Latest Dineen Podcast Episodes
Epilogue - Declan Dineen
Checkpoints - February 22, 2021 00:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIn a special epilogue episode the tables are turned as I sit down with Violet Berlin and she interviews me about the games that shaped my own life. We talk about blind runs of Alex Kidd, Tony Hawks Pro Skater as teenage therapy, why death wouldn't stand a chance against my Science Genius Girl, ...
rebroadcast - Episode 128 - Robert Ashley
Checkpoints - February 15, 2021 00:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsConsoles don’t really brag about bit ratings anymore. Growing up with games, the leaps between generations felt profound From 8 Bit to 16 Bit, to 32, to Nintendo 64! It was exciting. The last consoles to even mention it in their marketing were the Dreamcast and the Playstation 2. They were the 1...
rebroadcast - Episode 127 - Julian 'Jaz' Rignall
Checkpoints - February 08, 2021 00:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today Julian 'Jaz' Rignall. A formative character in my life in games during his role as the editor for magazines like Mean Machines and CVG, Julian is the first guest I've spoken to on checkpoints that I did drawings of as a child. As well as reminiscing about the UK magazine scene o...
rebroadcast - Episode 126 - Chris Bell
Checkpoints - February 01, 2021 00:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Chris Bell, a game designer with a remarkable CV that includes thatgamecompany's Journey and the upcoming Sky, What Remains of Edith Finch, Way and 12 Minutes. As well as being an incredible designer Chris is also filled with stories. We talk growing up in Boston playing games...
rebroadcast - Episode 125 - Gabby DaRienzo
Checkpoints - January 25, 2021 00:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsToday I'm joined by Gabby DaRienzo and we have an incredibly lively and upbeat chat about death and video games. Gabby is the co-founder of Laundry Bear games. creator of the wonderful Mortician's Tale, and also the host of the Play Dead podcast where she speaks with fellow developers about deat...
rebroadcast - Episode 124 - Johnnemann Nordhagen
Checkpoints - January 18, 2021 00:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Johnnemann Nordhagen - the creator of the incredible Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - and he has some wonderful stories to share. We talk spelling games in Colarado on an Apple IIe, learning to program in DOS, losing years in Discworld MUDs, how soothing Burnout Paradise can...
rebroadcast - Episode 123 - Ian Bogost
Checkpoints - January 11, 2021 12:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Ian Bogost, an award winning game designer and author of several books including Persuasive Games and Play Anything. He's also a contributing editor to the Atlantic magazine, the professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and an incredibly engaging and articulate podcas...
rebroadcast - Episode 122 - Ben Myres & Cukia ‘Sugar' Kimani
Checkpoints - December 28, 2020 01:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guests today are Ben Myres and Cukia ‘Sugar' Kimani, co-founders of South African based game studio Nyamakop, creators of the inventive 'Clay Doh' platformer Semblance. They are also excellent, inspiring company with an infectious passion for video games. We talk about their diverse paths to...
rebroadcast - Episode 121 - Dane Hearthstone
Checkpoints - December 21, 2020 01:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is one of my favourite streamers of one of my favourite games, Dane McCappin AKA Dane Hearthstone. I first noticed Dane when his incredibly inventive and creative Hearthstone decks became a regular on highlight reels like Trolden. and I've become a big fan of his videos. His lacon...
Episode 120 - Mahdi Bahrami (Copy)
Checkpoints - December 14, 2020 01:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Iranian video game developer Mahdi Bahrami. Annoyingly young, Mahdi already has an incredible game under his belt with the release of Engare in 2017. A unique puzzle game inspired by Islamic art which also comes with a creation mode that reminds me of soothing afternoons of my ...
rebroadcast.- Episode 119 - Dr Mark R. Johnson
Checkpoints - December 07, 2020 01:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Dr Mark Johnson. Mark is a man of many talents, he's currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta where he mainly focuses on the intersection of money and games, particularly in relation to eSports and pro streamers. He's a...
Rebroadcast - Episode 118 - Richard Garriott
Checkpoints - November 30, 2020 01:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsI'm very excited to welcome Richard Garriott to the show. Sometimes known as Lord British, Richard is a video game trailblazer. As the creator of Ultima he helped forge a new genre in games, and with Ultima Online invented a whole new one. His latest, Shroud of the Avatar, was released just a fe...
Rebroadcast - Episode 117 - Paul Kilduff-Taylor
Checkpoints - November 23, 2020 01:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsLast month I recorded a special episode of Checkpoints live from the All Your Base festival in Nottingham. One of my guests was Paul Kilduff-Taylor who I ended up hanging about with a bunch over the weekend and we had a lovely time so I asked him back for a full episode. Wholesome af. Paul is o...
Rebroadcast - Episode 116 - Andrej Bjelaković
Checkpoints - November 17, 2020 15:45 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsOne of my favourite parts of doing this show is discovering the ways people played games in countries all around the world, In this special episode of the show I speak with a listener and linguistics lecturer Andrej Bjelaković about growing up with games in Belgrade, Serbia. Part of the forme...
Rebroadcast - Episode 115 - Zach Barth
Checkpoints - October 26, 2020 01:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Zach Barth, founder of Zachtronics and creator of some of the best video games ever made, including Spacechem, Infinifactory and their latest, Opus Magnum. We talk about the surprising amount of instinct and chance that goes into designing a Zachtronics game, his love of play ...
