• My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

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My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

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  • In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning writer for the New Yorker and The Observer newspaper's video game critic invites a well-known guest from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on their very own fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights.


    "Thoroughly modern and ahead of its time...a gift." - NEW YORK'S VULTURE

    "Charming, insightful." -- THE GUARDIAN.

    TIME OUT'S 50 Best Podcasts.


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  • Holly Gramazio, curator, novelist (The Husbands).

    Holly Gramazio, curator, novelist (The Husbands).
    Aug 20 2024

    My guest today is Holly Gramazio, a writer, curator, and game designer. Born in Australia, she earned her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, then moved to London where she founded the Somerset House-based games festival Now Play This, an annual celebration of experimental games.


    In 2019 she wrote the script for Dicey Dungeons, a game that subsequently sold 850,000 copies and won the Indiecade Grand Jury Prize. In April this year, Vintage Books published her debut novel “The Husbands”, in which a young single woman discovers a limitless supply of husbands in her attic. The Times has described the book as “a brilliant satire on the Tinder generation’s commitment issues.”


    LINKS


    • Holly's website
    • The Husbands generator
    • Now Play This festival
    • Simon's write up of this year's NPT


    (Photo by Diana Patient.)

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    1 h y 19 m
  • Listener Console Special #1

    Listener Console Special #1
    Aug 15 2024
    In this special episode, five My Perfect Console supporters share the games they would like to put on their ideal, fictional games machine, and the reasons behind their choices. If you would like to share your console with the My Perfect Console audience, head to www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole where you can become a supporter and receive a raft of these and other benefits.

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    22 m
  • Luke Muscat, gamemaker (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride).

    Luke Muscat, gamemaker (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride).
    Aug 13 2024

    My guest today is Luke Muscat, the Australian video game designer behind some of the best-known smart phone games yet made. After graduating from Queensland University of Technology with a degree in IT and Games, he joined Halfbrick Studio, a game developer in Brisbane that specialised in games licensed from film and TV.


    There he designed a simple yet compelling iPhone game in which players must slice fruit thrown into the air by swiping the device's touch screen with their finger. Fruit Ninja released in 2010. Within a year it had sold more than 20 million copies. In 2011 my guest developed another once-in-a-lifetime hit with Jetpack Joyride, a game that won a slew of design awards and that continues to be a bestseller today. After a stint working as head of design for the company that makes Snapchat, in 2022 my guest went independent, and is now preparing to release his first indie title, Feed The Deep, a lovecraftian deep sea roguelike.


    LINKS


    Feed the Deep Steam Page

    Luke's Game Dev YouTube Channel

    Quake 'Annihilation' video.

    Simon's 2013 New Yorker piece on 'endless runners'

    Daryl Baxter's 50 Years of Boss Fights.

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    1 h y 21 m
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