One Life Left

Oh my God we're back again. Our summer break was so hectic that our parents refused to let us hang out with each other and it's only since school has started that we've been able to get together and talk about games and stuff.Luckily Ollie Clarke is seen as a good influence so we were allowed to talk to him at great length about the amazing new game that he is working on - LA Cops. Unfortunately he wasn't allowed to tell us the exclusive news that he wanted to tell us, but if any synesthetes could translate what we did manage to find out it would help us greatly. We also found out if there was a red line between Simon and Ollie. What we found out may shock you (sorry we've got to get this habit out of our system).Ann brought back an old joke but with a new twist, Ste tried to find out when it was best to ignore people, Simon had headphone and bag problems and we all got confused about what makes a niche. (Cheese, eggs, milk, cream and pastry - Hard of hearing Ed) We also had a really good discussion about GamerGate but chose to delete it from the podcast as we felt the general public wouldn't be able to cope with the truth. If it is included on this episode then something went wrong and we advise you not to listen to it.What we do advise you to listen to are the features performed by Sega Badawi and Super Roger World. And our singing at the fifth #THIRDSDAY of the year! If you get this podcast on the day that it is released then you have NO EXCUSE for not attending. Unless you're Simon.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/OllieClarkehttp://www.la-cops.comhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1458589364418194/Track list:1. Legacy - Sad Machine (overheated remix)http://chipmusic.org/legacy/music/sad-machine---overheated-remix2. Kremland - Disgo/CHROMEhttp://chipmusic.org/kremland/music/disgo3. Klamm - Mega Man Rescues The Pink Girlhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/mega-man-rescues-the-pink-girl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode was actually recorded two weeks ago so prepare yourself for vintage/retro One Life Left. Ann had a karaoke injury, Simon was in a grump and Ste was possibly replaced by an imposter so we had to use the latest in eye tracking technology to suss him out.Luckily we had an excellent Super-Special Guest in Ground Shatter's James Parker who came all the way from Bristol just to be on our show. Actually, this is why the episode is two weeks late as knowing the state of Britain's public transport he'll probably only just be getting home now! He told us what it was like to work with Mike Bithell before fame changed him, what you buy when you quit your job and - more importantly - a bit about the King of Fighters style game that he's working on.And that's not all! We also had Vlambeer's Rami Ismail and the Train Jam's Adriel Wallick dropping in. Rami talked about his games distribution helpsite / Lady Diana's dead boyfriend tribute site http://dodistribute.com/ whilst Adriel needed hashtag branding advice for the next Train Jam that's going to be held. Annoyingly it's not being held the day before Wednesday otherwise the most apt hashtag would be #ChooChooChoosday.We also had Sega Badawi make a recorded appearance and lots of amazing letters from our amazing listeners. Hope you enjoy the summer holidays!Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/GamesWriting http://groundshatter.comhttps://twitter.com/MsMinotaurhttps://twitter.com/tha_ramihttp://dodistribute.com/http://Msminotaur.comTrack list:1. Laffe The Fox - Heaven for Monstershttp://chipmusic.org/laffe+the+fox/music/laffe-the-fox---heaven-for-monsters2. Stinkbug - Starlight Mallhttp://chipmusic.org/stinkbug/music/starlight-mall3. Volt 44 - Zerohttp://chipmusic.org/volt+44/music/zero4. Klamm - Remember Super Mario/Super Mario Isn't Deadhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/remember-super-mario Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left returns after a two week break and everything has changed. Or at least one thing has: the caretaker is on holiday, which means Ste is back to uploading the podcast which means it's frankly some kind of miracle that you're even reading this. If there's a second miracle and you can hear it too, here's what to expect: * Super special guest Rachael Reynolds talks Sunless Sea, Fallen London, drops some exclusive news involving another dev studio and teaches us how to do interviews * The team discuss their various engagements, including Simon's fun at Develop, Ste's adventures in Joensuu and Ann's trip to Kelis * There's some promotion for the not-at-all-confusing third #THIRDSDAY, this time on a Wednesday, i.e. potentially tonight, so see you at The Loading Bar * Reviews, news, features, letters, etc. And lots of music, talking of which... Track List: 1. Iron Ore - Sentiment 2. Klamm - Score 3. Calavera - About Us 4. Motionride - Whatever You Wish Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After her adventures in journalism Ann is moving into new worlds. She's going to join Pip in our roster of esport athletes by winning the co-ed Hearthstone tournament. The only possible spanner in this plan is that she doesn't really know what Hearthstone is. Will she be able to learn this important information during the show?While Ann's working this out we interviewed this week's Super-Special Guest - Iain Simons from GameCity. We quizzed him about why GameCity is amazing (mostly for Iain to say why we're amazing), corrected him about the GameCity prize winners and found out about what's happening at the closing ceremony. But will the Sheriff that's attending the closing ceremony be Alan Rickman or Tony Robinson?We also brain stormed ideas for what we're going to do for this year's GameCity, then gave up and offered you (yes you!) the chance to do it for us. Not only that, but we were given an EXCLUSIVE about an attendee that has got our pushing arms twitching in anticipation. In addition to all this amazing info we had features from Super Roger World and Sega Badawi.Cheerio,Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/gamecityhttps://twitter.com/iainsimonshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaZZvbuPqmwTrack list:1. Ypmid - Puzzleshttp://chipmusic.org/ypmid/music/puzzles2. 8 Bit Kidd - Slow deathhttp://chipmusic.org/8bit+kidd/music/slow-death3. Arc Of Dream - Descenthttp://chipmusic.org/arcofdream/music/descent4. Cam - Safe Bananahttp://chipmusic.org/cam/music/safe-banana Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's pretty tiring work curating the latest and more important video game news. Which is generally why Ann (and local news cub reporter Sega Badawi) steal it from Eurogamer. But last week. Last week was an exception. Ann did some journalism and it's tiring work. She also shed a little light on her unbiased method on how she curates the news (further to the curation that Eurogamer had already done).And we needed to be on impressive journalistic form this week as our Super-Special Guest, Phil Elliott from Square Enix's Collective, used to be on Five Live. Despite previously only being used to medium wave, he stepped up admirably to FM surround sound. He told all about Collective, how it got off the ground, why it's Collective and not The Collective. Unfortunately Ste didn't get to pitch his idea for a Lara Croft karaoke card game. Fingers crossed it will see the light of day soon!In other Ann related news she invented a new unit of measurement, managed to beat Million Pound Journalist Cara Ellison to the EXCLUSIVE review of the Kim Kardashian game, did an excellent visual joke and saw some tiger cubs. Simon became Philippa 'Pip' Warr's Moba/esports agent and Ste left his phone on.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:http://collective.square-enix.com/https://twitter.com/Sly_Rebirthhttps://twitter.com/SQEXCollectivehttp://joypadbar.co.uk/Track list:1. Klamm - Ice And Firehttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/ice-and-fire2. Stereochan - End Of The Worldhttp://chipmusic.org/stereochan/music/end-of-the-world-wip-demo3. MotionRide - Burnhttp://chipmusic.org/motionride/music/burn-[chiptune]-cover-originally-by-ellie-goulding Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left prides itself on its news team. Ann has been with the show as a cub reporter and we've seen her grow into the excellent news journalist that you hear today. But she doesn't really get the support from Simon and Ste that she deserves. As you will hear in this week's episode where the lads don't expect her to get any proper journalism done with respect to Atari and their LGBT statement. You can expect to hear the All Apologies music next week.We didn't have to apologise to our Super-Special Guest this week who was Darren Grey from Roguelike Radio. He managed to help clear up the differences between Rogue and Roguelikes. Luckily we didn't ask him what the difference was between a Roguelike and The Like as it would have gotten terribly confusing. However, after our advice he will have to amend the name of his podcast slightly or he may be hearing from our legal team.Also on the show Simon asks a rather technical programming question. He's changed. Ann thinks of skinny jeans and Ste talks about cricket. They haven't changed. Sega Badawi reads the local news and Super Roger World speaks to his agent. And if you would like to change the list of contributors (by creating a new feature) then send something in to the usual address. Thingy's going to do one again and she's been away for AGES.There's a review of how our second #THIRDSDAY went down amongst the footy fans and Ann promoted the show during the Radius Festival by not actually mentioning the show. But that's because she's a journalist not a promoter. Plus Ste wasn't there to point at her, which is the usual gesture that makes her say our web address.