Silver Spook Podcast

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Silver Spook Podcast #10 - Spinnortality: a game where you, "Run a global megacorporation. Manipulate culture, destroy governments and become immortal."

In this episode, Silver Spook speaks with Jamie Patton, creator of Spinnortality, a groundbreaking cyberpunk strategy game in mid-Kickstarter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq4HSVOAAGc&feature=youtu.be

Spinnortality website: https://spinnortality.com/

Spinnortality kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

Follow Jamie: https://twitter.com/james_d_patton

SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdWMP4L2xvo

Silver Spook talks with Jonas Waever, the Chief Creative Officer of The Nameless Mod, the most epic and well-known Deus Ex total conversion mod of all time. Two veteran Deus Ex modders discuss why Deus Ex 1 still shows up in lists of "top 10 games ever", the historical context of the title, and what an indie cyberpunk FPS-RPG hybrid on par with Deus Ex 1 might look like. (Full disclosure: Silver Spook is currently working on an un-announced Deus Ex 1-like game.)

Other topics include a retrospective on The Nameless Mod by it's director, Terminus Machina (Silver Spook's Deus Ex total conversion), the nature of conspiracy in Deus Ex and how things have changed, takes on Blade Runner/BR 2049, Neuromancer versus Snow Crash, why single player narrative games aren't dead, and games industry shop-talk from two commercial indie game developers.

Check out Jonas' game company, Logic Artists: www.logicartists.com

Silver Spook Games: https://twitter.com/SilvrSpookGames

The Nameless Mod: http://thenamelessmod.com/

Terminus Machina (Silver Spook's mod): http://www.moddb.com/mods/terminus-machina

SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anqldECv7_s&feature=youtu.be

In this episode, Silver Spook speaks with Japes Hirons of Peahead Games, on his upcoming Cyberpunk RPG "Neon Sword", a game in which you can use commerce or violence as your weapon of choice, purchase and manage businesses with legal fronts and black-market ends, clean up the gritty cyber-noir city up or make it worse.

Japes and Christian (Silver Spook) also discuss:

-The difficulties and struggles of homeless populations and social decay in cities, which both developers dealt with first hand
-Game dev while Married With Children
-What it is like working with Keystone Games (Peahead Games' publisher)
-Working with Jane Whittaker, CTO of Keystone Games and game/film industry legend who worked on everything from Alien Vs. Predator to 007 for Nintendo 64 to actual James Bond films at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
-Jane getting Keanu Reeves to come on the next Silver Spook Podcast, dressed up as Neo, so Japes can ask Keanu if he is his father.
-What life is like in Hull, North England, and what it means to 'get your push-iron nicked in the ten-foot.'

keystone-games.com/our-games/neon-sword/

Keystone Games: http://www.keystone-games.com/

Support Silver Spook Podcasts and Games on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofeud

SilverSpook

#23
A little behind on the podcasting recently, but the holidays have been hectic (as per usual!) but I hope to be getting one of these up within the next bit. :)

SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbpbW_aEAek

In this episode, Silver Spook talks to Francisco Gonzalez, game designer behind titles such as "Shardlight" and "A Golden Wake" published by Wadjet Eye Games. Topics include:

-Francisco's most recent project, "Lamplight City", an exciting detective game that allows you to "fail forward" set in a steampunk-ish 19th century city.
-Indie Game Developing in 2018.
-The finer points of Shardlight and A Golden Wake
-The evolution of Cyberpunk and Steampunk from literary movement to subculture to fashion / marketing accessory
-Silver Spook hosting a new hit TV show, "America's Got Gamedevs"

Lamplight City is coming in 2018, and if you're into detective games and/or adventure games, be sure to add it to your Steam Wishlist! http://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/

Grundislav Games Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrundislavGames

SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfkKvs42v-4&index=1&list=PLLA7QLc4WB_Feo9QSIX7-To7bCbIygO0o

In this episode, Christian "Silver Spook" Miller talks to Dave Gilbert, head of Wadjet Eye Games, adventure game publisher of the Blackwell Series, Technobabylon, Primordia, Gemini Rue, Resonance, Shardlight, and their newest upcoming game, "Unavowed". Topics include:

-Unavowed, the next Wadjet Eye game featuring a new dark urban fantasy world, original story, and five party members.
-The entire Wadjet Eye Games catalog, and the strengths of each developer.
-The evolution of the indie game industry over the 12 years of WEG's existence.
-The finer points of voice acting, writing, game design, game art
-Running an indie game company while being a husband and parent, balancing / interweaving of personal life and game dev.
-Dave being a merciless self-critic of his own games as Christian plays Angel's Advocate.
-Top-secret literary references in the Blackwell Series, revealed!
-What it's like to be the ultimate grandmaster of adventure games. (Dave declines the award)

Unavowed is coming in 2018, do consider adding it to your Steam Wishlist! http://store.steampowered.com/app/336140/Unavowed/

Dave Gilbert's / WEG Twitter: https://twitter.com/WadjetEyeGames

Support Silver Spook Podcasts and Games on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofeud

Check out the rest of the podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLA7QLc4WB_Feo9QSIX7-To7bCbIygO0o

LameNick

Hi SilverSpook, I love your podcasts very much, just wanted to ask if its possible to upload also just the audiofile somewhere else than on youtube next time you release an episode. (Just in case its not any trouble, if it is please ignore me.)
How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

Stupot

Quote from: LameNick on Fri 12/01/2018 22:51:52
Hi SilverSpook, I love your podcasts very much, just wanted to ask if its possible to upload also just the audiofile somewhere else than on youtube next time you release an episode. (Just in case its not any trouble, if it is please ignore me.)
Same. I almost exclusively listen to podcasts when I'm walking about or traveling to work, and YouTube on iPhone is a terrible combination for that. I'd be listening religiously if the audio was on iTunes or Spotify, but currently I'm behind by almost s many episodes as there have been recorded :-)

SilverSpook

LameNick and Stupot: I will look into converting all of the podcasts to an audiofile that you can just download. :)

m0ds

spook, you might want to consider tunecore for podcasts, osts and other audio things onto itunes, spotify, google play etc. $50 a year (for an album to reach all of them, not sure about singles). And I enjoyed the podcast with dave g very much, well done!

SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-7CUgzm1M8

In this episode, Christian "Silver Spook" Miller talks to Nathan Hamley, of Sick Chicken Studios and lead designer of "Guard Duty: A point-and-click adventure through space and time", due out Q3 2018. Topics include:

-Guard Duty, a great looking adventure game which bears similarity to Discworld and Cyberpunk adventures like Blade Runner, but fuses them in an innovative, intriguing way.
-Cyberpunk! Deus Ex, Ghost In The Shell, Metal Gear Solid, William Gibson, the evolution of the genre, attempts at co-option, etc.
-Finer ports of art design and visual storytelling
-Duct taping your bumper on and go-fund-me to pay for a 20x10 shipping container to indiedev in (#livinthedream!)
-Silver Spook tries to coax Keanu Reeves (again) into being on the Silver Spook Podcast. Subscribe to get the scoop on how that pans out!

Guard Duty is coming in Q3 2018, look out for it on Steam and GOG!

Sick Chicken Studios: sickchicken.com

Sick Chicken Twitter: https://twitter.com/sickchickstudio

Support Silver Spook Podcasts and Games on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofeud


IN ADDITION! By popular request, I am now adding audio file versions of the podcast to the original post of this thread. You can also get those audio files right here:

EDIT 1/15/2018: Audio files of the podcasts for those who requested!

Episode 15 - Nathan Hamley creator of Guard Duty

Episode 14 - Dave Gilbert of Wadjet Eye Games

Episode 13 - Francisco Gonzalez of Grundislav Games

Episode 12 - Japes Hirons creator of Neon Sword

Episode 11 - Jonas Waever lead designer of "The Nameless Mod" for Deus Ex 1

Episode 10 - Jamie Patton creator of Spinnortality

Episode 9 - Primordia Writer Mark Yohalem

Episode 7 - Technobabylon creator James Dearden

Chicky

Hey, thanks for the chat Chris! Was fun rambling about cyberpunk and gamedev ;-D


SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24rSn9-lfMw

In this episode, Christian "Silver Spook" Miller talks to Sophia Park, leader and co-founder of Aether Interactive. Localhost is their most well-known title to date; a great cyberpunk gem and 4th-best selling game on Itch.io in 2017. In Localhost, you play a network administrator whose job it is to erase some corrupted hard drives containing artificial intelligences. To accomplish this, you need to talk to the AIs and convince them to unlock the drives and allow themselves to be deleted.

Topics include:
-Localhost and Aether Interactive's upcoming project, "Subserial Network"
-Techno-mysticism
-Whether an iPhone, the Philip K. Dick robot, or Alexa is conscious.
-Is the technological Singularity and subsequent superintelligent machines out salvation, doom, or something weirder?
-A psychoanalysis of why Elon Musk is launching Teslas into space as a form of mid-life crisis, and what that could mean for all sentient beings.
-What is love, what would the love of synthetic consciousnesses be like.
-What is to be done about billionaires, AI created by billionaires, and possibly billionaire AI?
-What is to be done about the impending electron revolt and socialist Valentine's Day.

Aether Interactive: http://aether.in.net/

Sophia's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sophiapark_

Sophia's Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/147494

SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXRYxD7ltS4

In this episode, Christian "Silver Spook" Miller talks to Joshua Neurnberger, creator of Gemini Rue, a stellar, award winning adventure game, including PC Gamer "Game of The Year" 2012 in the adventure category. Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

Topics include:

-What it was like making Gemini Rue over the course of 3 years as a solo project.
-Influences behind Gemini Rue.
-The art design choices in Gemini Rue (limited purple / green color palette, use of visible brush strokes over pixelation)
-The storytelling techniques in Gemini Rue such as the use of dual narrative and adding key twist reveals during a gun fight to heighten tension.
-The benefits and drawbacks of procedural generation vs fully scripted, directed experiences.
-A wide range of sci-fi and cyberpunk media including Blade Runner, Cowboy Bebop, Inception, Neuromancer / Snowcrash, System Shock, and more.
-Dave Gilbert's army of testers.
-If there is any chance of a Gemini Rue sequel (listen to find out!)

Josh's website: http://www.thejburger.com/

Support Silver Spook Podcasts and Games on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofeud

Check out the rest of the podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLA7QLc4WB_Feo9QSIX7-To7bCbIygO0o

Get Neofeud on Itch.io! https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud

Get Neofeud on Steam! http://steamcommunity.com/app/673850

Check out the website: http://silverspookgames.com

Silver Spook Games Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/silverspookgames/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SilvrSpookGames

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/259792

Silver Spook Games' next project "Dysmaton": https://silverspook.itch.io/forgotten-city

SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidPOF-JEM8

In this episode, Christian "Silver Spook" Miller talks to The Space Quest Historian, a well-known promoter and friend of the original Space Quest creators in the adventure game world.  He does regular and very entertaining Youtube Let's Plays, Twitch Streams, seasonal podcasts and is a co-host of The Back Seat Designers (who interviewed John Romero and I am very jealous).

SPOILER ALERT: Skip from 30:00 to 45:00 to avoid spoilers if you haven't played Neofeud!

Topics include:

-A "history" of the Space Quest Historian.
-How the point-and-click and adventure game scene has evolved over the course of the past several decades.
-Space Quest Historian's take on Neofeud.
-Silver Spook elaborates on the meaning(s) of the ending of Neofeud, and how that plays into Neofeud 2, currently in production.
-Whether Let's Players and Twitch streamers hurt or help game sales.
-Amayirot Akago's amazing voice acting (also a friend of SQH)
-Whether to call this the "Space Spook Podcast", or perhaps the "Silver Quest Podcast: a Cyberquestorian Adventure-Punk Idle Game."
-Whether Proto-J will be making a guest appearance on the Back Seat Designers at some point in the season to whack them dwanky mu'flakkas. :)

Space Quest Historian Site: spacequesthistorian.com

SQH Twitter: https://twitter.com/SQHistorian

Support Silver Spook Podcasts and Games on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofeud

Check out the rest of the podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLA7QLc4WB_Feo9QSIX7-To7bCbIygO0o

Get Neofeud on Itch.io! https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud

Get Neofeud on Steam! http://steamcommunity.com/app/673850

Check out the website: http://silverspookgames.com

Silver Spook Games Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/silverspookgames/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SilvrSpookGames

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/259792

Silver Spook Games' next project "Dysmaton": https://silverspook.itch.io/forgotten-city

SilverSpook

No podcast this week, but instead, I streamed the AGS Awards 2017!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQmDf0pUtN4

SilverSpook

#37
My interview with William Gibson, edit-in-progress! Cyberpunk as co-optable movement vs subversive tendency, misfit matchmaking, Neofeud, Ray Bradbury in sleeveless jean jackets and more, from the master himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtMSv1mqbkk&t=5s

Hobo

When I saw a thread update, I was hoping for a full interview already. Stop teasing people, you monster, and release the damn thing :-D
A neat clip though, pumps the anticipation through the roof.

SilverSpook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhkoIwKs5PA

William Gibson on the Silver Spook Podcast!

An illuminating deep-dive into "cyberpunk" and the atemporal torch-passing of subversive sci-fi mindfuckery from British New Wave to CP to Black Mirror and Ned Beauman.

Topics include:
-cyberpunk as co-optable movement vs subversive tendency
-misfit matchmaking on the WGB
-Ray Bradbury in sleeveless jean jackets
-the evolution of the semiotics and culture of cyberpunk
-techno-shintoism and Buddhist robotic dog burials
-the inside-scoop on Johnny Mnemonic
-and more, from the master himself!

(Also, my cyberpunk adventure Neofeud is on sale for just 5 more days! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ )

@Hobo: Sorry about that! I told some folks I was gonna get it up Wednesday but I ran into some tough video editing issues (I had 3 cameras and usually just do audio so there were lot of kinks to work out.)

But here it is!

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