Game & Gadget Podcast #31 – Exploding Phones, Retro Future, Unity Chaos & More…

I am joined by Tony Warriner who is one of the founders of Revolution Software and Aaron Fothergill previously from Argonaut Games and now with Shifty Eye Games as we discuss more gaming, gadgets and technology both retro and modern.

Topics include:

The engineering conundrum of granny squares
You don’t have to be an expert in the field to write a game about a particular topic
Tony appears on more panels
Retro computers & consoles and inspiring the young
Unity Engine going downhill
The craziness of gaming marketing and advertising
The beauty of Apple skeuomorphism before iOS 7
Every operating system goes partially transparent
MacBook Pro 2015 craziness of design – goodbye ports, hello dongles
Collecting old phones and the battery bulging dangers
James gets himself another Commodore 64
The similarity of technology used on older retro computers
Disks surviving, discs rotting
Tony’s Amstrad CPC fixed and working
The loudness of 52x CD-ROM drives – spin spin spin!