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No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Let's see what happens if Ann and Ste swan off to San Francisco to record some shows with Gamasutra and leave Simon to do a show all by himself'. And the resulting show is surprisingly broadcastable. We hear about how becoming a Super-Special Guest gets you automatic membership to Noel Edmonds' Dream Factory and the new and returning members to that factory floor are very excited by this news. The lucky people are Spilt Milk Studio's Andrew Smith, Savy Gamer's Lewie P, writer for hire Jamie Firth and Tom Trewhella who is a boy. Despite Ann being away in GDC land, we still manage to get some news on the show as Ann's Intern jumps off the subs bench to tell us all about excel games and what Ann thinks about Tetris. To be honest, we were just surprised that Ann has even heard of Tetris. In addition to all this we find out what Simon thought of wh

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Creativity'. Players: Aiofe - https://twitter.com/AoifeLockhartDaria - https://twitter.com/DariasaurGemma - https://twitter.com/GemmaLoughranMatt - https://twitter.com/Jam_Sponge Playlist: Playpen - http://playpen.farbs.org/index.php?title=Main_PageFolding Story - http://foldingstory.com/Draw Something - http://omepop.com/drawsomethingDrawception - http://drawception.com/Tone Matrix - http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/Tony B - http://www.tony-b.org/Online Sequencer - http://onlinesequencer.net/ Extra credit: Doodle or Die - http://doodleordie.com/ Tracklist: 1. Balloon Bear - Slack Jawedhttp://chipmusic.org/balloonbear/music/slack-jawed-ft-skip-sandwich-dx 2. Deep Shade - Rocket Chaserhttp://chipmusic.org/deepshade/music/rocket-chaser Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we'll see

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Humour'. Players: Aiofe - https://twitter.com/AoifeLockhartGemma - https://twitter.com/GemmaLoughranKaty - https://twitter.com/KTsqueak Playlist: Lost Pig - http://www.grunk.org/lostpig/ Murder Dog - http://harmonyzone.org/MurderDogIV.html  Clop - http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html http://king-soukutu.com/flash/owata.html Art Game - http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/artgame/ArtGame.html Achievement Unlocked - http://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked Lee Lees Quest 2 - http://games.adultswim.com/lee-lees-quest-2-adventure-online-game.html Extra credit: Portal 2Secret of Monkey IslandThe CaveDrunk GuyPainShove ProMean Girls (the film, not the game) Tracklist: 1. Klamm - Mechanical Soul http://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/mechanical-soul 2. Laffe The Fox - Hyper Trouble http://chipmusic.org/laffe+the+fox/music/laffe-the-fox---hyp

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Love'. Players: Cara - https://twitter.com/Carachan1Gav - https://twitter.com/cymrogavGemma - https://twitter.com/GemmaLoughranJon/Log - https://twitter.com/disappointment Playlist: Bumpy Road - http://simogo.com/games/bumpyroad/ Richard and Alice - http://denbyraze.com/richard-and-alice/ Actual Sunlight - http://www.actualsunlight.com/ Slave of God - http://www.increpare.com/2012/12/slave-of-god/ Tracklist: 1. Chasing Bleeps - Robots Don't Cryhttp://chipmusic.org/chasingbleeps/music/robots-dont-cry 2. Fufugagakikilala - Danger Rangerhttp://chipmusic.org/fufugagakikilala/music/danger-ranger 3. Jredd - Slow Jamhttp://chipmusic.org/jredd/music/slow-jam-1-bit--effects Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we'll see you back here for the podcast. We'll announce next week's games on

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Work'. Players: Jon/Log - https://twitter.com/disappointmentKaty - https://twitter.com/KTsqueakMatt - https://twitter.com/Jam_spongeSteve - https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant Playlist: 1. Diner Dash:ios - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/diner-dash/id307011863?mt=8android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.masakapa.workout.mobine&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tYXNha2FwYS53b3Jrb3V0Lm1vYmluZSJdonline - http://www.gamehouse.com/online-games/diner-dash-online 2. Space Station 13 - http://www.byond.com/games/exadv1/spacestation13 3. John Deere Drive Green - http://www.download-free-games.com/pc/john_deere_drive_green.htm 4. Cart Life - http://www.richardhofmeier.com/cartlife/ 5. Unmanned - http://unmanned.molleindustria.org/# Bonus Extra Credit Game:Every Day The Same Dream - http://www.molleindustria.org/ev

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Curiosity'. Players: Aiofe - https://twitter.com/AoifeLockhartCara - https://twitter.com/Carachan1Daria - https://twitter.com/DariasaurGav - https://twitter.com/cymrogav Playlist: 1. Amazing Alex:iphone - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/amazing-alex-free/id549771710?mt=8android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rovio.amazingalex.trial&hl=en 2. Proteus:http://www.visitproteus.com/ 3. Space Engine:http://spaceengine.org/  4. P Moulinex's Curiosity:iphone - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/curiosity-whats-inside-cube/id557549271?mt=8android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pm22cans.curiosity&hl=en 5. Furiosity:http://bartbonte.com/furiosity/ Tracklist: 1. National Broadcast Network - 7 Billion Voltshttp://chipmusic.org/nationalbroadcastnetwork/music/7-billion-volts 2. Hutsvoid - Snow Over Snowhttp://chi

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme was 'Fear'. Playlist: 1. Whichhttp://gamejolt.com/games/adventure/which/1523/ 2. Hidehttp://superfriendshipclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=117 3. Slenderhttp://www.parsecproductions.net/slender/ Extra credits: 1. Forbiddenhttp://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/forbidden_exe 2. Amnesiahttp://store.steampowered.com/app/57300/ 3. Don't look back (also available on ios and Android)http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh/dont-look-back Tracklist: 1. Klamm - Ypsilons Dreamhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/ypsilons-dream 2. Jredd - Storm of the Dark Moon (featuring Groovmaster303 and Dropbit)http://chipmusic.org/jredd/music/storm-of-the-dark-moon-feat-groovemaster303--dropbit 3. Downstate - I Never Think About You Anymore (featuring Slenderman)http://chipmusic.org/downstate/music/i-never-think-about-you-anymore Play, listen and co

It's the final One Life Left of the season. This is sad news. Ann might be ill. This also sad news. Ste was in Norway. We're unsure of the news status for this. Simon can't go to GDC with the rest of Team One Life Left as he's getting married*. This is sad news for the Blackberry Playbook and all females. What's even worse than all of this is that it is Derek Williams' final Free Market Economy. He's been a near-constant electronic presence on our show and we're going to miss the 3 minutes he regularly filled up while Simon went out for a fag break, Ste read about Taylor Swift and Ann fixed her tights. If you miss him too then catch him at his market stall in Doncaster or wait to see if his Jan Doyle Band play a gig near you. Still, every Yamaha/Korg/Moog cloud has a silver lining and we're glad to have Nicholas Lister on the show to give us more advice on how to make the One Life Left Videogame. He's busy developing his first game Imp Paired which prevented Ann from multitasking so it's sure to be a succes

It's the penultimate OLL of the season and as usual we've decided to go all out for our second to last show. We have a Super-Special Guest in the form of Hot Sauce's Law Abiding (in Greece anyway) Georg Backer who shows amazing patience in praising our ideas for our new game even though we're beginners at this sort of thing (Ste especially). Georg also tells us what it is like to work for Jonathan Ross and what it was like to work for Peter Moulinex. As well as Georg we also discover that Hookshot LNC have their own podcast (apparently it's been around for months - who knew?), Simon reinforces his status as the Michael Winslow of Videogames by adding a machine gun to his excited noise from last week, we hear tales of how the voice of God goes to the toilet and Ste says we don't have a Steam group even though we literally do. There's also Derek Williams, but we can always rely on Derek can't we? Can't we? *sob* Cheerio!Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/georgbackerhttp://steamcommunity.com/groups/OLLht

The one thing you can trust with One Life Left is that we are never late, and you'll find this out in today's episode which starts incredibly smoothly and finishes in style (NOTE TO CARETAKER: Edit out the bit where Ste enters the studio late due to British Transport, thereby putting off Simon and causing problems with our CD player). There's no SSG this week, but we can understand this as they're obviously all preparing ideas for own new game that we're writing so that they look silly when they finally do come on the show. You can also help with the game design too! (Providing you do not expect any financial recompense for any ideas that you come up with and we use) Just send them in to our e-mail address and we'd be only too happy to use them, especially if it means we have less to do. Simon and Ste had less to do this week as Ann returned to show how to do a proper news feature which in this episode made Simon's excited noise happen. We also heard how Ste stole money from FFOTS Zach Gage, along with feat

Ok, first show of the year, let's do a roll call. Simon? Here Sir, but he's been talking to strangers in Day Z again Sir. Simon's top? He's absent Sir. Tsk, that's always the case. Super-Special Guest? Yes Sir, we've got Mike Bithell to make third appearance. He's been promoted to milk monitor and Chief Design Officer to help Team OLL create the best videogame that has ever been made after his amazing game Thomas Was Alone did well in the IGF awards. Danny Wallace? It's best he's not here Sir. Ste? Here Sir, and he seems not have jet lag this time. Scanters? Scanters? Scanters? I think she's ill Sir, or she's got a ladder in her tights again. Well who will do the news? We can do it Sir, it's not difficult. You'll not even notice that she's missing, it'll be that smooth. Ok. Incredibly long and complex introduction to the episode in an attempt to hide the caretaker's lack of inspiration? Unfortunately he was always here Sir. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/mikeBithell Tracklist:

There was a chance that Ste was nearly not going to make the recording of this show. He claims it was because the train was late, but did he stop for a pasty? And if so had it cooled enough for it to still be VAT free? Or did he mean the other type of pasty? At least FOTS Leo Tan managed to make it on time to the show and he came all the way from America. How is he finding it across the pond? Has he offended the whole country yet or just their videogame journalists? All will be revealed in this episode. We also have a new feature in Press XY to Continue, Derek Williams provides us with another Free Market Economy and we explain the reasoning behind the tweet we made to Daniel Nye Griffiths during the show. Unfortunately while we were recording this episode Polygon broke into our houses and took photos of where we 'game', expect to see that bit under the stairs where Simon's Wii used to live on their website soon :( This will be the last episode before Christmas so enjoy the Winterval (sorry Ann)! Cheerio!

If there's one person that One Life Left chooses to follow as their leader in life other than Taylor Swift or Martin Hollis then it has to be Dean Gaffney. So when we read that he had applied to join MI5 we thought that if we got an actual spy on the show then it would help us in our quest to Be Like Dean. Unfortunately Simon read the e-mail wrong and booked Matthew Reynolds, gaming editor for Digital Spy. But that actually turned out to be a great decision as we're a radio show about videogames and we're not sure Judi Dench would be able to tell us much about the Wii U (although Nintendo have probably signed her up for an advert). Matthew tells us what it's like to work for the Internet's fourteenth best website and what the Wii U is actually like to play as Nintendo didn't send us one after that incident with Shigsy we can't talk about. He also manages to avoid staring at Simon's massive coldsore, getting confused by Ste's hungover questioning and the thing Ann did that was literally unbroadcastable. How

Here's a transcript that one of Team OLL had with their boyfriend on the recently banned ios game Boyfriend Maker: "I love going on dates with you" "Nothing much" "Have you listened to the latest One Life Left? It has Ed Fear from Mediatonic on there. He helps the team design their new social game that will take over the world." "Robots and humans will always live in peace with each other!" "There's also a discussion about Peter Molyneux and how amazing his name game will be. Although we're a bit worried with what's happened to Milo. Do you see Milo where you are?" "Oops I don't know what to say..." "You don't have to say anything. Unless you can say if you've seen Pat Garrett and Julian 'Jaz' Rignall in the same room together" "How?" "Perhaps they'll be at the OLL Christmas Party to be held on December 15th." "Up momma's house." "I think that's the after party." "Oh yea sorry" "What happens after the afterparty?" "Depends on what you believe" "Ann says it's the hotel lobby" "fiesta" "What do

Due to circumstances beyond our control (his football kit was still in the wash) Ste couldn't make it in today, so naturally we got on to hypothetical phone to ask our hypothetical friends at Hookshot Lnc if we could borrow Parko to be a guest presenter. The language we heard down the phone we literally unbroadcastable (although that doesn't appear to stop them having a podcast) so we had to turn to Gav Murphy from Regular Features instead. Which actually turned out to be such a good idea that we're now pretending the call to Hookshot Lnc was actually a hypothetical one.   And as well as Gav we had a Super-Special Guest in the form of Rising Star Games' Yen Hau. Despite failing in his role as product marketing manager by not bringing in any food, he did manage to give us some Deadly Premonition t-shirts that we'll give away next week to the best letters.   We also told you about our excellent Christmas Party which looks likely to be our best ever. Mostly because we're doing some actual planning this time

It's not often we have someone on the show who started in videogames around the same time as Simon, usually because they've seen Simon with his top off so often that they refuse to be near him again, but SSG Steve Boxer is a man who is prepared to take that risk. We ask him what it is like to work under a leader/dessert eater like Keith Stuart at the Guardian and the difficulties that were had working under a maker of rudie magazines*. We also told an ENTIRELY HYPOTHETICAL story about Keith Stuart's GTA5 interview. And at least Steve had somewhere to go after the show as he had been invited to the Codblopsii event. All we had to do was to watch Ste walk around London in his Stockport County kit muttering to himself about Taylor Swift and Westfield. Come on PRs, invite us to your new launch parties, we're totally prepared to sell ourselves for some tiny hamburgers and sixty dollars. And that's to share between us. Cheerio! Team OLL x  * We're trying to not attract the attentions of work filters. Links: h

There's one thing we pride ourselves on at One Life Left and it's our professionalism. Actually, that might be an over-exaggeration, but we enjoy being Europe's only Videogame FM Radio Show as it means we have to show a bit more class than those AM radio or internet only shows. There's always a chance that a SSG could ruin things for us, so we make sure that they are well informed about the three rules of radio. If they break any of those then we could be in trouble. Lucky then that there's no chance our SSSSG (Super-Sub Super-Special Guest) Hamish Todd from Girih Games would break those rules and cause us any problems right? Of course not. Instead Hamish tells us about how easy it is to not finish stuff and how Jonathan Blow is an inspiration when designing games (which goes against one of Simon's personal rules of videogame radio). We also possibly uncover an explanation as to why Ron Atkinson (breaker of rule number 3) kept referring to a footballing move as 'eyebrows'. As well as this we have our regula

In a land of distrust, and a time of hashtags, the destiny of a great videogame empire rests on the shoulders of a young radio show and podcast. Its name... One Life Left. Although we should probably give grudging respect to our two Super-Special Guests who also help us discuss how videogame journalism is going to the dogs. In the corner of the fine upstanding British Game Press we have Rob Crossley, Associate Editor from CVG. He talks about the differences between the trade press and the consumer press. SPOILERS: There aren't many differences nowadays as long as you're interested in paint. In the other corner representing American Gaming Journalism we have Leigh Alexander, Editor-at-large at Gamasutra and part-time Weather Girl. As well as telling us how the UK and US games press differs, she informs us about Wuzzles and gives us tips on the best way to get a free PS3. And because of what's happening in journalism it means we can't go on about our karaoke as much as we usually do. We know, we've got sad f

We'll admit it, losing the GMA this year hit us hard. People take loss in different ways and we decided to imagine it was a happier time. Say three years ago when people actually liked us enough to give us awards. Or send in letters. One person who still likes us is Paul Kercal, our Super-Special Guest for this week's episode. He cheered us up by doing some amazing drawings on his numerous tablets, which we'll be uploading to the website soon. It was also interesting to hear how he first met Simon, which may have been the first 'first meeting of Simon' story that could actually be broadcast on the radio. But how did Ann first meet Ste? The truth (as imagined by Simon) will be heard in this episode. There's also a birthday shout-out to Friend of the Show Leigh Alexander who will also be attending our Videogame Karaoke that is happening this Thursday at 9pm in Nottingham (as long as you're reading this before the event has started). It all adds up to another excellent episode of One Life Left! Well, apart fr

We're in full preparation for the GMAs which for most nominees means they're getting speeches ready in case they win, but in our case we're just doing lots of press-ups with our tops off to get ready to push over various gaming luminaries. If you're going there be warned: you could be on our list. (There is no list, we just push over people who get within range if we've had enough to drink). Luckily our super-special guests Ben Hogg and Daniela Pietrosanu from board game distributors Esdevium didn't need to be pushed into coming on our show. They were won over by our possibly award-winning professionalism such as Ste turning up literally as we were going on air, Ann cracking up at one of her own jokes and Simon. We did get lots of good board gaming ideas and got annoyed at those licensing deals that mean we can't buy the Uncharted board game over here. Perhaps we should ask Lord Sir Charles Cecil to buy us one when he's over in America picking up his Kickstarter millions. Annoyingly Ann forgot to ask Ben an