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Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/jordan-mechner As a kid in the 80's, Eli fell in love with games on computers like the Apple II, Commodore 64, and later the Amiga and Macintosh. One of the very first games he played was called Karateka, which was inspiring for the realistic movements of its digital karate antagonists, even on a black-and-green Apple II monitor. Our guest today, Jordan Mechner, created Karateka while an undergrad at Yale University in 1984, and it went on to be a commercial success. He followed it up with the game Prince of Persia (you'll hear a clip from the soundtrack in the introduction, which Jordan's father composed and which Jordan invented a way to transpose onto the Apple II's tinny speakers before game soundtracks were widespread on the machine). Jordan documented the creation of the game in a wonderful published version of his diaries called The Making of Prince of Persia, and we spoke with him about how he taught himself the skills to build successful video games in a pre-internet era, why he journaled about his work process (and what it taught him), and about his new graphic novel Replay, a memoir recounting his own family story of war, exile and new beginnings. Book & links mentioned Journals: Steven Soderbergh, Michael Palin, Brian Eno Hobonichi Techo John August The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig Bio Jordan Mechner is an American author, game designer, comic book artist, and screenwriter, best known for creating the iconic video game Prince of Persia in 1989. He relaunched the series with Ubisoft in 2003 and wrote the original screenplay for the film adaptation produced by Disney in 2010, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. This work is considered a timeless classic and has spawned a global transmedia franchise, with over 20 million games sold to date. Since 2017, Jordan has been living in France, where he made his debut as a full author with his autobiographical graphic novel Replay. Among the albums he has written are Monte-Cristo (with Mario Alberti), Liberté! (with Étienne Le Roux and Loïc Chevallier), and Templiers (with LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland), which appeared on the New York Times bestsellers list. His latest works were first published in French, with English editions following in 2024. Jordan's video games, such as Karateka (1984) and The Last Express (1997), are recognized for their cinematic storytelling and innovative use of rotoscoping. In 2017, he received the Pioneer Award from the International Game Developers Association. Jordan also wrote and directed Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, an award-winning documentary broadcast on PBS. He has published his development journals, The Making of Karateka and The Making of Prince of Persia, as well as an adaptation of the Persian tales Samak the Ayyar. A passionate artist, he keeps a sketchbook journal, regularly sharing his thoughts and drawings, a testament to his love for art and storytelling. *** Premium Episodes on Design Better This is a premium episode on Design Better. We release two premium episodes per month, along with two free episodes for everyone. Premium subscribers also get access to the documentary Design Disruptors and our growing library of books, as well as our monthly AMAs with former guests, ad-free episodes, discounts and early access to workshops, and our monthly newsletter The Brief that compiles salient insights, quotes, readings, and creative processes uncovered in the show. Upgrade to paid ***

