One Life Left

Hullo! Still no Ann or SSG but we battle on regardless, two stalwarts of the gaming industry vs the post-covid world! Here is episode 3 of the "Lockdown Season", or episode 24 of season 20, or episode 409 in total (not including Lost Episodes etc...) - a subject that could be debated by future historians for years upon unearthing an archive of OLL episodes on a dusty old hard drive found down behind an Ikea rocking chair that nobody seemed to want... Speaking of, if anyone wants an Ikea rocking chair, do let us know! This is One Life Left, a radio show about video games! Is the sound quality better this week? Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.twitch.tv/singmaraoke/ Reviews: https://mafiagame.com/mafia/ https://www.thealmostgone.com/ https://www.monsterexpedition.com/ https://www.supergiantgames.com/games/hades/ Tracklist: Bolt by Moldeiner https://chipmusic.org/Moldeiner/music/bolt Dream Catastrophe by Dissimulation https://chipmusic.org/Dissimulation/music/dream-catastrophe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we discover the top 3 items for panic buying during lockdown were, in fact, toilet paper, hand sanitizer and Ring Fit Adventure! Who would've thought?! We also drag memories of The Generation Game back from the depths, consider buying the PS5 Tape Deck Edition and discover Ste's one and only video game purchase from Morrisons! It will astound you! Cheerio! Team OLL x Reviews: http://paradisekiller.com/ https://www.bulletsperminute.com/ https://www.monsterexpedition.com/ Tracklist: Oi I'm Back by Cuby The Box https://chipmusic.org/CubyTheBox/music/oi-im-back Lost Cat by Feryl https://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/lost-cat Bolt by Moldeiner https://chipmusic.org/Moldeiner/music/bolt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After the longest break in OLL history, the team are back! Well, two of us are - Get well soon, Ann! Recorded from the comfort of our own homes, amongst other things we ponder why Eastenders tried to ignore covid, how good a deal the new Xbox is and how much money we'll spend on Nintendo with the upcoming release of "Super Mario 3D - (Almost) All (of the) Stars"! Not forgetting Simon's magic laptop cover. Covid-19, the lockdown and coping in a "new normal" world can't keep us down! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.twitch.tv/stecurran https://www.twitch.tv/singmaraoke/ Reviews: https://www.quanticdream.com/en/detroit-become-human https://www.iceberg-games.com/radical-relocation/ https://tombraider.square-enix-games.com/en-gb https://www.spinchthegame.com/ https://supermegabaseball.com/ https://pgatour.2k.com/ http://www.curve-digital.com/en-us/games/featured/49/hotshot-racing/ http://paradisekiller.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285160/Depanneur_Nocturne/ Tracklist: Lost Cat by Feral https://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/lost-cat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Who doesn’t watch the Watchmen? It’s one of the most iconic questions of all time, and we finally answer it in this episode. Other questions that we asked are: - Did Ste get any disapproving looks over the weekend? - What is Simon not going to do in San Francisco? - How many consoles do the RNIB own? - What is Simon’s latest purchase? - What are the ingredients of pasta? - Did Ann break her Switch? - What is pre writing? - How many tweets do you need to prove Simon wrong? - What’s happening with GDC Maraoke? Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ https://candybox2.github.io/candybox/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fasho.gravity&hl=en_GB Reviews: https://www.mediatonicgames.com/game/murder-by-numbers https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/dragon-quest-xi-s-echoes-of-an-elusive-age-definitive-edition-switch/ http://www.lockpickle.com/ Tracklist: 1. Sanczo Zapiekanka - tri2 https://chipmusic.org/Sanczo+Zapiekanka/music/tri2 2. Lakitunes - End of the Day https://chipmusic.org/Lakitunes/music/end-of-the-day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Super-Special Guest this week, but we did have Simon ‘Two Mics' Byron in the studio which we weren't expecting, and neither was he. But why was he in the studio, and did it have anything to do with Ann's big news story? We planned an OLL Road Trip/Roadshow, but I wasn't invited so I'm not really that bothered about it. In fact I was accused of being the OLL Super-Spreader, which I could be offended by, but I think it's the OLL equivalent of the Tiswas Phantom Flan Flinger so I'm taking it as a compliment. We also found out which of the team had been inappropriate at work, worked out if a car was cosmetic, and decided if we were on the side of Netflix or Chooseco. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://discord.gg/6bzswZM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson https://www.coopinnovations.co.uk/games/spaceteamvr/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6baUgSXXpaY Reviews: https://jeremycouillard.itch.io/jef https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lifeslide/id1472966619 Simon's Handheld https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Cannonball https://louisrigaud.itch.io/iris-and-the-giant Tracklist: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Resilience https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/resilience 2. Lakitunes - End Of The Day https://chipmusic.org/Lakitunes/music/end-of-the-day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The mystery of the missing stamps is still ongoing. Or, for the returning Ann, it starts today. Given the recent announcement of a price rise this means that the absent package will be worth 8.5 percent more at the end of the month than it did when they were first sent. If we don't find them by the end of the year they will be likely worth millions. We tried to work out if Switches were stereotyped, didn't try to work out what the plural of a Switch is, Ann forgot and then remembered a very good joke, and Simon got a bit upset about the Geforce Now. We also learnt about a cross promotion that Angry Birds was doing, but given it was Angry Birds maybe we should have said it was a very cross promotion. Clever wording we know, cheers. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.gdconf.com/ https://twitter.com/SingMaraoke/status/1232681780412604417 Reviews: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tint/id1451786388 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213550/Devils_Kiss/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/Lair_of_the_Clockwork_God/ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/DRAGON-QUEST-XI-S-Echoes-of-an-Elusive-Age-Definitive-Edition-1514406.html# https://www.skookum-arts.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033220/The_Amazing_Shrinking_Giraffe/ Tracklist: 1. Dante's dmg- 2020 https://chipmusic.org/9-Heart/music/gelegenheitsmusik-lsdj 2. Dumbug (UK) - Wonky https://chipmusic.org/Dumbug+%28UK%29/music/wonky-[nanoloop27wip] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do you do for videogame news when your HR director/first choice newsreader is on approved holiday? Normally we would go to our second choice local newsreader, but he was watching 1917 for his 40th birthday and couldn't really be bothered to write anything (see also: all Local News features for the past two seasons). This meant Ste and Simon had to resort to crowdsurfing the news instead. Of course, they could have spent ten minutes writing some jokes themselves, but where is the fun in that. Unfortunately for the show, but luckily for the prospective guest, and unluckily for Simon's affections we didn't manage to get a Super-Special Guest this week. This meant that we had some additional time to talk about VR and how it has changed over the past few years, but more importantly we spoke about how Ste has damaged VR headsets over the years. We also explained our innovative ways that we loaded games in the past, tried to work out where our post was, and had a Mario Tennis review rally. