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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Big Red Barrel UK podcast. I am Coleman. Hi.

There you go. Jumping in too early. That's going to really confuse me because I'm used to you saying something after I say hi and then I'm going to think did I get the timing wrong when I merged these audio tracks together. I did the same time to confuse you. Damn you. Yeah, I'm Coleman. That's Tim. That's me. Yeah. You hear this a lot when we don't have Mr. Givens around and we, well, first of all you hear, so that's your first indication. Yeah, that's always a good sign or a bad sign. Bad sign? I personally think it's a bad sign because I have to do more thinking and not just make fun of him when he's talking. So, rather than getting one of the old barrel cast members on the, well, one of the barrel brothers on the phone, or barrel sisters, however we want to look at it. Really? That's not a phrase I've ever heard before. Anyway, carry on. Barrel brothers? What do we call ourselves? I don't know. Barrel people. People of the barrel. So we've got a guest, and rather than doing a little cutaway like we did for Mr.iff the other week we're gonna have him come and co-host on the on the show fully so we've got

Dan Pearce from Four Circle hello how's again good thank you thanks for coming on oh that's my pleasure

you're the man who made 10 second ninja that is a fact just before get there, because I think 10 Second Ninja will take a lot of the conversation going forward.

I hope so.

What was your path before 10 Second Ninja?

Was that your first foray into the gaming world, or was there other things you'd done beforehand?

So, if we're kind of starting it in my origin story.

Tell us about your childhood.

We want your whole backstory.

I kind of am. Like when I was 16, I was the first winner of BAFTA's Young Games Owners Award.

So I submit it like a game design document for a game that didn't turn out very well.

But it still won and that kind of gave me this this big sort of this big platform.

Yeah, it gave me a real opportunity to sort of get right into the middle of the industry and make a bunch of contacts and stuff like that.

I then finished sixth form.

I spent a year at university and then dropped out because I hated it.

I know the feeling.

I released a game just after that called Castles in the Sky with a company that I co-founded called The Torturies,

which went on to get a BAFTA nomination.

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