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Horace Goes Podcasting: For Gamers with Pong Memories

Horace Goes Podcasting: For Gamers with Pong Memories

By: Kieron Brear and Jonny McNamara
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Kieron and Jonny explore topics and issues around gaming for folks in later life. How are our listeners taking this hobby into their retirement years? What will the games industry do to target this growing sector of gamers? We also want to hear your stories of games back in the day. There is a lot to explore about supporting older games, the use of games to help with health later in life, and staying competitive in multi-player environments. And we will have a lot of fun along the way!Kieron Brear and Jonny McNamara Science Fiction
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  • 5 - Reflections and Futures
    Jun 7 2025

    John and Kieron reflect on their favourite parts of the past four episodes and the great conversations we had with Nick, Terry, Eric and Dean. Drop your thoughts in the comments.

    We also talk about how we will change the focus of Horace Goes Podcasting. Listen to the full episode to find out where we're going next.

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    30 mins
  • 4 - Dean Mohamedally
    Mar 9 2025

    Dean Mohamedally is Professor of Computing Science at University College, London. His projects include many works for the betterment of the world through computing in many forms. He works with the UK NHS, IBM, Microsoft and Intel, among many other partners as part of his Industry Exchange Network Methodology. One project of interest to gamers is the MotionInput project, where Dean, his team and industry colaborators, including our very own John McNamara, have developed AI software that interprets movement in order to give control of devices to people with limb loss and other additional needs. This has opened up a world of gaming for them. Hear some fantastic stories from this project and how their tech can extend to later life gamers whose reactions and mobility are reducing. They have released an autism-friendly game that has lit up lives too - Superhero Sportsday.

    As well as these projects, in this episode Dean discusses his love for beat'em up games, his love for Sonic, frustration with complexity in games that prevents players finishing them and how AI could assist us through games.

    Some games mentioned this episode:

    • Marvel v Capcom
    • Street Fighter
    • Streets of Rage 4
    • Shinobi
    • Sonic the Hedgehog
    • Lunar Jetman

    Also, we mention the Jurassic Park and Toy Story films.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 3 - Eric Lagel
    Feb 7 2025

    Eric Lagel is a games producer who has worked in France, Canada and the UK, with Runescape, Crysis and Splinter Cell on his CV. He is deep into GTA Online and has sunk many, many hours in World of Warcraft. In addition to those games, we talk about his ideas for a magic shooter that will appeal more to older gamers, amazing story-focused games like Red Dead Redemption 2, and go off-brand to talk about Agile development and AI. John also gets to fanboi talking to someone who developed one of his all time favourite games, Splinter Cell.

    Follow us on Spotify and find us on social media onFacebookandInstagram. Join us there to discuss the episode.


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    1 hr and 4 mins

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