LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 20 - All Change

We've slightly updated the format of the show to make it snappier, hipper and more productive! Please tell us what you think of the new format by leaving a comment.

Omar quizzes us on ESRB ratings, Tarik greenlights a discussion about Steam's efforts to help indie developers and Sam reveals he doesn't want any more shaders. After all of which, they talk about Contre Jour.

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Hosts: Sam Barker, Omar Bobat, Tarik Bensaria, Dominic Aldridge.
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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 19 - Did You Miss Us?

We've been far too busy doing interesting and constructive things, so this overdue podcast will have to suffice. We talk about emotional games, crunch (not the chocolate bar, unfortunately) and whether we've all achieved our summer goals. Omar tells us about Shogun 2, Peter talks Guild Wars 2 and Sam has technical difficulties. Enjoy!

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 18 - Slow News Month

It's officially Slow News Month here on the LCC Games Podcast! Sam and Dom are joined by new girl Supreet to talk about what makes an excellent game, Mass Effect 2, Steam sales and that feeling of nostalgia not being quite right.

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Hosts: Sam Barker, Dominic Aldridge, Supreet Kaur.
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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 17 - Architecturally Speaking

New kid on the block Tarik joins a few regulars this week to thank you for your support at the end of year show! We also talk about bringing in architects and economists to work on games and the latest Kickstarter craze Ouya as well as Oh My Game, Batman and Peter's secret desire to be a dictator.

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Thanks for coming!

We've finally recovered from our roaringly successful end of year show! Thank you to everyone who came and played our games, we hope you enjoyed playing them as much as we enjoyed making them. For those of you who couldn't make it, we've put together a short recap video so you can pretend you were there all along. 

Now that we have completely finished for the summer, the podcast frequency might drop a little but we'll continue posting them occasionally and come back in full force next academic year. See you then!

Games at the Show - Balance of Control

Welcome to our Games at the Show feature in which we will be talking to the creators of some of the games being shown at the End of Year Show. Today we have Balance of Control by Saiful Islam and Matthew Hoong.

What's your game called and what is it about?

Our game is called Balance of Control and it is about keeping the peace in the city streets from the two rival gangs.

Games at the Show - Aurora

Welcome to our Games at the Show feature in which we will be talking to the creators of some of the games being shown at the End of Year Show. Today we have Aurora, created by Samuel Barker and Shan Blackwood, with sound by Sam Conran.

What's your game called and what is it about?

Aurora is a romantic experiential game for two people. The particpants must coordinate to generate and ignite solar winds to compose a unique aurora.

Games at the Show - Apocalypse

Welcome to our Games at the Show feature in which we will be talking to the creators of some of the games being shown at the End of Year Show. Today we have Apocalypse, created by Jonathan English, Kin Chan and Jenny Rowe.

What's your game called and what is it about?

Apocalypse, it's a collapsing city with obstacles crashing down blocking your path to escaping.

Games at the Show - Fun Guy

Welcome to our Games at the Show feature in which we will be talking to the creators of some of the games being shown at the End of Year Show. Today we have Fun Guy, created by Supreet Kaur, Sam Aldridge, TzePing Tung and Pedro Guera.

What's your game called and what is it about?

Our game is aptly called Fun Guy, our main character is a mushroom with a mission. The dastardly rockers  have stolen the entire colour from 1960’s London, leaving it lifeless and drab, a shell of its former dashing self, and Fun-Guy is going to inject colour using his trusty guitar and hippiness.

LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 16 - Happy Father's Day!

First thing's first: come to our End of Year Show! Check out our post about it here!

Shan and Omar join Sam to talk about Peter Molyneux's 22Cans, financial morality and ultraviolence in games, scary! But it's not all heavy stuff as we give a shout out to all the gaming dads for Father's Day, talk about Tropico 4 and recommend Botanicula.

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 15 - Indie/Mainstream Mashup!

E3 is upon us, so we talk about that for far too long. We also recommend a few games we played at the Indie Games Expo, including hand-sketched puzzler The Bridge and one-button addictiveness Swift*Switch.

We also tell you about our end of year show, at which you'll be able to play all of our delightful games we've discussed on the show and many more! Check out our post about it here.

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ORIGINATORS - End of Year Show!

As the university year has come to an end, we begin working towards the end of year show, and we are inviting all the fans of the LCC Games Podcast to join us! We will be showing some of our best games to the public and we can't wait for you to play them. We might even persuade you with beer!

We'll be showing:

• Aurora, a romantic experiential game for two people.
• Apocalypse, a collapsing city with obstacles crashing down blocking your path to escaping.
• Fun Guy, a retro, rockin' platformer with mushrooms and music.
• Balance of Control, a game about keeping the peace in the city streets from the two rival gangs.
• Also: Blox - a dynamic platformer, Test-a-Ball - a challenging ball game, Fuzz - a cute strategy game and many more!

The private viewing is on Thursday June 28th from 6 - 9pm and the exhibition will continue until the 5th July. It will also include students' work from the Animation, Graphic & Media Design and Media Practice courses and many more! Let us know you're coming using the event on Facebook!

