They Create Worlds

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Love of the worlds created by video game designers and personalities drives Alex Smith & Jeffrey Daum (history, law, CS degrees) to provide a scholarly yet light-hearted discussion of how arcade, home console, and PC games merged into a Video Game Industry. Emphasis is on the combination of business and creative elements needed for financial success. Interviews of Atari, EA, Activision, & other execs with detailed source evaluations produce the insights you hear in these 140+ hours!

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Thursday Dec 01, 2016

An Epic Game

Thursday Dec 01, 2016

TCW Podcast Episode 031 - An Epic Game

We cover the history of EPIC as one of the few remaining independent developers left. They are most known for the creation of the Unreal Engine, and Gears of War. They have an interesting history of having a distributed business that includes developers from around the world. Love the unreal engine or hate it. Epic's influence on middleware, and the game industry continues to this day.

ZZT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pccbymHpZnU

Kingdom of Kroz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPz7xVt93Zo

Jill of the Jungle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7E-P4VJbdg

Jazz Jackrabbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b16upFloYak

Epic Pinball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU_7aG_NibI

SolarWinds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NajV4KUSDo0

Magic Carpet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zsPl4Ampw

Unreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3qc6VIHB40

America's Army: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOzGI1oL1oc

New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!

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Twitter: @tcwpodcast