And so the Beyond the Joystick internship podcast has come to an end. Today the roles are reversed as our professor Mathias Lux is interviewing the two of us about our experience of making a podcast.
Today we talked with Bernard François a game prototyping specialist & founder of PreviewLabs. https://previewlabs.com/
This week we interviewed Malcolm Craig a professor who does research in the Cold War period and links it with Tabletop Roleplaying games. https://handiwork.games/games/astate https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-arts-professional-and-social-studies/humanities-and-social-science/malcolm-craig
Fire Totem Games is an indie game studio in Klagenfurt. They are currently working on their first game A Webbing Journey. Tim interviews Sebastian Uitz and Michael Steinkellner about their journey to become full-fledged indie game developers. Listen along to learn about the whole experience. A Webbing Journey Adorable spider chaos! Swing around the house, weave crazy structures, play with physics-based objects, and pull off chores with nothing but your webs and your wits in this madcap sandbox adventure. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2073910/A_Webbing_Journey/ https://www.firetotemgames.com/
Today Tim interviews Imke about her research on psychology and video games. Imke tells about her research in using video games to garner wisdom and personal growth, video game addiction, violence through video games and much more! https://www.aau.at/en/team/harbig-imke-alenka/
Today Tim interviews Rover about his new job as a crisis management gamification consultant!
Modding is one of those topics in games that have a large impact on many parts. Many players love them and many hate them. Many developers love people modding their game and some developers hate it. In this episode we talk about the field of modding and culture around it.
Alexander Hurezeanu is a PhD Candidate at Toronto Metropolitan University in the Communication and Culture Graduate Program and a faculty member in the Centre for Preparatory and Liberal Studies at Toronto’s George Brown College. His podcast: https://storiesinplay.com/unarchived-podcast/
The two of us had a very nice and extended summer break from university and are now coming back into the swing of it! Over the break we went to conferences and in this episode we talk about our experience.
Today we talk with Federico Montalesi and Nikolay Markozov about their game Bubbles Breakout. They tell us about their journey to developing their own indie game and everything that comes with it! Check them out: https://linktr.ee/bubblesbreakout?utm_source=qr_code
Did you ever stop and think why an action game is an action game? Or what even a genre is? This week we talk about the strange world that is genre theory!
This week we interview René about his life in academia and his thoughts about the past, present and future of academia. Paragraphed quote from the podcast: Games have become the dominant mode of experiencing humanity for younger people. Citation: Schallegger René Reinhold. January 2023. From High Heroism to Abject Abyss: Ethical Aspects of Highly Aestheticised and Critical Videogames. beyondthejoystickcast@gmail.com
If there is one thing that games need to do it is make money. In this episode, we talk about monetization in video games, how developers can get funding and some of the ethical considerations when it comes to games and money. This episode was edited by artificial intelligence, let us know what you think!
This week Tim brought a paper he read on problematic games. What are problematic games? Why is it important to talk about them? Content warning: This episode includes topics that can be disturbing to some listeners. Paper: Ostritsch, Sebastian. 2017. The amoralist challenge to gaming and the gamer’s moral obligation.
This week Tim and Rover have an off-the-cuff chat about Artificial intelligence in games! What is the impact of AI? How do we see it in the future? What do we like and dislike about it? What about ethics?
This week we interview Mathias about the engineering side of things in the gaming world. Join us in the banter about cracking games, game jams, ai and more. Podcast of Mathias
This week Tim interviewed one of our great professors Felix Schniz. Join Tim and Felix in a great interview about games, academics, the industry and more!
Listen to Tim and Rover talk about the basic concept of Game Engineering. What is an engine? What are the roles in the industry to make a game? What is a game jam?
Listen to Tim and Rover talk about the basic concept within Game Studies. What is a game? What is play? The magic circle?
In session 0 we talk about what Beyond the Joystick is and what Tim and Rover are going to do with this podcast! Bare with us as both of us have no idea on how to podcast and are trying to figure it all out! Join us on our journey of exploration!