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 1997's Interstate '76. We set the game a bit in its time, talk about Activision (almost as an afterthought), and then start getting into the characters and the vibe, of which there is much. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Early mission or two Issues covered: a game time forgot, playing a sim game genre, a unique take on the sim genre plus car combat, prepping the sim elements vs the actual play, other games from that year, taking a formula and doing something different with it, modern exploitation-inspired games, exploitation cinema, grindhouse, other potential influences and inspirations, why you pick sparse environments, breakable cacti, a huge variety of games, low-cost film-making and democratization, vigilantes, a bland corporation, text adventures, a business and not a game company, seeing the impact of acquisition or mergers, character introductions, fake actors playing characters, character names, Groove Champion vs Stiletto Anyway, stylized and simplified characters, flat shading and seeing every polygon, connecting to the character in the cockpit and via the radio, naturally cinematic, stylized presence, jitteriness and physics, compounding errors, deterministic physics, preserving this game and finding ways to play it, just shipping a game, dealing with a controller vs keyboard.    Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: TIE Fighter (series), Starfighter, MechWarrior (series), Voltron, Diablo, Resident Evil, The Last Express, Fallout, GoldenEye, Castlevania: SotN, Age of Empires, Outlaws, Curse of Monkey Island, Dark Forces 2, Shadows of the Empire, Wing Commander: Prophecy, Final Fantasy VII, Mario Kart 64, Gran Turismo, PlayStation, Dark Forces, Final Fantasy Tactics, Wet, Kane and Lynch, Suda 51, Grasshopper Interactive, Killer 7, Death Race 2000, Russ Meyers, Death Proof, Mad Max (series), MegaMan 8, Kaeon, Cleopatra Jones, Enter the Dragon, Jim Kelly, Bruce Lee, Game of Death, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Fist of Fury, Starsky and Hutch, River Raid, Pitfall, David Crane, Atari, Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Capcom, Blizzard, id Software, Interplay, Infocom, Zork (series), Witness, Enchanter (series), Ballyhoo, Lurking Horror, Electronic Arts, Bobby Kotick, Nintendo, BattleZone, Pac-Man, Jason Schreier, Play Nice: The Rise and Fall of Blizzard Entertainment, Hearthstone, Marvel Snap, Ultima (series), Bioware, Treyarch, Raven Software, Heretic/Hexen, Quake, Battletech/FASA Entertainment, Anachronox, Pam Grier, Chuck Norris, Dungeon Keeper, Half-Life 2, Indiana Jones and the Internal Machine, Video Game History Foundation, Star Wars: Episode I: Racer, Forza (series), Falcon (series), Dark Souls, Minecraft, LostLake86, Mors, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.   Errata: Lost Treasures of Infocom actually originally came out in 1991. We regret the error.  Next time: More I'76! Twitch Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our series on 1999's Outcast. We talk a bit about the end of the game, the challenge of plate-spinning, gadgets we missed out on for much of the game, and other topics. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Finished (Brett)... some more (Tim) Podcast breakdown: 00:47 Discussion 54:07 Break 54:36 Takeaways/Mailbag Issues covered: getting captured and losing your stuff, getting some ammo from your subquests, some of the other weapons, the silenced sniper tranquilizer, not fulfilling stealth, a difficult puzzle in the tree world, the deep sound puzzle of the forest world, getting one key from a complicated puzzle and then a physics puzzle, doing what you think is right for your goals, modest budgets vs today's indie and AAA, the lower development cost and the challenge of readability, making big hard decisions to collapse away a problem, market size, the delusion of ship when it's ready vs making what you can by the deadline, the podcast exposing us to some really great games, plate-spinning and tendrils spreading out, imagining the flowcharts, getting to the end of the Motazaar gauntlet, "your key is in another castle," the F-Link gadget and speeding play, the other gadgets, quest system being per-zone, story bits that cover the length of the game, "rules are meant to guide people, not contain them," narrative niceties, memorable and understandable NPCs, the two fishermen, NPC depth, greater empathy vs snark in Cutter Slade, describing the time shifty stuff, running through the story at the end of the game, a bold world structure, motivating and leveraging the connectivity, the voxel terrain, dynamic systems in play, the depth of the narrative space, legacies.    Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Indiana Jones, Beyond Good and Evil, Anachronox, Unreal, Nintendo Switch, Breath of the Wild, Shadow of the Colossus, Assassin's Creed (series), Tomb Raider (series), Uncharted (series), Team Ico, Fbrccn, Infogrames, Appeal, Blizzard, Warcraft (series), Dwarf Fortress, The Last Express, The Crying Game, John Carter/A Princess of Mars, Delta Force, Anthony Gallegos, Rebel FM, mysterydip, Pong, Belmont, Mark Garcia, Jedi Starfighter, Republic Commando, Castlevania, Dark Souls 2, BioStats, CalamityNolan, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers.  Next time: TBA! Links: The Ghost Racing Article Twitch: timlongojr Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we revisit our series on rotoscoping with a fun chat with Jordan Mechner, of Karateka, Prince of Persia, and The Last Express fame. We also talk about his new graphic memoir: Replay, Memoir of an Uprooted Family. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 00:50   Interview 1:01:50 Break 1:02:03 Outro Issues covered: his history, train trips, caricatures and making stuff, not living up to the greats, improvising into his games, animation not holding up, filming his mother's karate teacher, his father, and his brother, handcrafting for rotoscoping, taking silent film classes, cross-cutting and wipes, the moment it came to live, the power of abstraction vs the uncanny valley, the impact on what we wanted for animation, caricature and capturing someone, finding the essence of a person, specialization and stepping into direction, drawing ten real people and getting into the graphic memoir, caricature and selling the big moments of small animations, abstraction and universality, adapting to higher resolution, breaking the illusion of interactivity, not being photorealistic but still having the nuance of real actors, highly compressible art and fluidity, uncanny valley of interactivity, picking the right constraints, the train's limitations enabling the possibility of depth, the fascination of interactive theater, holding up better, physical recording separated from voice, allowing for improvisation or variability, being attracted to historical fiction, his family's history, drawing the real things into the memoir, experience, technical nuance and caricature, moments of impactful character interactions, committing to a high bar. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Karateka, Prince of Persia, The Last Express, Smoking Car Productions, Disney, Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, LucasArts, Space Invaders, Apple, Hitchcock, Thief of Baghdad, Sabu, Conrad Veidt, 1001 Nights, MAD Magazine, Al Hirschfeld, Frank Sinatra, Broderbund, Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud, MYST, Dragon's Lair, Buster Keaton, Robyn Miller, The 7th Guest, Rebel Assault, GTA, Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, Deadline, The Witness, Infocom, Sleep No More, Assassin's Creed, Zoetrope Studios, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Seven Samurai, Fathom, Michael Turner, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Templar, Count of Monte Cristo, Emily, Michel Ancel, Eric Chahi, Ubisoft, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: TBA! Links: Jordan Mechner's website Twitch: timlongojr Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Voici donc le premier des cinq épisodes hors-série de cet été 2024. Comme nous l'avions annoncé, nous allons diffuser sur ce flux de podcast les tables rondes et les discussions qui ont eu lieu lors du premier festival Silence on joue qui s'est déroulé le 25 mai à la Cité des Sciences à Paris.Je vous propose donc d'écouter le premier de ces échanges, celui entre Patrick et Jordan Mechner, créateur de Prince of Persia, Karateka ou The Last Express et auteur récemment de Replay, une BD autobiographique.Retrouvez toutes les chroniques de jérémie dans le podcast dédié Silence on Joue ! La chronique jeux de société (Lien RSS).Pour commenter cette émission, donner votre avis ou simplement discuter avec notre communauté, connectez-vous au serveur Discord de Silence on joue!Retrouvez Silence on Joue sur Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/silenceonjoueSoutenez Silence on joue en vous abonnant à Libération avec notre offre spéciale à 6€ par mois : https://offre.liberation.fr/soj/Silence on joue ! c'est l'émission hebdo de jeux vidéo de Libération. Avec Patrick Hellio et Jordan Mechner.CRÉDITSSilence on joue ! est un podcast de Libération animé par Erwan Cario. Cet épisode a été enregistré le 25 mai 2024 en public à le Cité des Sciences à Paris. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Happy Pride Month, Indieventurers! Regular listeners to this 100% LGBTQIA+-fronted podcast will know that we're not exactly quietly closeted for the other 11 months of the year, but this June we've elected to challenge ourselves to make an episode that is our gayest yet. This takes the format of an open-ended chat where we discuss everything from our favourite queer characters and stories in indie games, to some maybe less-than-flawless examples of queer representation (be it explicit or just heavily implied) that we still love, to games that maybe don't have any reference to gender or sexuality at all but which still have such gay energy you'd swear they were developed exclusively by drag queens. We also chat a bit about our early memories as queer gamers in the '90s and '00s, and naturally the conversation occasionally veers into favourite AAA franchises that make at least a bit of an effort to be inclusive, even though indie games are definitely where it's at for this topic. Oh, and of course we couldn't let the opportunity pass us by to talk a little bit about our favourite gay lawyers and just what exactly makes the Ace Attorney franchise so very blatantly queer despite technically having no properly out characters. Fans of our rapid-fire conversational shifts are about to eat well as this episode takes us on a whistle-stop tour through literally dozens of our favourite queer-themed, queer-developed, and/or queer-coded games and franchises, including: Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, Doki Doki Literature Club!, Fashion Police Squad, Frog Detective, Gone Home, Goodbye Volcano High, If Found…, In Stars & Time, The Last Express, The Last of Us, Life is Strange, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Mediterranea Inferno, The Missing: J.J. Macfield & the Island of Memories, Paradise Killer, Paralives, Resident Evil 3 (no, really!), The Sims, Simulacra, Slime Rancher, Sucker for Love: Date to Die For, Telltale's The Walking Dead, Thomas Was Alone, Tiny Life, Unpacking, Videoverse, and A Year of Springs. In this episode's hyperfixations, Liam is fascinated by the concept of building your own internet away from the dubious influences of corporate social media, and recommends checking out sites like Thinky Games and McMansion Hell if you want a return to the good old days of reading about strangers' niche interests in their own personal style of communicating. (Pssst, you should also check out sevenoutoften.co.uk and indieventurepodcast.co.uk if you want to see some sites that Liam has quite literally built himself!) Meanwhile, Rebecca has been reminded of the important work Devcats always do in keeping her mental health in check during stressful times, as she's been navigating a pile-up of life events with the help of their most recent hidden object game, A Tower Full of Cats. Finally, Rachel took our own advice from the last episode and played Crow Country in Exploration mode, and has been very happy with the result. Our music was written and performed by Ollie Newbury! Find him on Instagram at @newbsmusic.

