Eric Lagel is a games producer who has worked in France, Canada and the UK, with Runescape, Crysis and Splinter Cell on his CV. He is deep into GTA Online and has sunk many, many hours in World of Warcraft. In addition to those games, we talk about his ideas for a magic shooter that will appeal more to older gamers, amazing story-focused games like Red Dead Redemption 2, and go off-brand to talk about Agile development and AI. John also gets to fanboi talking to someone who developed one of his all time favourite games, Splinter Cell.

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Terry Greer is a games design lecturer at Falmouth University and has 30 years of experience in the games industry. He worked at Microprose, Jagex and Blitz, on projects like XCOM and Runescape. In this episode, Terry tells us about the art of designing games, the high pressure environment of pitching games ideas for a studio and how students are learning to design their own game projects.

In the episode, Terry recommends the following:

FTL making of GDC talk Designing without a Pitch

Fallout London Team

Team FOLON's progress videos on their Youtube channel

Liz England - The Door Problem

Jennifer Scheurle - GDC lecture on hidden mechanics

Doctor Bounce student games project

Links to Terry's projects:

Terry's website - https://www.terrygreer.com/

Terry's novel - Jangada Trilogy

Some games we talked about:

Fallout London

Elder Scrolls 4: Skyrim

Ant Attack (Spectrum)

The Hobbit (Spectrum)

FTL

Elder Scrolls Online

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

Left 4 Dead

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Nick Thompson is a games industry veteran, with over 35 years in the business. He has worked on top-tier titles, such as the original XCOM series, Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix series, Runescape, Carmageddon and Dirt Rally 2. His experience ranges from coding games in the Assembler language to booking studios and voice actors as a producer. He has seen it all in games. Now retired, he discusses games' roles in his life, balancing Last of Us with babysitting his grandchildren. Nick has worked with industry greats like Geoff Crammond, the Gollop Brothers and Patrick Buckland. Hear real life stories of the industry, as well as Nick's thoughts for the future of games for the later-life segment.

Some titles mentioned in the episode:

Psytron

Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2

Avatar

Barbarian

Super Smash Bros

Stunt Car Racer

Pong

Seventh Guest

Alan Wake 2

Still Waits the Deep

Hogwarts Legacy

Grand Theft Auto

Grid

Grid Legends.

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