Author: Mark McAvoy

Super Gamer 82 – Daniel Voth’s Journey

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Daniel Voth is a super nice guy who’s always gone out of his way to say hello to me at events. He’s also a major contributor in the Winnipeg gaming scene. He’s a project manager at Bit Space Development, administrator of IGDA Winnipeg, and co-coordinator of Winnipeg Game Jam.

After talking about how Daniel got to be so involved in the gaming community, we get deep into perception and language and relationships in games, and we answer the question: Can Daniel walk on his hands?

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Super Gamer 81 – Comic Con’s a-Comin’

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Central Canada Comic Con is just around there corner in Winnipeg, Manitoba. On today’s episode, we’ve got Kailyn Gregorash, COO of River City Conventions, to tell us what kinda way cool stuff they’ve got going on at the RBC Convention Centre this weekend.

Plus, I reveal the opening scene to the Zelda movie (that I made up).

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Super Gamer 80 – New to the Dev, Not to the Game

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This week’s guest is our dear (returning) friend Albertine Watson. She’s moved on from the PR side of the gaming industry and is now a developer. She’ll also be speaking at the upcoming Pegjam in Winnipeg. This is a particularly good episode for any new or aspiring devs.

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Super Gamer 77 – Roughdawg4, the Second Greatest Trophy Collector in the World

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Okay, so I love getting platinum trophies. They give my life meaning. I’ve got a total of four.

Roughdawg4 has like 1,700 of them. Platinum. He’s got the second highest trophy score on PSN in the entire world, behind only the fabled Hakoom.

In this week’s episode, Roughdawg4 regales us with tales from the trophy hunt.

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Check out Roughdawg4’s trophy guides at ps3imports.org

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Super Gamer 76 – Laura Intravia Returns… Again!

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Super Gamer’s first ever guest is back for a third time. Laura Intravia has toured with Video Games Live and Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions, she’s featured on video game soundtracks, she’s now composed for a video game, and she’s got an opera performance at the Boston Center for the Arts coming up at the end of the month.

We talk music, we talk Smash, we talk cookies, we talk Bloodborne!

Be sure to stick around after the interview to hear a track from Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars, composed by Chad Seiter & Laura Intravia.

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Laura Intravia’s website

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Super Gamer 75 – Robby Duguay

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Today’s episode features the wildly talented Robby Duguay – composer, musician, nice fella! Find out what sets movie music composition apart from composing for games music, hear why jump scares don’t work in VR, and stick around to hear one of Robby’s spectacular tracks from Fossil Hunter.

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Robby Duguay’s website

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Super Gamer 74 – Soda Popinski

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I remember being giddy over real Pizza Hut logos in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade; I love pizza.

Dr. Jess Morrissette is more interested in soda pop. Dr. Morrissette has catalogued more than 2,300 soda machines in video games. Hear all about it on today’s Super Gamer!

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Dr. Jess Morrissette (supplied)

Super Gamer episode 73 – Pablo Hidalgo at FanQuest

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Okay, so we’re all nerds here, right?

You know how, us nerds, when we really love something we kind of feel like we know everything about it and no one else could possibly know more? We’re wrong. We should knock that off.

BUT! BUT!!! Pablo Hidalgo isn’t wrong. Pablo Hidalgo knows more about Star Wars than any of us. It’s his job — officially — as a Lucasfilm creative executive.

Mr. Hidalgo was a guest at the second-ever FanQuest, which just happened in Winnipeg a couple weeks back. I made him answer some very important questions, under threat of bowcaster. Questions like: how do you kill a Jedi?

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Pablo Hidalgo

Pablo Hidalgo receives a Distinguished Graduate Award from Red River College.