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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

423: BioShock: Creating Rapture with Ken Levine - The Retro Hour EP423

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, we sit down with Ken Levine, the mastermind behind Bioshock, to explore his gaming roots and creative journey. From his early fascination with electro-mechanical games to the immersive worlds of Ultima Underworld and Civilization, Ken unfolds the layers behind Bioshock's immersive narrative and art deco influences. We'll also peek into the development of his newest project, Judas, and its appeal to Bioshock fans. 

Contents:

00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
48:37 - Ken Levine Interview

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Show notes:

Time Splitters Rewind seeks developers: https://tinyurl.com/ymwth8wy
New Amstrad fan game: Mighty Street Fighter: https://tinyurl.com/y57hdmad
NES cartridge turned into a console: https://youtu.be/ON-vArvervA
Cyber Mission: New Genesis/Mega Drive game: https://tinyurl.com/mw3su79d
PO'ed Mightdive remaster revealed: https://tinyurl.com/382vp9hk


Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's show, the cutest version of Street Fighter 2 we've ever seen.

0:05.8

Some big time spliters rewind news.

0:08.1

And we talk Feefe, System Shock 2 and Bioshop with Ken Levine.

0:29.2

And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our incredible friends at Bitmap Books.

0:33.3

Who've actually, can we have a bit of a round of applause, just celebrated their 10th birthday?

0:34.3

Come on, guys.

0:40.1

Happy birthday to Sam of the team at Bitmap Books, who published an incredible 29 books as well.

0:56.0

And to celebrate their birthday this month, why don't you have a look at their website, bitmapbooks.com, including their incredible new N64 at Visual Compendium, filled with over 150 titles that defined the N64. Check that out on the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com.

0:59.9

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 423, your weekly dose of retro gaming

1:06.4

and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me, Ravi Abbott, and me Joe Fox.

1:11.3

And very nice to have you hanging out with us on the podcast every single Friday.

1:15.5

Takes you back to the golden age of video games.

1:18.3

Brings you up to speed on all the big happenings in the world of retro from over the last seven days.

1:22.5

And, of course, brings you a very special guest on the second half of the podcast.

1:27.5

More on that coming up soon. But can we just say a very warm welcome back to Joe Fox.

1:31.6

Oh, thank you very much. Thank you. I had a couple of weeks after, no.

1:35.0

I was wondering if you'd, if you'd listened to the episode with Gareth that we did last week.

1:39.9

I did. What did you think of his job?

1:42.5

I did. I couldn't think of anybody better.

1:45.6

Gareth was actually our first ever patron supporter.

1:49.0

Wow.

1:49.9

And yeah, I just thought, so I went away with the family for a couple of weeks.

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