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/dgrey0http://www.roguelikeradio.com/Track list:1. Kommisar - Cherry Colahttp://chipmusic.org/kommisar/music/cherry-cola2. Chema64 - The Mother We Sharehttp://chipmusic.org/chema64/music/chvrchs---the-mother-we-share3. Imaginary - Strawberry Crushhttp://chipmusic.org/imaginary/music/strawberry-crush Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The OLL recorded before a #THIRDSDAY is fraught with danger. This one is no exception. Especially as we had World Cup (and Cricket (and hen do)) Fever. Could we do our usual exceptional radio show whilst knowing that commentators could be confused by goal line technology as we spoke. SPOILERS: Of course we could, we're (unpaid) professionals.And Simon is still making steps towards becoming a professional games programmer / designer (Up, Down, Left, Right available for Android devices) so we went to someone with more experience in that area. Even though he's twelve years old. We got Sam Smith from Boxface Games in the studio to talk about his game Spacepants, what it's like being our grandchild and why Terry Cavanagh won't return his calls.We also found that Ann can't whistle, that Simon can now make really good jokes about programming and try to figure out what's in THQ's bins. And as Ste was in charge of curating the music we had Sega Badawi making a return. It's an excellent show and one that you will show your appreciation of by attending #THIRDSDAY. Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/boxfacegameshttps://www.facebook.com/events/544551538987800/Tracklist:1. Mike Bleeds - Sagittariushttp://chipmusic.org/mikebleeds/music/sagittarius2. MotionRide - Droneshttp://chipmusic.org/motionride/music/drones-[chiptune]-cover-originally-by-rise-against3. Lucas Noah + Nitro Pulse - 3D Dancehttp://chipmusic.org/nitro+pulse/music/3d-dance-lucas-noahnitropulse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You may find this week's show lacking in something. You see, because Ste was making his way back from Sheffield's DocFest and Ann was moving house it meant that Simon had to curate the music and features for this episode. And Simon wasn't told if there were any features for this week. So there's no Sega Badawi, Dr. Avatar, Shipping Forecast or Super Roger World in this show. But that does mean that you get around four to five more minutes of interviewing time with our Super-Special Guests Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon! Sam and Steve came in to get advice in advance of their appearance at Georg Backer's Radius Festival and also to tell us about their Go 8Bit event. We in turn told them about our gloriously terrible attempt at doing Videogame Stand Up in Nottingham. Unfortunately they then outdid us by remembering the John Barnes rap from World In Motion. They then dropped our former Karaoke King Rob/Weaselspoon in it by telling us how Rob made a game for them. Where's our game Rob? Ste and Simon get confused about the correct way to pronounce Jredd and Ann gets confused about who voiced Thomas Was Alone. We also say goodbye to Log (curse of the GMAs), put Leo Tan in the Book of Records and Simon told us about the time that Simon and Ann did their stand up routine at a Christmas Party. It was rather bad. The Caretaker has a bootleg recording of it if anyone is interested. Oh and SIMON RELEASED A GAME! It's actually rather good and we highly recommend it. A definite seven out of ten, but Google Play doesn't allow you to score it a seven so the official One Life Left style guide says you have to score it the closest to a seven. Which is five. Five out of five. Cheerio!Team OLL x Links:https://twitter.com/mcneilpamphilonhttp://mcneilandpamphilon.com/http://blog.disappointment.com/2014/06/07/apologies-from-a-man-leaving-the-games-industry/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.byronic.udlr Track list: 1. Jredd - Giga Snaphttp://chipmusic.org/jredd/music/giga-snap-sega-genesis 2. Motion Ride - Korobeinkihttp://chipmusic.org/motionride/music/korobeiniki---tetris-theme-[chiptune-punk]-30th-anniversary-of-tetris 3. Mr. Zongrs - The Pirate King Of Spacehttp://chipmusic.org/mr.+zongrs/music/the-pirate-king-of-space Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left is well known for keeping its promises. Managing to brand a certain day of the week for our karaoke event? DELIVERED. Making a superstar of Mike Bithell? DELIVERED. Promising not to mention 'that thing' we all know about Simon 'Parko' Parkin on air? DELIVERED. So when we promised that Georg Backer would come on the first episode of our tenth season and he'd bring along his PA then you knew there would be only one all caps word we'd write: DELIVERED.Not only did we talk about Georg and Keith's new festival - Radius Festival - and how it will cope being placed against OLL Thirdsday, but we heard about Georg's dream location for a festival. And soon regretted hearing about his dreams. As usual we told Keith what to say to senior figures in the games industry when he'll meet them at E3, something which has made him reach the high levels he is currently reaching. And Ann got ejected by her chair. Which was the one Keith was meant to be using.We got Sega Badawi detailing the latest local news. And also Doctor Avatar made an appearance. He is now an official Doctor which we think means that Parko can get 'that thing' looked at. Congratulations Doctor Avatar. Good luck Parko.And being the first episode of a new season we came up with a task for the season. This one even sounds like we might even be able to achieve it. Although you'll probably all regret that this is the case.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/RadiusFestivalhttp://www.radiusfestival.com/https://twitter.com/keefstuarthttps://twitter.com/georgbackerTrack list:1. MotionRide - Zeero Two Threehttp://chipmusic.org/motionride/music/zeero-two-three2. Kubi - Polarityhttp://chipmusic.org/kubbi/music/polarity-teslagrad-ost-remix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One day we'll learn. Never allow the number of guests you have to equal the number of presenters. Keep the number advantage. This week we forgot this rule, mostly because we've just made it up for the purposes of this intro, but now it is enshrined in a podcast intro it is now legally binding (NOTE TO SELF: Check this with our lawyer).So yes, we're back, Back, BACK. And this week with three (count 'em - three!) Super-Special Guests. If we were to pick one of the SSGs as a main SSG then we'd have to say that it would be Fuzzy Face Studios' Chris Thomas. He came to the studio to promote his new game Crobble, which is an excellent blend of Tetris and Scrabble. We tried to make him release the game on air, but Shane in Canada let us down. We hope you're happy Shane.The other two sub-SSGs were the returning Georg Backer (who will also be returning in two weeks) and Michael Frederickson. They helped get us banned in Russia, swooned over Parkin's new Linked In photo and signed us up as the preferred media provider to the Radius Festival. The Radius Festival is a games festival that Georg is solely in charge of, with some help from his PA Keith Stuart. We're thinking of starting our own festival called the Diameter Festival as it will be twice as good as Georg's, but let's keep that between ourselves for now ok?Also returning this week were Sega Badawi's Local News and Super Roger World. In fact, it's such a good show that we won't be having a show next week. Sorry about that, perhaps you could write a new Videogame Karaoke song for #Thirdsday, book tickets to Ste's new Reads Like A Seven event or just be really disappointed in us. Sorry.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:http://crobble.mehttps://www.twitter.com/indoorheroeshttps://www.twitter.com/georgbackerhttps://www.twitter.com/mfredericksonhttp://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/reads-like-a-seven-2/Track list:1. Jredd - Urban Chillhttp://chipmusic.org/jredd/music/urban-chill-featuring-groovemaster3032 Klamm - Mr. Fatmanhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/mr-fatman3. Ultrasyd - Silly Venturehttp://chipmusic.org/ultrasyd/music/silly-venture-atari-ste Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recorded on the afternoon of the 21st of March 2014, live from the Moscone Center with shattered voices and weary hearts, One Life Left presents OLL vs Gamasutra Show #5: FIVE STARS. Hosted by @byronicman, @steishere and @scanters, with a jovial @krisgraft fully representing the Gamasutra side of things, and starring Benedict Fritz (Dudeski), David Laskey (Tetrapulse), Adriaan de Jongh (Game Oven), Teddy Diefenbach & Alex Preston (Heart Machine), Nels Anderson (Campo Santo), Tadhg Kelly (Ouya), Rami Ismail (Vlambeer, still), Cindy Au (Kickstarter) and Steve Gaynor (Fullbright). Music from Rade (Under The Stars), Mister Beep (Hypervelocity Stars), Ocean Palace (Key of the Exiles), Brink (Aurora Borealis). That's it for GDC 2014. We had the best time, and huge thanks to everyone at the conference and at Gamasutra for continuing to tolerate us. We'll be back on our regular Monday night schedule shortly, so do subscribe on iTunes to keep up (http://bit.ly/OLLtunes) -- until then you can find us at @onelifeleft on Twitter, and intermittently on twitch.tv/onelifeleftTV. See you soon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recorded on the afternoon of the 20th of March 2014, live from a noisy conference hall with increasingly raucous GDC-goers, One Life Left presents OLL vs Gamasutra Show #4: FOUR OF HEARTS. Hosted by Curran, Scantlebury and Byron, competently complemented by Kristian Graft (EIC, Gamasutra) and starring Ian Livingston (Ubisoft Montreal), Leo Tan (Turbine), Andreas Zecher (Spaces of Play), Jason Gregory (Naughty Dog), Kenneth Yeung (Capy Games), Matthew Woodward, (CCP Games, again!), Cameron Harris (Bioware), Austin Wintory (Independent Composer), Chris Dahlen (Independent Writer), Sarah Brin (Independent Curator), John Walker (Independent Rock Paper Shotgunner), Tom Betts (Big Robot), Richard Dansky (Central Clancy Writer, Ubisoft), Keith Guerette (Naughty Dog). Music from Drexegar (Fly Away With Me), Groovemaster303 (Step to the Funk), Jakim (The Opened Doors), Jansaw (Rise). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recorded on the afternoon of the 19th of March 2014, live from the foot of the escalators in North Hall of the Moscone Center, One Life Left presents OLL vs Gamasutra Show #3: THE THREEQUEL. Hosted by Scantlebury, Byron and Curran, ably assisted by the rich tones of Kris Graft (EIC, Gamasutra) and starring Terry Cavanagh (Distractionware), Manveer Heir (Bioware, very handsome), Alex Fleetwood (ex-Hide&Seek), Peter Molyneux & Jack Attridge (22 Cans), Erin Catto (Blizzard), Matt Piersall (Gl33k), Daniel Benmergui (Storyteller / Ernesto), Sean Vanaman (Campo Santo), Rupert Loman (Eurogamer Network), Mare Sheppard & Raigan Burns (Metanet), Geoffrey Zatkin (Eedar), Chris HArvey (Drinkbox Studios). Music from Jredd (Silence), Frostbitewaveform (The Thaw), Kommisar (Caduceus), Laffe the Fox (Left Alone In Outer Space), Stinkbug (Afternoon Out). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recorded on the afternoon of the 18th of March 2014, live from the show floor at GDC 2014, One Life Left presents OLL vs Gamasutra Show #2: BROADCAST HARDER. Hosted by Byron, Curran and Scantlebury, watched over by the soft eyes of Mike Rose (GamaSutra), and starring Benett Foddy (bfod.net / NYU), Chris Cornell (PaperDino), Peter Traylor & Chris McLaughlin (Vitei), Dave Evans (Play Canvas), Anna Kipnis (Double Fine), Ben Cousins (bencousins.net), Eric Zimmerman (NYU), Winifred Philips (Independent composer), Kellee Santiago (Indiefund / OUYA), and Brenda Romero (Loot Drop). Music from Stugard (Enceladus), Mills DJ (Radio Waves), Chasingbleeps (Master Kush), Feryl (The Last Riot Grrrl) and Klamm (World Civilisation). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recorded on the evening of the 17th of March 2014, live from the 32nd floor of the Parc 55 hotel, One Life Left presents the first of its GDC 2014 shows. Hosted by Curran, Byron and Scantlebury, and starring Kris Graft (Gamasutra EIC), Adriel Wallick (Train Jam, msminotaur.com), Zoe Quinn (beesgo.biz), Leigh Alexander (Independent Woman pt II), Andy Schatz (Pocketwatch Games), Matt Boch (Harmonix), Jaime Woo (Gamergamp), Rami Ismail (Vlambeer), Michael Frederickson (Otter Spice Productions), Matthew Woodward (CCP Games). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's hard being the official King Maker of the videogames industry. Last year we crowned Mike Bithell and videogames haven't been the same since. And for that, we apologise. This means that we've been on the lookout for the new King for a few months. Now is the time of the coronation. The King is (not literally) dead. Long live the King!But who is the King we hear you ask? And what games has he made that just consist of blocks and a funny voiceover by Danny Wallace? Well, it's Luke Williams from Boss Studios and he's made the excellent Surgeon Simulator that - get this - actually involves proper graphics. We've literally looked outside the box for this choice. And Luke was an excellent guest, explaining how entering the Global Game Jam and expecting a lack of sleep makes you come up with weird (but amazing) ideas for videogames. He also officially announced One Life Left as the official partners of Surgeon Simulator, thereby allowing us to go up and collect the Bafta award when Surgeon Simulator wins and told us how easy/difficult it is to come up with touch controls for the new iPad version of the game.In addition to talking about surgery and medical procedures we had Doctor Avatar talking about surgery and medical procedures (except Doctor Avatar's are real procedures that should not be tried at home (or elsewhere)) and Sega Badawi with more local news.Unfortunately this will be the last OLL for a few weeks as we've got to prepare ourselves for GDC. Last time we went we got in so much trouble by adding the letter u whenever we said the word color so we've had to undergo an intensive elocution course so that we will be understood by the Indie Developers attending. Tune in to our podcasts in association with Gamasutra around GDC to hear how successful they were. Also, buy tickets for our next karaoke event on April 12th. It promises to be fantastic, we already have new songs written that will be premiered there and you don't want to hear about these second hand. Vines, Audioboos, Sound clouds and Instagrams just won't do them justice.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/Eternzhttps://twitter.com/SurgeonSimhttp://tinyurl.com/singwithollTrack list:1. Stugard - Enceladushttp://chipmusic.org/stugard/music/enceladus-demo2. Galan - Arcade Dubhttp://chipmusic.org/galan/music/arcade-dub3. Commandycan - C Sidehttp://chipmusic.org/commandycan/music/c-side Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As you all know, there was no official podcast of last week's show (although we hear the unofficial recordings are selling for thousands of bitcoins on Silk Road) due to us raising money for Resonance. We also announced the date and location for the first ever Spring Break Videogame Karaoke. Go to http://tinyurl.com/singwitholl for more details and buy a ticket before they sell out!Luckily this week we were back to a normal style show with a Super-Special Guest. Oh. Except the Super-Special Guest, Will from Rambo game makers Reef Entertainment was involved in a tram incident at Clacton (the Caretaker might have remembered this incorrectly) so he wasn't able to make the beginning of the show to talk about the challenges of making a game out of such an iconic film series or what physics you need to lob a tank at a helicopter. Would he even make the show at all (SPOILERS: Yes, and he was great)?Still, such things happen from time to time. At least the core trio of Team OLL would be there for the start of the show. But wait? Where is the second hottest member of the team Ann 'Scoops' Scantlebury? Claiming that she was also delayed due to bus incidents (or possibly a perm taking longer than expected) we had to fill 20 minutes before we could start with the news. So instead we decided to have an #AMA, which apparently stands for Ask Us Anything. This meant we predicted the news, worked out what videogames pets like, shed a tear for the Trocadero and try to make our theme win a Classic FM poll.However, our contributors didn't let us down with Super Roger World, Shipping Forecast and Birthday Boy Sega Badawi all returning to the airways. So all in all another amazing episode!Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/Lead_wotawasterhttps://twitter.com/ReefEntertainhttp://tinyurl.com/singwithollTracklist:1. defiantsystems - Bronsonhttp://chipmusic.org/defiantsystems/music/bronson2. Here Between You Me - Sometimeshttp://chipmusic.org/here+between+you+me/music/sometimes-my-bloody-valentine-game-boy-remix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week's show we have John and Simon from Olli Olli developers Roll 7. Luckily for them we forgot to go on about the Superbowl, which we were going to hilariously rename the SuperbOLL, and thinking about it probably wasn't going to work over the airwaves. We also forgot to mention our great idea to mash up OlliOlli and The Stanley Parable to make the Stan and Ollie Parables, which would detail the black and white adventures of one thin man and one fat man in a horn factory.We did manage to ask them about working with Sony, what it's like annoying Dan Marshall (more to see if they found it different to how we find it), the colour of their new game but neglected to mention how much it would cost to use our likenesses for an OLLiOLLi spin off. Ah well. Scanters got recognised as a Twitter celebrity, gave hair and nightlife advice and the Team all decided that killing children was wrong.As usual Sega Badawi provided some local news, but Science Officer and Super Roger World made their welcome returns. We also learn about how to control games using your brain waves, try an experiment and probably fail at it. It's what we do best.And if you can please contribute to the Resonance FM fundraiser. They're an excellent station to work with and they'll be really freaked out that we just wrote nice things about them. Next week will be a telethon but on the radio so a radithon? Either way, it'll be fantastic so tune in.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/Roll_7http://resonancefm.com/newsTrack list:1. Mister Beep - Hypervelocity Starshttp://chipmusic.org/mister+beep/music/hypervelocity-stars2. Monomania - Bluehttp://chipmusic.org/monomania/music/blue3. Legacy - Rade (under the stars)http://chipmusic.org/legacy/music/rade---under-the-stars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's not often that we have Filey's favourite son on the show, and this week was no exception as Leo Blair (Tony Blairs' Dad) was unable to attend for some reason. So we had to settle for second best and allowed The Official Spokesperson for Videogames, Guy Cocker on as a Special Guest. Unfortunately we failed to kill Guy with kindness but did manage to maim him slightly with politeness. Guy also offered us dating advice while we told him about a further subject that he could specialise in at the BBC. We just like to offer support to those people starting in the business who obviously have lots to learn.Simon also offered us support by giving Ann and Ste advice on how to stream over the internet, whilst withdrawing support from certain people who send us letters every week and also getting rather annoyed at listeners who dob us in to indie developers. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. We also learnt how much Jon Snow knows about videogames.Doctor Avatar got some fan mail to go alongside the feature that he sent in, but it probably wasn't from the doyouinverts as the two factions had some 'beef' last week. It did result in a new song by the doyouinverts so it was worth it in the end. Sega Badawi reported on the latest videogame local news, but that's a given these days.We're also going to do a benefit for Resonance FM some time in April so keep an eye out on our Twitter feed for confirmation of dates and how you can get to attend. It'll be fun*.Cheerio!Team OLL x* Fun not guaranteed and is dependent on amount of alcohol drunk.Links:http://www.guycocker.com/https://twitter.com/guycockerhttp://thedoyouinverts.bandcamp.com/track/just-tyt-my-loveTrack list:1. Klamm - Dreams About Something (Emerald)http://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/dreams-about-something2. the doyouinverts - Just TYT My Lovehttp://thedoyouinverts.bandcamp.com/track/just-tyt-my-love3. Jredd - Do The Tiidohttp://chipmusic.org/jredd/music/do-the-tiido Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's not many people who get to be returning Super-Special Guests on One Life Left. Obviously many have tried. Sure, we've had bribes and threats but the integrity of our journalism is too important for us to let it be affected by these tawdry attempts. For this week's show we had the excellent Keith Stuart from the Guardian (Britain's top Newspaper) who arrived not bearing gifts, but needing the toilet. And you'll get to see if he remembered to do up his flies by looking at the recorded live stream. Yes, this was the first ever episode of One Life Left to have a live video stream (except we might have done a Google+ hangout a few years back (and maybe once over an Android phone?)).Keith didn't tell us his itunes password, but we did find out which console manufacturer he wants to be destroyed, how long it takes for him to write a news story and what he really thinks of Eurogamer. It's all shocking stuff. Ann is in the midst of a housing crisis so Ste and Satoru Iwata offered advice in varying levels of usefulness, Simon gets jealous when he finds out how much money Keith has made from Kickstarter and we have an almost grown up discussion about the pros and cons of narrative games. Sorry about that.As usual Sega Badawi provides us with some local news, but we have another new feature making its debut (well, it would be a bit daft to have an old feature making its debut). Not only that, but you'll find out whether Team OLL prefer window or aisle seats, which is information no other videogame radio shows can provide.