We are astonished to discover that we seem to be meeting Reiner Knizia in this week's episode. Probably the most prolific game designer in the world, he's the creator of the Lord of the Rings board game, the strategy game Ingenious, games for the iPad, iPhone and Nintendo DS, games with cards, dice, buttons and boards... just loads and loads of them.
Posted: August 17th, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Denise Wilton, co-founder of B3ta and creative director at Moo, joins us this week to discuss creativity, community, Chris Morris, Commodore PETs, cross stitch, corpses, Community Chests and cheating.
Meanwhile, your hosts become angry and confused about popular culture and Leila badly wants to believe something Roo still can't bring himself to stomach.
Are you prepared to experience the most interesting thirty-six-and-a-bit minutes of your life so far? Go and get a cup of tea first. We'll wait.
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Posted: August 12th, 2010 | 9,975 Comments »
Denise is one of the co-founders of the "puerile digital arts community" you'll know and love as B3ta. She's also creative director at Moo and an all-round amazing creative internet person. As well as lifting the lid on Nathan Barley (well weapon) we really put her digital skills to the test by asking about her favourite Monopoly tactics.
Update: Want to hear the full half-hour audio episode, with Denise's interview? Here it is.
Posted: August 10th, 2010 | 263 Comments »
Magicians are massive geeks and we thoroughly enjoyed hearing about Ali Cook's lonely adolescence in this enchanting episode. Your hosts also find a moment on a park bench to discuss the toaster/Kryten overlap in Red Dwarf and share details of the idiotically simple video games they've been wasting their brains, time and 21st century computing power on this week.
Links: Ali Cook (home page) | Ali Cook (Twitter) | Ali's 2010 Edinburgh show "Pieces of Strange" | Ali's amazing water tank trick on YouTube | The Complete Works of Derek Dingle | List of Red Dwarf episodes (Wikipedia) | Buy this podcast on audio cassette | ...or just donate, and keep the dream alive.
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Posted: August 5th, 2010 | 4,563 Comments »
Magician Ali Cook wowed us with funny chat and magic this week. Magicians truly are the geekiest of all the variety acts. Check out Ali's website and, if you're going up, his Edinburgh show looks ace.
Posted: August 3rd, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Film-maker Ivo Gormley drops in this week to tell us about his new projects, as well as the ones he's probably best known for - Us Now and the brilliant new documentary about live gaming, Playmakers. He's an inspirational and interesting chap - why not follow him on Twitter? We also enjoy some unusually tasty snacks with regular guest Dave and talk about Roo's favourite iPad games, supermarket fruit machines, and other stuff too...
Links: Playmakers | Us Now | Ivo on Twitter | Think Public | Dave's Snackspot site | Buy this podcast on audio cassette
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Posted: July 29th, 2010 | 3,195 Comments »
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