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 1997's Final Fantasy Tactics, which took the series into a new genre. We talk about the game's presentation, basics, and technology as well as how the game begins. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: First few battles Issues covered: finals fantasies, 1997 in games, testing various games, placing us in that time, a surprising departure in the series, TTRPGs and being "like chess," translating a genre to the PS1, closer combat/smaller spaces, opacity, not remembering the game well, the Zodiac, some other series, a niche genre, limited input options and menus, Ivalice and medieval setting, a deeper simulated system than FF combat generally has, translating well to the genre, the opening cinematics, preferring alignment of story with general engine use, developing technology to stream video, in-game stuff holding up better, getting the leverage from sprites, the diorama look, merging gameplay with non-interactive content, pre-rendered rewards, terrain rendering and spinning the camera, the close-in space vs larger areas and fog of war, elevation and abilities, map differentiation for visuals and challenge, the game over screen, modern engagement. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy (series), Johnny "Pockets", GoldenEye, Diablo, Fallout, Castlevania: SotN, The Last Express, FF 7, Curse of Monkey Island, Grand Theft Auto, JK: Dark Forces 2, Myth: The Fallen Lords, Ultima Online, Outlaws, XvT, Starfox 64, Quake 2, Blade Runner, Dungeon Keeper, Age of Empires, Riven, Gran Turismo, Interstate '76, Populous, LucasArts, MechWarrior, Ogre Battles (series), SNES, Quest Corporation, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Chris Hockabout, Chris Corry, X-COM (series), Mario/Rabbids (series), Fire Emblem (series), Mark Garcia, Disgaea (series), Anachronox, Front Mission (series), Shining Force (series), Vandal Hearts (series), Valkyria Chronicles, Mass Effect (series), Star Wars, Blizzard, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon: Forbidden West, God of War, The Sims, Vagrant Story, Metal Gear Solid, Axis and Allies, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers. Next time: More battles! Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @devgameclub Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on Beyond Good & Evil. We talk about a number of the game's systems, compare it with Zelda, and engage with the level design and characters. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Past the Factory Issues covered: who said that line, characterization and Frenchness, aesthetics, cosmic horror and the Domz, Hub, lacking symmetry to promote alienness, diagetic design in its systems, the first trailer, a world you want to hang out in, quirky aesthetic, the camera and when you get control, night and day between two camera systems, the PC port, the "Zelda bucket," modularity and object-orientedness in Zelda games, clockwork, the photojournalism of it, doing things because the narrative demands it and not systematically, stealth vs combat, giving your companions power-ups, companions in combat, two-heart buddies, lock and key enemies, being able to bolt on mechanics, air hockey, keys that aren't keys through the characters, committing to the characters, The Myth of Zelda, making real statements, forgiving and fail-forward stealth, great camera framing, photojournalism as heroic act, the themes of information control and propaganda, what's with Alpha Section, keys that you can use in the inventory, Ubisoft and politics (Cuba, Myanmar and... Montana), tackling universal themes with story specifics to avoid preachiness. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: The City of Lost Children, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Zootopia, Star Wars, Rayman, Jean-Luc Godard, Jerry Lewis, Artimage, Starfield, No Man's Sky, Spider-Man 2, Double Fine, Mario 64, Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Remi Lacoste, Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Final Fantasy IX, Psychonauts, Tim Schafer, Mortal Kombat, Grim Fandango, Shufflepuck, Anachronox, George Orwell, 1984, The Last Express, Omikron: The Nomad Soul, David Cage, Metal Gear (series), Aleksandr Solzhenitzen, Andrei Sakharov, Final Fantasy VI, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Note: Mark HH's (Agent HH!) camera book did not debut until 2009 Next time: Past the Slaughterhouse Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @devgameclub Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

We've done Prince of Persia, we've done The Last Express. So when The Making of Karateka was released in late 2023, we figured this was the perfect opportunity to have a look at Jordan Mechner's very first published game. Originally released in 1984 for the Apple II, the PC got a port of this game […]

Filmmaker and graphic novel artist Jordan Mechner got his start with the smash hit videogames, Karateka and Prince of Persia. His technique of using rotoscoping brought unique fluidity and realism to his titles. We talk The Last Express, his graphic novel Replay and echoes of the past this week!You can visit Jordan's website at http://www.jordanmechner.comThank you for listening to our podcast all about videogames and the amazing people who bring them to life!Hosted by Alexander Seropian and Aaron MarroquinFind us at www.thefourthcurtain.comCome join the conversation at https://discord.gg/KWeGE4xHfeVideos available at https://www.youtube.com/@thefourthcurtainFollow us on twitter: @fourthcurtainEdited and mastered at https://noise-floor.comFeaturing the music track Liberation by 505

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our miniseries on rotoscoped games with part two of The Last Express. We talk about the sweep of history, playing parallel, ending in Vienna and other topics before turning to takeaways. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: To Vienna (Tim), Somewhere after Strasbourg (Brett) Issues covered: different puzzle formats and it still working, not knowing what to do with the bug, diverting to The Murder on the Orient Express plot, putting a spin on the old plots, Tim has a favorite tea, political violence in games, world history on the march, the tension of violence in political discourse, the legendary cities it passes through, avoiding caricature for the most part, the melting pot, strong writing and performances, naturalism and theatrics, countries shifting, passing through empires, playing parallel versions of the story, trying the wrong rooms, the medical issue of the older Russian, the importance of time, games that are watertight, the appearance of simulation, adjusting the state machine, wondering whether the game knows what you know, the dog and having to get it into place, a consistent character, committing to a different sort of game and the downstream consequences, comparing with more abstract games, adding constraints, pulling in things from other media, making a big leap forward in realism and groundedness, the talent for keyframing grounded animation, getting metrics and level design constraints from the animation, deeper and different storytelling, teasing an interview, Gogo and Umaro and tuning your player experience. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: MYST, Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, CSI, Peter Ustinov, Kenneth Branagh, Sherlock Holmes, Scream, Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited, Far Cry (series), Sierra, LucasArts, Anton Chekhov, Karateka, Deadline, The Witness, The 7th Guest, Prince of Persia, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Jake Gyllenhaal, Source Code, Rian Johnson, David Bowie, Duncan Jones, Edge of Tomorrow, Michelle Monaghan, Groundhog Day, Bill Murray, Deathloop, Prey: Mooncrash, Day of the Tentacle, Vienna Waits for You, A Death in Venice, Another World, Super Mario (series), Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Fire and Ice, Eric Chahi, Jordan Mechner, Ray Harryhausen, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Phantasmagoria, Police Quest, Grim Fandango, Akira Toriyama, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Dragonball Z, Ashmann86, Em, Final Fantasy VI, Rage, Bethesda Game Studios, Kingdom Hearts III, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: An Interview! Note: The Murder on the Orient Express adaptation from 1974 did not feature Peter Ustinov, who took up the role of Poirot in 1978. The 1974 film starred Albert Finney. We regret the error. Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @devgameclub Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on rotoscoped games by hopping aboard The Last Express, the graphic adventure from Jordan Mechner and Smoking Car Productions of 1997 via publisher Broderbund. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: To Vienna (Tim) and past Epernay (Brett) Issues covered: our history with the game, playing the game on the iPad, the adventure game at the time, budget and sales, some history of the game, the edutainment industry, critical response, how many discs, cost of goods, the history of Epernay, generic settings vs the highly specific dates in the game, the overwhelm, jumping onto a moving train, photo research, pulling the brake, what to do with a dead body, trial and error, the various ways things can play out from just the first puzzle, rain in Europe in 1914, a digression into multiple speed CD-ROMs, getting into rotoscoping, a 3D modeled train with rotoscoped characters on top, chasing after a character in the hall, walk-boxes with Z values, the screen door effect, a linear game in space vs an open-ended game in time, synchronicity, the sense of a train trip, prioritizing animation vs input, mechanics-forward vs simulation-forward, what players care about and what they see. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Jordan Mechner, Broderbund, GoldenEye 007, Diablo, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Fallout, Curse of Monkey Island, Riven, MYST, Jonathan Ackley, Larry Ahern, Quake, SW: Jedi Knight: DF2, Outlaws, LucasArts, Turok, Shadow Warrior, Hexen II, Duke Nuke'em, Postal, Age of Empires, Final Fantasy VII, Wing Commander: Prophecy, Xwing vs TIE Fighter, Colony Wars, Interstate '76, Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, OddWorld, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Bethesda Game Studios, Bill Tiller, Day of the Tentacle, Sierra, Phantasmagoria, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father, Zoetrope Studios, Francis Ford Coppola, Smoking Car Productions, Tomi Pierce, Doug Carlston, Chris Remo, The Learning Company, Another World, Prince of Persia, Baldur's Gate, Final Fantasy VII, PlayStation, Sony, Daron Stinnett, Scream (series), Grim Fandango, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Blendo Games, Thirty Flights of Loving, Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, Paul Verhoeven, RoboCop, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Elle, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Skyrim, Ron Gilbert, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Deadline, Infocom, Zork, Ben Sarason, Arkham Asylum, Red Dead Redemption (series), RockStar, Tomb Raider (series), Brandon Fernandez, Core Design, Mario (series), Uncharted (series), Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: Finish the game (?)/ Explore further Errata and Extra: The lead animator on CMI was Mark Overney (!), and it was my mistake, I was thinking it had been Charlie Ramos Blendo Games is Brendon Chung Paul Verhoeven is Dutch, and he did direct Basic Instinct Links: The Last Express: Revisiting An Unsung Classic Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @devgameclub Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series of one-off episodes about games that featured rotoscoping, turning to 1989's Prince of Persia. We set it in its time and discuss its publisher and author before talking about the game proper. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: To levels 4 (Tim) and 8 (Brett) Issues covered: the series hook, games from 1989, rotoscoping, similarities to Tomb Raider, tiles and metrics, a more systemic/discretized game, precision and replay, figuring out the level enough to know where to save, that speedrunning feeling, do you ever wish you could rewind time, requiring more game due to mechanics, having to learn the whole game, the feeling of running and jumping, the tension of animation and input, multiple inputs, the intertwining of animation and design, the feeling of swashbuckling, the great feeling, action as character and commitment, wondering how many people finished the game, the punishing feeling, checkpointing, punch the eagle, the great feel of parrying, pushing through the enemies, tells, the approaches of different guards, cinematic combat, difficulty in text adventures and player appeal, chipping away at knowledge, adding drama, resources and the doppelganger, level design and reuse, animating bits of the world, his books, mixing up the skeleton. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Another World, Jordan Mechner, Broderbund Software, Populous, Game Boy, Super Mario Land, Tetris, Ghosts and Goblins, Sega, Golden Axe, Shinobi, SimCiy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ultima (series), Star Trek, Final Fantasy II, Castlevania III, Print Shop, Choplifter, Karateka, Lode Runner, Hypercard, The Last Express, Agatha Christie, Tomb Raider, Triple Click, Plague Tale: Innocence, Dark Souls, Jamie Griesemer, Halo, Mario 64, 1001 Arabian Nights, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Errol Flynn, Indiana Jones, Civilization, Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Daffy Duck, MegaMan (series), Kirk Hamilton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Final Fantasy VI, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: Another rotoscoped classic Links: Making Prince of Persia June: 1:01:00 or thereabouts Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @devgameclub Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Jordan Mechner a créé le jeu Prince of Persia, l'histoire d'un exilé qui sauve un pays. Comme un clin d'œil à l'histoire de sa famille, qui a fui l'Europe et l'avancée des nazis. Pour « La Story », le podcast d'actualité des « Echos », Pierrick Fay Pierrick Fay reçoit quatre auteurs pour évoquer des tranches de vie et des destins parfois extraordinaires. Dans ce premier épisode, il raconte la fuite de sa famille face à la menace nazie.La Story est un podcast des « Echos » présenté par Pierrick Fay. Cet épisode a été enregistré en décembre 2023. Rédaction en chef : Clémence Lemaistre. Invité : Jordan Mechner (auteur de «Replay, Mémoires d'une famille»). Réalisation : Nicolas Jean. Musique : Théo Boulenger. Identité graphique : Upian. Photo : Delcourt. Sons : «Valse triste» d'Oskar Nedbal, «Déracinés» par Les Barbeaux, INA, «Prince of Persia - les sables du temps» 2009, «Karatéka» 1984, «Prince of Persia» 1989, Jordan Mechner, «The Last Express» 1997. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Jordan Mechner a créé le jeu Prince of Persia, l'histoire d'un exilé qui sauve un pays. Comme un clin d'œil à l'histoire de sa famille, qui a fui l'Europe et l'avancée des nazis. Pour « La Story », le podcast d'actualité des « Echos », Pierrick Fay Pierrick Fay reçoit quatre auteurs pour évoquer des tranches de vie et des destins parfois extraordinaires. Dans ce deuxième épisode, il revient sur sa carrière vidéoludique, marquée aussi par l'exil.La Story est un podcast des « Echos » présenté par Pierrick Fay. Cet épisode a été enregistré en décembre 2023. Rédaction en chef : Clémence Lemaistre. Invité : Jordan Mechner (auteur de «Replay, Mémoires d'une famille»). Réalisation : Nicolas Jean. Musique : Théo Boulenger. Identité graphique : Upian. Photo : Delcourt. Sons : «Valse triste» d'Oskar Nedbal, «Déracinés» par Les Barbeaux, INA, «Prince of Persia - les sables du temps» 2009, «Karatéka» 1984, «Prince of Persia» 1989, Jordan Mechner, «The Last Express» 1997. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Side Quests is back and this episode's host is podcaster, producer, streamer and doctor on the run from the British and French police, Michael Farris! The game he is talking about today is The Last Express by Smoking Car Productions and Broderbund! You can find this episode's host on twitter. You can also find his work here! We've also have Patreon! Gain access to episode shout outs, bonus content, early downloads of regular episodes, an exclusive rss feed and more! Click here! You can find the show on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube! Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! Rate us on Spotify! Wanna join the Certain POV Discord? Click here!

Det är inte Prince of Persia som är Jordan Mechners största bedrift, det är äventyrsspelet The Last Express. Researcharbetet bakom det här Indiana Jones-liknande äventyret på Orientexpressen saknar motstycke, den vackra art nouveau-grafiken är helt bländande. Och så utspelas allt i "realtid" - en otrolig bedrift som borgar för en otroligt häftig upplevelse.Om det någonsin görs en spelkanon (och kanske lyssnar du på den just nu) har The Last Express en självklar plats i den.Gäst: Carl-Johan Johansson

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 1997's Rare classic, GoldenEye 007. We set the game in its time before getting down to brass tacks, including comparing the experience to the film. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: First full mission (three levels) Issues covered: the license, a bit about the film and the film series, 1997 in games, the flourishing of the first person shooter, late in a console cycle, disparity between PC FPSes and console FPSes, Rare with a lot of games and a lot of further game studios, missing the original controller, remapping shenanigans, threading the needle on a film adaptation, filling in gaps in the license, choosing your exciting set piece, wide level design, the triple cut, Hong Kong cinema, cinematic choices, contrasting with later cinematic games, how many mechanics will you incorporate, chasing this game, choosing different presentation, showing death the character death, an era of accessibility needs recognition, at last listening to our hate mail. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Nintendo, Fatal Frame, PlayStation, Pierce Brosnan, Nintendo 64, Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, Alan Cumming, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig, Skyfall, Diablo, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Fallout, Quake, SW: Jedi Knight: DF2, Blood, Outlaws, Turok, Shadow Warrior, Hexen II, Raven Software, 3D Realms, GT Interactive, Duke Nuke'em, Postal, Curse of Monkey Island, Age of Empires, The Last Express, Final Fantasy VII, Colony Wars, Wing Commander: Prophecy, Riven, MYST, XvT, Interstate '76, Mario Kart 64, OddWorld, Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Diddy Kong Racing, The Stamp brothers, NES, Slalom, Wizards and Warriors, Battletoads, Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark, Microsoft, Viva Pinata, Banjo Kazooie (series), Donkey Kong Country, Silicon Graphics, Timesplitters, Free Radical, John Romero, Majora's Mask, Minish Cap, Metroid Fusion, The Fugitive, Harrison Ford, Mission: Impossible, John Woo, Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face Off, Metal Gear Solid, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Alpha Protocol, Telltale Games, IO Interactive, Machine Games, Colin "The Shots," Devil May Cry, Dark Souls, Celeste, Luke Harris, Tetris 64, Starfighter/JSF, 343 Industries, Kingdom Hearts (series), Republic Commando, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: More GoldenEye 007 Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Ya estamos aquí otra quincena más, desde el asilo más friki de la podcasfera y en esta ocasión en "Cuando todo esto era campo", quería hablaros del programa culinario Con las manos en la masa y en "Te vas a quedar ciego con tanta maquinita" del videojuego The last express. No esperes que te lo cuenten y dale al play. Como a modo recordatorio: 00:00 Inicio 01:00 Bienvenida 02:38 Tó esto era campo: Con las manos en la masa 10:42 Toto Cutugno: L'italiano 16:44 Te vas a quedar ciego con tanta maquinita: The last express 27:00 Comentarios 36:00 Despedida

