One Life Left

... When you're driving on a ceiling. With Ann absent due to non-OLL related work, it was left to Ste and Simon to man the studio. Luckily for Simon's wallet they didn't have to fill the space buying more peripherals for his Switch as they had Leo and Al from Wired Production on as Super-Special Guests. Originally they were on to talk about Leo's history in games, but we rapidly changed to talking about their latest game, GRIP: Combat Racing, once we realised what was literally at stake. GRIP:Combat Racing is a combat racing game. Once again, what comes after the colon explains everything. It's inspired by the classic Playstation game Rollcage and sees cars driving on the ceiling. Oh wait, that's what the GRIP bit stands for. It turns out not everything is explained after the colon. We asked how GRIP improves on Rollcage, what it is like getting the fans involved, and what should be put in a collector's edition. Due to Scants' being away there was a news-shaped hole in the episode, and we proved that three men are definitely not the same as one Ann (and we repeated a story - we should really listen to the episodes that we're not on). We also discovered if Leo likes sand, Simon gets another peripheral for his Switch, Ste discovered a Swedish cure for cold, and we had some Red Hot Intellivision Chat. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/WiredP http://wiredproductions.com/ https://twitter.com/leo_zullo https://twitter.com/alasdairhibberd Tracklist: 1. Imaginary - Transfer Student 2. Zark - Gods of Nature Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After last week with no Ann and no SSG, what will this week bring? Well, Ste had been taking Marioke to the streets of LA and unfortunately caught a bug so couldn't be in the studio. And Simon? Well, he was away but we are never really sure why he needs to take so much time off. Perhaps he bought a new docking station for his Switch. So it was Ann running the studio, and she wasn't by herself. Helping her out was the NSSSG (Not So Super-Special Guest) Ben Hall. Ben hasn't made a game, but he does upload the podcasted episodes of One Life Left and is also writing this sentence now which is very meta. And, as well as Ben, an absent contributor made his return to the airwaves. We managed to cover the important gaming topics, like which VR game is potentially the Best VR Game Ever, which FOTS caused Brexit, what game can Ann not pronounce properly, and how will Ben save the programmers at Rockstar? We also got in a fish pun cul de sac and came up with some amazing videogame ideas that we will make our millions from. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/games/moss-ps4/ http://skyscrappers.groundshatter.com/ Tracklist: 1. Monotron - Chipchune 2. Ada Mills - Secret 7 3. Amateur LSDJ - Macabre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No SSG. No Ann. No plan. All Ste and Simon. It's the standard lads night in show - Simon persuades Ste to buy loads of gadgets that he doesn't want, Ste gets to talk about latency (let's talk about you and me), and we forget that with Ann away someone needs to do the news. We tried to figure out where we have broadcasted from and offered ourselves to other locations (but NOT to other stations), worked out the OLL style guide for where we stand on Parko, Ste made his students do opposites, and Simon is buying lots of items for his favourite new addition to his household. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.facebook.com/events/227717864769788/ https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Harry-Potter-A-History-of-Magic-Audiobook/B07FMPS2XD Tracklist: 1. Klamm - SubZero 2. Solarbear (feat. dr!p) - My Life is a Triathlon and I'm the Slowest Kid on the Playground 3. Amateur LSDJ - Impact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's extremely worrying to be writing about a videogame lawyer. If we get anything wrong about them then we could be sued for our Marioke Millions, it's why we've avoided having Phoenix Wright on the show. Luckily this week's Super-Special Guest, Tim Davies from Sheridans, set the bar (clever wording we know, cheers) for being a good lawyer so we took the opportunity to ask him lots of purely theoretical questions that we have to legally state we were not asking for a friend. We manage to cover loot boxes, found out which publishers are good for developers, and when can you legally shake a client. Ann is still a bit poorly, but this time it seems to be because she licked that Switch cartridge last week. Remember: All of Team OLL are professional trained cartridge lickers, things can go wrong. Please, don't try this at home. Do it outside of the home, as the Switch can be a portable console. Ann is away next week (this is unconnected to the cartridge licking), so if you fancy being an SSG that week (or any other Monday) then drop us a line at the usual address. As well as all that we had Simon coming to the studio all fresh after a hair cut, we came up with a great non-IP infringing idea, and Ste found out what the kids know about videogames. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/tagdavies http://www.sheridans.co.uk/lawyers/tim-davies.aspx Tracklist: 1. adaMills - Secret 7 2. Alternate Dementia - Grizzly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As befits a new season of One Life Left, we missed recording an episode last week. This was due to the combination of Simon being in Portugal and Ann getting ill through bad videogame news. There was the potential 'third way' of podcasting by having a 'One Ste Left' episode but luckily the OLL National Executive Committee overruled him. However, this meant that the full team was in the studio this week to talk to our Super-Special Guest: George Perkins from Super Rare Games (Super-Special Rare Games is still available at Companies House). They make games that are usually only available on the Nintendo eShop as actual physical games. Not only that, but you get EXCLUSIVE extras like crosswords, signed trading cards, and pebbles instead of cartridges (the pebble thing might only be a monetisation idea that Ste has had). We also did some live unboxing, live tasting, updated the OLL style guide, and found out that Ann is going to Comicon. But mostly, we were worried about Simon. Him liking a chiptune is fairly unusual, but not buying a Nintendo product as soon as it's available? Something must have happened in Portugal. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/superraregeorge https://twitter.com/superraregames Tracklist: 1. Gavin Graham - The Eve of the War 2. Feryl - Self Esteem (II) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Annoyingly our attempt at doing a Wii U/EU pun for the title of this episode didn't really work when it was written out. So just make your own ones up, as long as you say them out loud. But anyway. One Life Left is back! After a summer break of about six weeks we were back in time (give or take a few weeks) for the start of Parliament so that we could finally talk about Brexit. We got Ian Dunt, the host of the Remainiacs podcast and Editor on politics.co.uk, on as a Super-Special Guest to talk about Brexit but he kept wanting to relate it to videogames. Doesn't he know that we're Europe's only radio show about politics? Or did we get confused from our time away? That's possibly the answer. As well as our red hot Brexit chat we all did our usual spoken-word essay on What We Did In Our Holidays, updated the OLL style guide with the approved pronounciation of 'troll', and let you know which popular beat combos are good at Mario Kart. Ann told us her criteria for a good videogame, Ste gave us a Crimewatch update on his stolen laptop and one of our readers gave Ian the ultimate moral dilemma (great cars them moral dilemmas). Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/IanDunt https://twitter.com/RemainiacsCast http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/09/10/brexit-is-sabotaging-the-british-video-games-industry Track List: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Hardcore 2. adaMills - Mini Boss 3. hiro094 - Returnees Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the final episode of One Life Left before our summer break which means that it's mufti day. Actually, did everyone have a mufti day at school or was it a regional thing? Well everyone brought games in for their last day didn't they? Despite there not being an England World Cup match on Monday Simon still didn't make it into the studio and he also neglected to book a Super-Special Guest so it was a Scanters and Ste Summer Special. This meant they got to talk about the most relevant topic in videogames this week, which was obviously haircuts. There was also discussion about immersive theatre, a solid rain joke from Ann, we finally confirmed if we were HAPPY TO PAY FOR GAMES, and the Ste and Microphone feud continued. It'll probably still be going into Season 17. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.facebook.com/events/2125483711021889/ https://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/review-somnai-an-immersive-vr-experience https://www.dotdot.london/ Tracklist: 1. Deko - Pancakes https://chipmusic.org/Deko/music/pancakes 2. Feryl - Summer is Fading https://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/summer-is-fading Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We had a Scanters-shape hole in the show today (why does HR keep approving her holiday requests?) which meant that Simon and Ste needed to do the news this week. Do you think that they planned ahead and wrote the news stories well in advance or decided to throw this week’s Super-Special Guest a curveball and asked him what he thought was good news? It's a fairly easy question to answer, but we felt that Jim Rossignol from Big Robot would be the perfect SSG to be able to cope with this challenge. He's well known for his polite manner and definitely thinks that swearing isn't big (robot) or clever (robot). Jim also took the chance to tell us about Big Robot's soon-to-be-and-sort-of-already-released fifth game The Light Keeps Us Safe which is available on Steam Early Access. There was some talk about how the OLL style guide differs to Eurogamer's, we tried to find out why we keep getting excluded from the important debates, and Jim remembered which reviews he forgot about writing. Cheerio, Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/bigrobotltd https://twitter.com/jimrossignol Tracklist: 1. Crystal Cave - ada Mills https://chipmusic.org/adaMills/music/crystal-cave 2. Castaway - Amateur LSDJ https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/castaway Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What does QVC stand for? Great products at great prices. OK, let's make this clearer: What do the letters in QVC stand for? You will find out the true answer during this week's episode of OLL. Which stands for One Life Left - a poor videogame radio show on a great radio station. Our Super-Special Guest was Alex Fleetwood from Sensible Object, who has passed most of his training to be on QVC. He's been busy making Fabulous Beasts, then renaming it as Beasts of Balance, adding a new feature to Beasts of Balance (which is a potential OLL EXCLUSIVE), before moving onto Alexa powered board games like the travel trivia game When In Rome. Alex has also been trying to make Bingo more exciting, but annoying things like image rights have been getting in the way. We also found out if Simon is annoyed by time travel, if Ste gets on with his microphone, and if Ann liked her hotel in Brighton. And football isn't coming home either, but if this is news to you only as a result of listening to this podcast then you probably weren't that bothered about it’s attendance anyway. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.voiceoriginals.com/ https://twitter.com/ammonite https://twitter.com/VoiceOriginals https://amateurlsdj.bandcamp.com Tracklist: 1. Klamm - Transformation https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/life-transformation 2. Amateur LSDJ - Storm Outro https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/storm-outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We had the full team in this week but no Super-Special Guest. We were going to get Jesse Lingard on to talk about Fortnite, but he was busy for some reason or other. After our mini-break last week we came back to a very hot studio and Ste had made the mistake of not wearing shorts (luckily he didn’t make the additional mistake of not wearing trousers). We discussed what we got up to during Saturday’s football, Ann successfully workshopped a joke, Ste ordered some games in contradiction to his previous statements, and Simon has made some money. We also found out that soon we will find out if we are more important than QVC, that Simon is a Catfish, and that at least two of our Significant Others listen to the show live. You can too at 7pm on Resonance FM. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://resonancefm.com/ https://twitter.com/developconf Tracklist: 1. Zer0 Filt3r - neato https://chipmusic.org/Zer0+Filt3r/music/neato 2. Sanczo Zapiekanka - Pegasos Elegium https://chipmusic.org/Sanczo+Zapiekanka/music/pegasos-elegium 3. Amateur LSDJ - Armada https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/armada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Simon was back this week but we didn’t have a Super-Special Guest through no fault of our own. Honest. This meant that Ste had more time to talk about Mario Tennis Aces and if he loves it more than he loves Smash Bros. Simon decided to go headphones free and has discovered literally hundreds of pounds hiding in his attic (it’s the cupboard under the stairs that is where the real worthless items are). We also found out that we are now on Spotify, Ann discovered that you can put JoyCons on your body, and we managed to solve Brexit through loot boxes. We debriefed the team about Marioke in Berlin and how it is different to UK Marioke (mostly it’s to do with smoking). WARNING: Ste will be mostly talking about Lumines next week so be prepared for that. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://open.spotify.com/show/2qWrMFprXwtOFfVEQIh6qd?si=chqlsdtpTMG8ybMAHpERUA Tracklist: 1. Ada Mills - Space Stage https://chipmusic.org/adaMills/music/space-stage 2. Squoril - Atari Love Song https://chipmusic.org/squoril/music/atari-love-song Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sometimes One Life Left is scheduled against big events, which means that some of our listeners usually have to catch up through these podcasts. Luckily this week all that was happening at 7pm was an England match - which pretty much everyone agreed was a 7/10 performance. For some reason Simon was away this week (which HR are investigating), but he managed to book Luke Williams as a Super-Special Guest before he went off. Luke was on for his fourth or fifth appearance and took his third or fourth chance to talk about Worlds Adrift. Except this time Worlds Adrift has finally been released. As it’s an open world MMO we found out if Americans are nicer than Europeans, why Team OLL was missed off Bossa's big sky ship event, and if the game broke in a good way. We thought of a great mod for The Last of Us 2, Ann decided she was going to become great at Fortnite, then realised that she was already a legend in Worlds Adrift, Ste showed even more love for Smash Bros, and we found out if Luke enjoyed swinging. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/WorldsAdrift https://twitter.com/eternz https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldsAdriftTakesFlight Tracklist: 1. Brink - Tough World https://chipmusic.org/Brink/music/tough-world-2a03-sunsoft-bass 2. Pointless - Pulse Wave Rave Party https://chipmusic.org/Pointless/music/pulse-wave-rave-party 3. Klamm - Discoveries https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/discoveries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full team is back in the studio for the second week in a row, so that should mean that we had no issues with playing jingles correct? Assuming that the Caretaker made the edits that needed doing then the answer is yes. Our Super-Special Guest was the games designer and writer-for-hire of Little Mix fanfic Holly Gramazio. She clarified some points of order that related to our first episode of this season as she part-curates the amazing Now Play This festival and runs design superstar company Matheson Marcault - our favourite gaming company with the initials MM (at least until Media Molecule are on the show). We find out all about Holly’s new Kickstarter project Art Cards, which cards were rejected from Art Cards, whether people prefer to be Arty or to Party, and what border control think of her job. Ann brought her backpack into the studio and also found a great loophole for doing E3 news that she should have implemented twelve years ago. Simon has a new purchase that he hasn’t opened yet and jointly proclaimed his love for Kingdom Hearts with Ste. We also found out why Ste has an Android phone. The answer probably won’t shock you. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/hollygramazio https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1334173917/art-deck-a-collaborative-drawing-game https://twitter.com/mathmarcault https://twitter.com/nowplaythese Tracklist: 1. Klamm - The Door into the Summer https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/the-door-into-the-summer 2. Amateur LSDJ - Naval https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/naval Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full team were back from their bank holiday off including Simon (who had also taken another four months off for some (literally) small reason and we were willing to answer the most important question in gaming today: Is caviar vegetarian? We managed to get Tom and Sam from Roll 7 into the studio to tell us all about their new game Laser League 1.0, which sounds (and is) excellent. We found out what it is like to be beaten at your own game, how useful feedback from the public is (remember to send in your letters to us) and what colour their new game is. Hey - some running jokes just span multiple seasons. We also find out that Ste didn’t want Sam to talk very much on the show, if we had a shark in the studio, try to remember if we’re on Spotify (spoiler: not yet), and find out rough Simon is with his Switch. Cheerio, Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/Roll_7 Tracklist: 1. Klamm - Doc (seems to have been deleted from Chipmusic - Ed) https://twitter.com/Klamm00/status/1003197641927380992 2. sudstep - Beach Episode https://chipmusic.org/Sudstep/music/beach-episode 3. amateur lsdj - Peace Outro https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/peace-outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re back! And as usual for us coming back for a new season, we’re not on next week. We also don’t have a Super-Special Guest, Super-Special Simon or the Super-Special reviews theme. So normal service has resumed. We are also proud to announce that One Life Left is GDPR compliant, which famous person an Italian Ste looks like and that Ann has forgotten her headphone and hairdo preferences. There’s also a review of how Marioke has taken over the world and we tell you all how great Now Play This was. Not only that you get to find out if our partners are snorers or not. As we said, normal service has resumed. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lY1GXTu5M http://nowplaythis.net/ Track list: 1. ada Mills - prelude (NES) https://chipmusic.org/adaMills/music/prelude-nes 2. Lognes - Artificial Intelligence Assistant https://chipmusic.org/Lognes/music/fish-out-of-water 3. Justbeenwarpzoned - Ignorance https://chipmusic.org/Justbeenwarpzoned/music/ignorance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is our final episode from 2018’s GDC. Ste finally manages to get the subject onto ice cream, but we also got to speak to these fab* Super-Special Guests: Robin-Yann Storm (@RYStorm) Esben Kjær Ravn (@esbenravn) Daniel Nye Griffiths (@D_Nye_Griffiths) Mare Sheppard (@MareSheppard) Raigan Burns (@raiganburns) Carli Velocci (@velocciraptor) Hosted by: Bryant Francis (@rbryant2012) Kris Graft (@krisgraft) Ste Curran (@steishere) Ann Scantlebury (@scanters) Cheerio! Team OLL (and Team Gamasutra) x * Clever wording we know, cheers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our fourth GDC episode sees us missing Kris for the first set of Super-Special Guests, but we manage to get him back partway through the show. Speaking of which, the Super-Special Guests on the show were: Robin-Yann Storm (@rystorm) Joel Nyström (@reallyjoel) Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) Bennett Foddy (@bfod) Robin Baumgarten (@robin_b) Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) Vincent Diamante (@vincentdiamante) Hosted by: Alex Wawro (@awawro) Kris Graft (@krisgraft) Ann Scantlebury (@scanters) Ste Curran (@steishere) Cheerio! Team OLL (and Team Gamasutra) x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First there was an episode of One Life Left from GDC 2018. Then there was another one of it. Then there was another one of it (we need a new joke for episode 4). Featuring the following Super-Special Guests: Jennifer Hazel (@rx_pixel) Osama Dorias (@osamadorias) Laura Bularca (@sarienn) Emily Short (@emshort) Will Porter (@batsphinx) Andrew Barron (http://andrewbarron.net/) Jennifer Scheurle (@Gaohmee) Hosted by: Kris Graft (@krisgraft) Ste Curran (@steishere) Ann Scantlebury (@scanters) Game played during the intro/outro: Puyo Puyo Tetris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's our second episode from GDC 2018. Featuring: Jonathan Ying (@Fancymancer) Kate Edwards (@geogrify) Anna Lapinsh (@treslapin) Gabby DaRienzo (@gabdar) Luis de Leon (@luisfdeleon) Brendan Greene (@playerunknown) Ben Myres (@_benjamming) Tammy Duplantis (@tambalaya) Hosted by: Kris Graft (@krisgraft) Ste Curran (@steishere) Ann Scantlebury (@scanters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recorded live in San Francisco, 19/3/2018. Presented by Ann Scantlebury, Ste Curran and Gamasutra's Kris Graft. Guests: Jerry Belich (Jerrytron) Eline Muijres (Dutch Game Garden) Rami Ismail (Vlambeer) Martine Spaans (Tamalaki Games) Tadhg Kelly (What Games Are) Daniel Nye Griffiths (Improbable) Martin Jonasson (Grapefrukt) David McCarthy (Cygames) Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency) Adriel Wallick (Train Jam) Quintin Smith (Shut Up & Sit Down) Matt Boch (Harmonix) Leigh Alexander (Reigns: Her Majesty) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here is this week's podcast. No-one reads this bit anyway, do they? 2Q??Q-L52GR-FLPMX Love, Your friends at O?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello! It’s Ste, Simon and Ann here. As we type this – each taking a word, because we broadcast in a democracy – we are in the midst of “The Beast From The East” which is 2018-speak for “Some Snow”. Listeners in the UK will be familiar with Some Snow because when it happens The Man puts it on the news and in the papers. Trains get cancelled and right-wing idiots make a joke about global warming. The country comes to a standstill. But not us! Oh no, at least two of us and hopefully a Super Special Guest made the arduous trek to Resonance Eff Em to bring you this show, which once again does not feature The Other One. (Who is a little frustrated because he or she has been meaning to tell you about Celeste – great even though it’s hard – and Mercenary Kings – hard, even though it’s great – both solid 7/10s, full reviews to follow). As ever, this is probably a brilliant show. The Other One hasn’t listened to it yet because it’d likely wake the baby and we literally frame our lives around trying to keep it asleep for a bit so we can catch up on East Enders. Enjoy! Ste, Simon and Ann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Roses are red Violets are flowers Missed One Life Left? Then enjoy this hour's Hi Listeners. HUGE Apologies for being so tardy with the podcast so far this year. All have us have been so busy, we’ve neglected our duty to you, our biggest fan. We have found a short-term solution, though – one of us has been sacked from show and forced to upload the podcast, which also involves writing this bit. See if you can guess who. This week, the show features Ste and Ann talking about stuff, which includes videogames and probably Marioke. I dunno, I haven’t heard it, I have a baby. Ste said I could do this bit whilst literally holding it but that’s not true. Have you ever held a baby? It takes, at the very least, half of your arms. Anyway, I’m going to upload this now. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Valentine's Day! Love from, Ste, Simon, Ann PS: Please help support Resonance FM - head to the fundraiser site here https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Right, the Caretaker stayed a lot later at work than expected today so this intro is going to be missing the (attempts at) jokes that you usually receive. There was no Simon this week or at our Christmas Party and Ann couldn’t be bothered to do any news, so we reviewed 2017 and Si Park’s review of 2017. Expect the CD of Resonance FM tunes to become a major part of the show in 2018. We also gave the definitive list of iPad games which we shall type here for posterity: Getting Over It Anything by Zac Gage Picross Galaxy Reigns: Her Majesty Anything by Simogo Anything by Mediocre Games Space Team Desktop Dungeon Any Synthesiser simulators Cheerio and Merry Christmas! Team OLL x Links: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2017/dec/10/best-video-games-of-2017-observer-critics-review Tracklist: 1. The Emu - Foodman in Duckland https://chipmusic.org/The+Emu/music/foodman-in-duckland 2. Shizundeiru Chip - Sabertooth https://chipmusic.org/shizundeiru_chip/music/sabertooth 3. METRO - Codename: Sailor V https://chipmusic.org/METRO/music/codename-sailor-v-nec-pc-88-ost---stage-1-1-city-streets-by-metro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Due to a swollen tongue we were unable to have a Super-Special Guest this week. As this is likely to be the final episode of 2017 with the full team we took advantage of the extra time to complain about Animal Crossing and Battlefront 2. Outside was pretty cold, but the studio was fairly hot so it was tops off for all attending - even the piano. It was Simon’s birthday last week and he took to his new hoverboard to become a YouTube/drug deal busting Superstar. Expect it to be in a canal near you at some point in 2018. We also discussed which industry celebrities are confirmed for our Christmas Party. Ste is making preparations for Ste Life Left, Ann isn’t paying attention and Simon played PUBG for the first time ever. By the end of the show we were talking about nursery rhymes. Maybe we do need Super-Special Guests. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: NOT https://twitter.com/ammonite https://www.facebook.com/events/1870461506601750/ Tracklist: 1. PSS-270 - Mikromusikwerk 01 https://chipmusic.org/PSS-270/music/mikromusikwerk-01-casio-ct-670 2. Frank Angelotti Is Dead - Careless Whisper https://chipmusic.org/frank+angotti+is+dead/music/fid--shitbird----celess-whispe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we approach December it becomes time for it to not only be tops on, but for double tops on along with hats and scarves. This week’s Super-Special Guest Teddy Dief held no truck with popular opinion and tried to go tops off from the very beginning of the show. He had flown into London to represent Square Enix Montréal in his role as Creative Director and we took the opportunity to ask what it was like working on AAA titles again after previously working on the indie title Hyper Light Drifter and also being in academia. Teddy also told us about an online crane game that sounds really interesting, an EXCLUSIVE reveal about a game that he’s working on, who he tells taxi drivers that he works for and we tell him how he could use that information to his advantage. One Life Left: always looking to use a system to their benefit. Or to push Phil Fish over. One of the two. We found out how many moons Ste has, how happy Simon is with Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Ann had to do some live editing of the news due to font troubles. What we didn’t find out is how we can get our show on Spotify. We’re missing out on literally fractions of pennies as a result of this. If only we hadn’t worn out our Caretaker during One Life Left Week. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/TeddyDief http://www.teddydief.com/ Tracklist: 1. Warefaire - Heros And Hauntings https://chipmusic.org/warefaire/music/heros-and-hauntings 2. Sypher1590 - Oui Sí Waves https://chipmusic.org/sypher1590/music/oui-s-waves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re back to our usual podcasting schedule so from now on until the Caretaker’s next holiday (or our next holiday) you can expect a new episode to download at some random point on a Wednesday. This week we had David Nadal from Eden Games as a Skype Super-Special Guest to talk about driving games and in particular Gear Club, which is to shortly come out on Switch. We try to find out how driving games have changed since Eden was founded in 1998, what players want from a driving simulator and if Gear Club has the most important car as a playable option: a blue Ford Focus. In the show we announce that the tickets for our Christmas party have been delayed, but they’re on sale now. Which is a terribly confusing sentence. Anyway, if you want to come to our Christmas party and see if Father Keithmas will give you a present then click on the Eventbrite link at the bottom. We also try to work out if No Man’s Sky is indie, which of the team would like a cat VR game, how popular Simon is on YouTube and if Radio Five Live listen to us for inspiration. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/edengames_ https://www.facebook.com/events/1870461506601750/permalink/1870461559935078/ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/one-life-left-2017-christmas-party-tickets-39828228303 Tracklist: 1. lamsorz - Shade Storms https://chipmusic.org/lamsorz/music/shadestorm 2. Klamm - Trauma https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/trauma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode sees our latest attempt in Understanding Esports. The Super-Special Guest showing incredible patience as we ask obvious questions was Deborah Mensah-Bonsu from Space Ape Games. We find out when the first ever esport happened and how Twitter changed the world of esports. In addition we try to see if you can deliberately design a game to be an esport. Ann then uses this information to make her own esport. Space Ape have made lots of games that can be classed as esports so Deborah was a good guest to have. But in order for their new game to become an esport we need one of the team to be a watcher. Which one will it be? Ste was back from Finland so as punishment we put him a cupboard with a dodgy microphone for the first half, Simon works out a new way to monetise the show by entering a competition and Ann tries to remember if she's played The Witcher before. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links https://twitter.com/DebMensahBonsu https://twitter.com/SpaceApeGames https://crownchampionship.clashroyale.com/worldfinals/ Tracklist 1. This Is Embr- Poison, Poison, Thorns! https://chipmusic.org/this-is-embr/music/poison-poison-thorns! 2. Amateur LSDJ - Marathon https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/marathon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It was the night before Halloween and all spooky things were going on in the studio which was affecting the jingles. Or maybe Ste was in Finland, which meant Simon was operating the desk and muffed it up. No. It’s definitely the first of those two options. Spooky right? What wasn’t spooky was our Super-Special Guest (or our ability to segue between topics). We got Jupiter Hadley on the show to talk about streaming indie games, her website indiegamejams.com which - no! but yes! - keeps track of all indie game jams, why she started streaming videogames and if a jam is better if it’s faster. Jupiter is nominated for a Golden Joystick and you could have voted when the show first aired, but it’s another unfortunate casualty of the Caretaker’s holiday. Sorry Jupiter. As Super Mario Odyssey had just come out, Simon may have gone slightly overboard with the song selection in this episode. Was it worth it? You’ll find out in the reviews. Ann did a football joke, despite having jet lag from playing Mario when the clocks changed, we worked out the least scariest game, announced a Jack Attridge game and found out what Jupiter would do in an empty home. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/Jupiter_Hadley http://www.indiegamejams.com/ Tracklist: 1. The Super Mario Players feat.Kate Davis - Jump Up, Super Star! Itunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jump-up-super-star-single/id1295624919?app=itunes Web version - https://supermario.nintendo.com/ 2. Mario - Just Dance 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39L-M5nhx6Y 3. Super Mario RPG/DjjD/Jehm Faulking - Tricky Labyrinth https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03617 4. Super Smash Bros/WillRock - Smash and Burn https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03608 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Right, the Caretaker went away for a week with strict instructions for the two episodes that he would miss to be uploaded each Wednesday. These instructions were not followed. Therefore this week is now going to be One Life Left Week. This episode from two weeks ago will be uploaded on Tuesday, the following episode on Friday and the next one on Monday. This should get us back up to speed. It also means Dan Marshall is going to be doing a heck of a lot of running this week. So, what happened in this/that week’s episode? Ann was still playing Picross and managed to get juice all over the screen. Ste was doing Marioke in Sweden and also presented the Swedish Game Awards. Simon went to Blackpool for the Slime Fest and found out the correct way to talk to EthanGamerTV. Our SSSG was Yan Kuzovlev from Weappy Studio, who called in to talk about their game This Is The Police which was about to be launched on Switch, but has now been out for ages. Sorry Yan, it’s not my fault. Yan talked about how This Is The Police had been received on PC and the other consoles and why (“the” - Ann) Switch was a logical choice for the next port. There was also a bit of chat about the price of popcorn these days. You know the usual videogame chat. Ste is away next/last week as he’s in Finland. Luckily the show will be in good hands right? Find out on Friday… Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/2Piccadilly https://twitter.com/weappystudio https://twitter.com/thepolicegame Tracklist: 1. Not entirely sure https://chipmusic.org/ 2. Veenomn - My Haunted Ass https://chipmusic.org/veenomn/music/my-haunted-ass 3. Son Of A Bit! - Chased By A Running Chupacabra https://chipmusic.org/son+of+a+bit%21/music/chased-by-a-running-chupacabra-lsdj-version 4. Donotrunwithpixels - Sorry For The Long Track Title, Here’s A Potato https://chipmusic.org/donotrunwithpixels/music/sorry-for-the-long-track-title-heres-a-potato Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We tried getting Lewis Schaffer on the show to be able to find out if he really does eat toilet paper and, if so, whether he eats it folded to the front or back. But really we wanted his son on the show so we could finally work out what League of Legends actually is. Unfortunately we didn’t do a great job of arranging it so we contacted the next League of Legends expert we knew: HRH Lord Sir Charles Cecil. Luckily we managed to catch Charles in a rare talkative mood and managed to find out lots of information. He’d just been to that burger shop Simon owns and told us various tales involving topics like the Congo (he didn’t tell us what he drank there), the Gunpowder plot, religion and Turkey (the country). We even managed to get a mini-audition for a new Weather Presenter on the show due to the strange weather across the country. And there’s an EXCLUSIVE! reveal about Charles’ latest game. Other than that we were all a bit under the weather, reminisced about buying Tamagotchis, had a LIVE NEWS UPDATE from Ste and had some Local News. We also announced our Final Marioke date of 10/11 and announced the Christmas Marioke date of 08/12. We’ll tell you where to buy the tickets for the Christmas event soon. See you there! Apart from Simon as he’s off. Oh and expect delays in the upload of the podcast for the next two weeks as the Caretaker is off on holiday. He didn’t even check it with HR! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/charlescecil https://twitter.com/SingMarioke Tracklist: 1. Hide Your Tigers - Candlvwax https://chipmusic.org/Hide+Your+Tigers/music/candlvwax-lsdj! 2. Nanoloopbandit - Bank 7 https://chipmusic.org/nanoloopbandit/music/bank-7-nanoloop-17gameboy-dmg-01 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alternative title: Babylon Zune This episode was brought to you by the freshers’ flu. In fact, even the caretaker is writing this with a very snuffly left nostril. As a fun side quest why not see if you can count how many times we cough away from the microphone? Our SSG (no additional S required) was James Parker from Ground Shatter. He risked our germ-filled studio to talk about his latest game Rico. It’s a co-op FPS where you kick doors and shoot men. Kind of Rainbow Six but with the boring bits removed (which depends on if you consider the non-shooty bits boring). Ste of last year would have hated this game but it’s now right up his violent street. James has even made the game incredibly timely by adding in a certain animal (that will probably be out of date in two weeks’ time). As Ann is in HR she asked a very pertinent ethical question about the baddies, but James had an apposite response. Sorry about the different vocabulary in this episode intro. The cold must be affecting the caretaker in ways we didn’t know possible. We also found out what Simon has found under his stairs, why Ste got sent dirty pants through the post and chatted about spiders and toilet roll a bit too much for a radio show about videogames. Sega Badawi informed us of Local News and we’ve come back from Finland via a castle in a river on an island. This is literally where videogame karaoke can take you. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/GamesWriting https://twitter.com/GroundShatter Track list: 1. Jerkemy – Zero Days Without A Gravity Wave Incident https://chipmusic.org/jerkemy/music/0-days-without-a-gravity-wave-incident 2. MicroD – Rhotic Stagger https://chipmusic.org/MicroD/music/rhotic-stagger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s a fable about how you go on One Life Left twice: once on the way up and once on the way down. So what does it mean if you are on the show for a third time? In Tony Gowland’s case it means that you are releasing Binaries on Switch. Tony was on as a SDSSSG (Slightly Delayed Super-Special Guest) to tell us about the (lack of) difficulty in porting to the Switch, how helpful Nintendo are and if you should make a game controller smashingly frustrating. Tony is also making a game that’s a twin stick shooter influenced by Ghostbusters, which has to be great doesn’t it? The team had an alright week. Ste had a week of teaching and Simon got a little confused about who Ste had actually been teaching, Ann walked in front of the Patron Saint of Resonance FM and Simon’s man crush is getting worse. We also found out that we need to find a Nick Faldo to help Tony out, that Simon can tell brilliant jokes from a content perspective and that Sega Badawi is just about managing to find some local news. And Marioke is off to Dundee on 17 November so we’ll see you there. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/FreakyZoid https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/igda-scotland-2017-agm-and-marioke-powered-by-unreal-engine-registration-38429479608 Tracklist: 1. d0us - Tactical Bacon https://chipmusic.org/d0us/music/tactical-bacon 2. Amateur LSDJ - Fleur https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/fleur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week saw the whole of Team OLL back in the studio and there’s been some major developments. Simon is getting into virtual currency, but only the type of virtual currency that costs him actual currency. Ann is potentially back in VR and Ste is keeping track on how many waters he has drunk. Well, for us they were pretty major. For the second time in as many weeks we welcomed a Skype Super-Special Guest onto the show. This week’s one was Brandon Edler from Finish Line Games (dammit, we should’ve chosen The Edler Scrolls as the episode title). He was on mostly to talk about NBA, how nice people in Toronto are and how nice people in the Games Industry in Toronto are. Oh, and we let him talk about Finish Line’s excellent adventure game MAIZE, which has just been released onto PlayStation 4 and XBox One. Maize is a videogame about sentient corn and was inspired by the classic Lucasarts games, as well as the new style of adventure games. We also found out how the move from PC to consoles has gone, how bored Brandon is of corn puns (ignore the episode title Brandon) and how many corn renderings does it take to set a PC on fire. Sega Badawi finally uncovered some local news and we promoted our Marioke gig at Leamington Spa this Friday. It’s for charity so if you could come and add to the atmosphere you’d be even more of a FOTS than you already are. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/mrbrando3 https://twitter.com/FinishLineGames https://www.facebook.com/events/161345677778681/ https://twitter.com/SpecialEffect Tracklist: 1. ATKstat – This Isn’t Over https://chipmusic.org/ATKstat/music/this-isnt-over 2. Amateur LSDJ – Victory https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/victory 3. YWN – Bqck In Bluck https://chipmusic.org/YQN/music/bqck-in-bluck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As our tradition with the second episode in a new season of One Life Left we do not have the full team in the studio. Unfortunately Ann drew the short straw and was absent due to illness, but she managed to send us in her news for Ste to read it out. Will he be a good Ann replacement? We had a Skype Super-Special Guest this week and it was Jaakko Maaniemi from 10 Tons games. They are one of the elder statesmen of indie developers so it was interesting to get an experienced viewpoint of how indie games have changed over the years, which platform is currently the best and why, and what are the challenges for indies at the moment. He also spoke about 10 Tons latest game Time Recoil, which is a twin stick shooter that nods respectfully in the direction of Max Payne and Hotline Miami. In addition to that we hear about Mario going tops off (he obviously listens to the show), try to work out if we are actually on air and we repurpose information from the internet for our own benefit. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/10tonsLtd http://www.timerecoil.com/ Track list: 1. Matt D – Watch Out! https://chipmusic.org/MattD/music/watch-out! 2. Jiar - We Did It Reddit! https://chipmusic.org/jiar/music/we-did-it-reddit! 3. Cecil The Goat - Hoof In Hoof https://chipmusic.org/cecil-the-goat/music/hoof-in-hoof Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After going off on our summer holidays we’re back! But does this count as a new season or not? The official OLL Style Guide isn’t clear on the matter but we’ve taken a chance and decided that the fifteenth season starts here. This is what we did on our holidays: - Simon blanked both Ste and (FOTS) Rami in Germany - Ann and Ste went to an esport - Simon got annoyed by Sonic Mania - We all found out that you can do other stuff on a Monday other than make a radio show So in other words, it was business as usual. At least with Simon being back we managed to book a Super-Special Guest. Book being the special word as the SSG was Nate Crowley, author of 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed). The book started life as a series of tweets to avoid writing a book, which seems a strange way of not writing a book. We found out what was the first game that Nate made up and how many people have been tricked by the book. We’re offering up our copy in an auction so put your bids in. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/FrogCroakley https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Video-Games-Never-Existed/dp/1781086141/ Tracklist: 1. Tangy Phoenix - Free https://chipmusic.org/Tangyphoenix/music/free 2. Cecil The Goat - Sometimes I Feel Good https://chipmusic.org/cecil-the-goat/music/sometimes-i-feel-good Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s our last show of the current season, and we were already one person down with Simon going to Canadia. But would Dan Marshall have listened to our pleas last week and be our Super-Special Guest, or will we remember to not mention him on the show? In related news Ann does a review of Dan Marshall’s Behold The Kickmen and we had Sega Badawi as our Super-Special Guest. It was Sega’s first time in the studio and we took full advantage to ask him about reporting from the Mushroom Kingdom. We even got him to do a live local news, which he nearly did perfectly. Although he did slightly spoil Weaselspoon’s letter about Edinburgh by rabbiting on about footballers so the links below detail the shows that he mentioned. The other link relates to the news story that Sega found out on his rounds. How will Ste and Ann react to his investigation? Presumably the same way that our CD player took the first attempt at playing the news jingle. See you in about six weeks! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/john-robertson-the-dark-room https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/joe-hart-alpha-beta-gamer https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/chris-coltrane-make-love-and-smash-fascism-1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Life-Left-Autobiography-Games-ebook/dp/B01AJ6RWPA/ Tracklist: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Explosion http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/explosion 2. Feryl - Summer Is Fading http://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/summer-is-fading 3. Alone - Your Eternal Adventures http://www.alone-music.co.uk/portfolio/your-eternal-adventures/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s no Super-Special Guest this week, despite our best efforts as you will find out during this episode. Instead the team get together to chat about videogames and prepare for our AGM. Have we all met our objectives for the year? But mostly we spoke about Splatoon 2. Have you played Splatoon 2? It’s rather good. We also referenced an old show presented by Craig Charles, cured and caused the common cold, busted the myth of Crash Bandicoot and Simon realised he could’ve stopped a disaster. Cheerio and don’t get cooked… stay off the hook! Team OLL x Links: Definitely not http://store.steampowered.com/app/529440/Behold_the_Kickmen/ Tracklist: 1. Club Cult - Bull Shift http://chipmusic.org/clubcult/music/bullshift 2. Klamm - Solar_Sailer http://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/solar_sailer 3. We Danced - Untilted 6 http://chipmusic.org/wedanced/music/untilted-6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After ten years of hosting One Life Left it seems that Ste thinks it’s time for an image change and he’s now going to become the bad boy of videogames. Not content with skinny dipping last week in Finland, we learnt about how he broke the rules in his youth. It’s a shocking revelation that we need to warn you about here so that it doesn’t offend you too much. We were happy to finally be able to put a monetary value on how much an appearance on One Life Left will bring you, thanks to Gary Penn being our SSSG last week. Dan Marshall will be kick(ball)ing himself about how much he’s missing out due to his dodgy internet connection. We also planned a trip to Bury, found out that Radiohead are trolling us and Ann found out what the lads do behind her back when the news is on. Come to Married-oke this Friday - the Bad Boy won’t be there but it will still be fun! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football https://www.facebook.com/events/183684258833963/ Tracklist: 1. Johan Andersson - Ghost and Goblins (Surf Mix) http://www.remix64.com/track/johan-andersson/ghosts-and-goblins-surf-mix/ 2. Veenomn - Big Beat http://chipmusic.org/veenomn/music/big-beat 3. Sudstep - Like We Used To http://chipmusic.org/Sudstep/music/like-we-used-to Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

(Who, who, who, who?) There’s no Ste this week. After literally getting out of his sick bed to dj at Ann’s wedding celebration he then literally went back to his sick bed. This meant that Simon was in charge of the studio so there could be problem with the wrong jingles being played. Luckily our Super-Special Guest that we’d booked ages ago wouldn’t let us down right? We activated the ESSSG (Emergency Skype Super-Special Guest) beacon and Denki’s Gary Penn answered the call. He had a haircut especially for the show but it would also get an outing for his big interview with Jonathan Smith this week’s Develop Conference. Denki had been working on Crackdown 3, but have recently been taking the opportunity to test a few new game ideas out. One of which has come to fruition as Autonauts, which you can download for free on itch.io. We also spoke to Gary about working on magazines (which involved the Mario coin sound needing to be used), how making games helps you learn about ropes and which pubs he went to in Bath. There was also confirmation on the official OLL Style Guide pronunciation of itch.io and Ann got married! And it was Engineer Week this week at Resonance FM. Thanks to our excellent engineers, we literally couldn’t do the show without you. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://denki.itch.io/autonauts https://twitter.com/garypenn Tracklist: 1. Gigatron - Bubble Bobble Theme https://www.amigaremix.com/files/2730/Gigatron_-_Bubble_Bobble_Title.mp3 2. Pinozulp - Gods (Into The Antanifull) https://www.amigaremix.com/files/3061/pinozulpo_-_Gods_-_Into_the_antanifull.mp3 3. Captain MoreGain - Return To Monkey Island https://www.amigaremix.com/files/3101/Captain_MoreGain_-_Return_To_Monkey_Island_Theme.mp3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There was no Ann this week as she’s busy preparing for her wedding (this is also why we’re not doing a show next week). We also didn’t have a Super-Special Guest, but this was just as well as they would have been totally overshadowed by our live preordering special! Yes, in the same way that Sky Sports News only does well when it is transfer deadline day, this week’s episode saw live coverage of whether the space under Simon’s stairs would see an increase in items being stored in it. But would Ste also fall under the item’s spell? And would anyone regret their purchase by the end of the episode? Without an SSG our listeners helped fill the void by sending us loads of excellent letters. Sega Badawi also helped for a minute with some Local News. The rest was covered by Simon’s grey joycon, Ste going back to trousers and a rather crap Glaswegian accent. Oh, and as this episode gets uploaded we’ll be at Unite Europe doing a Marioke with Simon Parkinson. What will we get him to do in Amsterdam? As with preordering in The Netherlands all bets are off. And probably tops too. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://unite.unity.com/2017/europe Tracklist: 1. Sudstep - Like We Used To http://chipmusic.org/Sudstep/music/like-we-used-to 2. Pselodux - Columinata http://chipmusic.org/pselodux/music/columinata Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Blimey it’s been hot this week. So hot that the CD kept accidentally playing the wrong jingles. Yes that’s exactly why it did it this week. Nothing to do with us doing it wrong. FUN FACT: The alternative title for this week’s episode was going to be Jingle’s Rosy Rupeeland. But instead we went for a title named after the last game that our SSG - Gwen Frey - helped make, which was The Flame and The Flood. She had just flown in from America and boy were her arms tired! We spoke to her about how her studio Molasses Flood came into being; which came first: The studio or the game; and what are the pros and cons of being a Kickstarter success. Ann also managed to get an EXCLUSIVE but it wasn’t as EXCLUSIVE as we hoped. So, more of an exclusive then. We also got our legs out for radio, thought of another great monetisation idea and got maths wrong. Sega Badawi brought some local news and Ann got an injury at third base. Ouch. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/direGoldfish https://twitter.com/molassesflood Track list: 1. AJAXE - Death Lord Wasabi http://chipmusic.org/AJAXE/music/death-lord-wasabi 2. Amateur lsdj - Igneous http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/igneous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a frantic week in the UK, we got the team together to talk a bit about E3. But where was Ann? We tried to check with HR, but we couldn’t contact her either. How strange. Luckily we had a SSSG (Selfie Super-Special Guest) that made up for our missing newsreader: Anisa Sanusi. She had been on the show before during an Ann Life Left and also during GDC, but this was the first time she got to be interrogated by the heavyweights of videogame radio shows. And she did a great job at coping with us. We found out how you can become a UX/UI designer; why her current employer, Hutch Games, are great at making driving games; and how UX differs between mobile and consoles. As well as all that we heard about how Simon used time travel last week, had a competition for a JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth speaker and confirmed that we’re off to Amsterdam with Parkinson. And Sega Badawi could finally use the election in a story. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/studioanisa http://www.hutchgames.com/ https://twitter.com/studioanisa/status/874332086873853952 Track list: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Chrysalis http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/chrysalis 2. Eduard - Lights Of Shanghai http://chipmusic.org/Eduard/music/lights-of-shanghai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After the events in London over the weekend Team OLL decided to take a different approach. Without an SSG (Simon was off) or Simon (he was in Barcelona), Ann and Ste went through their favourite nice games. Whilst we normally try to be as positive as possible, us being positive about so many games may disconcert you. Luckily our CD player went on the blink during the reviews section and hearing our shoddy professionalism will reassure you that we’re still the same Team OLL. We also did a bit of wedding admin, Ann ran on the beach in Scotland and Ste found out he was a super taster. Busy week. Cheerio! Team OLL x Track list: 1. m0n0deaf - k0ng0 http://chipmusic.org/m0n0deaf/music/k0ng0 2. saulc12 - the crunch http://chipmusic.org/saulc12/music/the-crunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s another Bank Holiday Monday so that means it’s time to check back into the Nordic Game Jam and see how things progressed since our last episode. The main issue is that 24 hours had passed since our last Game Jam episode so (in theory) people should have slept. We tried our best to find out the best and worst places to sleep at a Game Jam and also tried to see if snoring had affected any games created. Luckily we managed to find lots of people who were on our previous episode so we got to see how their ideas (and teams) had changed and also got to speak to someone from the most exotic country attending. We also came up with an idea for a Game Jam that we thought of two weeks ago, but was two weeks after this episode was recorded. On both times we appear to think it’s a new idea that we’ve had. This is what Game Jams can do to you. Look in our links section below to see all the games that were created from the Jam. They’re all excellent. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/nordicgamejam https://itch.io/jam/ngj17 https://nordicgamejam.org/ Track list: 1. m0n0deaf - k0ng0 http://chipmusic.org/m0n0deaf/music/k0ng0 2. amateur lsdj - grounded http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/grounded 3. Eduard - Lights of Shanghai http://chipmusic.org/Eduard/music/lights-of-shanghai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We start the episode a little confused. So confused that Ste mentions how it’s our first show together for a few weeks, er, except we were all together last week. Ste did have an excuse in that Team OLL got together over the week to once again give the gift of Marioke to Nordic Game. Apart from Simon who decided Belgium was much better, which it would have been but he failed to go to Ghent or Bobbejaanland. Anyway, after last week’s lack of an SSG we went overboard by getting a guest who had just flown in from America - and boy were his arms tired! It was Glenn Gregory from ID@Xbox, which is the main route to getting your indie game onto to Xbox platform. We bombarded him with questions that he actually gave a straight answer to like: Is there still a place for traditional indie games? What does Ann need to do to promote her indie game that she hasn’t made yet? And: How many games have been released on the ID service? This last one wasn’t a question we asked, but we did find out the answer in the show. One other thing that means Glenn will always be a Friend Of The Show is that he managed to give Ann and Ste the opportunity to audition to be a Sugababe. Were either of us successful? We may never know. We also had some Local News, had a joke stolen by time-travelling television people and realised we’re getting old. What a bummer of an ending. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/ID_Xbox http://www.bobbejaanland.be/ Tracklist: 1. Veenomn – Big Boofer http://chipmusic.org/veenomn/music/big-boofer 2. amateurlsdj - Stellar http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/stellar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apologies for the delay in releasing this episode - our Caretaker was at a team build in Doncaster. Unfortunately Derek Williams wasn’t providing the after-dinner entertainment but there’s always next time. Simon was finally back in the country and on the show after a world tour that took in Toronto, Great Yarmouth and Greece and also a flight that was delayed 27 hours. Luckily this meant that Simon had plenty of opportunities to play the Switch in various locations and with different people, including ex-contributors Taliah and Dexter. So without an SSG we decided to discuss the Switch in more detail. Do we think it will change the videogame world? Or how it will change the tea break at cricket matches? And can we persuade Ann to buy her own Switch? We also found out if Ann passed her driving test, the first line of Ste’s Nordic Game talk and Simon’s cunning plan for his Playstation. Sega Badawi managed to find a non-election story and we had a good idea for a Game Jam. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/two-complaints-bring-planned-video-game-cafe-one-life-left-before-norwich-city-council-licensing-committee-1-5018784 Tracklist: 1. Kal – On My Own http://chipmusic.org/Kal/music/kal---on-my-own-[sgb-mix] 2. Ocean Palace – Zero Leaf http://chipmusic.org/ocean+palace/music/zero-leaf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another week without Simon, but we’ve been promised that he will definitely be here next week. However, going by his Twitter as at Wednesday, this promise might not be kept. At least Ste will be here, even though Simon thinks Ste won’t be. As one of Simon’s roles is to book the SSGs, we had to resort to sending a signal out. Luckily Lukas Roper answered and became an SSSG (Skype Super-Special Guest). When Ann found out what Lukas had previously worked on you could hear her gasp in admiration and you can too. Lukas is currently working on the excellently named Corrupt Cup Contest, which is a tongue in cheek online multiplayer game based on the ongoing FIFA scandal. It sounds like it’ll be great fun, although if Team OLL decide to play each other it’ll be a little boring as we all play by the rules and won’t stab each other in the back. Maybe. Ann tells us a very interesting fact about the oceans and gives us some useful lessons in hacking while Ste made a quite good joke about Whitstable and is worrying about his new talk. We also had a feature from Sega Badawi, who is finding it difficult to have news stories that aren’t about the UK election. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://corruptcupcontest.com/ http://lukasroper.com/ https://twitter.com/LukasRoper Tracklist: 1. Ampliflyer - Post Physical http://chipmusic.org/Ampliflyer/music/post-physical 2. Mute Hero - BGM 00 http://chipmusic.org/Mute+Hero/music/bgm-00 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Team OLL managed to get approval from our HR director to go and record a show from the floor of this year’s Nordic Game Jam, which was held in Copenhagen between 20 April and 23 April. So, as Resonance locked us out of the studio this week because of the bank holiday, we decided to release an episode from the first day of the Jam. Enjoy! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/NordicGameJam https://nordicgamejam.org/ Tracklist: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Journey http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/journey 2. Israel Junior - Spring Song http://chipmusic.org/Israel+Junior/music/spring-song 3. Vincentizghra - Mergefusion http://chipmusic.org/vincentizghra/music/mergefusion 4. YERZMYEY - Agartha http://chipmusic.org/YERZMYEY/music/agartha 5. VCMG - Swashbuckler Saga http://chipmusic.org/VCMG/music/swashbuckler-saga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a break for the Easter holidays and to go to Denmark, we’re back! And, as usual for when we have a break for a holiday, we’ve left a member of Team OLL in another country. And our Super-Special Guest had a very apt name for this week’s presenting team with Stephane (Ste + Ann) Ferrandiz from Gamevil making his first appearance on the show. He was here to talk about War of Crown, which has all the best bits of Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics, but none of the bad bits. It’s also has real time PVP so we tried to find out how easy that is to do (presumably we’re thinking of doing it in Marioke). We also spoke about Snooker, came up with a cheap way to make a mini NES and Ann told us about her massive bruise that happened at the Nordic Game Jam. It’s been a difficult two weeks. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/GAMEVIL http://gamevil.com/ Track list: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Equestrian http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/equestrian 2. DEgITx - Remember Your Name http://chipmusic.org/DEgITx/music/degitx---remember-your-name 3. Leave Luck To Hell - Pheonix Down Syndrome http://chipmusic.org/leavelucktohell/music/pheonix-down-syndrome Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices