Radio War Nerd EP248 — War Game Development, with Maurice Grela

Guest: Maurice Grela, game developer Recorded: September 29, 2020 Following up on our RWN episode surveying war-themed video games with Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson (EP #217), we're joined by game developer Maurice Grela to talk about how video games—specifically war gaming—are created and developed. Grela helped develop the new game Squad, and the soon-to-be released World War I game Beyond The Wire. First: the Nerd and Ames discuss Armenian-Californian guerrilla fighter Monte Melkonian and the book about him, My Brother's Road...and the outbreak of heavy fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh between Turkish-backed Azerbaijani forces and Armenians. At 25:38 - Maurice Grela joins us to talk war game development. Check out our guest Maurice Grela's new WWI game Beyond The Wire. Give the game a boost by wishlisting it on Steam. Watch video announcement for Beyond The Wire here. Total time: 1:56:24 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here