The Auroch Digital ‘How to Make a Game’ Podcast – with added Cthulhu, Space, Car Combat and Strategy Gaming

We’ve been doing a podcast for a while now, and the feedback has been positive. So I thought it was time to post about it here and point to a few episodes, below, you might find of interest?

Cthulhu Episodes

• Season 0 Episode 4, 5 & 6  – The Birth of Cthulhu, The Function Call of Cthulhu (pun!) & The Momentum of Cthulhu – These three are all about Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics. The first episode focused on what Cthulhu is and who this Lovecraft guy is, so a good introduction.
• Season 4 Episode 5 –  A potted history of Cthulhu games; from the original RPG down to the games being produced now, my personal history of Lovecraftian games.

Space (Mars Horizon) Episodes

• Season 0 Episode 1 – All on Mars Horizon. Season 0 Episode 1, 2 and 3 Mars Horizon Mission Control Gameplay Explained & Translating Space Engineering to Games
• Season 0 Episode 2 – Drama / Challenge, In-depth look at Mission Control & Meta Management Gameplay, UI design, and Meta Management playthrough
• Season 0 Episode 3 – Andrew Kuh of the UK Space Agency chats Mars and the inner workings of an agency with Tomas, Steve talks Mars Mission, and the Brodster details Event Systems
• Season 2 Episode 2 – Mars Horizon: Blast off! special episode about the spin-off boardgame we made.
• Season 4 Episode 3 & 4 – Visiting the European Space Agency parts 1 and 2. (Really pleased with S4 E3!)

Cat Combat (Dark Future) Episodes

• Season 3 Episode 1 – The Road to Hell: A History of Car Combat
• Season 3 Episode 2 – The Dark Future… in cardboard!
• Season 3 Episode 3 – How to make Dark Future, the video game
• Season 3 Episode 4 – Dark Future: Blood Red States in now live
• Season 3 Episode 5 – An interview with… James Swallow (amazing writer who also did Dark Future)

Strategy Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 4 – A potted history of turn-based tactical strategy part 1
• Season 1 Episode 5 – A potted history of turn-based tactical strategy part 2
• Season 0 Episode 4, 5 & 6  – Especially episodes 5 and 6 as Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics was a turn-based strategy game.

If you enjoy them, please do rate them on iTunes, or however you listen to your podcasts!

Also we’re working on Season 5 now, so subscribe to get them as they are released.

Thanks.

(There is an index of other podcast episodes, indexed, that we’ve done before, here)