We're going to chat with Joel Bylos, creative director at Funcom of the Dune Awakening video game,

the survival MMMO RPG that comes out June 10th. Welcome to Gomjabar, your guide to the iconic world of Dune.

We'll be exploring the themes, philosophies, and characters found in the sandy depths of this vast universe from Frank Herbert's groundbreaking novels to the adaptations on film and TV.

My name's Aboo.

My name is Leo.

Ooh, and folks, we have a special one for you today because we're not talking about the books or the film adaptations or the TV adaptations.

Oh my gosh.

We're talking about video games.

Oh, I love them.

Love video games.

We had the opportunity to spend quite a while, a little over an hour with Joel just nerding out.

We talked about the video game.

We talked about Dune.

It's very clear as you're,

as you're about to hear shortly in this interview, folks. Joel loves Dune. Joel understands Dune

and Joel and the team at Fondcom have really put their heart and souls into creating a Dune

video game, I think. Yeah, really a best case scenario. Like having someone in his position

who cares so deeply about the source material, it's a dream come true and definitely

manages to get our hopes up, even higher, higher than they were. Even higher! For Dune Awakening.

Before we get too far into it, before we play you the

interview, we're going to do our housekeeping. We'll make shout out MAPes proud. And let's start

that off with a spoiler warning. So Dune Awakening takes place in an alternative timeline.

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