Nous avons eu l'immense honneur de recevoir Jordan Mechner pour cet épisode exceptionnel de Third Émission. Au programme : la carrière du développeur culte retracée, l'occasion de parler de ses plus grands succès (Prince of Persia, Karetaka, The Last Express) mais aussi cinéma, art et bande dessinée. Pour rappel, Jordan est l'auteur du livres La Création de Prince of Persia : Carnets de bord de Jordan Mechner (1985-1993) par chez Third Éditions. Au sommaire de cette émission : - 0:55 | La genèse de ce livre - 2:59 | Le début de carrière - 15:39 | Rubrique : chaud / froid - 17:54 | La création et le succès de Prince of Persia - 33:39 | Le portrait chinois - 35:00 | Jordan Mechner aujourd'hui - 39:00 | Les bandes dessinées scénarisées par Jordan Mechner - 44:00 | L'actu Third Éditions Pour se procurer le livre : https://www.thirdeditions.com/retrogaming/385-la-creation-de-prince-of-persia-carnets-de-bord-de-jordan-mechner-1985-1993-9782377841639.html Générique d'ouverture : Akira Yamaoka Virgules musicales : OST Prince of Persia (1989) - Francis Mechner Ce numéro est disponible sur : - Deezer - Spotify - Google Podcasts - Apple Podcasts - Flux RSS : https://anchor.fm/s/6649904c/podcast/rss N'hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos retours sur nos réseaux sociaux !

Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, has always loved to unwind after a busy day. Her favorite way to do so involves the simple, repetitive tasks of pointing and clicking. She first remembers playing with tamagotchi before graduating to the computer games of her youth that she would play with her father.  Adam and Sangu discuss their shared love of the King's Quest games from Sierra gaming, Sangu's love of older games like The Last Express and Fantasy Life as well as the joy she now finds in the soothing world of Stardew Valley. Sometimes we all need an escape, be it books, video games, or anything else! Books mentioned in this episode: The Lido by Libby Page Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne Enjoyed this episode? Be sure to rate and review us on whatever platform you listen to your podcasts and send your feedback to passionsandprologues@gmail.com. If you email us proof of your review, Adam will send you a personalized book recommendation via email! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Cath hastily jumps off a speeding motorbike onto the Orient Express, as it departs from Paris on the evening of 24 July 1914. He's been invited to join the train by his friend Tyler Whitney, who apparently has made a remarkable deal and wants to tell Robert all about it. But as soon as […]

Hallo liebe Hörer und herzlich Willkommen zu Folge 3 von "The Last Express". Das Staffelfinale steht an. Geheimnisse werden gelüftet und alle losen Enden führen in Konstantinopel zusammen. Begleitet unseren Protagonisten Robert Cath wie er uns und die anderen Passagiere des Orient Express, in voller Fahrt zur finalen Konfrontation führt.  Wir wollen nicht zu viel verraten aber ihr könnt euch auf eine Folge voller Spannung, politischer Intrigen, Liebe und einer Prise Tragik freuen. Viel Spaß wünschen Marius und Ringo Website: https://downtothedetailpodcast.wordpress.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dttd_podcast Steady: https://steadyhq.com/de/downtothedetailpodcast/about Sprecher: Marius B. / Ringo K. Rohschnitt:  Marius B. / Ringo K. Finaler Schnitt: Ringo K.

Llegamos a la última estación de nuestro recorrido por la obra de Jordan Mechner metiéndonos de lleno en el ambicioso proyecto "The Last Express", y su retrato del complejo escenario europeo que desembocó en los horrores de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Hallo liebe Hörer und herzlich Willkommen zu Folge 2 von "The Last Express". In dieser Episode lichtet sich langsam der Schleier um die Umstände der Ermordung unseres Freundes Tyler und wir beginnen die Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Waffenfabrikanten Schmidt, der Konzertgeigerin Anna Wolf, dem serbischen Freiheitskämpfer Milos und seiner Exzellenz Cronos zu erkennen. Robert muss den Part seines Freundes übernehmen und die Parteien klug gegeneinander ausspielen um dieses Komplott zu entwirren und heil aus der Angelegenheit herauszukommen. Zudem muss er sich mit einem neuen Fahrgast herumschlagen, welcher eindeutig zu viel über ihn und seine jüngste Vergangenheit weiß. Viel Spaß wünschen Marius und Ringo Website: https://downtothedetailpodcast.wordpress.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dttd_podcast Steady: https://steadyhq.com/de/downtothedetailpodcast/about Sprecher: Marius B. / Ringo K. Rohschnitt: Marius B. / Ringo K. Finaler Schnitt: Ringo K.

Hallo liebe Hörer und herzlich Willkommen zu einer neuen Staffel. Dieses Mal mit dem Ego - Point n Click Adventure The Last Express. Begleitet uns auf unserer Reise und letzten Fahrt des Orient Express. Mit falscher Identität mischen wir uns unter die Fahrgäste und werden in ein Netz aus Mord und Intrigen gezogen, während wir versuchen aus den unterschiedlichen Motivationen und Begehrlichkeiten um einen vermissten Gegenstand, schlau zu werden. Viel Spaß wünschen Marius und Ringo Website: https://downtothedetailpodcast.wordpress.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dttd_podcast Steady: https://steadyhq.com/de/downtothedetailpodcast/about

For our final week of Review Season, Herds is set to deliver you into the third-last stop on our journey to rank our recommendations of all the murder mystery stories that we've enjoyed over the course of this year. Today, the unforgettable commercial-failure cult-classic train-mystery remembered as The Last Express by Jordan Mechner, a murder mystery video game that truly is one of a kind and that holds a special place in Hers' heart for being the story that got him interested in murder mysteries in the first place. Let's step into the shoes of Robert Cath, American doctor, as he steps into the shoes of deceased friend Tyler Whitney, and boards The Orient Express for a journey across Europe.

We sat down with Inkle Studios' Narrative Designer, Jon Ingold, to talk about their new surprise-release mystery game Overboard! On a trip from London to New York, you get sick of your husband and throw him overboard, and now you've got to get away with it. Set in the 1930s, this youdunnit takes the ideas we explored in The Last Express, flips them on their head and dials up the urgency. From hiding goals from the player, to an impassioned rant about a contentious mechanic in the game, Jon tells us all about what went into this wonderful new addition to the mystery pantheon.

