Each week, we don our utterly metaphorical armour and confront the most intriguing mainstream gaming issues, as well as venturing to the arcane depths of the indie games scene. PC or console games: whatever your favourite species of electronic entertainment, we drag it screaming from the dungeon all the way back to the village.


Visiting the Village: Gaming Podcast
The gaming podcast with intelligence. Each week, we don our utterly metaphorical armour and confront the most intriguing mainstream gaming issues, as well as venturing to the arcane depths of the indie games scene. PC or console games: whatever your favourite species of electronic entertainment, we drag it screaming from the dungeon all the way back to the village.

Visiting the Village: Episode 46
by Ian
16 Aug 2010 at 12:58pm
This week, Ian and I take on the uncanny valley, erotic roleplay (in WoW), Rayman’s sales figures and a whole vast host of your listener questions. Join us! Check out links from the show on our official Google Reader page. Share this gibberish!
UI improvements
by Ian
12 Aug 2010 at 12:30pm
We’ve added some significant features to make planning easier, and we’re looking for as much feedback as possible from you guys before the weekend – check it out. Share this gibberish!
Pathfinding
by Ian
9 Aug 2010 at 8:06am
I’m rather pleased with myself this morning. The pathfinding in FS has always been atrocious – experienced players pretty much have to use shift all the time to bypass it.  It’s a pain in the ass.  Here’s a great example of it going wrong: The reason pathfinding sucks so much is that my algorithm for [...]
Server up
by Ian
4 Aug 2010 at 6:33am
Server up – was a screw up at our ISP, apologies to everyone effected. Share this gibberish!
ISP currently down
by Ian
3 Aug 2010 at 5:49pm
Hey guys.  Our ISP is currently down – I’m trying to get through to fix it. Ian Share this gibberish!
I have returned
by Ian
1 Aug 2010 at 3:52am
Hey guys. I have returned from honeymoon.  My wedding day was truly wonderful – much better than I could possibly have imagined.  The honeymoon (we went to Lake Garda, Florence, and Chianti in Italy) was very relaxing and I feel refreshed and ready to fix the UI!  So I shall do that. I read some [...]
Visiting the Village: Episode 45
by Ian
21 Jul 2010 at 12:32pm
This week, Ian and I discuss a variety of scintillating gaming topics including Kinect, RealID and faeces. Also featuring our annual Telescope Update from Bryan! Check out links from the show on our official Google Reader page. Share this gibberish!
Visiting the Village: Episode 44
by Ian
13 Jul 2010 at 10:30am
This week, Ian and I discuss the Eye of Judgment, swagger, professional wrestling’s similarity to the games industry and various other kinds of nonsense. Listen! Check out links from the show on our official Google Reader page. Share this gibberish!
Normal service will resume shortly
by Ian
12 Jul 2010 at 7:16am
Hey everyone. I am getting married this Saturday, and due to that and honeymoon I will largely be away until August 1st.  Rest assured that if anything happens to the server I will jump straight on it though – FS service will go un-interrupted. August will bring the much-needed ui-improvements, and then work on Single [...]
Patch out
by Ian
7 Jul 2010 at 8:48am
[If you don't already own Frozen Synapse, go to the official site and have a look!] New patch is out, changelist at the bottom here. I’m hoping to find time this week to improve the speed of the scoring and thus the server. Increased FOV of the grenade and rocket units to be same as [...]
Visiting the Village: Episode 43
by Ian
28 Jun 2010 at 1:22pm
This week, Ian and I discuss the fallout from E3, violence (again), Dragon’s Lair and indie art styles among other things.  Listen avidly or remain oblivious! Check out links from the show on our official Google Reader page. Share this gibberish!
Updates
by Paul
16 Jun 2010 at 2:53pm
I posted yesterday on ModDB with some thoughts about the current state of game marketing.  I’ve also added something today which shall be up later.  Go see. Because we hit our 500 fan milestone on Facebook a while back, I released a little mix of lo-fi chiptune stuff taken from my old Isometric Dancefloor EP.  [...]
Twitter drive!
by Ian
14 Jun 2010 at 6:22am
With Village going again, I’m attempting to upgrade my Twitter presence.  Please follow @IanHardingham!  I pretty much only tweet things I find amusing about the games industry. Share this gibberish!
Symetrical Levels
by Ian
13 Jun 2010 at 5:41am
For reasons I cannot divulge now (but will divulge on Tuesday) I have just tweaked the generator so it is able to produce symetrical levels. I don’t particularly intend for this to become an important part of FS, but I will throw the generator button into the advanced editor so that people can play around [...]
Visiting the Village: Episode 42
by Ian
11 Jun 2010 at 11:47am
We make a triumphant return to the world of podcasting after some of the dust from the Frozen Synapse Beta launch settles!  This week, Ian and I talk about non-programmers designing games, imagination, Mortal Kombat, Red Dead Redemption and MOAR!  Enjoy it with your disgusting brain. Check out links from the show on our official [...]