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Today we’re joined by self proclaimed Horse Girl and UI Artist Kiara du Toit. Kiara worked on the new 3D HUD for PoE 2 as well as being the IGDA Scholars Program Coordinator.

This week we’re joined by David Peryman an Environment Artist at GGG. David worked on the Badlands from the PoE 2 Trailer, but before joining GGG he worked at A44 on Ashen.

We’re are joined by Dane Brennand, the main weapon artist at GGG. We talk about our work on the second Path of Exile 2 trailer and Dane also talks about the work he did on the PS5 Remaster of Demon Souls

Nick tries his hardest to convince Saveun that idle games are interesting. Blake plays an idle game that Nick recommended and also talks about another Early Access Game he’s playing.

Nick talks about all the idle games he played over the holiday break. He tries to convince Sav and Blake that these are the future of video games. We also talk a bit about Blizcon and the Diablo announcements

We’re back and Blake and Saveun have a lot to rant about. They’ve both been playing Cyberpunk and they both really wanted to like it, but the game had other ideas. Nick is fascinated by the game-design issues

Saveun and Blake get straight into the Cyberpunk talk. They’ve only played a few hours so there’s no major spoilers. We also talk about our favorite games we’ve played in 2020.

Saveun’s been studying Cyber Punk trailers and checking in on Call of Duty. Blake's been studying resource graphs in Anno 1800 and finding more Korok seeds in Zelda. While Nick returns to a PoE item mystery.

We're joined one last time by Tom Mooney, this episode however focuses on me Saveun. We explore many topics related to game development and all that good stuff. Social Media Stuff; frontseatquestions@gmail.com @frontseatcast frontseatgamer.wordpress.com

Blake and Nick complain about Stellaris. Nick plays a non-mobile game, Hades, but has some problems with the dialog. Saveun is loving Teardown, a game where you destroy everything in site.

Very fortunate to have John Espiritu on this week. We hear about the journey he took on his way to his current position as Rigging Lead at GGG. John's ArtStation page; https://www.artstation.com/raynehaize Contact information; frontseatquestions@gmail.com @frontseatcast on Twitter frontseatgamer.wordpress.com

Saveun buys a Scottish castle, Nick eats his feet and Blake goes to School. We share our dream-like experiences with AI Dungeon. Also Nick has beaten Mount and Blade, while Blake buys another Early Access Game

Tom Mooney joins me and we talk about humble beginnings and explore various interests and ideas he has. The many interesting things Tom was talking about; https://maxwellrender.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H59cVnnF9Y&ab_channel=DavidSurman https://www.drseussart.com/secretandarchive https://imgur.com/gallery/FPO3S59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9jeuner_sur_l%27herbe Contact information; frontseatquestions@gmail.com @frontseatcast on Twitter frontseatgamer.wordpress.com

Blake is on the fence about buying VR. Saveun’s just wants someone to clean his room, but he keeps getting dragged into a war with the Russian Mob. Nick is fascinated by video game economies

Something a little different here between episodes as I sit down with GGG's very technical VFX Artist Jackson. Hoping to have other guests from the NZ Game Development scene (mainly GGG). Interested to hear feedback if you have any. Let us know. frontseatquestions@gmail.com @frontseatcast on Twitter Frontseatgamer.wordpress.com

On this episode of The Fried Chicken Podcast, Saveun is distracted by the bad lip-sinking in Life is Strange 2. Blake is very suspicious of his wife's pregnancy in Bannorlord. And Nick is charmed by Paper Mario

Saveun has been flying around his home town in Microsoft Flight Sim and getting excited about new Graphics Cards., while Nick and Blake have been commanding armies of farmers in Mount and Blade II

The trials are over, but only three of our four heroes have passed. They now have access to the Witch Hunter's Academy. With the danger over, what could go wrong now? Cover image – Michael Hutter  https://macabregallery.com/artists/michael-hutter/  https://www.saatchiart.com/account/profile/410362  https://www.instagram.com/kunstkrake/

We’re talking The Last of Us 2. Spoiler warning! Saveun has some thoughts about the story and the game development itself. We argues about the ending and Nick takes Saveun’s side for once.

The strange series of trials continues. It seems that our heroes are being tested. But for what and why? This time they must face their most horrific enemy yet.