We discuss from Munich to the end of the game from Jordan Mechner's 'The Last Express'. After a bit more success in navigating the social charades aboard the Orient Express, Robert Cath finds himself with new friends, plenty more new foes, and the train now hijacked by the Serbians. As the end of the line approaches, your actions controlling Cath will decide the fate of the journey, culminating with the start of World War One, which has started without the passenger's knowledge since they boarded in Paris. We chat the ups and downs of this climactic finish to a beautiful adventure game.We're also thrilled to be joined by Karl-Heinz Teuber, the actor for Herr August Schmidt in The Last Express, to talk about his career and his memories of filming the game.Be sure to catch up on our livestream playing through this section of the game!

We discuss from the beginning to Vienna's bad ending in Jordan Mechner's 1997 game 'The Last Express'. After years of pestering, Herds finally gets his way as we begin our detour into interactive mystery fiction with his favourite classic adventure game. We board the Orient Express alongside Robert Cath, who finds his acquaintance Tyler Whitney dead on the floor of his carriage. With no ticket, no plan and the police after him, Cath sets about trying to survive the journey with a vibrant cast of characters that speak to a world on the verge of war.We're also joined by James Dalton, chief archivist for the Australian Railway Historical Society NSW to talk about our own rail history, and the important work that volunteer archivists do in maintaining the history of the world's railways.Check out our livestream playing through this game for the episode!

In this new episode, we are going through some of the things we have watched / played / enjoyed this month! Mentioned in this episode: - App: Train Sweat Eat - Books: His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman), 1Q84 (Murakami), Chavirer (Lola Lafon) - Movies & TV Shows: Ted Lasso, The Lord of the Rings, Firefly Lane, Varsity Blues, Snowpiercer, Lupin, See, Behind Her Eyes - Games: Overcooked, The Last Express, It Takes Two - Podcast: You are dead to me Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: filmmusic.io/standard-license

American author, game designer, graphic novelist and screenwriter Jordan Mechner is best known as a pioneer of cinematic storytelling in the video game industry and as the creator of Prince of Persia, one of the most successful and enduring video game franchises of all time. His other games include Karateka, The Last Express, Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Karateka was published by Broderbund in 1984 and became a #1 bestseller. One of the first games to combine arcade action with realistic animation and cinematic storytelling, it created a new template that other early fighting games would follow. Inspired by the 1,001 Nights tales he had known as a child, Mechner completed Prince of Persia for the Apple II in 1989. Published by Broderbund and subsequently adapted onto nearly every computer and console platform of the 1990s, Prince of Persia is recognized as a major influence in the development of the action-adventure video game genre. In 2001, Mechner joined forces with Ubisoft to reinvent his decade-old, best-known classic for a new generation of console gamers. Developed at Ubisoft's Montreal studio with Mechner as game designer, writer, and creative consultant, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was a breakout hit of 2003, winning two Game Developers Choice awards and sweeping the 2004 Interactive Achievement Awards (DICE) with 12 nominations and 8 awards. Its success relaunched Prince of Persia as a global franchise including toys, graphic novels, LEGO sets, and over 20 million games sold to date. In 2010, Mechner became the first game creator to successfully adapt his own work as a feature film screenwriter with Disney's Prince of Persia. Mechner received screen story and executive producer credit. With box-office receipts of $335 million worldwide, Prince of Persia set the record for the world's highest-grossing video game film adaptation until 2016. In this Podcast, Allan deconstructs his previous Podcast with Jordan Mechner, the Creator of Prince of Persia -- and the actionable steps you can apply to your creative career. For more show notes, visit www.allanmckay.com/264/.

American author, game designer, graphic novelist and screenwriter Jordan Mechner is best known as a pioneer of cinematic storytelling in the video game industry and as the creator of Prince of Persia, one of the most successful and enduring video game franchises of all time. His other games include Karateka, The Last Express, Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Mechner began his career as a video game creator in the 1980s in high school in Chappaqua, New York, on a 16K Apple II computer bought with his earnings producing and selling Mad Magazine-inspired comics and drawing caricatures at local fairs. He developed and programmed his first game Karateka, while a student at Yale University. Inspired by his film studies and vintage Disney animation, Mechner developed a rotoscoping process to capture Super 8 film footage of his friends and family members, a first step toward the motion capture technology widely used in today's video games. Karateka was published by Broderbund in 1984 and became a #1 bestseller. One of the first games to combine arcade action with realistic animation and cinematic storytelling, it created a new template that other early fighting games would follow After graduating from Yale, Mechner upgraded from 8mm to VHS to create the rotoscoped animation for his next game Prince of Persia. Inspired by the 1,001 Nights tales he had known as a child, Mechner completed Prince of Persia for the Apple II in 1989. Published by Broderbund and subsequently adapted onto nearly every computer and console platform of the 1990s, Prince of Persia is recognized as a major influence in the development of the action-adventure video game genre. In 2001, Mechner joined forces with Ubisoft to reinvent his decade-old, best-known classic for a new generation of console gamers. Developed at Ubisoft's Montreal studio with Mechner as game designer, writer, and creative consultant, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was a breakout hit of 2003. Its success relaunched Prince of Persia as a global franchise including toys, graphic novels, LEGO sets, and over 20 million games sold to date In 2010, Mechner became the first game creator to successfully adapt his own work as a feature film screenwriter with Disney's Prince of Persia produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, and Ben Kingsley. Mechner received screen story and executive producer credit. With box-office receipts of $335 million worldwide, Prince of Persia set the record for the world's highest-grossing video game film adaptation until 2016. A lifelong journal-keeper, Mechner has published his game development diaries from the 1980s -- The Making of Karateka and The Making of Prince of Persia -- along with Prince of Persia's Apple II source code — lost for 20 years, then found in 2012 on a set of 3.5" floppy disks. Mechner's books include the 2013 New York Times best-selling, Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel Templar, a swashbuckling adventure about the historical Knights Templar, illustrated by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland. Mechner's work as an author, screenwriter, and filmmaker, along with his video games, reflects his passion for deep historical research and world-building, and interest in time and memory. In this Podcast, game designer, graphic novelist and screenwriter Jordan Mechner shares his experience as a multihyphenate, the ups and downs of the creative process, how to make production constraints work in your favor -- and his experience creating Karateka, Prince of Persia and other projects. For more show notes, visit www.allanmckay.com/244.

In episode 107, we cover a unique adventure game by Jordan Mechner, 1997's The Last Express. Links: Get The Last Express on GoG: https://www.gog.com/game/last_express_the Get The Last Express Gold on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/252710/The_Last_Express_Gold_Edition/ Get The Last Express on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/the-last-express/id508049561?mt=8 Get The Last Express on Android: https://www.amazon.com/DotEmu-The-Last-Express/dp/B00FVZKMJI Next Episode: Next time, we'll be covering the Sierra edutainment classics in the Dr. Brain series.

We've got a special one for episode 106 in which second time guest-host Father Beast takes us on a tour of the 1994 business and management simulator, Transport Tycoon. Links Reunion (1994) Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk_L8BL0r48 Play Transport Tycoon in your browser https://www.playdosgames.com/online/transport-tycoon/ Play Transport Tycoon Deluxe in your browser https://classicreload.com/transport-tycoon-deluxe.html Screenshots from Chris Sawyer's Transport game. (And a video of Chris Sawyer playing it!) http://www.transporttycoon.com/transportgame TTD Patch site http://www.ttdpatch.net/ Buy Chris Sawyer's Locomotion on Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/356430/Chris_Sawyers_Locomotion/ Buy Chris Sawyer's Locomotion on GOG.com https://www.gog.com/game/chris_sawyers_locomotion Open TTD https://www.openttd.org/en/ Star Control: Origins Pre-order on Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/271260/Star_Control_Origins/ Star Control 1+2 on Steam (Renamed Star Control: The Ur-Quan Masters http://store.steampowered.com/app/358920/Star_Control_The_UrQuan_Masters/ Star Control 3 on Steam (Renamed Star Control: Kessari Quadrant) http://store.steampowered.com/app/358930/Star_Control_Kessari_Quadrant/ Ghosts Of The Precusors Early Website https://dogarandkazon.squarespace.com/ Ur-Quan Masters HD https://sourceforge.net/projects/urquanmastershd/ Remnants Of The Precursors (Master Of Orion 1 Fan Remake) https://remnantsoftheprecursors.com/ Next Episode Next time, we will be covering the 1997 Jordan Mechner adventure, The Last Express. Thanks and enjoy!

Welcome to show 202. This week The Daddy played more Remember Me, Beyond Two Souls and Tearaway, Duke played Stealth B*****d Delux and of course Skyrim  and Chinny finished Lost Planet 3, The Last Express and checked out the Xbox One for himself. In Chinny's news this week we cover off all of the Xbox One launch stuff and any PS4 news since its launch last last week We finish off with the communities take on the Xbox One and of course emails. Enjoy. Follow us on twitter @veterangamersuk and if you have any opinions or questions, send emails to: podcast@veterangamers.co.uk Gamertags Chinny – 360 ChinChinny, PS3 Chinny1985 The Daddy – 360 Big Daddy Blast, Steam BigDaddyBlaster, PS3 xXBig-DaddyXx Duke – 360 DukeSkath, PS3 DukeSkath, Steam DukeSkath

It's our BIG Show with an E3 and Naughty Dog Explosion. First impressions of Last of Us, Tom plays Uncharted for the first time and we go through our highlights of E3 as well as final impressions of Metro 2033.0:00:58 Trademark Banter - We score our E3 Predictions from Last WeekE3 ReactionsMicrosoft0:07:25 Microsoft Apologizes for Rape0:09:50 The Price - Would we buy it?0:16:00 The Games - MGS5, Dead Rising 3, Forza, Quantum Break and discussion of FMV games, The Last Express, Ryse, Killer Instinct,0:30:05 We Declare RARE Dead0:31:20 D4 From SWERY650:32:45 PSN+ Coming to XBLive0:33:55 Synopsis of Microsoft ConferenceSony0:36:35 The Physical Box0:38:55 No DRM. Bam!0:42:55 $399. Bam!0:43:55 Mic Drop0:47:50 Bye-bye Free Multiplayer (Tom and Phil fight over $5)0:55:35 Tom posits, "How did they get away with it?"0:57:20 The Games - GT6, GTA5, Last of Us, Beyond, FF15, Kingdom hearts 3, Assassin's Creed, Diablo 3.0:58:20 Diablo 3 Discussion - Battle.net or not?1:00:00 Vita Stuff1:01:05 Last Guardian News1:01:40 Synopsis of Sony Conference1:04:15 WTFinal Fantasy 15 (and Phil says what Square Should Do)Nintendo1:08:40 Tom Says They "Won" E31:10:10 Phil "Ahems" Then Says Nintendo Did Great but ...1:10:45 Phil Melts Down on how Racist Nintendo Is1:13:00 Phil continues in his normal tone, and says that Nintendo is doing fine1:13:20 Tom Brings Up Cammy1:14:55 A 3D Mario! In 2D!1:20:05 Super Smash Bros.1:21:30 Pokemonx and Pokemony1:22:45 We Declare Retro Dead1:27:05 Third Party Games1:28:10 Eidos. Whores.First Impressions1:30:35 Last of Us First Impressions from Phil1:47:55 Uncharted: Drakes Fortune (An Aural Review) - and some Jurassic Park Talk, and some lesbian room-mate talk. Okay, that was link bait. Sorry.2:36:45 Metro 2033 (An Aural Review)

Welcome to show 171. This week The Daddy played The Last Express, Gemini Rue and more Dead Space 3, Chinny played more Gears Of War Judgement and Duke played a raft of strategy games on the PC but came back to Galaxy On Fire 2. No VlaDOS :( but we have got the first of our new feature in which Chinny tries to persuade us to play a game from his back catalogue, but will we do it? We also have Chinny's news which this week covers the amount of money which Duke's favourite game Heavy Rain made, Valve refunding a customer for a religious complaint with Bioshock Infinite and Nintendo announcing a new version of Zelda. We round out the show with Emails, Twitters and Facebook stuff. Enjoy. Follow us on twitter @veterangamersuk and if you have any opinions or questions, send Emails to: podcast@veterangamers.co.uk Gamertags Chinny – 360 ChinChinny, PS3 Chinny1985 The Daddy – 360 Big Daddy Blast, PS3 xXBig-DaddyXx Duke – 360 Dukeskath, PS3 Dukeskath