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The Sausage Factory

Chris O"Regan

The videogame discussion podcast

leisure video games

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The Sausage Factory Episode 61: Solarfall Games

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2015/01/16

Umbra is a hack n slash RPG that draws a lot of inspiration from the likes of Diablo as well as Fallout and the Elder Scroll games. What makes Umbra unique is the use of the Crytek engine as opposed to Unity. This makes Umbra look extremely vibrant and highly detailed when compared to other games of similar ilk. Show host Chris O'Regan chats to Daniel Dolui, the programmer for Umbra about his start as a developer of mods for Battlefield 2 and Crysis. Umbra is currently in the middle of a Kickstarter

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52:44

The Sausage Factory Episode 60: Tangrin Entertainment

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2015/01/09

When making choices in games it's important to get some kind of feedback to the player for the consequences of them. Kyn is a game that is built around this key concept and even changes how its story unfolds depending on the actions of the player and how interact with the creatures within it. Co-developer Victor Legerstee chats to show host Chris ORegan about how Kyn evolved and why it does not have a dice rolling mechanic running underneath it, as well as many other

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The Sausage Factory Episode 59: Tasharen Entertainment

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2015/01/02

Michael Lyashenko is the founder of Tasharen Entertainment, the creators of Windward. A sole developer who created Windward using Unity, an engine he is extremely well versed in its use as he developed a third party front end for it. This actually distracted him away from creating Windward, but it did enable him to wield the engine with a tremendous amount of proficiency. The end result is the co-op role playing game Windward, which is a very different type of game in that genre as the player

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The Sausage Factory Episode 58: Convoy Games

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2014/12/26

Many aeons ago show host Chris O'Regan used to love playing a game called Asphalt on his Amstrad CPC 464. It featured a petrol tanker that was getting attacked by other vehicles all of which are armed to the teeth. 30 years later Chris happens upon Convoy at Rezzed 2015. This too featured a large vehicle that the player has to defend from continued attacked from heavily armed smaller vehicles. This time around, however, the player also has their own fleet of escorting units that can counter the

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51:46

The Sausage Factory Episode 57: Roll7

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2014/12/19

This is a very special episode of The Sausage Factory in which we have a returning developer in the form of Roll7. They first appeared in Episode 9 when they had just released OlliOlli and we have them on again to talk about Not a Hero, a game show host Chris ORegan has been following since he first encountered it at Rezzed 2014. Fast forward a year and Not a Hero is on the brink of release, with its arrival set for 7th May 2015 on Windows PC via Steam. Not only that, but the team has just been

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The Sausage Factory Episode 56: Lifespark Entertainment

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2014/12/12

What does a man do when he's spent 7 years helping Blizzard creating the rendering their infamous CGI videos for their games, the most famous of which was the Starcraft 2 reveal, which featured the marine barking 'Hell! It's about time' as a sign off? Well if you are Tyler Hunter you quit and make a game about a demented demon who just wants to see the world burn. Or maybe that should be worlds? Anyway show host Chris O'Regan chats to Tyler about his storied history in the video game industry and

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The Sausage Factory Episode 55: Seaven Studios

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2014/12/05

Game jams have given birth to a surprising number of full releases in recent years, and Inside My Radio is a product of that ever so chaotic and creative experience. Show host Chris ORegan talks to Oliver Penot of Seaven Studios, the creators of Inside My Radio. Oliver is a producer with a long and prestigious history in the field of video game creation. Chris talks to Oliver about how he made his start and the influences he is drawn to when making

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The Sausage Factory Episode 54: Burnt Fuse

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2014/11/28

As a child, show host Chris O'Regan would spend many an hour making obstacle courses with various household items and then send Matchbox toy cars through them to see what happened. Typically this resulted in a lot of destruction, which was directly proportionate to how much fun each course turned out to be. Sadly the family cat was not too keen on it and demonstrated this by taking great delight in knocking things off of the courses for its own amusement. In a similar fashion to this childhood

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58:47

The Sausage Factory Episode 53: Team 21

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2014/11/21

Show host Chris O'Regan stumbled upon Dungeons of Aledorn in Kickstarter and decided to reach out to Team21 to come on the Sausage Factory podcast and shockingly they agreed to come on! Daniel Nezmar and John Riha at length about how they started working on Dungeons of Aledorn along with learning C++ and C#, old Amiga games and the value of making challenging games in the face of the likes of Flappy Bird. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/sausage/TSF_Episode53.mp3 The

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The Sausage Factory Episode 52: Snowman

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2014/11/14

Ryan Cash is the founder of Snowman, a small indie developer who specialises in iOS games. Their latest title, Altos Adventure, caught the attention of show host Chris O'Regan via Twitter thanks to Matt Murray, friend of the Joypod podcast. Chris invited Ryan to come on The Sausage Factory to chat about his game and amazingly he agreed. This show is the result of Ryans guest appearance where he talks about his time as an iOS developer since the very first iPhone appeared back in 2007 and how he

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The Sausage Factory Episode 51: Tactical Simulations...

