From indie developer and publisher Auroch Digital, each series explores our games that are currently in development, giving you insight into how we make titles like Brewmaster, Mars Horizon, The Colonists, Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics, Megaquarium, and Dark Future. We also discuss current topics within the Games Industry itself, like climate change and adapting to remote-working. We are currently working on titles such as Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
Episodes
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
In the beginning there was a monitor. A monitor with a black screen. Then, someone made some specs of light and behold - a starfield. From there Space games have gone from strength to strength. In this episode Producer and QA manager Mike Daw takes Matt and Jem on a tour of some of the most important Space games that have been made - including suggestions from the Auroch Digital Discord!
Show notes
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🕹️ Check out our latest titles: 🐠 Megaquarium and 🚀 Mars Horizon
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Producer and QA manager Mike Daw joins Jem and Matt with an update for Auroch Digital's current game in development Mars Horizon! Find out how the game has changed following the alpha and get some teasers about all the awesome stuff that's coming up.
This was recorded before we announced our publisher and the beta. The beta is live right now and you can join in by signing up here: Mars Horizon beta
Sign ups close May 1st 4pm BST, and the beta ends May 4th 9am GMT.
Show notes
- Make sure to wishlist Mars horizon!
- Mars Horizon: BLAST OFF! find out more about the game and grab yourself a copy!
- Hear more about what it's like working for a Space agency in this podcast episode with special guest Andrew Kuh of the UK Space Agency
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🕹️ Check out our latest titles: 🐠 Megaquarium and 🚀 Mars Horizon
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🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
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Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Using the live-action Ghostbusters movies as leverage, Jem and Matt are joined by Creative Producer Peter Willington to chat and tour through the many Ghostbusters video games that have graced gaming systems since 1984 - from first game, to VR, to 2019’s ‘remaster’ of the 2009 AAA release. All in the runup to 2020’s ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’.
Show notes
- Ghostbusters 2020 teaser
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer 1
- Ghostheads Kickstarter Documentary
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game
- Ghostbusters in Ad campaigns - QuickBooks - Halifax
- Interdimensional Crossrip
- IDW Comics Series’
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🕹️ Check out our latest titles: 🐠 Megaquarium and 🚀 Mars Horizon
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🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
⭐Please do rate the podcast and spread the word!
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
What is a typical day at a game development studio like? It's busy, hectic, but lots of fun. In this weeks episode you can find out what a day in the life of Auroch Digital is like as we work together to make games.
Please note, this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic. Our daily lives are currently very different from this, but we are still working hard to make great games. The Auroch Digital team is all staying home to save lives but we hope we can get back to this one day❤️
Show notes
- Want to get into the games industry? Check out our blog post with tips and advice to help you.
- Check out our store, we currently have some items on sale!
- If this is of interest, also check out past episodes; ‘What is it like working for an independent developer?’ (S1 E3) and ‘Setting up a company and a history lesson’ (S1 E1)
📝Sign up to our Newsletter to stay up to date with Auroch Digital
💬 Want to talk to us? Join our Discord
🕹️ Check out our latest titles: 🐠 Megaquarium and 🚀 Mars Horizon
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🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
⭐Please do rate the podcast and spread the word!
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
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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🕹️ Check out our latest titles: 🐠 Megaquarium and 🚀 Mars Horizon
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🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
⭐Please do rate the podcast and spread the word!
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
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
📝Sign up to our Newsletter to stay up to date with Auroch Digital
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🕹️ Check out our latest titles: 🐠 Megaquarium and 🚀 Mars Horizon
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🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
⭐Please do rate the podcast and spread the word!
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
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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🕹️ Check out our latest titles: 🐠 Megaquarium and 🚀 Mars Horizon
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🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
⭐Please do rate the podcast and spread the word!
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
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!
Show notes
💬 Want to talk to us about the podcast OR the game? Join our Discord
💥 Check out our games on Steam
🕹️ Grab our titles in The Totally Radical Auroch Digital 80s Gaming Bundle
🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
🙋 Any feedback? Drop us a line!
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
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!
Show notes
💬 Want to talk to us about the podcast OR the game? Join our Discord
💥 Check out our games on Steam
🕹️ Grab our titles in The Totally Radical Auroch Digital 80s Gaming Bundle
🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
🙋 Any feedback? Drop us a line!
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
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.
Show notes
💬 Want to talk to us about the podcast OR the game? Join our Discord
💥 Check out our games on Steam
🕹️ Grab our titles in The Totally Radical Auroch Digital 80s Gaming Bundle
🎙️ Missed an Episode? Find all of the Season here
🙋 Any feedback? Drop us a line!