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avmFKxwThshttps://twitter.com/keefstuartTrack list:1. Wiklund - Blasterhttp://chipmusic.org/wiklund/music/wiklund---blaster-c642. Volcano Kid - Super Robotic Encounters http://chipmusic.org/super+robotic+encounters/music/volcano-kid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If we've learnt one thing over the nine seasons of One Life Left it's that the videogame industry only cares about money. Artistic integrity, great ideas, beautiful writing - none of this matters if your games doesn't sell in its millions and you make enough money to make another God game. With this in mind we were happy to welcome the first ever Million Pound Gaming Journalist - Cara Ellison - to the show.Cara dropped by to explain how Patreon works and why it allows her to stay round indie developers houses without their approval. She also clarified which of the IGF nominees were not cool, how she'll be able to cope when Simon stops investing money in her Patreon and also gives her backing to our 'Free Christian Donlan' campaign. Which we've only just started.Ann is getting tapped up again, she's been offered a new position over at the Bayside Diner and providing lunch at Lassiters. It'll be sad times if she goes. We make inroads into becoming the first Anglo-Chinese videogame radio show*, but get sidetracked by trying to find out how popular we are on Google. Sega Badawi offers up some local news, Keith Stuart lets us down and we have an ALL-NEW feature.It's amazing times, we think you'll agree.Cheerio!Team OLL x* Chinese readers: Sorry about the terrible translation for the episode title, we had trouble putting in the accents on the lettersLinks:http://www.twitch.tv/onelifelefttvhttps://twitter.com/Carachan1http://www.patreon.com/carachanTrack list:1. defPREMIUM - lgpt)))``u r on my mind``http://chipmusic.org/defpremium/music/lgpt_u-r-on-my-mind2. Klamm - otherworldhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/otherworld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a wonderful and refreshing break (where Simon's telly was used by former contributor Taliah to bond when her new boyfriend on Christmas Eve and Ste and Ann facetimed America and honeytrapped indie developers on New Years Eve) One Life Left is back! And we're hitting the ground running with no errors, unless you count losing the letters as an error, which it isn't, it's a feature (who says we don't learn anything from our interviews with developers?).Luckily as our first Super-Special Guests of 2014/Year of Bidoof were David and Philippa, the creators of our GOTY which was the Ann Scantlebury-starring Going Around. As part of Simon's interview role-play, this week he took on the role of Jeremy Kyle and tried his best to split up David and Philippa, although he didn't go as far as having a lie detector test (we're saving that for Parko). We also found out what it's like to compete in a Game Jam, what year will be the most annoying this century and how David and Philippa decided on which of Team OLL should star in Going Around.There were also returning features in the form of Sega Badawi and Doctor Avatar. And Simon argues with Gamasutra's Mike Rose about math(s), Ann temps on Pip's Not A Game podcast (feat. Tom Hatfield) and Ste comes up with a foolproof plan to win a GMA. Not only that, but we officially announce some exciting news for March.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/16/going-around-a-point-and-click-adventure/https://twitter.com/daredevildavehttps://playcanvas.com/Track list:1. Wiklund and Joule - Makebelieve girlhttp://chipmusic.org/wiklund/music/wiklund--joule---makebelieve-gir-xml2. Zer0 Filt3r - Lost In Thoughthttp://chipmusic.org/zer0+filt3r/music/lost-in-thought Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The one thing that's annoying about videogames (for the purposes of this introduction) - the ONE thing - are the various rules for international markets. We're not bothered about Japan getting Rhythm Tengoku two days before us or America getting to say fanny in their games, no the annoying thing is that apparently some other countries believe it's the Year of Luigi when we've always thought it's the Year of Bithell.And as Luigi refused to return our calls we got Mike back on the show to make his third appearance and to let us know everything that he enjoyed about the year. We also found out a bit more about his new game, Volume, but more importantly we uncovered how many Sony Jumpers Mike was prepared to use his contacts to obtain. As long as the number was greater than or equal to three then we would be happy.Naturally, we spend about half the episode talking about how great the Christmas party was and announce a possible new holiday to base a party around. Er, that is an existing holiday that we might also have a party at that time. Although getting an official One Life Left bank holiday announced could be a good mission for the new year.We continued in our attempts to get Dan Marshall to keep running, had features from Sega Badawi, Doctor Avatar and Craig 'the Rage' McLelland and Ann got the new nickname Ann 'four Cornettos' Scantlebury. Nothing else of interest happened.OH WAIT. THERE WAS THAT VIDEOGAME THAT SOMEONE MADE OF ANN GOING AROUND (http://apps.playcanvas.com/dave/goingaround/latest)Cheerio and Merry Christmas!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/mikeBithellhttp://www.ign.com/boards/threads/sony-ponies-need-this-christmas-jumper.453606459/http://apps.playcanvas.com/dave/goingaround/latesthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvEJmE6S0d4Tracklist:1. Ftf - I Have Come Here To Chew Bubblegum and Kick Asshttp://chipmusic.org/ftf/music/i-have-come-here-to-chew-bubblegum-and-kick-ass2. Genisisega - Segadrivehttp://chipmusic.org/genesisega/music/segadrive-unfinished3. Lewis Thomas - Internethttp://chipmusic.org/lewis+thomas/music/internet4. Rees - O Come All Ye Faithfulhttp://chipmusic.org/rees/music/o-come-all-ye-faithful Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the worst people to be is an enabler. To allow someone to become the worst that they can possibly be. One such person is today's Super-Special Guest, Marvel artist Jamie McKelvie. If it weren't for Jamie's great skills as an artist then Kieron Gillen wouldn't have been given the opportunity to see how it would actually look like if he got off with himself. Jamie helped create the monster that the comic world is still having to deal with to this day.What else happened this week? We tried to help Dan Marshall with his running, we started the process of changing our name to Xbox One Life Left in order to get sponsorship (but got worried about a potential rival console/website) and Ste and Simon reviewed the PS4 and how it will affect litter in videogames.On this episode we had features from Sega Badawi and Science Officer. We also managed to get confirmation from Jamie that OLLStudios obtained the official license for the Young Avengers videogame, Simon got pins put in his back and got his Monkey Island memories slightly mixed up and Ann started to learn a whole lotta history.This episode also contains our final mention of the Christmas party as a future event. The current timetable is doors open at 6.30pm (tickets available on the door for £12), free bar starts at 7.00pm, 7.45pm is Secret Santa feat. the Guardian, 8.30pm P-Ann-to, 9.00pm Videogame Karaoke, 11.30pm CLOSE, 11.31pm+ AFTER PARTY.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/mckelviehttp://storify.com/steishere/two-friends-and-the-purpose-of-snapchathttp://oll.eventbrite.comTrack list:1. Klamm - Solar Riderhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/solar-rider2. Jredd - Galactic Smash (feat. Toni Leys)http://chipmusic.org/jredd/music/galactic-smash-featuring-toni-leys3. Rez - Unreal Superhero 3http://chipmusic.org/rez/music/unreal-superhero-34. VCMG - Golden Lonely http://chipmusic.org/vcmg/music/golden-lonely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's no Simon this week as he's gone over to France to let his greedy wizards eat cake so it's Pip Pip Hooray for Philippa 'Pippo' Warr who makes a second guest presenter appearance this season. Despite Pip's best efforts we did miss Simon this week as Ste was given the opportunity to talk about Cricket and Ann was allowed to speak at length about her new found love of Cornettos.Despite these distractions we still found some time to discuss videogames and we even made the official call on who has won the current console war. Other radio shows might be unwilling to make a decision, but One Life Left is prepared to make those risky choices.Not only that but we had Paul Ly from Brainbow on as a Super-Special Guest. He was in to talk about the new game that he had been working on, Doctor Newton: The Great Brain Adventure. Unfortunately he also had to deal with Ste trying to give him the nickname 'The Future Of Games' but he managed to cope with it admirably and helped us learn how long it takes to make a game. We also tried to learn how long it takes to knock us up, but Paul wisely declined to answer that.We proudly announce that the Christmas party has sold out, but proudly announce that you can also buy entrance at the door if you're making a last minute decision to go. Pip tells us how quickly you should read a book before you go to bed, Ste gets us confused by the text adventure Paradise and Sega Badawi and Doctor Avatar contribute features. And we probably go on about drones a bit too much.