The Space Game Junkie Podcast is a show focused on classic and current space gaming topics, from interviews with developers to shows covering classic games, our podcast is part of the overall love letter to space gaming that is Space Game Junkie. :) You can subscribe via iTunes, Android, Stitcher, Amazon or RSS, and we record every Wednesday at 10 AM Pacific (or 6:00 AM if our guest is overseas) live on YouTube and Twitch unless otherwise noted on our calendar! Thanks for tuning in!
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SGJ Podcast #470 – Starcom: Unknown Space
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Lin of Wx3 Labs to talk about his sophomore entry into the Starcom series, Starcom: Unknown SpaceE! We talk a lot about the changes to the new game, Kevin’s history and game development philosophy, and more.... The post SGJ Podcast #…
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SGJ Podcast #469 – Loans and Debt in Gaming
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I take the barest thread of a topic, loans in gaming, and turn it into almost an hour of banter! Hooray! It’s a pretty fun show, so we hope you enjoy it! We are off next week, but we’ll be... The post SGJ Podcast #469 – Loans and Debt in Gaming appeare…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. Sorry for the delay in getting it out, I’ve been swamped at work and the week got away from me. So, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our regular check-ins, where we talk about what we’re playing (which you can see below)... The post SGJ Podcast #468 – Check-In appeared first …
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Hello, my friends, and welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Daniel Fedor of Blue Bottle Games to talk about his upcoming “Firefly episode generator,” OstranautsE! Now, we do talk about the game, but we also go on a LOT of fun tangents in this... The post SGJ Podcast #467 – Ostranauts appear…
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Hey friends, welcome back to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Jasper Pol, to talk about his amazing game, Taxinaut. The game just hit a major milestone, so we talk about its journey so far, why I personally find it so compelling, and ideas for the future. It’s... The post SGJ Podcast #466 – Taxinaut appear…
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SGJ Podcast #465 – Favorite Gaming Vacation Spots
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about video game locations at which we’d like to take a vacation or holiday. Independently, three of us came up with The Citadel from Mass Effect, but there were a lot of other great entries too, as you can... The post SGJ Podcast #465 – Favorite Gaming Vaca…
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SGJ Podcast #464 – Favorite Gaming Soundtracks
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I discuss our favorite video game soundtracks, the list of which you can see below! It’s a pretty wide-ranging list, and we had a lot of fun talking about all this wonderful music. Next week on the show, we’ll talk... The post SGJ Podcast #464 – Favorite Ga…
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Welcome to this week’s show. First, let me apologize for the audio. I forgot to hit record on my mixer, so the audio is taken straight from the video file I record as a backup. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Steve Hunt of Cold Beam Games to talk about... The post SGJ Podcast #463 – Beat Hazard 3 appeared first on …
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode of the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I build on our traversal topic from a couple of weeks ago and this time, we talk about fast travel. I wasn’t honestly sure we could make it into a full-blown topic, but lo and behold we... The post SGJ Podcast #462 – Fast Travel appeared firs…
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SGJ Podcast #461 – One-Hit Wonders, Part Two
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I revisit the topic of one-hit wonders in gaming, and we have even more fun games to talk about, the list of which you can see below. I’d not heard about many of these, some I’d forgotten about (like SimEarth),... The post SGJ Podcast #461 – One-Hit Wonders…
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Hey friends, welcome back to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about games with the best traversal, or movement. This idea came to me while I was traveling, recently. Sometimes game does a great job allowing you to move through the world, and we talk about a lot of... The post SGJ Podcast #460 – Traversal in Games …
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show, This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do one of our regular check-ins to talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It’s a fun, laid back show that should be a fun listen for y’all. :) So, we’re off for two weeks, as I’m... The post SGJ Podcast #459 – Check-In appeared first on Space …
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SGJ Podcast #458 – Gaming Cinderella Stories
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I talked about games that had a Cinderella story. You know, they had a rough start and have since flourished. We came up with a pretty fun list, which you can see below! Next week, we’ll do our regular check-in!... The post SGJ Podcast #458 – Gaming Cinder…
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SGJ Podcast #457 – Gaming Disasters
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Hello friends, and welcome! Sorry this episode is late, last week totally got away from me. Again. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about gaming disasters. These can be in-game disasters, or games that ended up being a disaster, and things get a bit spicy, in a good way. We have... The post SGJ Podcast #457 – Gaming Disaste…
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. Also apologies for the audio, my mixer took a dump in the middle of the stream so we’re using the video output’s audio. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our favorite gaming one-hit... The post SGJ Podcast #456 – One-Hit Wonder…
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Hey friends, welcome to the show!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Brock, Lead Developer at Pastaspace Interactive, to talk about his now-on-Steam-in-early-access space adventure, Underspace (SteamE, GOG)! I am disgustingly excited about this game, so I was just as excited to talk to Kevin about it, and we...…
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SGJ Podcast #454 – Architect of Worlds
