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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💻 Find out more about James Swallow and his work on his website

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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.

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How to make Dark Future, the video game | S3 E3

We are agonisingly close to the release of Dark Future: Blood Red States and so what better time to talk about the actual game?

We welcome Tomas Rawlings (Design Director) and Peter Willington (Producer) to the episode to talk about the development of the game from its humble origins to what it is today.

A must listen for all aspiring Game Devs

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The Dark Future… in cardboard! | S3 E2

In Episode 2 of Season 3 of the series, we are looking at our upcoming game Dark Future: Blood Red States, and in this episode, we look at the board game our game is based on.

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You can find a load of information about the game and Car Combat on the compendium article on Medium

The Road to Hell: A History of Car Combat | S3 E1

We are back for Season 3 and in this series, we are looking at our upcoming game Dark Future: Blood Red States.

Show Notes

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There are a whole raft of show notes for this one, so we created a compendium article on Medium

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💥 Wishlist Dark Future: Blood Red States