Game & Gadget Podcast #31 – Exploding Phones, Retro Future, Unity Chaos & More‪…‬ Game & Gadget Podcast - Pixel Refresh

I am joined by Tony Warriner who is one of the founders of Revolution Software and Aaron Fothergill previously from Argonaut Games and now with Shifty Eye Games as we discuss more gaming, gadgets and technology both retro and modern.




Topics include:





The engineering conundrum of granny squares



You don’t have to be an expert in the field to write a game about a particular topic



Tony appears on more panels



Retro computers & consoles and inspiring the young



Unity Engine going downhill



The craziness of gaming marketing and advertising



The beauty of Apple skeuomorphism before iOS 7



Every operating system goes partially transparent



MacBook Pro 2015 craziness of design – goodbye ports, hello dongles



Collecting old phones and the battery bulging dangers



James gets himself another Commodore 64



The similarity of technology used on older retro computers



Disks surviving, discs rotting



Tony’s Amstrad CPC fixed and working



The loudness of 52x CD-ROM drives – spin spin spin!








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