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/dr.-newton-great-brain-adventure/id645889660?mt=8https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brainbow.brainsagahttps://twitter.com/philippawarrhttp://paradise.xxiivv.com/1. VCMG - Golden Lonelyhttp://chipmusic.org/vcmg/music/golden-lonely2. 8-BITchintendo - ReBirthhttp://chipmusic.org/8-bitchintendo/music/rebirth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's weird how much of a difference a single letter makes. Changing an M to a W turned Mario from an athletic Princess rescuing plumber to a money-obsessed games designer who stinks of garlic. Similar changing an A to an E makes Parko no longer a diaeresis-obsessed games journalist who constantly loses his shoes to Jason 'Perko' Perkins - the managing director of Curve Studios who, along with Rob Clarke, is this episode's Super-Special Guest.And we perhaps weren't in the best frame of mind, with this episode being recorded after Ann and Ste got the All Tomorrow's Parties festival shut down. The Curve boys did appear to be better prepared than us at the beginning of the show, but we soon found out that they had trouble with electronic devices. Which probably isn't the best inside of the Resonance FM studio with all of its electronic devices.Inspired by Jeremy Paxman and his beard we tried a new method of interviewing, which immediately paid absolutely no dividends. So then Simon tried being nice which seemed to work much better. Perhaps we should try to be nicer to everyone (We agree - Parko and Keith Stuart). We did find out some exclusive gossip about Mike Bithell that blows apart what we previously knew about the creation of Thomas Was Alone.As usual at this time of year we talk about the forthcoming Christmas party which is close to selling out despite Keith not keeping up with his end of the bargain. If you're coming please remember to bring some games for Secret Santa (and put what games system the games are for) and also be fully prepared for the Pipmas Anntomime that we'll be premiering that night (with a view to transferring to Broadway). If you're not coming then please feel free to provide us with more karaoke songs for us to sing.Not only did we have all that in the show but we also had Local News and a returning Science Officer. The rest was all down to Ann, who scared her flatmate by playing a game, became a YouTube Superstar and also came up with the equation that six PS4s are the same as no PS4s.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:http://oll.eventbrite.com (last time, promise)https://twitter.com/curvestudioshttp://www.curve-studios.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-73eWgUP0Tracklist:1. Volt 44 - Daysteppinghttp://chipmusic.org/volt+44/music/daystepping2. Bit wish - Embarkhttp://chipmusic.org/bit+wish/music/embark-sav-in-description3. Kubbi - Concrete (renovation mix)http://chipmusic.org/kubbi/music/concrete-renovation-mix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ste's back! Hurray! Finally the team is back together and nothing will ever split us up again! Unless Ste goes on a radio show by himself and Simon then books an interview with Medium Wave's Five Live (remembering to invite Ann for protection) thereby causing a massive split and possibly putting the Christmas party in doubt. But those chain of events will never happen would they? Well, they could, but the Christmas Party would never get cancelled (tickets still available at http://oll.eventbrite.com!). Luckily we had some experts in the world of tearing apart previously strong structures/teams with our Super-Special Guests from Media Molecule, Michelle Ducker and Christophe Villedieu. They tell us all about their new game on the Vita, Tearaway*, but more importantly they tell us all about their secret treehouse. Which probably isn't so secret now they've spoken about it on the radio. We reveal how the Assassin's Creed movie is likely to start, get confused about if there are still motion controlled coin-ops at the Trocadero, get further confused about the right number of sharks to guard an XBone and get really confused about Ann's accents. At least Sega Badawi, Doctor Avatar and Craig 'the Rage' McLelland brought some sense to the show. Oh, wait, the opposite of that (in a good way, natch). And we get the EXCLUSIVE review of Twitter! Yes, hear it and weep Polygon! Who cares about the PS4 where there are social networks to review? Cheerio!Team OLL x * Our Caretaker was upset to find out that this isn't a sequel to Tearaway Thomas for the Amiga. Links:http://oll.eventbrite.comhttp://twitter.com/MediaMoleculehttps://twitter.com/michyboohttps://twitter.com/monsterplantTrack list:1. J-Peg - Unisonhttp://chipmusic.org/j-peg/music/unison2. Ktaettz - Dream Slayer Themehttp://chipmusic.org/kraettz/music/dream-slayer-theme3. National Broadcast Network - A Split Second of Anarchyhttp://chipmusic.org/nationalbroadcastnetwork/music/a-split-second-of-anarchy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In all our nine seasons at One Life Left we've never had a walk out. We've never offended a guest so much that they stormed out of the studio never to return. That run had to break at some point, but we never thought that we could have offended our Super-Special Guest Keith Stuart - the most nicest man in videogames journalism. He came on the show (even though we got him the sack from The Guardian) to talk about his new Kickstarter, which is an excellent book about the Sega Megadrive. But it all turned sour. We thought we were ok to go to Cara's feature, but K Dog didn't like that, threw his headphones to the ground and stormed out. Awkward. It took all the best efforts of our other Super-Special Guest Simon "Parko" Parkin to persuade him to come back into the studio. Our caretaker has tried to cover the majority of the blow-up, but you might still hear Keith's voice raise slightly and the fear in Parko's voice. It's a shame because Parko was also on the show to promote a book, not to work on his fledgling career as a counsellor. Parko's book is an illustrated history of 151 games and he doesn't even need a Kickstarter to get it released. He's so edgy! And he owns a boat too! Although he doesn't really know what a meme is. As well as our SSGs (and no Ste as he was still on his spirit walk in America) we also had features from Cara, Science Officer and Sega Badawi along with an announcement of new features from Philippa Warr, Leigh Alexander and One Life Left's Guy Cocker. There's talk about Ann getting a perm too, but the only way of finding out if the perm will happen is by buying a ticket for the Christmas Party (and attending). They're still available at http://oll.eventbrite.com but at current buying rates they'll be sold out before December so buy now! Cheerio!Team OLL x Links:http://oll.eventbrite.comhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1429932593889741/http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Illustrated-History-151-Videogames/dp/0754823903/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384271235&sr=8-1&keywords=simon+parkinhttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrenwall/sega-mega-drive-genesis-collected-works?ref=home_popularhttps://twitter.com/SimonParkinhttps;//twitter.com/keefstuart Track list:1. Master of magic theme - Anders Hesselbom/Rob Hubbardhttp://remix.kwed.org/download.php/5089/Anders%20Hesselbom%20-%20Master%20of%20Magic.mp32. Delta (main theme remix) - Moonove/Rob Hubbardhttp://remix.kwed.org/download.php/5105/moonove%20-%20Delta%20-%20Main%20Theme%20remix.mp33. Jredd - Revolution X/Music is a Weaponhttp://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01679/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After last week's debacle where Simon didn't make it to the studio, he took all necessary precautions. He made sure that all trees near the train line were torn down and threw Lord Sir Charles Cecil out of his studio chair into the cold unforgiving London night. Unfortunately he also chucked Ste out who flew off to America in a grump/to give a talk at GDC Next.Luckily we had the perfect replacements in Philippa Warr and Ed Fear. But which was the Super-Special Guest and which was the Super-Special co-presenter? We never actually decided, we were spending too much time giving Philippa secret missions at the Call Of Spooky launch or making Ed gip at Doctor Avatar's descriptions of a medical procedure.More importantly we tried to find out if Ann's new glasses fit in her hair, used Ed's contacts to find out exclusive news regarding Jonathan Ross moving to Microsoft and worked out that Simon inadvertently won the GMA for Guy Cocker. Hopefully Guy will send it over now he realises the debt that he owes to us.Even more importantly, we announced the date for our Christmas Party Feat. The Guardian. It's on Saturday 14th December and you should buy tickets at http://oll.eventbrite.com. We're even having a pantomime this time. We would do an "oh yes we are" joke there, but we're not the type of podcast that goes for lazy humour. Wait, oh yes we are! LOL *sad face*.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:http://oll.eventbrite.comhttps://twitter.com/philippawarrhttps://twitter.com/edfearTrack list:1. Rambo first blood part 2 high scorehttp://remix.kwed.org/download.php/5037/Johan%20Andersson%20-%20Rambo%20First%20Blood%20part%20II%20%28high%20score%29%20.mp32. Commando Themehttp://remix.kwed.org/download.php/5167/Rune-Bertil%27s%20-%20Commando.mp33. Thing on a Springhttp://remix.kwed.org/files/RKOfiles/Sidman%2064%20-%20Thing%20on%20a%20Spring%20B.I.T%20Live%202013%20mix.mp34. Theme from Parallaxhttp://remix.kwed.org/download.php/5068/Johan%20Andersson%20-%20Parallax.mp3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming so soon after our Wink Murder/Videogame Karaoke event means that there's a chance that some of Team OOL might be a bit tired and emotional. Of course there's no chance of that happening to us (we're professional), although Simon does seem a little different. Not only that, but isn't that an MBE sticking out of his back pocket? Knowing the facts, we soon realised that Simon was actually Lord Sir Charles Cecil, filling in for Simon after a tree fell on the train track.Even with Charles on the show (who is still preparing the new Broken Sword for release) we still had space for a Super-Special Guest, and luckily we had one in the form of Steve Gaynor from the Fullbright Company who told us how stories in games work (or should work). Recognising that he had expert knowledge regarding an incident at GameCity and Keith Stuart, we ask for his advice. Surely though, it wouldn't end up in Keith losing his job? Other than Charles and Steve, there's a bit of a German theme to the show as Ste finds and reads some German text and Charles reveals the best German City. Nuremberg? Karlsruhe? Essen? It may surprise you to find out the answer.There's also a whopping three features this week with Cara and Science Officer returning and Sega Badawi doing a rather poor joke. How can we top this next week?Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/fullbrighthttps://twitter.com/CharlesCecilTrack list:1. defPREMIUM - Close but no Cigarhttp://chipmusic.org/defpremium/music/close-but-no-cigar-srry2. We The Sick - Midnight Drivehttp://chipmusic.org/we+the+sick/music/midnight-drive3. Kubbi - Void part 2http://chipmusic.org/kubbi/music/void-pt-2-renovation-mix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've moved on from the GMA 'controversy'. To be honest, we're finding the British Games Journalism scene too restricting for us. We need to look further afield, to the land of the free. And - look - our Super-Special Guest for this week's episode is GameSpot's Editor-in-Chief Justin Calvert. He flew in all the way from Oakland just to speak to us, and boy were his arms tired! Whilst we talk to him about what it was like working in the UK during the Golden Age of Videogame magazines, we're obviously more interested in what it's like working in America. And, more specifically, if there are three jobs going there in their podcast division.We don't get a direct answer from Justin on the job front, but we do find out that he isn't Matt Bellamy's brother, that Brian Blessed isn't Ste's Uncle and also what exactly a Banbury Cake is. We also reveal one of most recent methods of confusing Parko, which is a fun game for all the family and we'll probably do a Kickstarter on it next year. Until then feel free to donate to Simon and Ste's Kickstarters via the links below.As well as the doyouinverts we had Local News as this week's features. We were expecting something from Cara, but as usual we were professional as didn't draw attention to it during the show. We bounce some ideas around regarding our YouTube channel and also reveal that the date of our Christmas Party won't be 20/12.We're also preparing for our GameCity event 'One Death Left'. Hopefully as many of you as possible will make the journey to Nottingham for this Friday. You can read more about it on the GameCity schedule (http://sched.co/19PQPJH), but it'd be great to see you there.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/justicecoverthttp://thedoyouinverts.bandcamp.com/http://www.banburycake.co.uk/http://sched.co/19PQPJHhttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/782536717/karaokards-a-card-game-for-people-who-love-music?ref=livehttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755340595/greedy-wizards-a-two-player-card-game-of-magic-and?ref=usersTrack list:1. Laffey the Fox - Circus Foxhttp://chipmusic.org/laffe+the+fox/music/laffe-the-fox---circus-fox2. the doyouinverts - Day One3. Klamm - Woman in Redhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/woman-in-red4. Apterous - Jet pack Samurai/State of Mindhttp://chipmusic.org/apterous/music/realm-of-mind---jetpack-samurai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's hard being the class clown, always pretending to be happy and jolly. That nothing in the world can affect you, that you're everyone's friend. Sometimes though... Sometimes it just gets to you. Obviously as we're professional podcasters and radio show presenters you won't be able to notice, but just bear that in mind.But however you listen to the show - be it through Youtube, itunes or our wesbite you're guaranteed an excellent show especially as our Super-Special Guest is Andrew Hewson from Hewson Consultants! We were a bit selfish in our interview with him and whilst we knew all of our listeners were desperate for his in depth knowledge on SSAP 13 (Accounting for Research and Development), we decided to move away from the Accountancy questions and instead asked him about the good old days of gaming. The days when you could send a cheque through the post and 7-10 business days later you'd receive a cassette through the post with a game on it. The days when you could play Paradroid, Uridium or Pinball Dreams. The days before your heart had been ripped out in front of your peers by someone saying the name "Guy Cocker" on stage.Ahem.As well as Andrew (who is writing an excellent book called Hints and Tips for Videogame Pioneers, with a Kickstarter coming soon), we have Science Office, Dr Avatar and Local News. We also answer the question 'What do you do with your close friends?' and perform a live experiment. As long as you're listening to this in November and have an Xbone.Cheerio!Team OLL xKeith Stuart was also on the show.Links:https://twitter.com/HewsonJoystickhttp://www.science-officer.blogspot.co.uk/https://twitter.com/keefstuartTrack list:1. The One Electronic - Biting The Pavementhttp://chipmusic.org/the+one+electronic/music/biting-the-pavement2. Jakim - Colon Dhttp://chipmusic.org/jakim/music/colond-feat-wing3. Dilithium Lifthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zodeJ8PRc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unbelievably we've finally reached our two hundredth episode. If you ignore the special episodes that didn't get numbered or the literally unbroadcastable episodes that we metaphorically never broadcasted. But in our official biography that this episode's Super-Special Guest Nicholas Lovell will be writing it will state that this was episode 200. And that it was performed with warm ears, thanks to Lewis Schaffer and his guests who were on before us. The fact that it was performed with cold torsos was due to our own foolish decisions.So it's another amazing episode of OLL/OOL with the amazing Nicholas Lovell explaining how to make money when everything is free using his new book The Curve as a guide. This is something we've always been interested in, but never quite worked out. Apparently the first step is to find something that some people are prepared to pay for. This probably explains why we've never made any money from the podcast.In terms of features it's the usual crew: Local News, Cara's Electric Dreams and Derek Williams' Free Market Economy. Hang on, Derek Williams? Surely not? There's only one way to find out (other than by it being fairly obvious now we've mentioned it in the show notes). And the doyouinverts try their best to make Detective Comic's Kieron Gillen cry again. We know how to do that, but it involves pushing him over.What else happened? FOTS Steve Owen and Duncan Timiney wrote in, Simon learnt how to sell games to under fives and Ste had trouble telling his Arg from his Belle-bow*. Another amazing episode then.Cheerio!Team OLL x* Apparently Belle Hardinge is a new character for season 6 of Made In Chelsea which makes this an amazing joke.Links:https://twitter.com/nicholaslovellhttp://about.me/derekfmehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Curve-Freeloaders-Superfans-Future-Business/dp/0670923834/Tracklist:1. Klamm - Heart of Goldhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/heart-of-gold2. Shintarou Music - An Introductionhttp://chipmusic.org/shintaroumusic/music/an-introduction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're fairly Deep at Team One Life Left. Sometimes others when we've been Around The World tell us to Slow It Down, but we tell them It's Alright and we'll Stay Another Day.Ahem. That might be an annoying intro, but we'll leave it up to you if it's as annoying as the Official Valve Theme popping up into this week's episode on a regular basis. Luckily our Super-Special Guest Darren Wall from Read -Only Memory manages to avoid the music and provides Ann with an EXCLUSIVE extract to read from his book 'Sensible Software 1986-1999'. Unfortunately the extract is about Simon but you can't win them all.We hear about how ex-contributor Jon Hare got involved in an incident near some stairs. If we were a tabloid newspaper we would call this event 'Stair gate', but if there was a stair gate on the stairs then the incident wouldn't have occurred and we'd have got more confused than we already were. Or are. We're a bit confused.You'll also find out what happened at the Eurogamer Party, what will be happening at the GMAs and what will be happening at GMA Defiance. But more importantly we'll answer the question: Is Simon aggressive due to video games?And you'll also get to hear OLL Local News, Dr Avatar and Science Officer (http://www.science-officer.blogspot.co.uk). All you have to do is listen. And send us some dares for the GMAs/GMA Defiance. And make sure you attend our One Death Left event at GameCity. And send us a letter for our 200th Episode Spectacular.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/East17officialhttp://readonlymemory.vg/https://twitter.com/romalertshttp://www.science-officer.blogspot.co.ukTracklist:1. Yoshito Hinton - Hyper Horny Dinos!http://chipmusic.org/yoshitohinton/music/hyper-horny-dinos!2. Yerzmyey - Deadly Labyrinth Of Lord Xyrx!http://chipmusic.org/yerzmyey/music/deadly-labyrinth-of-lord-xyrx!3. Glooms - Kill the sound guyhttp://chipmusic.org/glooms/music/killthesoundguy-nl-2x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The GMA Nominated (and GMA Invited) Team One Life Left is like a finely trained pit crew. We make the short change over between us and Lewis Schaffer sound so smooth that you'd never realise all our tops came off in the transition. Unless Ann mentions it later in the show.We do have a Super-Special Guest in the form of Panic Barn's Tim Constant, who isn't Ed Vaizey or Jason Bradbury. He does have a great game in development called Tiki Taka Soccer which Simon is very much looking forward to being the World Champion of. We also try to find out what he's prepared to do for $20 when we work out what we should have as rewards for Kickstarter projects.What else happened? Duncan Timiney wrote in and incriminated himself for poor (or possibly good) parenting, we finally premiered Cara Ellison's new feature Electric Dreams and Craig 'the Rage' McLelland and Local News made returns. Ste showed how much of a hit he is with the ladies by explaining what happened what he invited Ann round to play some SNES games and we promoted a rival podcast without actually knowing what the rival podcast was. (Note to other podcasts: We are easily confused).Oh! We almost forgot! We announced our event for Nottingham's GameCity. It's called One Death Left and will involve karaoke and murder, as we've worked out all excellent events usually comprise of those two things. It's going to be held on Friday 25th October so keep that night free.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/PanicBarnhttp://festival.gamecity.org/Tracklist:1. Fighting Free - Pixel Policehttp://chipmusic.org/fighting+free/music/pixel-police2. Fluid Volt - Amnesiachttp://chipmusic.org/fluidvolt/music/amnesiac-snes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's only been seven days since the last episode of One Life Left but so much has changed. Simon opened his bag live on air, Ste was prestalked by the Bike Show and Ann caught a cold and needs her duvet. Or was she putting in her excuses in order to take the day off work and play GTA V?Luckily, we did have a super-special guest in the form of Superflat Games' Jasper Byrne. He claims to be 37 years old, but according to Simon he looks too young. Perhaps he gave his age in base-8? We also find out what it's like to be working on the same game for seven years, that Lone Survivor is coming out for the Vita and Jasper EXCLUSIVELY reveals some information on the new game that he's been developing.We also update you on the England-Australia ODI score (Spoilers: England lost), Simon reveals his and Ste's Steam ids and we welcome the returning Craig 'the Rage' McLelland, OLL Local News and the long-absent Science Officer. Do you need anything else? Well, does learning about Simon's diet help? No, didn't think it would.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:http://www.lonesurvivor.co.uk/https://twitter.com/JasperByrnehttp://thedoyouinverts.bandcamp.comTracklist:1. Klamm - pixelated lifehttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/pixelated-life2. The One Electronic - Chamomilehttp://chipmusic.org/the+one+electronic/music/chamomile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last week, that was just a warm up. This week, this is the real thing. Which means we're back, Back, BACK! With our eight/ninth season/series of the GMA nominated/GMA losing podcast/radio show One Life Left (delete to taste). All the usual presenters are present, er, and correct - although Ann appeared to be a little unsure that she was Ann (we're blaming her change of hair colour).It's an episode of positives and negatives. Ann perfects her audition for GTA V, but this might mean the release will be delayed. Two new games consoles are announced, but the VitaLite pun doesn't really work said out loud so it can only be used here. And Simon gets kicked out of the IGDA, but we're not sure if this is good or bad.What is good, is that we have ruler of Gamer Network, Rupert Loman on the show. Simon hits him hard with a hard hitting interview that is the trademark of One Life Left and manages to find out that Simon - and therefore One Life Left - is responsible for Eurogamer existing. We'll apologise next week, don't worry. Rupert does give us what might be the WORLD EXCLUSIVE review of Fifa 14. But we might have to apologise to EA for that next week.All that, plus the welcome return of the doyouinverts and Doctor Avatar and a new feature in the form of OLL Local News. Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/rauperTracklist:1. Bit Your Bitch - Love You Like A Long Songhttp://chipmusic.org/bityourbitch/music/love-you-like-a-love-song-selena-gomez-cover2. the doyouinverts - Games Journalism LOL3. Volt 44 - Why Isn't This Workinghttp://chipmusic.org/volt+44/music/why-isnt-this-working4. PSS 270 - Ghost Inside A Musical Boxhttp://chipmusic.org/pss-270/music/ghost-inside-a-musical-box Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's cut the introductions, you know who we are. Or if you don't you'll at least know who Ste Curran is after listening to this season pilot episode.Yes, the team is back and ready for action. Except this is a pre-season start warm up show which means that we don't have a guest and are likely to make mistakes, so be gentle. Already thrown by the lack of The Bike Show being on before us, we had to calm Simon down after he gets upset about not being on our GDC special episodes. Then Ste decides that talking is cumbersome and Simon explains how the games industry is racist.The main thing is that we finally announce the next next generation console that you need to buy. If you have the money and actually want it, we guess.We also finally decide on the correct way to write The List, and poor Dan Marshall is the first person of the new season to be pencilled in but he won't be the last (unless we rub his name out and then put him back in again).The ninth season of One Life Left will officially launch next week, which means we'll have a guest and are likely to make mistakes, so be gentle.Cheerio!Team OLL xTracklist:1. Klamm - Mr. Dreamhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/mr-dream2. For A Broken Earth - Kyubeyhttp://chipmusic.org/forabrokenearth/music/kyubey3. Kommisar - Sugar Coated Affectionshttp://chipmusic.org/kommisar/music/sugar-coated-affections Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We said we'd never be here again. We said that Rovio needed to be far enough away that Angry Bird plushies wouldn't be able to reach us. Ann also said that she'd remember not to wear a short skirt. Promises are made to be broken.Which meant that we found ourselves back on the balcony looking out on the hordes of people getting green Bad Piggies hoodies (or Angry Piggies if you're Ste) and generally enjoying the fun times at Nordic Game.Luckily Simon managed to persuade enough videogame experts to follow him into the ladies toilets to come on the show. We start off with Parko and things rapidly improve from there with Klaus from Zoink bringing in his pink jelly arm and showing off his game Stick It To The Man. He also reads our minds and is not too disgusted with what he finds.We've written a really good introduction for Will Freeman, but he couldn't be bothered to speak to us so we're officially putting him on The List. Even worse, this means we have to bring New Yorker's Parko back on to speak in his Brooklyn accent about his trousers (we're always thinking of our female demographic) and why he dumped his friends (who are only ever nice towards him) to go and get some food.Then the ever-excellent Matt Boch from Harmonix explains a bit of his amazing talk and John from Gamestick helps Ann find out what his console can fit into. Oskar from Rovio comes up to the balcony for a peace talk, but only really passes on the show cold. Oh, he did offer us jobs on the official Angry Birds radio station which was rather nice and foolish of him. Then we end with TV's/PocketGamer's/Jet Lag's own Jon Jordan and try to work out the correct way to pronounce Ouya.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:http://www.zoinkgames.com/https://twitter.com/spadgy_OTA (say you'll go here BUT PULL OUT OF GOING)https://twitter.com/mattbochhttp://gamestick.tv/http://www.rovio.com/en/careers/Employee-stories/view/16/oskar-general-manager-stockholmhttp://www.pocketgamer.biz/writer.asp?a=9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Back in May 2013, we went over to the country of Nordic to see their amazing games conference. And also to be taught that there is no such country as Nordic. It could be for this reason that we had to do the first show from a slaughterhouse. And even worse: with Parko.But don't despair! We had some good guests on too! Joachim explains his game Flowstorm, Oscar Clark and Chris James drop in too. Ste then goes missing, just as we hear from Petri and Martin about Sexy Hiking and their meditative space strategy game Rymdkapsel.Tom 'Cheese Doodles' Betts tells us about Sir/Madam You Are Being Hunted and how it is best to abbreviate it. Lau from the Copenhagen Games Collective organises us as well as the Indie Gaming Night (and introduces Ann to the game of Spin The Bottle). And we end the show by talking to Emma the COO/Producer/Magician of Nordic Games who reveals the secrets of how to make a great games conference without being kicked out of the magic circle.Links:http://www.flowstormgame.com/https://twitter.com/Athanateushttp://legendarium.mymiddleearth.com/2013/06/01/design-for-gaming-an-interview-with-i-o-interactive-lead-level-designer-chris-james/http://rymdkapsel.com/https://twitter.com/TomNullpointerhttp://www.big-robot.com/2012/03/12/sir-you-are-being-hunted/https://mobile.twitter.com/LauKorsgaardhttp://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Wii-U-download-software/Spin-the-Bottle-Bumpie-s-Party-764238.htmlhttps://twitter.com/daughtaofdasnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Don't call it a comeback! Call it a show that we recorded at Antenna in Nottingham on Thursday 25th April with multiple Super-Special Guests and the first recorded appearance of our FOTS badges-back.It's a little teaser to remind you of our show before we're officially back, Back, BACK in September. So what do you learn in this episode? Well, aside from hearing about why Ann has put Prince Harry on the EOTS list and why Simon has been signed up by the ECB as a Gary Pratt-esque sub fielder, you mostly hear from our amazing SSGs and the equally amazing stuff that they're working on.We have Neil Jones who despite being Australian doesn't start all of his sentences with "Aw look", Owen the House DJ explains how to best use a Tenori-on, Stefan Morris gives us a good excuse to touch people bums without having to sing the Cheeky Girls. We also hear about how to make game guide from Andrew Mills and Graham Spence teaches us about Swirling (which sounds a lot dodgier than it actually is).And that's not all. We also sign up Sam Kay as a FOTS and Charlotte joins our ever increasing band of lawyers. OTHER PODCASTS BEWARE.See you again in September!Cheerio!Team OLL x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 6. Presented by Ste Curran, Ann Scantlebury and Jenn Frank and one last amazing lineup of guests: Tom Buscaglia (The Game Attorney), John Walker (Rock Paper Shotgun), Mattie Brice (Kotaku / Critical Distance), Doug Wilson (Die Gute Fabrik), Brandon Sheffield (Necrosoft / Insert Credit), Mare Sheppard and Raigan Burns (Metanet Software Inc), Teddy Diefenbach (Rad Dragon), Matt Boch (Harmonix Music Systems) and a final, choked-up appearance from Gamasutra Editor-in-Chief Kris Graft. It's our last episode of GDC 2013, recorded on the show floor at lunchtime on Friday with a tremendous stream of guests, gently interrogated between a few brilliant pieces of chiptune music. Topics include cloning, gender in the videogame industry, finishing (making) games, inspiration, how to behave on walkways, videogame interfaces and the audacity of mimes. It has been an intense, wonderful, voice-shattering week at the Game Developer's Conference and this last hour is a good summary of the atmosphere we've felt throughout -- information and entertainment, random encounters and new friends, smart thoughts and stupid jokes. The single note of sadness is that it's all over for another year. Thanks to all our brilliant guests, to Gamasutra and to GDC and to you for listening. We'll talk to you soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 5. Presented by Ste Curran, Ann Scantlebury and Michael Frederickson with Gamasutra representative Frank Cifaldi and another great lineup of interviewees: Seth Louey and Brian Corrigan (Mad Glory), Steve Gaynor (The Fullbright Company), Matt Boch (Harmonix Music Systems), Eric Zimmerman (NYU) and Georg Backer (Hot Sauce). As the final lectures of Thursday finish, One Life Left convenes another diverse panel to chat some more about life making games in 2013. Topics include the allure of statistics, portals, secrets, storytelling, the Harmonix Music System, Ahhhcade, the perils of presenting at a conference and "swag". We also get to hear the tale of Jason Rohrer's spectacular victory at the final ever Game Design Challenge and Steve Gaynor explains how you put a house in a game. Brilliant bleeps and beats courtesy of chipmusic.org break up the chatter; we'll be back tomorrow with our final broadcast from GDC 2013... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 4. Presented by Ste Curran, Ann Scantlebury and (eventually) Jenn Frank, sitting opposite Gamasutra colleague Christian Nutt and special guests Greg Rice (Double Fine), Patrick Hackett (Double Fine), Bennett Foddy (QWOP, GIRP, Pole Riders), Matthew Luhn (Pixar), Ben Liu (Pocket Gems), Daniel Cook (Spry Fox), and Anna Marsh (Lady Shotgun). One Life Left's relentless schedule continues with another special show, recorded live on Thursday lunchtime at GDC2013 from our temporary home at the foot of the North Hall escalators in San Francisco's Moscone Center. Topics include how to stay motivated, the creative process in big and small studios, cross-media pollination, mobile gaming, life / work balance, and some more brainstorming around our hug-game "concept". It's midway through the conference, we're losing our voices - our minds have somewhat gone too - but we'll get through this together, team, and continue regret nothing except the limited number of hours in every brilliant day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 3. Presented by Ste Curran, Ann Scantlebury and Michael Frederickson alongside Gamasutra representative Kris Graft and a wonderful panel of guests: Thomas Bidaux (Ico Partners), Sarah Brin (Curator, Ahhhhcade), Anthony Johnston (writer on Dead Space and Zombie-U), and Cara Ellison (Rock Paper Shotgun) Day three -- or one, depending on how well you can count -- of GDC comes to a close and One Life Left reports live from a fast-emptying show floor. Topics include Kickstarter, diversity, the challenges in writing for interactive media, the universality of zombies, hugs (again), schedule highlights and how to be disturbing. There's also an unnerving discovery over at the iam8bit stand and the team discover whether they're more interesting than a staircase. Add in some excellent chiptunes and you've got the third episode of our videogame talk show. Three more to come! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 2. Presented by Ste Curran, Ann Scantlebury and Jenn Frank with today's amazing lineup Michael Pachter (Industry Analyst), Porpentine (Howlings Dogs), Margaret Robertson (Hide&Seek), Michael Brough (Glitch Tank), John Gibson (iam8bit), Chris Remo (Doublefine), Leigh Alexander (writing, singing, dancing, etc), Zoey Quinn (Depression Quest), Justin Who Approached Us And Said We Were Awesome (Telltale), Chris Dahlen (writer, narrative designer). Our second episode at GDC, recorded live at lunchtime from the foot of the escalators in the North hall at the Moscone Centre. Topics include what we can do with $20, tiny games, two-player games, making people attractive, game narrative, getting jobs, hugging games and depression. A brilliant, diverse panel captures life from the show floor of the Game Developer -- random encounters, smart ideas and stream of consciousness serendipity. Lots of sweet music from the wonderful http://chipmusic.org/, too. This is the first of two shows recorded on the Wednesday -- look forward, or listen forward if you'd prefer, to episode three of six tomorrow... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 1. Presented by Ste Curran, Ann Scantlebury and Michael Frederickson with special guests Kris Graft (Gamasutra), Charles Cecil (Revolution), Manveer Heir (Bioware), Jonathon Banks (Telltale), Jenn Frank (Unwinnable / Super Hexagon), Leigh Alexander (LIFE, episodes passim), Frank Cifaldi (UBM), Sarah Elmaleh (Voice Actor, p-pop-teacher) and Matthew Burns (University of Washington). An introduction to One Life Left and Gamasutra's conference-capturing adventure, recorded live at a small gathering on Tuesday evening on the 34th floor of the Marriott Marquis. Topics include the conference itself, industry inclusivity, education, creativity, art direction, journalism, obscenity, hugs, puerility and combinations therein. A few brilliant chiptunes, the sound of an increasingly rowdy party in the background and the occasional minor technical hitch complete the warm, welcoming, sort-of-competent audio signature One Life Left's tolerant listeners have embraced over the last seven years. Which type of embrace? Listen, decide for yourself and we'll be back with the first show from the show floor very, very soon... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Let's see what happens if Ann and Ste swan off to San Francisco to record some shows with Gamasutra and leave Simon to do a show all by himself'. And the resulting show is surprisingly broadcastable. We hear about how becoming a Super-Special Guest gets you automatic membership to Noel Edmonds' Dream Factory and the new and returning members to that factory floor are very excited by this news. The lucky people are Spilt Milk Studio's Andrew Smith, Savy Gamer's Lewie P, writer for hire Jamie Firth and Tom Trewhella who is a boy. Despite Ann being away in GDC land, we still manage to get some news on the show as Ann's Intern jumps off the subs bench to tell us all about excel games and what Ann thinks about Tetris. To be honest, we were just surprised that Ann has even heard of Tetris. In addition to all this we find out what Simon thought of when we was on Gamesmaster (at least the thoughts of someone who sounds a bit like him) and we find out what Ste really stands for (he stands for nothing - he's open to bribes). Links:https://twitter.com/SpiltMilkStudiohttps://twitter.com/LewiePhttps://twitter.com/mrjfirthhttps://twitter.com/Silent_Tom_Thttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4v0gliIIDA Tracklist: 1. Martin Galway - Rambo Loading Theme (C64) 2. Innocent Deception - Snake Eater Theme (OC Remix)http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02573/ 3. Apocalypse Theme (OC Remix) 4. Muse - Starlight (remix) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Creativity'. Players: Aiofe - https://twitter.com/AoifeLockhartDaria - https://twitter.com/DariasaurGemma - https://twitter.com/GemmaLoughranMatt - https://twitter.com/Jam_Sponge Playlist: Playpen - http://playpen.farbs.org/index.php?title=Main_PageFolding Story - http://foldingstory.com/Draw Something - http://omepop.com/drawsomethingDrawception - http://drawception.com/Tone Matrix - http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/Tony B - http://www.tony-b.org/Online Sequencer - http://onlinesequencer.net/ Extra credit: Doodle or Die - http://doodleordie.com/ Tracklist: 1. Balloon Bear - Slack Jawedhttp://chipmusic.org/balloonbear/music/slack-jawed-ft-skip-sandwich-dx 2. Deep Shade - Rocket Chaserhttp://chipmusic.org/deepshade/music/rocket-chaser Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we'll see you back here for the podcast. Next week is our preview show for GDC 2013. Well, the two percent of GDC that doesn't involve drinking and/or karaoke anyway. Team NCxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Humour'. Players: Aiofe - https://twitter.com/AoifeLockhartGemma - https://twitter.com/GemmaLoughranKaty - https://twitter.com/KTsqueak Playlist: Lost Pig - http://www.grunk.org/lostpig/ Murder Dog - http://harmonyzone.org/MurderDogIV.html Clop - http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html http://king-soukutu.com/flash/owata.html Art Game - http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/artgame/ArtGame.html Achievement Unlocked - http://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked Lee Lees Quest 2 - http://games.adultswim.com/lee-lees-quest-2-adventure-online-game.html Extra credit: Portal 2Secret of Monkey IslandThe CaveDrunk GuyPainShove ProMean Girls (the film, not the game) Tracklist: 1. Klamm - Mechanical Soul http://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/mechanical-soul 2. Laffe The Fox - Hyper Trouble http://chipmusic.org/laffe+the+fox/music/laffe-the-fox---hyper-trouble Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we'll see you back here for the podcast. We'll announce next week's games on Twitter/Facebook/Google+. Team NCxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices