A brief history of non-Warhammer Games Workshop Games | S5 E3

Auroch Digital CEO Tomas Rawlings joins Jem and Matt to talk about some of the games that Games Workshop made that were not Warhammer titles and how we came to turn some of those into video games.

Show notes

• Get Chainsaw Warrrior t-shirt
• Grab our non-Warhammer titles in The Totally Radical Auroch Digital 80s Gaming Bundle
• Tomas's letter from Games Workshop (in 1989)
• Grognard Files
• Talisman

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Harry Potter and the video game adaptation | S5 E2

In this magical episode Marketing and community manager Jemima Crow leads the way, joined by Pete and Matt, to chat about video game adaptations featuring the world of Harry Potter. They look at how the many Harry Potter games both do justice to and fail their source material. 

Show notes

• Minecraft School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Gameplay Trailer 
• Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Is The Best Live-Action Video Game Adaptation Ever
• Harry Potter open-world RPG leak 
• Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 interview: ‘We made dark films fun’ 
• PS1 Hagrid 
  

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A brief history of Games and Democracy | S5 E1

Auroch Digital CEO Tomas Rawlings and Creative producer Peter Willington join Jem and Matt to chat about democracy in gaming - both as a topic games are made about and as a thing within a game system itself. Vote with your ears and have a listen!

Show notes

• Get our card game, Elections, on sale! & Vote Cthulhu! 
• Democracy 3 Greek Debt Crisis 
• Brenda Romero’s 2013 talk at Games for Change
• Tomas’s talk at TEDx Houses of Parliament, 2013 on games and democracy.

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A potted history of Cthulhu games | S4 E5

Episode 5 and the last episode in Season 4! Hosts Matt Davies (Marketing and Community Manager) and Matthew Walker (Sound Designer) talk with Design Director Tomas Rawlings on the brief history of Cthulhu games. Where they came from and how they've developed over the years. This will also be host Matt Davies last episode #sadface

However, fear not we'll be back with a brand new season in the near future! So make sure you've filled in our survey and got your thoughts down on where we go next!

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Space is hard… | S4 E4

Episode 4 continues our adventure across the galaxy! Hosts Matt Davies (Marketing and Community Manager) and Matthew Walker (Sound Designer) talk about the visit Auroch Digital made to ESA as well as talking. To the Designer on Mars Horizon - Matt Bone.

Find out about the challenges involved in getting the gameplay just right and how to balance the reality and complexity of space travel with game design - all while keeping it authentic! 

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Visiting the European Space Agency (ESA) | S4 E3

Episode 3 and this one is out of this world! In the fourth season of How to Make a Video Game with Auroch Digital hosts Matt Davies (Marketing and Community Manager) and Matthew Walker (Sound Designer) talk about the visit Auroch Digital made to ESA to show off Mars Horizon to ACTUAL rocket engineers and scientists with Design Director Tomas Rawlings. 

We also have some great interviews with the staff of ESA and their thoughts on running a space agency and the challenge of converting that into a video game.

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Megaquarium on console | S4 E2

It's Episode 2 and this time we are getting aquatic! In the fourth season of How to Make a Video Game with Auroch Digital hosts Matt Davies (Marketing and Community Manager) and Matthew Walker (Sound Designer) chat with Megaquariums developer Tim Wicksteed about the motivations for making the game and how you make marine management fun.

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Games that haven’t been made | S4 E1

We're back! Its the fourth season of How to Make a Video Game with Auroch Digital is here and we have Tomas Rawlings and Peter Willington joining hosts Matt Davies (Marketing and Community Manager) and Matthew Walker (Sound Designer) as we talk about games that haven't been made. Good ideas we've had, why they never saw the light of day and everything else in between.

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An interview with… James Swallow | S3 E5

To celebrate the launch of Dark Future: Blood Red States (out now on Steam!) we were delighted to welcome onto the podcast James Swallow to talk to us.

James Swallow is a BAFTA-nominated scriptwriter and the award-winning New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author. He's worked on such IPs as Star Trek, Warhammer 40k, Dr Who as well as writing Jade Dragon in the Dark Future novels.

We chat with him about the history of Dark Future, the works he added to the world and what he's been up too since!

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Dark Future: Blood Red States in now live | S3 E4

It's finally here Dark Future: Blood Red States is now live and available to buy!

So what better way to celebrate than to talk to the people who have been working on the game! You can find the previous episodes in the show notes, but in this episode, we speak with Ellie and Jack, Programmers on the game and Sam Chester, Lead Programmer and Aaron Ashbrooke, Lead Designer.

Show notes

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