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Hello my friends. Sorry this is a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week on the show, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I welcome John Zeigler to talk about his upcoming worldbuilding sourcebook, Architect of Worlds. We talk a lot about actual science — much of which goes over my dumb... The post SGJ Podcast #454 – Architect…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry the MP3 is a day late, but yesterday just totally got away from me! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our regular check-ins, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. A lot of awesome games came up,... The post SGJ Podcast #453 – Check-In appeared fir…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about tie-in games, and we come up with a really fun list. We actually had so much fun with this episode we’ll likely do more of them, as we all had multiple games we wanted to talk about.... The post SGJ Podcast #452 – Tie-in Games appeared first on…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry again for the unannounced/unscheduled break, but we’re back! Also apologies for the weird audio in the middle of the show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I, even though we’re all damned tired, spend time talking about the importance of breaks and moderation for one’s... The post SG…
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You guys, I am so sorry about the lateness on this one. Last week got away from me and somewhere in my brain I had SWORN I’d uploaded this. So, so sorry. So, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I bounce off our last topic to talk about onboarding, what it is, which... The post SGJ Podcast #450 – Welcome Onboarding appeared first on S…
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SGJ Podcast #449 – The Expectations of In-Game Information
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Hey friends, welcome to the show this week! Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday got away from me for a variety of reasons. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a lively debate about how much information should be given to the player in a given game. The fun thing is, we... The post SGJ Podcast #449 – The Expectations of In-Game In…
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SGJ Podcast #448 – Economic Space Games
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I talk about space games with an economic focus, along with our firsts and so on. It’s a fun topic, thought up by Julie, and we covered a lot of ground and had a ton of fun on the way. Next... The post SGJ Podcast #448 – Economic Space Games appeared first on Spac…
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Hey friends, welcome to this episode! Sorry for the lateness, last week totally got away from me! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a regular check-in, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It does wonders for our mental health and it’s fun to talk about what... The post SGJ Podcast #447 – Check-In ap…
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SGJ Podcast #446 – The New Rise of the Accessible Flight Sim
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! Sorry, it’s a day late, sadly yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down to talk about the new rise in accessible, approachable flight sims/games. This includes games like Tiny Combat Arena, Nuclear Option, and Helicopter Gunship DEX, amongst... The pos…
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SGJ Podcast #445 – Looking Ahead to 2024
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. First off, let me apologize for the sound, rather than using the recorder in my mixer…I forgot to turn it on, so the audio is a direct rip from the video file. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about many the games we’re hopeful... The post SGJ Podcast #445 – Looking Ahead to 2024 ap…
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Welcome to this week’s show, the last of 2023! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I pick our top space and non-space games of 2023, and while there are some usual suspects on the list, there are a lot of surprises as well. We’re off next week, see you back in here in... The post SGJ Podcast #444 – 2023 in Review appeared first on Sp…
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Hey friends, welcome to the show. Sorry this is a day late, but yesterday got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about deals. Winter sale season is upon us, so we list the tools you should be using to find the best deals, and the games we feel... The post SGJ Podcast #443 – Winter Sales appeared first on Space G…
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! So friends, this is an interesting one This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I were originally, I thought, going to talk about offline gaming, in terms of which games you should have on hand if you lose your Internet connection. Thorsten, shortly before we went live, suggested... The post SGJ Podcast #…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I can’t settle on a topic, so we decide to do a simple check-in, to see how we’re doing and what we’re playing. Let me tell y’all, the burnout is reeeealllll. We had a fun talk about games and such... The post SGJ Podcast #441 – Check-In appeared first on S…
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SGJ Podcast #440 – Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander 2.0
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Trevor Sorensen to talk about the newly-released Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander 2.0 (Steam, GOG)! We talk about the long, long journey it took to bring this new version of the game to sale, Trevor’s extensive experience... The post SGJ Podc…
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SGJ Podcast #439 – Games Preservation
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Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast. Sorry this one is a little late, last week totally got away from me. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the sticky subject of games preservation. While there are some bright spots, most of the time we express our frustration as... The post SGJ Podcast #439 – Games Pre…
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SGJ Podcast #438 – Our Essential Gaming Hardware
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the hardware that’s important to us, whether it’s a joystick, a portable console, a gamepad and so on. It was a really fun chat and a lot of fun pieces of kit came up, which you can... The post SGJ Podcast #438 – Our Essential Gaming Hardware a…
