Season 15 2020

Over the course of three decades Creative Assembly has grown from a one-man-band to one of the largest studios in the UK. In this documentary Chris Bratt tells the story of the games they've made, and the people behind them.

The Untold History of Arkane Studios. How they went from making games like Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah, to Dishonored and Prey. Revealing 3 huge cancelled projects: The Crossing, LMNO, the Half-Life spin-off 'Ravenholm'.

We chat to Bay 12 Games co-founder Tarn Adams about their remarkable ASCII simulation Dwarf Fortress - the game's origins, how it works, and their plans for steam. Thank you to Kruggsmash for allowing us to use his footage.

Two of the Free Lives team who created Genital Jousting (Richard Pieterse, Evan Greenwood), sit down to talk to us about penis physics, player reactions and the subtext behind their phallic-em-up.

We talk to Double Fine's Lisette Titre-Montgomery about her career as an artist, the work of an art team, and creatively collaborating with Tim Schafer.

We chat to Goichi Suda (Suda51) about the games he's designed over his distinguished career, and the type of work he tries to inspire at Grasshopper Manufacture.

Featuring interviews with Jim Vessella, Petroglyph Games and Lemon Sky, we explore how Command & Conquer Remastered Collection came together, and how the international team remastered FMV, graphics, audio, music, gameplay and more.

We talk to Stephen Kick about the odd story behind the return of System Shock, and his struggle to get Night Dive Studios reboot finished.

We talk to the developers at Arkane Austin about the design of the opening 30 minutes of Prey.

Using interviews filmed between March and August of 2020 we take a follow the team at Supergiant Games as they react to the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the challenge of working from home, and the mental toll of isolation during quarantine.

We talk to the founders of Spokko who convinced CD Projekt to let them make their dream mobile game using the universe of The Witcher.

Edmund McMillen breaks down his game design history, covering his early Flash games, the breakthrough success of Super Meat Boy, the rise of The Binding of Isaac and loads more.

We talk to Klei Entertainment founder Jamie Cheng about the company's history. From working on EETS in his spare time, to the breakout success of Don't Starve and beyond.

With Oakland's video game museum "The MADE" closing for the foreseeable future due to Covid-19, we explore the work the museum does for local kids, and in preserving the medium for gamers worldwide.

We talk to Creative Assembly about the difficulties the team had in creating the cult classic Alien: Isolation. How they pitched the project to SEGA, went through a challenging perspective change and brought Ridley Scott's Alien back to life.

We talk to Jorg Neumann (Microsoft) and Sebastian Wloch (Asobo) about the bleeding-edge technology that enabled them to recreate the digital twin of planet earth in the latest iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Tim Schafer explores 20 years of Double Fine Productions by telling us about the design and development of games like Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Grim Fandango Remastered, Happy Action Theater, Stacking and way more.