• SGJ Podcast #500 – A Celebration of Space Game Development
    Aug 28 2025

    Hey friends, welcome to this milestone episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I look back at the seminal games of the last twelve years — since we began the podcast — and talk about how special they, and their developers, are to us. We covered a lot of games, and had a lot of...

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • SGJ Podcast #499 – Change and Burnout (i.e. Change is Coming to the Podcast)
    Aug 15 2025

    Hey friends, two apologies. First, sorry for it being a day late, yesterday got away from me, and secondly, I forgot to hit record on my mixer, so the audio is taken directly from the OBS video. I hope that’s okay. So, some big news this week. This week, the primary topic is that we’re...

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    38 mins
  • SGJ Podcast #498 – Spiritual Successors
    Aug 9 2025

    Hey friends, welcome to the show! I am sorry the MP3 was uploaded a bit late, real life conspired against me the last couple of days! Anywhoooo, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about spiritual successors! These are games that aren’t part of a series, but are a love letter/homage to a...

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    54 mins
  • SGJ Podcast #497 – Mods
    Jul 31 2025

    Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about mods. Why we love them, and which are some of our favorites, the list of which you can see below! Mods are a wonderful way to extend the life of a game, and there are a lot that we...

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    54 mins
  • SGJ Podcast #496 – Free-to-Play Games, Mostly
    Jul 24 2025

    Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about free-to-play games…eventually. I, sadly, misunderstood the assignment and thought we were talking about totally free games, not games that are initially free but have a range of buy-in mechanics to help monetize the game. Once we get on...

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    51 mins
  • SGJ Podcast #495 – Check-In
    Jul 17 2025

    Hey friends, welcome back to the show. As I said at the top of the episode, apologies for missing a couple of weeks, but it couldn’t be helped, as some — relatively minor — stuff was out of our control. We’re back though, and this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I do one of...

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • SGJ Podcast #494 – Recommended Mobile Space Games
    Jun 27 2025

    Hey friends, welcome to the show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I conclude our series on mobile gaming by talking about actual games you can play on various mobile devices, the list of which you can see below. These are games we’ve...

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    49 mins
  • SGJ Podcast #493 – Let’s Talk Emulation (for Mobile Gaming)
    Jun 19 2025

    Hey friends, welcome to the show!!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about emulation. Well, *I* mostly talk about emulation, namely the emulators that you can use to (LEGALLY) play your old games. I mostly talk Android, because we’re focusing on handheld devices and that’s where most of the best one’s...

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    47 mins