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLj-xibrpoM https://www.humblebundle.com/games/vr-bundle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083chrx https://noblefailure.org/ Reviews: https://www.capybaragames.com/Grindstone/ https://www.bigant.com/all-game-list/ao-tennis-2/ https://hempuli.com/baba/ https://thewitcher.com/en/thronebreaker-witchertales http://imageform.se/game/steamworld-quest/ Tracklist: 1. Acidic Void - End of Summer 98 https://chipmusic.org/AcidicVoid/music/end-of-summer-98 2. Sharp Edge - Climbing for Flowers https://chipmusic.org/SharpEdge/music/sharp-edge---climbing-for-flowers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sorry for the late upload this week, real life got in the way for the Caretaker. In theory next week should be ok, but he also thought that this week was going to be fine so we'll see how that forecast goes. In terms of this week's episode we didn't have a Super-Special Guest, but we did have a Super-Special Ann. We spoke about Ste and Simon creating content, we worked out what our individual Beat Saber styles were, and Simon saved the planet. Short intro we know, but if we go any longer this won't be uploaded until Sunday. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ http://www.thetriforce.com/ https://meditations.games/ https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/cjcsurreyhalf Reviews: https://housemarque.com/games/resogun https://vrwalkingdead.com/ https://cloudheadgames.com/pistol-whip/ https://www.megacrit.com/ https://games.sega.com/supermonkeyball/ Tracklist: 1. Cuby The Box - Bit Crush https://chipmusic.org/CubyTheBox/music/bitcrush 2. Scanian Wolf - The Exclusive Animal Forest Animal Winter Party https://chipmusic.org/ScanianWolf/music/the-exclusive-annual-forest-animal-winter-party Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a break last week due to illness, work, and work illness two of the team returned to the studio to open double post, say testicle on air and work out how many countries there are. And by countries we might mean a sovereign state that's a member of the UN in its own right. Or maybe we don't. At least we had Jennifer Schneidereit from Nyamyam Games in the studio as a Super-Special Guest. She spoke about her latest game Astrologaster, which is based on the real-life story of Simon Foreman, who claimed he could cure the plague by reading the stars. Unfortunately Astrologaster is such a good game that it resulted in Jennifer being cyber-stalked by Ste (from a safe, respectful distance). Next time, if you don't want to have Ste's attentions don't make a funny game, and don't include madrigals for each character in your game. It worked for the creator of Bangman. We also played news snap, entered a new word into the Official OLL Style Guide, and tried to figure out what E3 activations are. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/nyyjen https://twitter.com/nyamyamgames https://www.eagexpo.com/ https://actualrealityarcade.wordpress.com/ Reviews: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/The-Witcher-3-Wild-Hunt-Complete-Edition-1575086.html https://www.oculus.com/quest/ https://www.oculus.com/vader-immortal/ https://beatsaber.com/ https://www.thebinarymill.com/gunclub_vr.php https://www.tangletowergame.com/ https://www.patreon.com/sokpop https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/12658/Sokpop_Deluxe_Games/ https://www.humblebundle.com/g/temtem Tracklist: Coconums/Polterheist! - Infancy https://chipmusic.org/Coconums/music/polterheist!---infancy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's our 400th episode! To celebrate this non-provable fact we managed to successfully not answer any questions that our listeners sent in, launched the RIO scheme, and invented a new stamp. More importantly, we had Deborah Mensah-Bonsu from Space Ape Games on as a Super-Special Guest. She was on to advertise the already sold-out Games For Good event, which is about how games can actually be for good. We already knew about this (see: Bangman) but it's still good to hear. Plus it means that you are all ahead of the curve to book tickets for the second annual Games For Good. Ann also managed to get some good exclusives out of Deb around what games Space Ape is working on. We're looking forward to colourful years ahead. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/games-for-good-tickets-83781164719 https://twitter.com/SpaceApeGames https://twitter.com/debmensahbonsu https://www.playdiaries.com/ Reviews: https://thewitcher.com/en/witcher3 https://callofjuarez.com/ https://goose.game/ http://www.mychildlebensborn.com/ https://divinity.game/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lego-builders-journey/id1441636691 Tracklist: adaMills - Smooth Rider https://chipmusic.org/adaMills/music/smooth-rider Mystery Stain - Hydrochloride https://chipmusic.org/mysterystain/music/hydrochloride-[lsdj] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We all know that the people who read this part of the podcast are more involved in OLL Lore than the average (Yo) Joe, so you might be able to answer a question that Team OLL have never been able to successfully do. Does a new season of OLL start after the Christmas break, or only after our summer holidays (like school)? Our methodology has changed over time, which means that we've been going for nearly 14 years yet have 20 seasons under our belts. 21 if you count this as a new one. Which we aren't. Yet. But anyway. Our first show back for a new decade sees the full team in the studio to talk about New Years parties, the best way to make roasties, and how we would all check games. We also had a news quiz, found out that Ste is a snitch and had a live GDC Maraoke update. Next week is our 400th episode. Unless you count those OLL Knights episodes, or the literally unbroadcastable ones from GameCity. Anyone want to become the Official OLL Librarian? Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://gamesdonequick.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/588786941954588 Reviews: http://imageform.se/game/steamworld-dig-2/ https://toast.gg/ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/Dr-Kawashima-s-Brain-Training-for-Nintendo-Switch-1656777.html https://divinity.game/ https://beatsaber.com/ Tracklist: Tsuwami - Resolution https://chipmusic.org/Tsuwami/music/resolution amateur lsdj - Blasphemy https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/blasphemy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're writing this in a rush so that the episode gets uploaded before half past. Therefore this will be a very short introduction. It's a full team episode with two Super-Special Guests. SSG One is Luke Williams from Bossa Studio talking about their new game - Surgeon Simulator 2 - that got announced at the Video Game Awards. And our Second Super-Special Guest (SSSG) was Sarah Brin, who took us on an audio tour of Meow Wolf's immersive exhibition in Santa Fe. Cheerio and see you next year! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg https://twitter.com/eternz https://twitter.com/dinosaurrparty https://twitter.com/gracebruxner https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8404614/ http://www.adhousebooks.com/comics/popehats1.html Reviews: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/The-Witcher-3-Wild-Hunt-Complete-Edition-1575086.html https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/peggle/peggle-blast https://noitagame.com/ http://www.cardofdarkness.com/ https://frogdetective.net/ https://zaumstudio.com/# https://wanderso.ng/ http://www.wilmotswarehouse.com/ Tracklist: Chvrches - Death Stranding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFGq92BYmt4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's another full studio this week as Ann, Ste and Simon welcomed Leo Zullo and Gareth Williams on the show to not talk about their day jobs. Instead we let them tell us all about Safe In Our World, which is the charity they co-founded that has the aim to promote and improve mental health in the videogame industry. They've helped Emily Richards remaster her Bafta award-winning game Fractured Minds, which is available to purchase and download on all major platforms. In a Schaffer-centred start to the show we found out how old Lewis is, what he eats, and what time of the year it is best to wear his headphones. Simon went viral, Ann told us about her special advent calendar, and Ste sang dark songs with his daughter. But most of all, we were disappointed by Google. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://safeinourworld.org/ https://twitter.com/SafeInOurWorld https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/oxsong https://twitter.com/leo_zullo https://twitter.com/Shakacarnage Reviews: https://www.ea.com/games/peggle/peggle-blast https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/marvels-spider-man-ps4/ https://noitagame.com/ https://www.lostember.com/ http://oldmansjourney.com/ https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/death-stranding-ps4/ https://www.devolverdigital.com/games/heave-ho Tracklist: Oxventure Presents - Literally Everyone Else in the World https://youtu.be/_gZmP3wcuiU Coconums - Worker https://chipmusic.org/Coconums/music/worker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

