Square Waves FM Podcast
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Episode 75 – ‘Member Square Waves?
December 29, 2016 22:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBMember us? Bianca and Brian? We used to podcast? Well, we’re podcasting again! Nice to be back. Sorry for the unannounced, unscheduled break. Laziness and nothing more. This week we talk about the games Bianca’s played lately. The song at the end of this week’s show is Cargo by Sam Houghton & Yakobo from the game […]
Episode 74 – Virtual Personal Space
September 06, 2016 12:01 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBThis week we reminisce about games and activities we use to pass the time while travelling. We also have an in-depth discussion about a sexy VR game and the role of ethics in fantasy and entertainment. The song at the end of this week’s show is the Monolith Burger themesong from Jones in the Fast Lane […]
Episode 73 – ThunderWHATs?
August 22, 2016 13:09 - 1 hour - 77 MB**For some reason the MP3 didn’t get properly linked to the last post so we’re reposting this episode** Hiya! We’re back for another catch-up episode after some vacation time off. This week we talk about a meatspace room escape game, making sushi, and more! The music playing throughout this week’s episode is the Eve Online […]
Episode 72 – Mine
August 01, 2016 21:48 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBThis week we answer letters and talk about some of the ways we’ve customized our operating systems over the years. The song at the end of this week’s show is Let It Go by Vicious of the MOD release group VSL. Show notes: Brian’s old Windows XP desktop screenshot Brian’s new Windows 10 desktop screenshot […]
Episode 71 – Moooo
July 17, 2016 19:42 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBThe squares are back from vacation! Nice to hang out with you all again. We do some catchup this week and will get around to our real topic next time. The song at the end of this week’s show is Nitetime by Replay. Show notes: Brian’s old new tab page Start.me Windows Insider program Pokemon […]
Episode 70 – Conures are distracting
June 26, 2016 19:16 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBBrian is back! This week we talk about our favourite old and new software applications, tools, file sharing protocols, and other stuff that socially well-adjusted people talk about all the time. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is The Screaming Forest by Dan Forden from the arcade game Mortal Kombat II. Show […]
Episode 69 – Someone’s in the Kitchen with B
June 18, 2016 01:32 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBStep into my kitchen. Don’t be afraid of the sharp knifes and stove top fires. It’s all part of the cooking experience. When the co-host is away, the girl will play. This week Bianca hijacks hosts Square Waves without her loyal minion to talk about cooking games, and well… cooking as a useful skill. The […]
Episode 68 – Revenge of the A-Holes
June 04, 2016 23:24 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBWe’re thrilled this week to welcome Bianca’s dad John to discuss starting gaming as a hobby later in life. Also, Joey makes an unflattering typo in the show notes. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is Twang by Tim Wright and Brian Johnston from the game Lemmings. It’s been stuck in Brian’s head […]
Episode 67 – SMRT
May 29, 2016 15:07 - 2 hours - 99.3 MBI am so smart! I am so smart! Squeeze on your mortarboard and install your pocket protector – we’re chatting this week about elearning and technical communication! The song at the end of this week’s episode is Silver Mountains by Coda. Show notes: Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative Games Done Quick Would you […]
Episode 66 – Popfish 9: The Secret of Hidden Time
May 21, 2016 23:22 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBGuten tag! This week we talk about (too) many of our favourite casual games. Jewels, eggs, beads, marbles, bricks, none are safe from our overactive clicky fingers. Did you know the Germans have a word for casual games? Mausklikkenhurtenderfingerpainen. Zehr gut. The song at the end of this week’s show is Amazonas by Skaven. Show […]
Episode 65 – Rave By Numbers
May 15, 2016 13:45 - 2 hours - 104 MBThe awesome Brandon Sweet rejoins us to continue our discussion of the rave scene this week! Super duper thanks to host and supreme podcast overlord Bianca not only for allowing Brian to dredge up this topic again, but also for taking the lead and turning the episode into an interview. And as always, a big […]
Episode 64 – Party Tornado
May 08, 2016 02:21 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBYeah, uh, I don’t even know. I don’t even know what happened here. Robert Menes, Troels Pleimert, and Darth Helmet. And did someone mention kissing Iolo? I just don’t even know anymore. The song at the end of this week’s show is Stage 4 by Yuzo Koshiro from Streets of Rage. Show notes: Pinkerton Road closing […]
Episode 63 – PLUR