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SGJ Podcast #437 – Hidden Gems of our Steam Libraries
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Welcome to the show folks! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I look back into the depths of our Steam libraries to talk about games that are still worth playing, yet have been forgotten to the sands of time. We come up with quite the great list, as you can see below, and... The post SGJ Podcast #437 – Hidden Gems of our Steam Libra…
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SGJ Podcast #436 – Let’s Talk About Unity
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down for a (mostly) serious discussion about the ongoing Unity debacle. If you’re unaware, Unity changed their revenue deal a week or so ago, which sent pretty much the entirety of gaming up in arms against them. It’s... The post SGJ Podcast #436 – Le…
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Hey friends, sorry this one is a bit late, last week totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I play some Rifftrax: The Game, in order to celebrate 9,000 subscribers on YouTube. Since this is primarily a visual game, you might do better by watching the YouTube video, FYI.... The post SGJ Podcast #435 – I Love You…
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Welcome to this week’s show, friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David, and I welcome Brian and Max of Forbidden Realm Simulations to discuss their game, WarpVector! We talk a LOT about their game, roguelikes in general, and much more. It’s a really fun time! Next week, to celebrate our YouTube channel reaching 9,000... The post SGJ P…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode. First, I must apologize for this not being our best outing this week, which is entirely my fault. The sound went wibbly in the middle of the show — which forced me to use the YouTube recording for audio — and then I had some cat drama happening... The post SGJ Podcast #433 – The Banished Vault appeared f…
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SGJ Podcast #432 – Games That Should’ve Spawned a Genre
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a topic show in which we talk about games we feel should’ve launched their own genres, like Doom or Command and Conquer, for example. We went through a lot of games, and it was a really fun discussion.... The post SGJ Podcast #432 – Games That Should…
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SGJ Podcast #431 – Space Cats Tactics
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s podcast! This week, we’re doing something a little different. Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Alex Nicola of Mitzi Games to talk about his new game, Space Cats Tactics…but not in the voice chat. You see, Alex has a day job, so he couldn’t join us... The post SGJ Podcast #431 – Space Cats Tact…
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Friends, welcome to this week’s podcast, and I apologize, but it’s a weird one, and it’s totally my fault. Our guest was late because I sent him the wrong time on the Google Calendar invite. First (and hopefully last) time I’ve ever done that. So, for the first fifteen to twenty minutes, Spaz, Julie, Thorston,... The post SGJ Podcast #430 – The Tra…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back to the show Thomas Robertson of Incandescent Workshop LLC to talk about the latest entry in his long-running series of bridge crew simulators, Artemis Cosmos! We talk about the history of the series, the rise of bridge... The post SGJ Podcast…
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SGJ Podcast #428 – Delta V: Rings of Saturn
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Welcome to this week’s episode y’all! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome Koder from Kodera Software to talk about his about-to-it-1.0 space mining game, ΔV: Rings of Saturn! We talk a lot about the game’s origins, using godot, sticking to realistic physics and a lot more. It’s a real fun discussion,... The post SGJ Podcast…
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SGJ Podcast #427 – Star Shift Origins
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Doug of Psychronic Game Studios to talk about his current prologue game, Star Shift Origins, as well as the upcoming games in the series, Rebellion and Legacy! It’s a really fun discussion about game design, engines... The post SGJ Podcast #…
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Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the podcast, so sorry for its lateness but last week totally got away from me. This time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about localization, which goes far, far beyond just translating text. There are whole levels of nuance one needs to do a good localization,... The post SGJ Podcast #426 – Lo…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down with Shaun Randall of Edenic Era to talk about their upcoming spacey co-op adventure game, Lodestar! We talk a lot about the amazingness of Unreal, how the game levels are built, the idea for the game, and... The post SGJ Podcast #425 – Lodestar …
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down to talk about RPGs, and boy, do we talk a LOT about RPGs. This episode is the first in what will be a series of free-flowing discussion on various RPGs and types of RPGs. For example, in... The post SGJ Podcast #424 – RPGs appeared first on Sp…
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about paper, specifically documentation. We wax and wane about the “olden days” when games came in boxes along with printed manuals (and other fun stuff too). It’s a fun, free-flowing discussion in which we had a lot of... The post SGJ Podcast #423 –…
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SGJ Podcast #422 – Astra Protocol 2
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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome on Dan of Slice Bar Games to talk about his cassette-future space exploration, combat and death game, Astra Protocol 2! We’re just fascinated by this game, so we have a LOT of questions about it, which does lead... The post SGJ Podcast #422 – Astr…
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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have a loosey goosey check-in about what we’ve been playing and what we’re excited about. It turns out, we’ve all been playing quite a lot of awesome stuff, and you can see the list below! Next week, we’ll welcome on... The post SGJ Podcast #421 – Check-in appear…
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