Xeserox of Just Press Start writes:
"Episode six niner is here for everyone to enjoy!
This week joining Jeff and Myself is Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software, designers of Avadon: The Black Fortress and Zach Barth of Zachtronics Industries, designers of Spacechem.
We talk about their games, answer questions about indie game developing and we tackle a couple of the current issues in gaming. Those issues including, Are there too many games being released?And thoughts on Freemium (free to play, with premium content) games.
This episode is chock full o’ goodness not to be missed!
Sim City is an obvious choice, but what other games can be used to teach youngsters - and oldsters - useful skills and interesting facts?
Since Pong was invented in the 1970s (which was, according to Wikipedia, in the previous millennium), Jeff Vogel has been obsessed with video games. Jeff was a nerdy kid.
Vogel played them throughout his childhood. As soon as he learned to program in BASIC, he began to write games. Of course, in the beginning, they were terrible, but he was blessed with persistence and perfecting any craft takes time. He'd write a game, throw it away, then wrote another. At the time, it was just a hobby. Making it a real career never occurred to him. He followed other paths.
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BNR: So, what's Spacechem like? It's a game that I'd heard of and known about for a while, but, to be honest, had no idea about. Curious, I activated my Steam key and installed it. The first thing that jumped out at me was the gentle, atmospheric piano music- it certainly has a nice soundtrack. I thus decided to start my first game as a Reaction Engineer Trainee- it seems that this game has something to do with chemistry.