April 30, 2016 21:35 - 2 hours - 100 MBOi oi! This week we welcome Brandon Sweet to talk about the Toronto rave scene of the 90s and 2000s. This is an epic chat of nostalgia about the hedonistic days of yore, fuelled above all else by our love of electronic music. Extra special thanks to Joe and Will StrangeFlow for their thoughtful voicemails, and […]
Episode 62 – That’s not a seed
April 23, 2016 20:27 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBWoowoo! This would have been a more good-luck tale if Joey the carnivorous hellbird didn’t bite Brian so much. Regardless, whatever flesh remained of us made gumflapping sounds this week about remastered, rebooted, remade, reimagined, reincarnated, rejiggered, and redone games! Thanks again to Joe Mastroianni for the great new mic! Please let us know whether […]
Episode 61 – Mini Dump Adventure
April 17, 2016 02:10 - 2 hours - 92.2 MBWhat a great chat we had this week with our returning guest Chris Olson. This week we begin chatting about video game documentaries but there’s lots more territory to cover in an episode in the hopefully not-too-distant future. The song at the end of this week’s show is Sun Bleach by Lifeformed featured in Double […]
Episode 60 – Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio
April 11, 2016 01:11 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBYou found the page containing this text! Ding! This week we’re talking about achievements: some of our great moments in gaming, a buncha WoW, our manually featured Steam achievements, and Joey goes squawk a few times. The song at the end of this week’s show is Circles by Kate Tempest as featured in the game […]
Episode 59 – Miichirpo
April 04, 2016 12:52 - 1 hour - 71 MBSo many birds!!! We’re babysitting Grandpa Square’s budgies this week and, thanks to some post-production audio compression, the relentless chirpy jackhammering on our end sounds like a melodious heavenly for you. We need chirp-cancelling headphones or something, eh? We talk about real world lessons learned from video games this week. Like, wear a hardhat before […]
Episode 58 – Every Little Thing She Does
March 27, 2016 22:41 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBIt’s a good thing Amayirot Akago is our faithful friend because he joins us in the Square Bunker to talk about cheating! I bet you never took us for pumpkin eaters, didja? The song at the end of this week’s show is Hotel Exteriors Future by Clint, Michael, or Peter from the game Day of […]
Episode 57 – I’m Turning Japanese
March 20, 2016 20:42 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBUmmmmmm what in the world did we talk about this week again? All I can remember is that we had our dearest of dear friends Troels Pleimert as our guest. I’ll tell you what we didn’t talk about though: the topic. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is I don’t even know […]
Episode 56 – Ego Stroking
March 14, 2016 12:36 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBOhhhh yeah, pump up that ego! Thanks for tolerating our downtime as we switched web hosts over the weekend. No real topic this week because we had an influx of fantastic letters from our beloved readers. Thanks a million, Squares! The song at the end of this week’s show is Burning Building by Mutsuhiko Izumi and Miki […]
Episode 55 – A computer in a computer in a computer
March 06, 2016 22:05 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBComputers, but not really! We put on our propeller beanies and really nerd it up this week to discuss virtualization. We talk about the philosophy of virtualization (while dancing a bit around the definition), the parts of a virtual machine, and how to configure a VM from an OS installer. This one’s for you, Akago! […]
Episode 54 – Podcasto Mo Ichi Do Onegaishimasu
February 28, 2016 22:12 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBMo ichi do onegaishimasu! (one more time, please) Here’s another episode about Japanese games. They’re just soy great! The song at the end of this week’s show is Lament of the Highborne by Russell Brower from the game World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Show notes: Paprika Wokkels What’s in the Safe Talkie Demodulated Mixtapes […]
Episode 53 – 溝渠
February 21, 2016 04:47 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBHajimemashite! We bow at a polite but not overly submissive 45 degree angle as we discuss some of our favourite Japanese games! We love you, Troels! The song at the end of this week’s podcast is Scorching Savanna arranged by Yoshihito Yano and Yu Miyake from the game We Love Katamari. Show notes: Spacemonger 1.4 LCISO Creator Hiragana […]
Episode 52 – The Aww of Yay
February 14, 2016 20:38 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBGaming is hard work! Like a walnut, sometimes you have to get through some tough bits to get to the nutty goodness within. This week we talk about games we like that have sequences we could do without. The song at the end of this week’s show is North Wall by Yuzo Koshiro from the […]
Episode 51 – Beep
February 07, 2016 23:19 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBThis week we think fondly of our birds and we try to stump each other with a few rounds of Name The Game. The sound at the beginning of the show is baby budgie Maxi chirping heartily from under her mom Phoenix’s bum. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is Rain In […]
Episode 50 – Num Num Salt Lick
January 31, 2016 02:29 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBEpisode 50!! We can hardly believe it. Thanks a million to our listeners for encouraging us for a whole year! This week we welcome a very special guest, the multitalented author, game designer, and filmmaker extraordinaire, Max Barry. Our topic is useless and crappy computer peripherals, but we had such a fun and easygoing conversation […]
Episode 49 – Licking Canadian Poles
January 24, 2016 23:28 - 1 hour - 87 MBBrian and Bianca cover a bunch of current events before dialing it back to the halcyon days of our youths. We celebrated too soon our freedom to stick to the script and only got a few points into our prewritten lists thanks to some fun tangents. The song at the end of this week’s podcast […]
Episode 48 – She-Ra and the Phallus Palace
January 17, 2016 18:01 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBLet’s give the ol’ Square Waves FM BEEP salute to our awesome guests Robert Menes and Edgar Valasco who join us this week to talk about nostalgic stuff from our childhoods. The song at the end of this week’s podcast, despite a certain co-host’s protestations, is Twelve by Venetian Snares. Show notes: Nostalgia Roadtrip podcast […]
Episode 47 – Fear and Loathing and Tripping Out
January 11, 2016 17:08 - 1 hour - 74 MBMee-YOW! This week it’s just the usual gruesome twosome due to a scheduling whoopsie by Brian (thanks Robert and Edgar for being flexible!). We discuss a very special Kickstarter and we design games based on some of our favourite novels. The song at the end of this week’s show is Battle! D – ~None Shall […]
Episode 46 – Some Shrinkage
January 03, 2016 00:19 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBIt’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it! Amirite fellas? We’ll keep telling ourselves this, at any rate. We hope you enjoy our new, easy to digest, shorter episodes. Happy new year to you all, and much love to our listeners! Let’s press on and keep this cookie crumbling. The song at […]
Episode 45 – Giant Nobots
December 14, 2015 00:36 - 3 hours - 157 MBThe beeps are quelled until next year! Our last episode is an extra special one thanks to the return of the hardest working podcaster in the biz, Joe Mastroianni! (seriously, the dude’s doing 3 podcasts in 3 days!) Our intent was to talk about mechs and gundams and other sorts of big stompy robot duders […]
Episode 44 – Nomosaic
December 06, 2015 00:09 - 3 hours - 150 MBThese shows ain’t getting any shorter, eh? This week we get around to discussing modding, total conversions, and game hacking. Lots of letters and a voicemail this week – thanks a million, listeners! The song at the end of this week’s show is Skywall by Derek Duke from World of Warcraft. Show notes: Francisco Twitches […]
Episode 43 – Doucheboard and the Doodlakine Dork Vortex
November 29, 2015 20:34 - 3 hours - 140 MBCrikey, Graham! It’s a poooisonous snake. Luckily we have the inimitable Jess Haskins and Francisco Gonzalez to tame it with witty and insightful observations about storytelling and narrative in games. We also had some great discussions about journals, audiologs, environmental storytelling, story pacing in open worlds, and of course Francisco makes with the ha ha […]
Episode 42 – Of Paperdolls and Man Purses
November 22, 2015 21:22 - 2 hours - 140 MBInterface with this, bub! We’re talking about UIs and the ways games communicate information to players this week. Thanks to all our listeners who contributed comments via Twitter – we loves ya! Apologies from Brian for being so scatterbrained this show. He’s still collecting his marbles after a week of being icky sicky. The song […]
Episode 41 – Jane Jensen’s Morpheus
November 15, 2015 17:42 - 3 hours - 150 MBThere’s no better follow-up to a Friday the 13th than to scareify ourselves talking about the games we hate. We welcome Darth Helmet and the Space Quest Historian himself Troels Pleimert for a foul-mouthed miasma of head shaking and regret. Also, we apologize for spending so much time discussing wonderful games that we adore. We’ll […]
Episode 40 – Happy Little Barfarama
November 08, 2015 01:36 - 2 hours - 129 MBSatya Nadella seriously poops in Brian’s cornflakes this week – he vents with great vengeance and fuuuurious anger at Microsoft for giving OneDrive the shaft. We also talk about emergent gameplay and doing stuff we oughtn’t! The song at the end of this week’s episode is Phart Noquer by Quasimojo of Chill Productions. P.s., please […]
Episode 39 – Alas Poor Stallman, I GNU Him
November 02, 2015 01:57 - 3 hours - 124 MBIt’s a huge pleasure to have Robert Menes join us this week to talk about Linux and Linux accessories. We discuss the philosophy of free open source software, alternatives to commercial software, gaming in Linux, and veer off on a wild meandering tangent for a good hour or so to talk about the finer things. […]
Episode 38 – I Just Peed A Little
October 25, 2015 23:11 - 3 hours - 136 MBAaaaahhhhhhhhkago is back to spookify us with frightening game recommendations! Boo and eek and other scary noises and shit! Also Octobery things like candy and pumpkins and having to wear a jacket for the first time in a while. Autumn is great but I kinda miss summer. Short pants, amirite? It’s kickass getting to show […]
Episode 37 – We Coulda Gone Gold By Now
October 18, 2015 17:43 - 3 hours - 144 MBPhew!! At 3.5 hours this was our longest show ever, but time absolutely flies when we’re talking with our dear friend Troels Pleimert. Troels, Bianca, and Brian are all hobbyist game developers with more ideas than finished products, so this week we talk about games we’ve conceptualized or started but never finished. The song at […]
Episode 36 – Corpse Party
October 11, 2015 15:38 - 3 hours - 139 MBDum dee doodily dooAAH! Don’t sneak up on me like that! I was just skipping down the street singing a happy song and you jumped out at me from behind a corner! Aww man, you made me drop my sandwich. Look at the mayonnaise smeared on the sidewalk. Why did you have to startle me […]
MPC Magazine volume -1
October 05, 2015 00:56Thanks once again to our beloved listeners for their contributions for making our ridiculous zine possible. We’re extremely proud and humbled to bring you issue -1 of MPC Magazine. This zine was mailed out a few months ago to a few fans who expressed interest, and now that the statute of limitations is up we’re […]
Episode 35 – Discombobulated Doohickeys
September 26, 2015 23:41 - 3 hours - 148 MBIt was so absolutely awesome chatting with Tomer Gabel a couple of weeks ago we were inspired to keep up the conversation. Bianca and Brian reminisce about their favourite computer and electronic hardware from their long endorkening nerd careers. We’d love to hear some of your faves as well! Hit us up at [email protected]. The […]
Episode 34 – This Stool Shall Pass
September 21, 2015 03:03 - 3 hours - 143 MBA big fat obesely corpulent welcome to our good buddies Kelsey Marquart and Ben Chandler! This week we’re talking about our favourite game characters, yodels of power, crombies, and various bum-related matters of the greatest import. Also geology and crackrocks and Rob Ford and police sirens and choochoos and parrots vomiting and and and!!! Damn […]
Episode 33 – Pie Punching
September 12, 2015 23:47 - 2 hours - 109 MBIt’s a huge pleasure to welcome back cohost Bianca as well as our guest Anton joining us for his first ever podcast! This week we discuss game development as a hobby, and we meander on to topics like game streaming and sci-fi television. The song at the beginning of this week’s podcast is Bureaucratic Glory […]
Episode 32 – Getting Our Hands Dirty
September 07, 2015 16:32 - 3 hours - 128 MBWe offer a very masculine “ma shlomcha” to our Israeli guest Tomer Gabel, and to my cohost and wifeypoo Bianca. This week we talk a little about our favourite hardware, but mostly we hear Tomer’s fantastic stories about his early days of computing. Apologies if the sound quality isn’t up to snuff – we’re working […]
Episode 31 – Scrapings?
August 31, 2015 01:01 - 3 hours - 121 MBPress X to duck under the sudden barrage of Bianca‘s crass insults. This week we talk and talk and talk and talk about our first experience with dedicated games consoles. Brian has played WAY too many NES and SNES games and by the end he’s completely fed up with his own voice. Just look at […]
Episode 30 – Polly Gone :(
August 24, 2015 12:35 - 3 hours - 154 MB3 cheers (one per dimension) for the return of the Norton Commander himself, Anatoly Shashkin! This week we discuss early 3D games, mostly on the MSDOS platform, but with mentions of the Speccy, Mac, consoles, and arcades. Brian spends half the podcast sitting in a puddle of beer and the other half drooling over incredible […]
Episode 29 – Huff’n Puff’n
August 16, 2015 22:54 - 3 hours - 149 MBIn this week’s episode Amayirot Akago and I talk about some of our gaming guilty pleasures. We get our obvious choices quickly out of the way but go to mention some you may not have thought of, heard of, or wish you had heard of. I mean, they call them guilty pleasures but to be honest I […]
Episode 28 – Birds of a Feather Chirp Together
August 09, 2015 22:16 - 3 hours - 122 MBWe welcome back Bianca this week to talk about co-operative games, and games that are generally collaborative instead of competitive. We struggled to think up many classic games fitting this category so as always we welcome your feedback at [email protected]. This episode was recorded live from the Square Waves chirpatorium – please beware of flying […]
Episode 27 – Ben Chandler’s Bumper Sticker
August 01, 2015 23:13 - 3 hours - 146 MBLet’s bid a hale and hearty welcome back to Chris Olson, retronaut extraordinaire and coder supremo, to discuss the demoscene. Chris is a font of knowledge about the bits, bytes, and bobs of demoscenery and low-powered computer MacGyvering. We also delve into the exciting world of USA territorial geography, gouda smuggling, and zebra mussels. The […]