All of the details about the show can be found on the LCC website. We look forward to seeing you there!

LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 14 - They Think It's All Over

We have officially finished this year of university, so now we talk about our plans for making games in the summer and beyond. Keith has a big announcement, we look at the 38 Studios collapse and talk about the UK industry compared with Hideo Kojima's descriptions of the Japanese industry.

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 13 - Bring on the Payne

After a week of silence we're back in full force to bring you all the games insight you'll ever need. We look back at Andy Lemon's audio talk, we look forward to finishing our games and we gaze adoringly at Max Payne 3. We also talk about Sony's troubles and Activision's activities.

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 12 - Highs and Lows

Peter rejoins the line-up this week to talk about a whole bunch of things, from sound to depression. We talk about game exhibitions, how John Cleese thinks we can be productive, another new adventure game and a MMORPG that treats depression. Omar also has his weekly Trials gush, which is simply unmissable.

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 11 - The Big Interview

We are very lucky to have an interview with Col Rodgers on this week's show! Col is Chief Game Designer at Codemasters and is also working on an awesome car-wrecking game for iOS called Carnage. We chat about our new buddy Frazer Nash and talk about the latest game announcement to (not) shake the world: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Don't miss this one!

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 10 - The Big One Zero

For a very special number 10, we've got a very special episode. It might not sound special, but it is! We spill the beans about the games we're working on this term, we discuss the visit from Codemasters and we become more nerdy than you could ever imagine when we talk about our New Star Soccer stats.

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 9 - I'll Be Back

There's talk about the future, paranoia and Terminator this week so it was totally deliberate when Omar started turning into a robot. Totally deliberate. We also talk about Valve's eyewear solutions, Notch's new space programming game and governments playing the latest fighting/war game mash-up Age of Empires X Tekken.

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 8 - Too Many Cooks

There's a gaggle of game design students on the show this week talking about EA's latest controversy, Capcom's latest controversy and Keith conjures up 2013's GOTY in Wine Drinking Simulator.

Here are the links for some of the things mentioned on the show: Caine's Arcade, Jenova Chen interview and Limbo.

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 7 - Imagine a Games Podcast...

Keith and Shan join Sam around his virtual fireplace to talk about university, games and lots more. They leap from game jams to retail economics and from consoles to cats in no time at all, can you keep up?

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 6 - Get Me a Cold One

It's an intimate pod with only three hosts, but don't let that fool you, it was as triffic as it ever was! Dom cracks open a brew and elaborates upon his views about the Mass Effect 3 ending debacle, Sam shows his distaste for both hardcore and casual games and Keith holds it all together like several rolls of sticky tape.

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MassDirection: Should Bioware change the endings for Mass Effect 3?

Earlier this month millions of players saw the N7 chest plate leave the Normandy’s bridge for the last time; her engines are quiet now, and the stories of those she carried to war finished... WRONG! Unless you were perhaps stranded on a planet somewhere, you’ll probably have heard of the outpouring of displeasure by fans, at both the way in which the Mass Effect 3 endings were laid out and the endings themselves. In responce to this Bioware (the developers of the game) released a statement saying that they were looking at altering the end game sequences and cut scenes. This phenomenon brings up the idea of authorship and the question; even if the Bioware can change the ending, should they?

LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 5 - Money, Money, Money

We've had a break from podcasting so we're back! Fresh-faced and raring to go or even more drowsy than usual, you decide! We talk about our productive Easter break, we give you good news and bad news about the UK games industry and Omar talks about his friend Jack Daniels.

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 4 - Keith's new briefs

Leap week means it's an action-packed, fast-paced podcast for you! We talk about cash grabbing mobile games, Keith gets SSXy, Sam gets his geography wrong and new podder Shan is as wise as he ever was.

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Against the Wall

Against the Wall is a puzzle-platformer that looks very promising. Partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the game has a playable alpha version on it's website. Go check it out!

LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 3 - Third Time Lucky

It's a magical episode this week as we introduce Dom's dulcet tones for your listening (dis)pleasure. We chat about narrative, crowd-sourced funding, accessible development tools and the Mass Effect 3 demo.

Don't forget to answer the poll question: should games be considered a 'traditional' form of narrative?

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LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 2 - Deadline Day

We have a deadline discussion and a Photoshop fight as we vent about video games. Also, Omar's upset, Peter's doing great and Keith isn't available. You can't miss this one!

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Community funded titles

An interesting article pertaining to the nature of community funded games. In particular, Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert's request for fan funding for their next creation.

The Cat that Got the Milk

Check out this superbly styled indie game, The Cat the Got the Milk, made by four people interested in games being more artistic and interesting.

Student Film Festival London

LCC hosted the Student Film Festival this weekend. I went along to see a collection of post-modern and naturalist shorts. Here is one of my favourites.

LCC Games Podcast - Ep. 1 - It starts!

This week we talk about duplication vs inspiration, Keith tells us about Star Wars: The Old Republic and we discuss what we've been hard at work doing for our course.

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