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2014/11/07

Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI) was a company that had a long history of making very complex and deep games for the PC, Apple IIe, Commodore 64, Amiga and Atari ST in the 1980s and into the turn of the century, which was eventually absorbed into Ubisoft. David Shelley and David Klein have created a new company, Tactical Simulations Interactive (TSI) that is a spiritual successor to SSI. As part of the launch of this new company, a new RPG game is being developed called Seven Dragons

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The Sausage Factory Episode 50: Lawrie Russell

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2014/10/31

In this the fiftieth episode of The Sausage Factory show host Chris ORegan talks to Lawrie Russell, the maker of Trash TV a fiendishly difficult yet fun puzzle platformer game that has the player controlling a busted up TV who is trying to find their remote control. Chris and Lawrie talk about game development degree courses, DOTA2 and of course the very unique aspects of Trash TV that make it worthy of people's

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The Sausage Factory Episode 49: Defiant Development

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2014/10/24

Show host Chris O'Regan first ran into Hand of Fate at PAX East 2014 where he met Morgan Jaffit who was demonstrating the game. With Chris having a deep affection for table top games, the mix between card game, choose your own adventure and Batman Asylum combat the temptation to play Hand of Fate was too much to bear. A year later Hand of Fate is now complete and out for Windows PC, Mac, Linux, PS4 and XBox One. Chris and Morgan catch up since their last meeting and chat about quite a variety of

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The Sausage Factory Episode 48: Chilled Mouse

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2014/10/17

A bit of a departure for The Sausage Factory in that it is covering a port of a game. Warhammer Quest was originally developed for iOS by Rodeo Games and was released in 2013 to great success. Chilled Mouse offered to make a desktop version of the game for Windows, Linux and Mac and Rodeo Games agreed to do that and it now resides on Steam in a new and improved version of the mobile game. Show host Chris O'Regan chats to Ian Baverstock, founder of Kuju Entertainment and now Chilled Mouse about how

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The Sausage Factory Episode 47: Peter Malamud Smith

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2014/10/10

Show host Chris ORegan talks to Peter Malamud Smith, the creator of Satellina and chats to him about how he made the transition from writer and commentator to creator of games. Satellina is a challenging and thoroughly enjoyable puzzle action arcade game that has just appeared on the iOS and Android mobile platforms. Subjects covered include the purity of gameplay, how difficult games were in the 1980s and how well written the script to Earthbound

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The Sausage Factory Episode 46: State of Play Games

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2014/10/03

Show host Chris ORegan chats to Katherine Bidwell, the director of State of Play Games the maker of Lumino City. The reappearance of point of click adventure games has been a welcome one and there is a veritable plethora of titles that have appeared over the past five years and Lumino City is a welcome addition to this style of game. A sequel to Lume, Lumino City sports a unique graphical style as it is based on hand made objects that have computer animation super imposed onto them. A developer

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The Sausage Factory Episode 45: Lucid Studios

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2014/09/29

Show host Chris ORegan talks to Craig Howard, the Creative Director of Lucid Studios the creators of Geometry Wars 3 Dimensions about how the game came into being as well as a clutch of other topics including making games on old mobile phones and ultra rare Dreamcast shoot-em-ups. When the Xbox 360 first appeared in 2006 it came with the Xbox Arcade, which was a new platform to deliver smaller games. One of those games was Geometry Wars, which rapidly became one of the most popular games on the

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48:30

The Sausage Factory Episode 44: Deco Digital and...

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2014/09/19

Chris O'Regan chats to Joe Brammer of Deco Digital about Pneuma Breath of Life as well as many other subjects including the death of the modding community in the face of the rise of indie games. Puzzle games generally teeter on the brink between maddeningly impossible to tediously easy. Pneuma Breath of Life is a first person perspective game on the Xbox One that uses the Unreal 4 Engine to create a world that interacts with the player depending on what the player is looking at. The player must

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The Sausage Factory Episode 43: Daniel Linssen

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2014/09/12

Chris O'Regan chats to Daniel Linssen about The Sun and Moon. When is a platform not a platform? When it turns into water and reverses the polarity of gravity. At least that is the case with The Sun and Moon. Show host Chris O'Regan first discovered The Sun and Moon at EGX 2014 but only managed to play it at Play Expo in Manchester. Using minimalist visuals, The Sun and Moon relies on both momentum and the acceptance on the part of the player to use the changing nature of the platforms to move

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The Sausage Factory Episode 42: Frima Originals

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2014/09/05

Chris O'Regan first chats to Martin Brouard of Frima Originals about Chariot. When describing the core game play mechanic of Chariot you can be forgiven in thinking that it is the product of a diseased mind. Having to lug around the coffin of the main protagonist's father and former king of the realm is more than a little disturbing, but that's exactly what Chariot expects you to do. Chris first encountered Chariot at PAX Prime 2014 and now that it is out on XBox One, PS4 and Steam it only seems

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