Rebroadcast - Episode 114 - James Ryan
Checkpoints - October 19, 2020 00:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is James Ryan who - as part of his PhD at US Santa Cruz - has been working on some of the coolest and most exciting projects I’ve seen in years, and this chat made me incredibly excited about the future of games and could potentially change the future of writing. This is largely d...
Rebroadcast - Episode 113 - Sarah Elmaleh
Checkpoints - October 12, 2020 00:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Sarah Elmahleh. Sarah is an actor and voice over artist and has worked on a whole bunch of videogames including Gone Home, For Honor, Call of Duty, Pyre, Galak-Z and Final Fantasy 15. She was also the lead in the recent - and excellent - BBC Radio play Game Over written by Emil...
Rebroadcast - Episode 112 - Devine Lu Linvega
Checkpoints - October 05, 2020 00:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest on today's episode is Devine Lu Linvega. How to begin describing Devine. In videogame terms he has created some wonderful games like Hivesaires, Donsol or the Proteus remix Purgateus. He currently lives with his girlfriend on a sail boat, where they run their floating studio 100rabbits....
Rebroadcast - Episode 111 - Jim Rossignol
Checkpoints - October 01, 2020 20:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest on today's episode is Jim Rossignol. Jim spent many years working at PC Gamer, founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and has since set up his own video game studio, Big Robot, and made the games Sir, You Are Being Hunted and The Signal from Tölva. We talk his early memories of Amstrad CPC and Am...
Rebroadcast - Episode 110 - Lisy Kane
Checkpoints - September 21, 2020 00:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Lisy Kane. Lisy is a speaker, curator and videogame producer currently at League of Geeks. She's also the co founder of Girl Geek Academy and the only Austrailian on this year's Forbes 30 Under 30. We talk Commander Keen on paternal laptops, playing Driver by the rules, a fierc...
Rebroadcast - Episode 109 - Erica 'aurahack' Lahaie
Checkpoints - September 14, 2020 00:17 ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Erica Lahaie, a designer, illustrator and concept artist based out of Montreal. I'm a particular fan of the incredible work on Shrouded Isle but all of her art is amazing. Also she has the best URLs. We go deep on our mutual love of the Tony Hawks Pro Skater series, talk about ...
Rebroadcast - Episode 108 - Clint 'halfcoordinated' Lexa
Checkpoints - September 07, 2020 00:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Clint 'halfcoordinated' Lexa. Clint is a beloved and incredible speed runner and a common highlight of GamesDoneQuick. Despite being born with a condition known as hemiparesis which limits the use of one side of his body, Clint has become a beloved and incredible speedrunner, wi...
Rebroadcast - Episode 107 - Jennifer Scheurle
Checkpoints - August 31, 2020 00:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is Jennifer Scheurle, the game design lead at Opaque Space currently working in collaboration with NASA on the VR game Earthlight. The team recently won studio of the year and game of the year at the Austrailian Game Developer Awards. We talk about how cool it is to work with NASA...
Rebroadcast - Episode 106 - Richard Franke AKA Miss Kitty Powers
Checkpoints - August 25, 2020 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is that rarest of unicorns, a video game designer who moonlights as a drag queen. Richard Franke first got into games through his comic book art, and after spending many years working on a variety of titles - most notably the Burnout series - he left to found Magic Notion and creat...
Rebroadcast - Episode 105 - Will Porter
Checkpoints - August 17, 2020 00:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest today is the velvet owl Will Porter - Former PC Zone editor, freelancer, and the writer of Project Zomboid, Alien Isolation and No Man's Sky. We talk about how the PC Zone vs. PC Gamer rivalry is no joke, whether growing up on a farm puts you off farming sims for life, how it felt to b...
Rebroadcast - Episode 104 - Mike Cook
Checkpoints - August 10, 2020 00:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHello! So good to be back. My guest on today's episode is the amazing Mike Cook Mike is an AI researcher, the founder of #procjam (this year's even has just started so you should check it out.) and the creator of ANGELINA an AI system that makes video games. As you can imagine, this is a mind b...
Rebroadcast - Episode 103 - Jolie Menzel
Checkpoints - August 03, 2020 00:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest on today's episode is the Jolie Menzel. Jolie is a game designer and developer who started her career at Telltale games and currently works at Ubisoft as the Narrative Desiger for the upcoming South Park - The Fractured But Whole. We talk arcade games on the Jersey Shore, the pride and ...
Rebroadcast - Episode 102 - Christian Donlan
Checkpoints - July 27, 2020 00:12 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest on today's episode is the features editor of Eurogamer, co-host of the Eurogamer podcast and one of my favourite writers, Christian Donlan. As anyone familiar with Christian or the Eurogamer podcast will expect, this episode goes off on a lot of tangents, but we always end up back at vi...
Rebroadcast - Episode 101 - Arthur Gies
Checkpoints - July 21, 2020 15:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMy guest on today's episode is Arthur Gies. Arthur is a veteran video game journalist, former reviews editor for Polygon and long time host of Rebel FM. We talk about his recent decision to leave Polygon and go back to grad school to study fine art before digging back through his video game mile...
Rebroadcast - Episode 100 - Tim Schafer
Checkpoints - July 13, 2020 00:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsCheckpoints 100! Massive thanks to everyone that listens to and subscribes to the show, and of course to all of my previous guests, without whom the show literally wouldn't exist. A milestone show requires a milestone guest, so today I'm joined by the creator of several iconic games including F...
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