Unlimited Hyperbole
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 11 years ago -Unlimited Hyperbole is a short games podcast. Each episode profiles a single guest and discusses a topic set for a season of five episodes. At 15 minutes long, episodes are trimmed from much longer interviews to give a focused insight that respects your time and cuts out waffle.
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The show is produced by Joe Martin and Harriet Jones.
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Episodes
Unlimited Hyperbole S4 - Episode Four
April 17, 2013 08:20 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThese days, publishers and journalists love to talk about how big a business games are. Just a single big title can bring in billions of pounds and keep thousands of employed, for example, while even indie developers can succeed admirably. The less talked-about side effect of all this though is that when games do fail, they fail hard. Our guest this episode knows this all too well. In addition to working on the usual spate of cancelled games, Nicoll Hunt also worked on one of the biggest gam...
Unlimited Hyperbole S4 - Episode Two
April 03, 2013 08:11 - 13 minutes - 8.44 MBThey say there’s more than one way to skin a cat and, likewise, I say there’s more than one way things can get away from people too. They can slip away slowly and quietly, for example, or they can be taken in a sudden tragedy - and this episode covers a bit of both. This week journalist David Brown talks about the closure of PC Zone Magazine. Once home to the likes of Charlie Brooker, Jon Blyth and Will Porter, PC Zone was a bastion of irreverence that was edged out by the realities of print...
Unlimited Hyperbole S3 - Episode Five
November 14, 2012 09:55 - 11 minutes - 7.96 MBIt's not unusual for fans of any medium to have favourites, but in gaming we sometimes seem to take that idea a little bit further than most and can end up defining ourselves by our views on particular games or ideas. In this way, games can sometimes end up defining our own characters as we label ourselves based on the games we love and loathe. Darren Delay is many things - an independent developer, a student, a programmer - but just as important as these labels is that he's a fan of platfor...
Unlimited Hyperbole S3 - Episode Three
October 31, 2012 09:47 - 12 minutes - 8.03 MBThere are certain characters who loom large over the industry and are uniquely able to reveal how the medium has changed over the years. Duke Nukem is arguably the foremost of them all, having gone from being an unknown, silent hero to a first popular, then ostracised character known across the world. In order to understand how Duke's changed over the years and where the line falls between personality and reality, we talk to Jon St. Jon, who's been providing Duke's voice since 1995 and who k...
Unlimited Hyperbole S3 - Episode One
October 17, 2012 07:51 - 15 minutes - 18.3 MBAs Season Three of Unlimited Hyperbole is focused on matters of character in videogames, talking to a writer such as James Swallow only makes sense; in addition to being a New York Times bestseller James has also worked on games such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Killzone 2 and Fable: The Journey. In this first episode for Season Three James talks about the process of writing for a game, how Eidos Montreal built a convincing cast for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and how writers are able to cont...
Unlimited Hyperbole S2 - Episode Five
August 06, 2012 06:43 - 12 minutes - 15.5 MBAs the Writer and Narrative Designer behind titles such as horror classic Penumbra, FTL and the recently announced The Swapper, you'd expect Tom Jubert to emphasise the importance of writing in scary games. In fact though, that couldn't be further from the truth. In the last episode of Season Two, Tom explains why he thinks interactivity and plausible environments add so much more than a few lines of dialogue, while also explaining what narrative design is and why games such as To The Moon m...
Unlimited Hyperbole S2 - Episode Three
July 23, 2012 07:26 - 14 minutes - 18.1 MBPC Gamer's Chris Thursten is a man fascinated by horror, having played nearly every scary game you can imagine and writing a dissertation on HP Lovecraft for his English Degree at Oxford University. So, it's a little surprising to hear him start this episode by admitting Sonic The Hedgehog 2 terrified him as a child. How could ever anyone be scared of that green-grassed, blue-skied classic? In sharing scare stories from titles such as BioShock, Team Fortress 2 and Home Alone, Chris explains ...
Unlimited Hyperbole S2 - Episode Two
July 16, 2012 07:19 - 11 minutes - 13.6 MBWhen you're talking about fear in games then it's easy to get focused on specific topics, such as survival horror, but to do so is to ignore the wider context that fear has. If you're going to examine the topic properly then it isn't just a conversation about the fear we uncover within games, but also the fears we bring to the games we play. That's something games journalist and arachnaphobe Richard Cobbett know all about. In this week's episode Richard talks about why spiders are used as de...
Unlimited Hyperbole S2 - Episode One
July 09, 2012 08:00 - 10 minutes - 15.2 MBWhen discussing fear in games, it's almost impossible to ignore the shadow cast by The Shalebridge Cradle, the infamously chilling mission from 2004's Thief: Deadly Shadows. So, what better way to start Season Two than by talking to RPS co-founder and comics writer Kieron Gillen to tackle that topic directly? Discussing Shalebridge with Unlimited Hyperbole, Kieron talks about how Deadly Shadows evolved throughout development, the inspiration behind the level's approach to fear and the best ...
Unlimited Hyperbole S1 - Episode Five
June 25, 2012 08:03 - 12 minutes - 16.4 MBBen Mansell is not anyone you know, but he's someone I know very well. In fact, one of my earliest memories is of him on the playground of our primary school, his eyes greedily devouring the manual for his favourite game, Doom. In the 20-something years since, very little has changed. In the final episode of Season One, Unlimited Hyperbole investigates Ben's belief that Doom is a literally perfect game, his efforts to share it with the people he loves and the perceived fall of ID Software. ...
Unlimited Hyperbole S1 - Episode Four
June 18, 2012 07:41 - 8 minutes - 15.1 MBJoe Robinson is a freelance games journalist who's written for plenty of PC focused publications, including RPS and Strategy Informer, so it's not surprising that he considers himself a PC gamer at heart. Joe therefore struggles to reconcile this with the fact that his favourite game is a mainstream console-exclusive - Halo: Combat Evolved. This week's episode of Unlimited Hyperbole examines why Joe has chosen such a popular, mainstream title as his favourite and questions which is more imp...
Unlimited Hyperbole S1 - Episode Three
June 11, 2012 07:03 - 12 minutes - 21.5 MBThis week Unlimited Hyperbole talks to Brendon Chung, the designer of Atom Zombie Smasher and Gravity Bone, about his favourite game and the very definite effect it had on him as both a fan and an independent game developer. Released in 1998 by Looking Glass Studios, Thief: The Dark Project has been repeatedly hailed as not just one of the first true stealth games, but also one of the best games ever made. Looking back, Brendon discusses both what makes Thief such a triumph of world design, ...
Unlimited Hyperbole S1 - Episode One
May 24, 2012 14:49 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBUnlimited Hyperbole is a weekly podcast about videogames and the stories we tell about them, with a new special guest every week. Using "My Favourite Game" as a topic for the first season of episodes, we talk to the creator of Dear Esther and Creative Director of The Chinese Room, Dan Pinchbeck. Dan explains why STALKER: The Shadow of Chernobyl is his favourite game, the affect it had on his own work and how a tumultuous development can sometimes create a better product. Featuring music by...