. Chris chats to Gary Gattis and Cinco Barnes of Spacetime Studios about Call of Champions as well as a

en-GB

37:46

The Sausage Factory Episode 72: Ragequit Corporation

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/04/03

Mash-ups of game genres can be a little hit and miss as they focus on aspects of their respective genres that are not complimentary to one another. Thankfully, Strike Vector EX does not suffer from this as it manages to bring together FPS gameplay mechanics into air combat sims, which was last attempted in games like Descent. Show host Chris ORegan chats to Paul Chadeisson of Ragequit Corporation about Strike Vector EX, along with his years playing Quake 3 and Unreal

en-GB

48:43

The Sausage Factory Episode 71: Candescent Games

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/03/27

The art of rocket jumping is something show host Chris ORegan first encountered in Doom. Never did he ever consider that someone would make a platform game that would use this as a base method of actually moving. Candescent Games has proven Chris wrong by making Tinertia, a platform game that has no jump mechanic and relies entirely on the use of rockets to move the little robot that is the main protagonist of Tinertia. Chris is joined by Lead Programmer and founder of Candescent Games Vilas Tewari

en-GB

1:08:04

The Sausage Factory Episode 70: Hammerfall Publishing

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/03/20

The game Chess has been in existence since the 15th Century and has remained pretty unchanged until Battle Chess arrived in 1988, care of Interplay when Chess took on a very animated form. With almost 30 years passing with little to no new takes on Chess being made, Australian developers Hammerfall Publishing takes on the celebrated Warhammer 40,000 universe and squish it into a Chess game, of sorts. For they have meddled, something that does not always go well when it comes to something as elegant

en-GB

1:03:56

The Sausage Factory Episode 69: Mike Bithell

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/03/13

Mike Bithell, a name that many equate the the voice of independent video game developers lends it to appear on the 69th episode of The Sausage Factory. We go through his history of being encouraged to make games from a very young age. He was also one of the first people to attend a game design degree and then went on to work for larger studios before striking out on his own to make Thomas Was Alone. Now he has just released Volume, a game that show host Chris O'Regan first encountered at EuroGamer

en-GB

1:02:47

The Sausage Factory Episode 68: Gambrinous

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/03/06

Show host Chris O'Regan stumbled upon Guild of Dungeoneering at Rezzed 2015 and finally gets Gambrinous, the developers of the game behind the microphone to chat about the game. Colm Larkin is the founder of Gambrinous and he has released Guild of Dungeoneering with the help of publisher Verses Evil onto Windows PC and Mac. Subjects touched upon are how card games are a form of programming, the importance of visual feedback to the player and how Guild of Dungeoneering evolved from an idea in a

en-GB

1:08:42

The Sausage Factory Episode 67: Dragon Foundry

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/02/27

Ever since the arrival of tablets the cross over between video games and board games has become ever more blurred. So blurred that many table top games actually use tablet apps in order for people to play the game. Nova Blitz is a cross over title that simulates a card game on PCs and tablets by infusing components of video games into a collectable card game. Show host Chris O'Regan talks to Paul Barclay of Dragon Foundry about his long history in table top games and how he has made the transition

en-GB

1:12:28

The Sausage Factory Episode 66: Gazillion Entertainment

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/02/20

Show host Chris O'Regan first encountered David Brevik, the CEO of Gazillion Entertainment at Gamescom 2012 where he was showing off Marvel Heroes, a brand new Action RPG MMO that he was on the brink on releasing it to the unsuspecting public. It wasn't quite ready when it did arrive and in response to this Gazillion Entertainment went to its player base and asked them what they could do to fix it. In this unprecedented move Gazillion Entertainment made Marvel Heroes into Marvel Heroes 2015 and it

en-GB

49:27

The Sausage Factory Episode 65: Gateway Interactive

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/02/13

Music and video games have had a long history and The Sausage Factory has not been shy in talking to developers of games that make music more integral to the gameplay experience. Spectra by British developer Gateway Interactive is a game that uses procedural based content creation that is linked directly the music that is being played. Inspired by F Zero, Spectra has players controlling a ship that flies along a narrow pathway that the player must try to keep on while avoiding obstacles. Show host

en-GB

47:56

The Sausage Factory Episode 64: Kevin Toms

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/02/06

In the dim and distant video game past rose a game that would devour many an hour of hundreds of thousands of computer game and football fans. That game was Football Manager and it appeared on a myriad of platforms most of which have long since vanished into obscurity. Kevin Toms was the creator of Football Manager and now, 35 years later he has returned with Football Team Coach on iOS platforms. Show host Chris ORegan chats to Kevin about his long history in video game development and the purity of

en-GB

1:06:05

The Sausage Factory Episode 63: Hi-Rez Studios

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/01/30

Show host Chris O'Regan has a bit of a thing for MOBA games and so it come as no surprise to see that he has spoken to some developers of said genre here on The Sausage Factory. This episode features Todd Harris of Hi-Rez Studios to chat about SMITE a third person over the shoulder viewpoint MOBA game that first caught the show hosts attention when it was being demoed at PAX Prime in 2012. With SMITE arriving on the Xbox One console, Chris chats to Todd about how the game is being converted from its

en-GB

49:08

The Sausage Factory Episode 62: Indie Game Stand

The Sausage Factory ·

2015/01/23

The Sausage Factory takes a departure from its normal output by chatting to a retail outlet rather than a game developer. Indie Game Stand is an online retailer that specialises in selling independently developed video games that are curated before being submitted for sale on the site. This vetting process has created a quality standard that prospective games must match before being deemed to be considered within the virtual shelves of Indie Game Stand. Show host Chris O'Regan chats to Matt

en-GB

501 results

The Sausage Factory

All Episodes

Similar Podcasts

Expres Ráno

Expres FM

詭哭郎嚎

郎祖筠 & FMTaiwan製作團隊

Ron en Erik Podcast

Ron en Erik

Poor Man"s Pinball Podcast

Poor Men Ian and Drew

WeAreChange on Odysee

WeAreChange