War? Huh? What is it good for? Giving videogame podcasts an easy introduction when they're a bit stuck for ideas. And now it's a good idea for a card game. We had Ivar and Gundi in from 1939 Games to talk about Kards (with a K), a card game based on World War II. It allows alliances to be made across the divide, and friendship is always the main aim of One Life Left. Just ask Keith Stuart and Simon Parkinson for proof. Ivar and Gundi told us how 1939 Games was started, how easy is it to get a grant from the Icelandic government, and what it was like moving from CCP Games to 1939 Games. Kards has been in early access since April, but will be officially launched in February. It's going to have a physical card version as well as a computer one. It was a super full studio this week as Ann didn't have secret work to do, Simon wasn't doing secret work in Tenerife and Ste didn't have to lecture any sleeping students. We also tried to work out the mysteries of the University of Chichester, remembered how good looking the Bitmap Brothers were, and clarified how comfy Everyman cinemas were. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/KARDSccg https://twitter.com/1939GAMES https://www.kards.com/ https://blog.counter-strike.net/ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maraoke-christmas-party-tickets-82942185309 Reviews: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/fifa/fifa-20 https://www.minionmastersthegame.com/ https://rival-games.com/tot/ https://www.ea.com/games/peggle/peggle-blast https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/marvels-spider-man-ps4/ https://noitagame.com/ https://www.capybaragames.com/Grindstone/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076880/Air_Marty/ Tracklist: Tsuwami - After Dark https://chipmusic.org/Tsuwami/music/after-dark Shirobon - On The Run https://shirobon.bandcamp.com/album/dimensions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's literally a two man crew in the studio this week as Ann was away doing work stuff. And whilst Simon was back from Tenerife he sounded a little distant at the beginning. Luckily this meant that Ste could use this space to develop his range of videogame journalist impressions in his latest attempt to become Rory Bremner. Rory B-REM-ner, if you will, and you probably won't. We found out what Simon had been doing in Tenerife, Ste moved into the world of triple-A games, and we took the opportunity to literally settle some old scores. Clever wording we know, cheers. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://lovenikki.world/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Me-Mike-Yarwood/dp/0352398302 https://noitagame.com/ Reviews: https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/jedi-fallen-order https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/Luigi-s-Mansion-3-1437312.html Tracklist: Klamm - Magical Sounds https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/magical-sounds M.E.B. - Top Gear Remix https://chipmusic.org/M.E.B/music/top-gear-remix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the Team went into the studio they took a moment to do a quick roll call. Ste - check. Ann - check. CD with the theme tune on - definitely check. Simon - Simon? Anyone? Simon? Apparently Simon was in Tenerife, but it was unclear if this had been cleared with HR. If you tune in next week this mystery will definitely be solved (assuming we remember it). There was also no Super-Special Guest this week which meant Ste and Ann could talk about the most important subject in videogames over the past seven days which as we all know was: What was the most boring thing we have done recently? We tried to work out if Ann had AR glasses, were fully entranced by Ste's Noita chat, and nearly went back on our letter ruling from last week. But we didn't. Team OLL has made a unanimous decision and we will stick with it, even if it affects our content levels. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Horror https://noitagame.com/ Reviews: https://www.thebradwellconspiracy.com/ https://www.ea.com/games/peggle/peggle-blast https://www.capybaragames.com/Grindstone/ https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear2/ https://sociablesoccer.com/ http://guildlings.com/ Tracklist: Gala - OPL2 + Reverb https://chipmusic.org/Gala/music/opl2--reverb Feryl - mahjong https://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/mahjong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full team came into the studio with sufficient time for the show to start, only to find that the mixing desk didn't want to play fair. Was it upset that we didn't have a show last week? We may never find out. This did mean that this week's episode is one minute shorter than usual, but we increased the quality of the rest of the episode by 1.7% so you won't see any difference (statistic provided by Ann Scantlebury). We managed to get Tom Vian from SFB Games in to talk about Tangle Tower, their latest release, and Snipperclips. Both games were launch titles for Apple Arcade and the Switch respectively so we had lots of questions about how what it was like dealing with Nintendo and Apple. Tom tried his best to answer those questions, without ruining any future relationships. Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game that's also available on Switch and Steam. There's also a soundtrack available, and we played some of it on the show. But more importantly, how do you make your own Snipperclips joycons? There was also confusion about if the Playdate console had been released, Ste had an update from Reboot Develop, Simon might have finally got baseball out of his system (but his Switch habit is getting out of control). Best of all, we had a Damo update. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://adventurexpo.org/ http://www.sfbgames.com/ https://twitter.com/SFBTom https://twitter.com/SFBDim Reviews: https://goose.game/ https://www.mosaiccorp.biz/ https://www.capybaragames.com/Grindstone/ https://www.daedalic.com/state-of-mind Tracklist: Hide Your Tigers - Dream Diver https://chipmusic.org/Hide+Your+Tigers/music/decaying-tigers--dream-diver-lsdj Rafael Benjamin Meyer - Detective Grimoire and the Mystery of Tangle Tower https://sfbgames.bandcamp.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After last week’s transport trials we were happy to see the full team in the studio in time for the episode to start. But which one of us missed a flight in the past seven days? And which of us took advantage of the free cable cars that were available thanks to Extinction Rebellion? And did Ann get some shots? There was no Super-Special Guest this week, but we took that as an opportunity to clarify if you needed to wear pants while playing videogames. We also found out if Dexter listens to One Life Left, worked out who was who in Ann’s family, and which of Ann’s naughty grandparents disgusted her the most with their videogame antics. There was some confusion about the location of a letter that Tim Miller sent in, we thought Simon had found it, but maybe he didn’t. And we requested that our listeners send in cakes to the show, which works for Test Match Special. Just don’t do what a listener did with a cake that they sent to Mike Mendoza. That did not end well, or broadcastable. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://store.steampowered.com/app/979120/Autonauts/ https://www.exploreyork.org.uk/event/simon-parkin-a-game-of-birds-and-wolves/ https://zaumstudio.com/ Reviews: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/assemble-with-care/id1450498694 https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/sniper-elite-3-ultimate-edition-switch/ https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear2/ https://noitagame.com/ Tracklist: Cuby The Box - Hello Chips https://chipmusic.org/CubyTheBox/music/hallo-chips Tsuwami - Concrete Candy https://chipmusic.org/Tsuwami/music/concrete-candy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full team was back this week for almost the full episode. But which of the team let us down and came in late? Was it Ann, who finally got to show Simon her new party trick? Was it Ste, who managed to get confused as to what skeuomorphism is? (It’s like Link’s Awakening all over again) Or was it Simon, who has had a terrible week in videogame baseball? The answer is held within this episode. And gets answered within the first ten seconds after the theme finishes. Luckily there more to this week’s episode than that. We also had live Fortnite updates, worked out which games company is going to be our next big score, and found out which of the team has been the closest to firing a gun. And if you’re a tv company looking for a new brand to option, could you contact us as soon as possible? We’d be prepared to put you in our Apple Arcade family if that helps. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_(card_game) https://www.facebook.com/events/2406516192962390/ Reviews: https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear2/ https://widerightgames.com/ https://noitagame.com/ https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/super-mega-baseball-2-ultimate-edition-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/sniper-elite-3-ultimate-edition-switch/ https://www.ea.com/games/peggle/peggle-blast http://sushicat.org/ Tracklist: Chipzel - Beginner’s Luck (Dicey Dungeon) https://chipzel.co.uk/track/beginners-luck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The episode was recorded on 07/10, or One Life Left Day as we always forget to say until the 9th, at which point the relevance of it has dissipated somewhat. Ah well. There’s always next year. It’s another Ann free week unfortunately as she was ill, but she had managed to send us the news so we were not as stuck as last week. Plus we also had a Super-Special Guest! George Perkins from Super Rare Games to talk about the Switch games that his company releases in a physical form. We asked him how far in advance he knows what games Super Rare are going to release, if he keeps track of the second hand value of Super Rare’s releases, and which developer is the most attractive. We also found out Simon’s system for remembering names, Ste told us if he was into mobile games, and we tried to work out where Alphabear 2 was on the Google Play store. If you have any leads let us know. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/SuperRareGeorge https://twitter.com/SuperRareGames https://twitter.com/WarpDigitalUK https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/ https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/events/2019/10/21/resofit https://www.facebook.com/events/2406516192962390/ Reviews: https://widerightgames.com/ (Freedom Finger) https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear2/ https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/sniper-elite-3-ultimate-edition-switch/ Tracklist: DoragonJOKE - Adventurous Bubbleship https://chipmusic.org/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B4%E3%83%B3JOKE/music/adventurous-bubble-ship Feryl - The Bike Ride Home https://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/the-bike-ride-home Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Ann being out of the country in Iceland how will Ste and Simon cope? Well, Simon became obsessed with sleep tracking so it was business as usual for him. Ste however went a little off the rails and this episode became his Simon Mayo confessional. We’ll get HR to give him a verbal warning for bringing the show into disrepute. We also spoke about unions, found out what game Simon launched the crowdfunding for, Ste explained auto chess, and Simon had a live reveal of the new Colonel Sanders. We’re nearly caught up from our Season 20 backlog. The next episode will be uploaded this Thursday and then after that every episode will be released on Wednesday. There will be no exceptions to this rule. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://rebootdevelopred.com/ https://www.twitch.tv/kiwo Reviews: https://supermegabaseball.com/ http://www.feralinteractive.com/en/switch-games/gridautosport/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/ https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear2/ Tracklist: Sofa Spartan - Etherial https://chipmusic.org/sofaspartan-music/music/etherial Solstrsyn - Sunday Sketch https://chipmusic.org/solstrsyn/music/sunday-sketch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do you do when one of your co-hosts is off and another one is stuck in traffic? Ste showed one of the potential options available in this week’s episode. Luckily Ann managed to get to the studio before her text did, which meant that we’ll have to go back to solo Ste in a future season. No Simon meant that there was no Super-Special Guest, but Ste and Ann had lots to talk about. They made an executive decision to change the format of the news, which is something that will rock videogame radio shows for years to come. The major development of the week is that Marioke changed its name to Maraoke. This news didn’t sound too big, but now you can see it written down you realise that it actually looks different. We also found out that Ann had been watching mucky movies, Ste’s students were doing a game jam on seasons, and Ann forgot what FMV stood for. Again. We also announced the launch party of Maraoke, which is taking place on 18th October at the Loading Bar. See you there. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://play.google.com/about/play-pass/ https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmMaCV1zXDA https://twitter.com/SingMaraoke Reviews: http://diceydungeons.com/ (again) http://www.tellingliesgame.com/ https://www.increpare.com/game/hypnocult.html Tracklist: adaMills - Star to Finish https://chipmusic.org/adaMills/music/star-to-finish Solstrsyn - Sunday Sketch https://chipmusic.org/solstrsyn/music/sunday-sketch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s a full team this week, but Simon is poorly so it’s more of a team 2.5. Except we had Jack Attridge on as a Super-Special Guest which boosted us up to 3.5. He was on to talk about Erica, which is also the name of his newest game. Or is it a movie? We try to work out the differences between the two. More importantly, is it a lean back or a lean forward experience? Even more importantly, what does Jack’s Mum think about Erica? We tried to work out if we were a family, checked what we were collectively subscribed to, and did an investigation into if piracy was still popular. Simon undid one button too many on his shirts and Jack told us that he was on the BAFTA jury for best narrative game. Oh the stories he could tell! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/JacksFlavour https://languagedrops.com/ https://www.bandainamco-am.co.uk/machine-sales/deluxe-games/space-invaders-frenzy/ Reviews: http://www.mediocre.se/pinout/ https://supermegabaseball.com/ https://ripstone.com/game/snooker19/ https://buy.mutantyearzero.com/ http://diceydungeons.com/ https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear2/ http://popcannibal.com/kindwords/ Tracklist: Tsuwami - Battle Music https://chipmusic.org/Tsuwami/music/battle-music Going Ham - Secret Man https://chipmusic.org/GoingHam/music/secret-man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So we’re back with season (BEEP). And we have been for the past three weeks, but we forgot to tell anyone. Included in that list was The Caretaker, which is why you’re going to have four episodes over the next two weeks. Aren’t you a lucky bunch of listeners? There was no Simon this week, which meant this episode was a bit Taylor Swift heavy. There was no Super-Special Guest either, which meant we told you everything we knew about Death Stranding. And being our first day back meant we also got to tell you What We Did On Our Holidays. Ste told us about his Gamescom adventures, showed us his astounding powers of recall, and also why he’s going to do a Billy Madison. Ann is now a non-Endless runner and spoiled Succession (luckily off-air). We also gave Cassetteboy a great idea for a new video, explained why Spotify has ruined the art of the hidden track, and told everyone that Marioke is changing its name. Except that was two weeks ago Grandad! Sorry about the delay in uploading the podcasts. Normal service will resume in two weeks. Although, by us failing to upload the episodes two weeks after they aired you could argue that normal service has already started. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVO3NJCPIoY Reviews: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/games/erica-ps4/ http://diceydungeons.com/ Tracklist: adaMills - The Motherchip Derris Kharlan - Machine Learning EX Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The last day of radio term always sees a bit of giddiness among the team. The presenters don't wear their usual radio uniform, you can bring your board games and videogames into the studio (although Simon always brings his Switch in), and Lewis Schaffer brings in cakes for us all to enjoy. But one thing Team OLL never does on the last day of term is go skiving. UNTIL NOW. Ann decided that instead of doing the final news of the season, she would rather be driven to Italy by her in-laws. This meant that there was a news-shaped hole in our show. Normally this would result in Simon and Ste seeing what was on Eurogamer, but they had planned ahead and got Sega Badawi aka Caretaker Ben down the Skype line to tell them videogame news that was slightly too long for the news jingle. Considering that Ben couldn't hear the jingle and kept losing his place on his script it worked alright. He even provided us with some Nintendo Karen updates. Once Ben was gone, Ste and Simon had the chance to talk about what they are planning to do over the summer and tried to clarify what the big Gamescom rumour was in 2018. We also booked our first guest of Season 20, made some Marioke announcements (and some pre-announcements), and joined the Slayers Club. Cheerio and happy holidays! Team OLL x Links: https://www.instagram.com/whoamiamyouareme/ https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en/ http://www.denki.co.uk/portfolio/autonauts/ Reviews: https://www.konami.com/games/us/en/products/pixelpuzzle/ https://supermegabaseball.com/ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/FINAL-FANTASY-XII-THE-ZODIAC-AGE-1438870.html https://store.steampowered.com/app/410320/EARTH_DEFENSE_FORCE_41_The_Shadow_of_New_Despair/ https://robjinman.itch.io/pro-office-calculator https://store.steampowered.com/app/865270/LIBRARY/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1071920/_Foreign_Frugglers/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1102030/KLAC/ Another word game Tracklist: 1. adaMills - Lighthause https://chipmusic.org/adaMills/music/lighthause 2. 8-BIT Chintendo - Stereophobia https://chipmusic.org/8-BITchintendo/music/stereophobia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we all know, One Life Left is recognised throughout the world as the longest running videogame radio show and also as one of the most modest radio shows. But sometimes we need some personal thanks. A little realisation that we've done a good job. And this week's Super-Special Guest Nicholas Lovell gave us some Super-Special Thanks in the acknowledgments of his latest book, The Pyramid of Game Design. Getting unconditional thanks is really something that we don't deserve. Ahem. Nicholas was on the show to talk about his current role, which is Games Director of Hot Wheels ID. It's a way of incorporating your physical Hot Wheels cars with an online gaming experience. The prospect of thinking how to make this as excellent as it could be is what dragged Nicholas out of consulting and back into a full time role. But mostly we tried to think of songs that we could write about Nicholas, as we made a promise to him last time he was on the show. We also found out what Simon expects from a barbeque, if Ste is drifting, how long adult humans live for, and what Damo has been up to. The most unusual fact we discovered is how often authors get their book sales data. Although the ‘swipe before they wipe' fact was quite close. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/nicholaslovell https://twitter.com/gamesbrief https://twitter.com/danctheduck https://www.gamesbrief.com/the-pyramid-of-game-design-designing-producing-and-launching-service-games/ Reviews: http://nightcall-game.com/ http://alteredmatter.com/etherborn/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/739540/Break_the_Game/ https://obradinn.com/ http://bombercrewgame.com/ https://twitter.com/thatskygame Tracklist: Coconums - Amalgamy (short) https://chipmusic.org/Coconums/music/amalgamy-short Astrolander - Never Late Again https://chipmusic.org/stancoolness/music/george-clanton---never-late-again-8-bit-cover-by-astrolander Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a bit weird talking about yourself in the third person isn't it? Luckily this week's Super-Special Guest Ben Hall had no problems with that, but as he doesn't work in the games industry our interview with him went to places that we don't normally go to. If you need to know what the best train is in videogames, if you can get from Peterborough to Croydon without changing, and who would be our train getaway driver then this is the interview for you. We also celebrated Amazon Prime Day (which just seems to get earlier and earlier every year), found out what Ste has just bought, try to work out where Ste is working, and we got very confused by the Kong family tree. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/uppi17 Reviews: https://www.devolverdigital.com/games/ape-out https://drmario-world.com/ http://roguemance.com/ http://www.residentevil.com/4/ Tracklist: 8-BITchintendo - Famitracker Water Track https://chipmusic.org/8-BITchintendo/music/famitracker-water-track Sofaspartan Music - Ancient Myth https://chipmusic.org/sofaspartan-music/music/ancient-myth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Super-Special Guest this week means we get to look at the items that we've neglected for the past few episodes. A look in our collective spam folders shows that we had been missing out on other SSGs, genuine job offers, and opportunities to improve parts of our bodies. So if you've been really annoyed at us for not responding to an email we're sorry. Although if you're on The List you might be waiting a little bit longer for that reply. There was some pre-Develop chat, with two of the team potentially making themselves homeless. Simon spent part of last week meeting the gaming aristocracy, by meeting Lord Sir Charles Cecil (presumably at one of those exclusive members' clubs). We also found out about another distant relative of Simon's, we believe that we're now up to four countries. Let us know if you're a Byron and you need to buy any Switch games when you are in the UK. As the world's longest-running videogame radio show we took the opportunity to talk about Stranger Things, and tried to work out how much of a journalist Ann is. We also clarified if adults played Fortnite, and worked out the Slay the Spire can be played on mobile. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://bit.ly/ShouldntKickstarters Reviews: http://www.eloh-game.com/ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/Super-Mario-Maker-2-1514009.html https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Slay-the-Spire-1423987.html https://fabledgame.com/en/pirates-outlaws/details https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/cadence-of-hyrule-crypt-of-the-necrodancer-featuring-the-legend-of-zelda-switch/ Tracklist: 1. Cuby The Box - w8v https://chipmusic.org/CubyTheBox/music/w8v 2. Amateur LSDJ - Tabula Rasa https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/tabula-rasa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It seems that it was only last week that we had Ann Scantlebury on as a Super-Special Guest, and now she's performing stylish and professional jingles for one of the coolest radio stations around. That's what being on One Life Left as a Super-Special Guest will do for you, so feel free to let us know if you're interested. Being a presenter? The benefits of that are still yet to be realised. You'll be pleased to know that there's a Damo update in this week's episode and we also get to confirm if Richard Bates is a nice person or not. However, the debate about what constitutes projectile vomiting is still ongoing. We also find out what Ann's office is like, think of ways to make money off Telltale, learn about emergent gameplay in Dead by Daylight, and try to get Klamm to notice us. Klamm: Please let us be the One Life Left that you keep referring to. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://gamesdonequick.com/ https://twitter.com/hdtgppod Reviews: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/framed-2/id1163105252 https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/cadence-of-hyrule-crypt-of-the-necrodancer-featuring-the-legend-of-zelda-switch/ https://supermariomaker.nintendo.com/ https://www.helloneighborgame.com/ https://twitter.com/riskofrain?lang=en https://store.steampowered.com/app/503580/Duck_Season/ Tracklist: Klamm - Daenerys Stormborn https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/daenerys-stormborn Outaspaceman - How Can This Be https://chipmusic.org/outaspaceman/music/how-can-this-be Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Ann missing at the beginning of the show and no Super-Special Guest booked, the lads took full opportunity to talk about football and if computer referees are better than computer-assisted human referees. It was actually more philosophical that it seems when we've written it down. However, Ann eventually showed up which gave us the opportunity to interview her about the latest developments at her work, without her actually telling us what her work is. We didn't even get to find out the colour. Luckily, Ann had provided us with the latest videogame news for the start of the show, albeit with a massive chunk of news missing. Ste started the show with wet headphones, Simon was starting to move across to his summer wardrobe, and he also provided us with very specific Switch travel gaming tips. We also found out what Damo is up to, who Ann's favourite Eurogamer is, and worked out how much money Alex Fleetwood owes us. Finally we've found a way to monetise. Monetise means blackmail right? Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://gamesdonequick.com/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8836241/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4911525/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1427215/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5545055/ Reviews: https://harrypotterwizardsunite.com/ https://www.devolverdigital.com/games/my-friend-pedro https://finalfantasyxii.square-enix-games.com/home/?lang=gb https://198xthegame.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1050520/Super_Pig_X/ Tracklist: CoolBecky - Dead Birds https://chipmusic.org/Mark87/music/dead-birds Outaspaceman - how can this be? https://chipmusic.org/outaspaceman/music/how-can-this-be Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Only 379 episodes in and we finally get a Super-Special Guest in with the required knowledge of 90s boybands for Ann and Ste (plus a reluctant Simon) to talk about Busted and Westlife for at least twenty minutes. That SSG was Felicia Prehn from Nopia. She had flown in from Finland purely to be on our radio show, having the opportunity to finally see Westlife after over twenty years of being a fan DEFINITELY didn't have anything to do with it. Did we talk about games during the show? Well, Felicia did teach us something about Pokemon Go, we sort-of worked out why Fortnite is called Fortnite and we decided who was the best out of Tony Gowland and J-Parks - but mostly it was boyband chat. It was probably for the best that we spoke about videogames right at the beginning of the show for once. Luckily, the game that Felicia is working on for Nopia is related to boybands so all this music chat was adjacent to videogame. The provisional title of Felicia's game made Ste (or Ann) audibly gasp with admiration when they heard it. And to top it off we played a track that Felicia made herself. We think that this is the only time that we've played a song on air that the SSG had made. Well, apart from that time Parko released a Marioke style cover of Duran Duran's ‘Hungry Like The Wolf' to be about his new book. Keep 16th August free for a very special Marioke. Although all Mariokes are special aren't they? Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/MCLiciaP https://open.spotify.com/artist/6JiAau0Pc8VivfINkMx0KG Reviews: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/grow-home https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Slay-the-Spire-1423987.html https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/ https://zone.msn.com/en/bejeweled/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066260/Devolver_Bootleg/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/676480/Jettomero_Hero_of_the_Universe/ Tracklist: 1 Sofaspartan Music - Echoes https://chipmusic.org/sofaspartan-music/music/echoes 2 MC Licia - Another Dimension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fdp9RXdVgU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After an episode with rave reviews across the board we shipped Sarah Brin back off to America (mostly because the reviews shipped Sarah Brin), brought Simon back for a full episode and allowed Ste in the studio. What will the reviews make of this episode? They’ll probably say it’s a bit too Muse heavy, that there weren’t enough live updates from E3 and that the chip music was slightly strange. So a classic episode of One Life Left then. As you’d expect from the world-famous OLL team, one of us was in MCV last week. Now we just need to get that coveted centerfold photoshoot that all podcasts/radio shows want to be on. We’ve been practising our poses for over fourteen years, or is it thirteen? We forget. Or try to forget. What else happens in this episode? Simon announces a new purchase along with a potential second purchase, we let you know what music we listen to whilst we work, there’s a mini Marioke announcement and we confirm if mountains can be metaphors. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.tiltoslo.no/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m4KPsasi9k Reviews: https://www.astrologaster.com/ https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed-3-remastered http://www.celestegame.com/ Tracklist (which is pretty much the same as last week’s): 1 Coconums - And I Saw A Light https://chipmusic.org/Coconums/music/and-i-saw-a-light 2 SELF7ED - A Hero Rises https://chipmusic.org/SELF7ED/music/a-hero-rises Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left is known for diversification and we have now moved into the True Crime category, as - one by one - our presenters slowly go missing during the show. Firstly, Ste fails to show up. Then, Simon vanishes at the halfway point. But who could the suspect be? Is it Ann Scantlebury, the HR director annoyed with the time off requests that the team make? Could it be Sarah Brin, the not self-proclaimed Queen of Cool? Or could they both have had other engagements? Hopefully it was the latter as we don't want either Ann or Sarah to be in trouble. Plus Sarah was our Super-Special Guest and none of our SSGs have ever been up before the beak (checks list of SSGs, places a question mark against Parko). Sarah was in to talk about her work in Santa Fe with MeowWolf, how you make an immersive installation, if you can touch a laser and answers the age old question: which came first, the Wolf or George RR Martin? We also find out which is the best city in the world, Ann spoils the Death Stranding trailer, we work out what VR is better than, and asking if any of us have been sued gets a surprising answer from Libby, sorry, Sarah. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/dinosaurrparty https://twitter.com/meowwolf https://vimeo.com/241966869 Reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kids/id1251330372?mt=8 Tracklist: Coconums - And I Saw A Light https://chipmusic.org/Coconums/music/and-i-saw-a-light SELF7ED - A Hero Rises https://chipmusic.org/SELF7ED/music/a-hero-rises mark 87 - My Last Day https://chipmusic.org/Mark87/music/my-last-day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a two week absence from the airwaves for two of Team OLL, the full team was back in the studio. Ann had been in Scotland, Simon was in Sweden, and Ste… well it's probably for the best that you didn't hear what Ste was up to last week. Our Super-Special Guest this week was Ground Shatter's James 'J Parks' Parker, who has been a regular SSG on the show over the past few seasons. We spoke to him about Rico, which has now been released on all major platforms since he was last on One Life Left and is doing rather well. J Parks told us the differences when releasing games on multiple systems and which system has the most vocal users. He also jumped out of a plane wearing two pairs of glasses after going to GDC, which is what most people feel like doing after GDC. Wearing two pairs of glasses that is. As a new mini feature Ann went a bit ASMR when telling people about their award, if this works let us know as we're always looking for monetisation ideas. We might also be having a fight with a rival OLL crew, so please let us know any fighting tips. Simon saw the saddest thing in the studio, and connected to that we found out what mode of transport Ste is really into. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/groundshatter http://rico-game.com/ Reviews: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/mortal-kombat-11-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/sniper-elite-v2-remastered-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/saints-row-the-third-the-full-package-switch/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trollskogen/id1438097222?mt=8 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1012560/Snakeybus/ https://bethesda.net/en/game/rage2 Tracklist: Amateur lsdj - Devolution https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/devolution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a break for Easter, the One Life Left team is back! And then going on holiday the week after due to May day. And maybe the week after that. It’s what you expect from us: Poor quantity over poor quality. But anyway, this week’s episode saw Ann play real life Neko Atsume, Ste talked specs-y to us, and Simon made throwing a stick even more fun than it already is. We also had more Red Hot Boscombe Chat, worked out the optimum amount of people to play Towerfall with, and read out some classic emails. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.owlfield.com/pf/escape-room-frequency/ https://www.katanazero.com/ http://www.cupheadgame.com/ http://pipepushparadise.com/ http://yankaispeak.com/ https://www.humblebundle.com/store/forager Tracklist: Saulc12 - Pixellated Memory https://chipmusic.org/saulc12/music/pixellated-memory Amateur LSDJ - Path Least Traveled https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/path-least-traveled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do Americans celebrate Easter? That’s the main question that we ask in this week’s episode, the first since our pre-Spring break. Ann was away, so instead of catching up on over six weeks’ worth of videogame news Ste told us what he did in Croatia, his new haircut, and what games are best to play in a hospital. Oh, he might also make a small announcement too. We didn’t have a Super-Special Guest in the studio, but we did have Bertil Hörberg on the Skype line. Unfortunately we found it very difficult to pin him down on how many videogames he has made, but fortunately he was very willing to tell us all about Mechstermination Force, which is Contra meets Shadow of the Colossus and is available now on the Switch. Bertil is the brains behind the excellent Gunman Clive so you know it’ll be a good game. We also found out who or what is the best replacement for a talk by Yu Suzuki, what game Ste is potentially the best in the world at, and work out once and for all which is the best out of Reddit and Twitter. See you in two weeks time! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/BertilHorberg http://www.mechsterminationforce.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1847530248686287/ Tracklist: 1 Wonderful Substance https://chipmusic.org/%EF%BD%97%EF%BD%8F%EF%BD%8E%EF%BD%84%EF%BD%85%EF%BD%92%EF%BD%86%EF%BD%95%EF%BD%8C%E2%96%91%EF%BD%93%EF%BD%95%EF%BD%82%EF%BD%93%EF%BD%94%EF%BD%81%EF%BD%8E%EF%BD%83%EF%BD%85++%7B%E6%B2%B3%E5%A7%94%7D/music/-----dl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What better way to celebrate Simon coming back from Sweden than by having one more show before we go on a six week break? There are probably lots of better ways, but unfortunately this is the option that we have decided upon. The fewer of two evils as some might say. With the need to prepare everyone for an OLL shaped hole in their life for the next few weeks, we didn't have a Super-Special Guest on this episode. This meant that we had extra time to fully speak to Simon about the toilet situation in Sweden, and invent a new feature for the show*. There was also time to discuss the first Marioke held at Loading Bar that wasn't hosted by Ste, a run through of the history of deck building games, and we made a mini GDC announcement. We went interactive this week: Feel free to send us the videos of you doing the dance that Ann explains the moves to, or your drawings of the person that she describes. We would say that we'd give a prize to the best in each category, but given our track record in giving out prizes that might be a bit of a reach. Cheerio and see you in six weeks! Team OLL x *We still need new features for the show. If you have any ideas let us know through the usual channels. Links: http://fundraiser.resonance.fm Tracklist: Amateur LSDJ - Frozen https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/frozen Martin Demsky - To Be C64tinued https://chipmusic.org/martin_demsky/music/to--be-c64tinued Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a week's absence due to various illnesses OLL returned to a studio missing one team member, who was away in Sweden. But which one was it? The mystery gets solved fairly early in the episode, this is why we're a videogame radio show and not a true crime podcast. As Dry January has been replaced by Drenched February we had a Super-Special Guest - James Chew from Failbetter Games. Their new game Sunless Skies came out two weeks ago so we thought we'd ask him what it's like developing a game world with an existing fanbase, what it's like moving from being a fan of the series to helping design it, and how does James' degree help in his videogame career. We clarified the Marioke franchise situation, went CD free (only one edit done in post, but more were arguably needed), tried to work out if Ste was an octopus, and spoke about the iphone a lot. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/jamesstanthony Tracklist: Amateur LSDJ - Frozen https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/frozen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The final episode of Dry January sees the team inspired with interactive ideas. We announced the date of our Resonance FM fundraising date (Friday April 26th), and came up with an artistic competition. Hopefully when we go through the entries next week it will work as an audio event. We've also moved into sponsorship. Instead of monetising our own brands, we've decided to monetise Rami Ismail's Gamedev.World conference. Hopefully it will turn out to have over 8,501 meetings during the event otherwise we'll not be getting our money's worth. There's blockchain chat (we really need some Super-Special Guests soon), Simon works out how to beat loot boxes, Ste updates an old joke, and Ann helps trademark a new brand. This time next year we'll be millionaires! Which means that Rami will be a millionaire on top of the billions he already has! Cheerio! Team OLL (and Simon, the Ultimate Gamer) x Links: https://gamedev.world/ http://fundraiser.resonance.fm Tracklist: Klamm - Worship https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/worship Amateur LSDJ - Debrief https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/debrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another episode with the full team and no Super-Special Guest. Luckily Simon was on hand to give it a catchy title that is in no way brand infringing. This week Ste broke electricity, Ann told all about her teeth, and Simon bragged about his data allowance. He also potentially spoiled a film for Ann, but it turned out Ann had already seen the film in question, she'd just forgotten that she had seen it. Luckily, her personal Siri-style assistant Matt managed to explain it all. We also discussed how we would copy Ariana Grande, the last Marioke (which had a world first for karaoke, and found out that Ste is a jock. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/ Tracklist: 8 Bit Universe - Into You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZCPdRw8L40 Zanza12349 - Octave 8 https://chipmusic.org/Zanza12349/music/brassy-8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A full team this week as Simon returned from his trip to Japan, however there was no Super-Special Guest. Maybe Roll 7 will be on next week, but we've not been given any guarantees either way. Without a SSG in this episode Simon and Ste took the opportunity to talk about their latest favourite game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Although it might sound more like complaining about getting old, rather than talking about the latest game in an established videogame franchise. We also found out what Ste can say on air, who is making games for Ann, and Simon found out who loves the Switch more than he does. And - what's this? - a challenger approaches! Or a random entrant into the studio at least. Cheerio! Team OLL Links: https://www.aldi.co.uk/ http://xmasparty.singmarioke.com Tracklist: 1. Joe Berry Osponge - Phantom Boss Fight https://chipmusic.org/joeberryosponge/music/phantom-boss-fight 2. PSS 270 - Mikromusikwerk 03 (Casio + Atari) https://chipmusic.org/PSS-270/music/mikromusikwerk-03-casio--atari Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No shoes chat this week for those of you tuning in, but we managed to get some paneer chat for those of you interested in a vegetarian Christmas. Ann also kept us up to date with the current leaders in the mince pie ratings and gave good Christmas music advice. However, maybe we should have asked this week's Super-Special Guest - Tim Summers - instead. He's a musicologist who specialises in videogames and lectures at Royal Holloway, University of London. He told us about what videogames can teach us about music, which games do good generative music, and how videogame music will change in the future. He will also be helping us with our new game genre that we came up with in this episode. We also worked out if Ste is the same as Rockstar, found out what game Tim played with his Dad, and Ann made two very good jokes. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/Ludomusicology http://www.ludomusicology.org/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tim-Summers/e/B01L1P9CNS/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 Tracklist: 1. Nestrogen - Capricious Cohorts https://chipmusic.org/Nestrogen/music/capricious-cohorts 2. Veenomn - The Enter Key https://chipmusic.org/veenomn/music/the-enter-key Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's another two-person One Life Left this week as a Japanese-bound Simon swaps his seat in the studio with a recovering Ste. Also, with the main SSG booker being away we failed to get an SSG this week, but we did have an SSS making an appearance instead (Super-Special Siri). The important thing to note this week is that tickets for our Christmas Marioke are on sale, and are selling pretty quickly. It's being held at the Loading Bar in Dalston on Friday 14th December at 7pm. The real gaming Santa will be there! We talked about subtitles in videogames, shoes sort-of in videogames, and tried to figure out what we can buy from Telltale. The OLL Style Guide gets a further update with the correct pronunciation of Cyber Monday. Does anyone have the full contents of the OLL Style Guide? We really should have been keeping track of all the entries. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jvmgd http://xmasparty.singmarioke.com Tracklist: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Urgency https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/urgency 2. Nakayama Ramo - Swing By https://chipmusic.org/Nakayama_Ramo/music/swing-by Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's one person that Team OLL always want to know what they're up to. That person is Milo, best friend to Peter Moulinex, and one-time caller to the show. Unfortunately we've not heard from him in quite a while, but could this week's Super-Special Guest Kostas Zarifis from Rogue Sun Games help in our quest? Potentially, but mostly he wanted to talk about his new game Tin Hearts (living in just one mind - another Marioke idea for anyone who actually reads this text). It's a VR game that is Lemmings meets A Christmas Carol, which sounds really great: We always wanted to be able to press a button that would blow up Scrooge and friends all at once. Oh no! It's not like that at all, it's even better than what we thought. Kostas told us more about Tin Hearts, why he chose to start it in Early Access, and how VR is coming back. There's no Ste this week as he was poorly, but Simon managed to create a new Xbox, and Ann is looking in people's houses, as well as singing most of her review. We also moved into the exciting world of shoutouts. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/Kostas_Zarifis https://twitter.com/RogueSunGames Tracklist: 1. Commando - Bitrunner Blues (remix) 2. Outrun - Magical Sound Shower (remix) 3. Ghosts and Goblins (surf mix) http://www.remix64.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Super-Special Guest this week due to illness, but we do have the return of the Scants. She's feeling a bit better after a week off, which meant Ste and Simon were feeling a bit better as they wouldn't have to do the news. Without a Super-Special Guest this meant that the team could work on their personal projects. This involved trying to work out where Ipswich was, remember who Ann made eat an egg, and clarify if Mike Channel can drive in real life. We also updated the OLL Style Guide with the correct pronunciation of Prima Games, and Simon bought another thing that he definitely won't like. There was also discussion of the latest YouTube videogame shows that are available, which allowed Simon to make a really good joke. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/gameanglia https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMWnD7qCz4Y7FbbbfyDq5g Tracklist: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Fleet https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/fleet 2. MC Jimmy - What it Means https://chipmusic.org/MC+Jimmy/music/what-it-means Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another Ann absence this week, which would normally mean that Simon and Ste start buying video game equipment that they don't need, but this time they took to opportunity to learn something about themselves. Which was mostly their middle names. Ann did manage to write some news which Simon read out, but he did point out that no jokes were included. Unless there were and Simon was news-shaming Ann. Or maybe Ann just improvs the jokes as she's reading the news out? This week we had the very prepared Nicholas Lovell on as our Super-Special Guest. He was in to talk about his new book - the Pyramid of Games Design - which is aimed at people who make videogames, those who are trying to switch to service-based games, and anyone starting in the industry. He told us how you get people to become superfans of your games, how many layers a game needs, and if losing the narrative in videogames is a Good Thing. But to be honest, we were a little disappointed that Team OLL wasn't acknowledged in Nicholas' previous book The Curve (which invented FIFA's Ultimate Team mode). Surely this would be rectified in his new book? We also found out that Ste has been spying on Mrs Graham, how easy it is to put on a bandana (Hi D Perry), if P Moulinex invented Fortnite, how Ste tells the temperature, and Simon couldn't remember. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/nicholaslovell https://twitter.com/gamesbrief https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pyramid-Game-Design-Designing-Producing/dp/1138298891/ https://www.games4eu.com/ Tracklist: 1. Imaginary - Transfer Student https://chipmusic.org/Imaginary/music/transfer-student 2. Nakayama Ramo - Sticky and Stringy https://chipmusic.org/Nakayama_Ramo/music/sticky--stringy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After three episodes where they were separated by illness and work, the full team were back together. Ste and Simon were particularly happy about this as it mean that they didn’t have to worry about who was doing the news. This week’s Super-Special Guest was James Parker from Ground Shatter, who wanted to talk about the Switch port of SkyScrappers. Instead Ann asked him to clarify how years works and why we have seasons. It’s really annoying as SkyScrappers is the definitive fighting game where you climb up a collapsing building, and we know how crowded that genre is. We managed to discover if it works with the Flip Grip, if a clever title works in print or only on OLL, and what categories should be in the Switch eshop. Simon is still buying more stuff, and even persuaded Ann into joining him. Ste is still having microphone issues, Ann worked out why the Pope doesn’t like Apple, and James proved to be a good aide memoire for Ste. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/groundshatter http://skyscrappers.groundshatter.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fangamer/flip-grip Tracklist: 1. Ada Mills - O.O.E. https://chipmusic.org/adaMills/music/ooe 2. Klamm - No Life Left https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/no-life-left Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices