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14/06/2017

One Life Left -- s14e08 -- #322 -- Touch the Hutch

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

14/06/2017

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1 hr
30/10/2012

One Life Left -- s08e14 -- #184 -- CV-Leigh

In a land of distrust, and a time of hashtags, the destiny of a great videogame empire rests on the shoulders of a young radio show and podcast. Its name... One Life Left. Although we should probably give grudging respect to our two Super-Special Guests who also help us discuss how videogame journalism is going to the dogs. In the corner of the fine upstanding British Game Press we have Rob Crossley, Associate Editor from CVG. He talks about the differences between the trade press and the consumer press. SPOILERS: There aren't many differences nowadays as long as you're interested in paint. In the other corner representing American Gaming Journalism we have Leigh Alexander, Editor-at-large at Gamasutra and part-time Weather Girl. As well as telling us how the UK and US games press differs, she informs us about Wuzzles and gives us tips on the best way to get a free PS3. And because of what's happening in journalism it means we can't go on about our karaoke as much as we usually do. We know, we've got sad faces all round as well. We do have time to talk about Derek Williams' amazing stage presence and how it helps make you more attractive to the opposite sex. If you want to join the Derek Williams Fan Club then please send a postal order for five pounds attached to a self-addressed Games Media Award to One Life Left c/o Resonance FM. All this and the return of Craig The Rage? We spoil you sometimes. Links: https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_ http://www.computerandvideogames.com https://twitter.com/leighalexander http://sexyvideogameland.blogspot.co.uk/ http://www.gamasutra.com http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4083/5053978664_77318b2d75_z.jpg Tracklist: 1. Volt 44 - Dime and a Half http://chipmusic.org/volt+44/music/dime-and-a-half 2. severeTstormer - Dunce Dance http://chipmusic.org/severetstormer/music/dunce-dance 3. National Broadcast Network - Disco Train http://www.dkvine.com/features/music/chip_country/index.html?page=Page%202 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

30/10/2012

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1 hr
10/02/2009

One Life Left -- s04e20 -- #92 -- Tan Man

Just... a... few... minutes... more... Nope, that's enough waiting - after an extended, weather-enforced hiatus, TEAM OLL is back, back, back, BACK! Wait! Back, back, back, BACK!? Yep, four backs – and three tits – in the studio this week, as we continue our series of SuperGuests by welcoming Leo Tan, the Best Man At Street Fighter In The Country, to the warm and cosy confines of Resonance FM HQ. (Incidentally, does anyone know if The Bike Show made it in to work last week? We bet they did, the swots. We were too busy rolling round in the snow and putting carrots in the middle of snowmen to bother turning up to the office.) Laugh! As we, um… Cry! As we, err… Groove! As we, well… WHO CARES what’s in the show? Plug your earphones in, kick back, and relax as we entertain in the way only we know how: not very well. Enjoy! (NB: Simon here. I thought Ste was going to put this up, but he’s gone to America. I don’t know whether he intended to, and no doubt I’ve buggered up bits of it, but I thought it best we get this delivered to your iTunze ay-ass-ay-pee, what with the fact we weren’t on air last week. He’ll shout at me when he returns. He’s like that. It’s why I wear makeup and long sleeves. But he’s not back for 10 days or so. Next week, it’ll be just me and Ann and no SuperGuest so please, please, please send letters, jokes, features and songs to team@onelifeleft.com. Thankyouloveyou. X) Songs in this episode: #1: Some. I can't remember. I'm sure Ste says what they are. #2: See above. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

10/02/2009

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1h 1m
21/08/2012

One Life Left -- G-oll-d -- #1

So we're on holiday again. But this time we've tried to provide some holiday cover by delving into our archives.Do you remember when we buried that time capsule in the OLL Garden? It was next to that six foot hole that we've kept there in case so-called friends decide to appear on the Eurogamer podcast. Anyway, we recently went back to it and found that some of the features were literally ok to put on a holiday podcast.And here it is. The first ever appearances of Odds on OD, Derek Williams and Craig 'The Rage' McClelland along with some people you might not have heard of. Hopefully it's of interest to you. Let us know either way via Twitter, Facebook, e-mail or on the website.Cheerio!Team OLL xTracklist:24/04/2006 Professor Game and Doctor Watch24/04/2006 Odds On OD24/04/2006 Derek Williams01/05/2006 Professor Game and Doctor Watch01/05/2006 Odds On OD01/05/2006 Derek Williams08/05/2006 Craig 'The Rage' McClelland08/05/2006 Odds On OD08/05/2006 Raina Lee08/05/2006 Ms Snacman08/05/2006 Professor Game and Doctor Watch08/05/2006 Derek Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

21/08/2012

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29 min
03/10/2018

One Life Left -- s17e03 -- #356 -- He Is The Law

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

03/10/2018

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1h 2m
16/05/2018

One Life Left with Gamasutra -- GDC18 -- Episode 4

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

16/05/2018

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1h 1m
02/07/2014

One Life Left -- s10e05 -- #223 -- Funky Collective

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

02/07/2014

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1h 1m
10/11/2017

One Life Left -- s15e08 -- #336 -- Arise Sir Paddles

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

10/11/2017

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1h 1m
25/02/2015

One Life Left -- s11e05 -- #246 -- Knobs, Knobs, Knobs

With this episode we bring Ste's birthday celebrations to a close for the year. At least until his second birthday of the year in November which will take place at GameCity. As part of the celebrations we allowed the million dollar journalist Cara Ellison to Skype in from France to do the news in Ann's absence. She did a great job, apart from being unable to pronounce symphony correctly. We had two - count 'em, two! - Super-Special Guests this week: Hannah Flynn and Liam Welton from Fail Better Games (a small team that is part of Fail Better Studios). We found out all about their new game - Sunless Sea, what it was like destroying Eurogamer's scoring system (and Parko) and nothing at all about what it was like working with Bioware. There's also more development on our official OLL game, local news from Sega Badawi and more gritty games propaganda busting from Game Under. The only way we could make this episode better is by allowing you to hear Simon trying to get Skype to work on a Mac. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/failbettergames https://twitter.com/h4nchan https://twitter.com/liamwelton Track list: 1. Wholesome Family Music - Dope Rhymez http://chipmusic.org/wholesome+family+music/music/dope-rhymez 2. Motion Ride - Phantom Party http://chipmusic.org/motionride/music/phantom-party-[edm-chiptune] 3. Klamm - Impulse http://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/impulse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

25/02/2015

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58 min
28/11/2018

One Life Left -- s17e11 -- #364 -- Dark Soles

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

28/11/2018

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59 min

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