In The Keep

Cliff Bleszinski (CliffyB) is the game designer behind Unreal, Jazz Jackrabbit, Gears of War & LawBreakers. After his long tenure with Epic Games & subsequent foray with his company Boss Key Productions, Cliff has branched out into many entrepreneurial ventures including 2 restaurants in Raleigh, NC, producing the 8x Tony Award winning musical HADESTOWN & is currently working in his memoir. Most of all, Cliff is a thoug...

Jon St. John is the voice of Duke Nukem… If that isn’t enough for you, he has also appeared in Postal 4, Amnesia, Sonic the Hedgehog, CS:GO, Dota 2, Half Life & Ion Fury, as well as a slew of other incredible games throughout his career. Aside from that, Jon has been a top 40 radio DJ & now runs King Con Cruise, a luxury Caribbean adventure with fellow celebrity voice actors. Here we take a walk down memory lane with the Du...

Father John Romero sits down with Fred Schreiber (3D Realms) & Jehar (Tastyspleen.tv) to take a verbal stroll through his life as an innovator in the gaming industry. From coding in his bedroom as a kid & working with Softdisk to co-founding id Software & creating Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom & Quake, John was a rock star in the world of game development when he co-founded Ion Storm & created the now inf...

Tim Willits was hired at id Software in 1995 after creating & distributing his own custom Doom maps over the internet. All PvP online games today owe their lineage to the works of Tim & his colleagues from id Software where the concept of “deathmatch” was born. Fast forward to 2019 when Tim left the company with the entire Doom & Quake series under his belt, he is now the Chief Creative Officer at Saber Interactive. Tim...

Scumhead has published 5 games since he started developing at 15, is already working on his 6th & he is only 19 years old! Starting out in RPG maker making games like Mothlight & Orogenesis as Samu, he moved on to working in GZDoom creating Shrine, a short Lovecraft-inspired game full of grotesque body horror & ethereal metaphor. Recently he’s released Shrine 2 (with programmer Mengo) which will be featured at Realms De...

American McGee isn’t just the car mechanic that met John Carmack at 21 & went to work at id Software to made some of the greatest games of all time. He’s a father, a sailor & an intrinsic thinker with a unique background & perspective of the world we live in. Fred Schreiber (3D Realms) & TheMotherload (The Keep) catch up with American to figure out what makes him tic, the future of the Alice series, what being a new...

Chuck Jones (Senior Character Artist at 3D Realms) is the unsung hero of Homeric proportion behind some of the most prolific & enduring characters in video game history. His career began with Rise of the Triad & Duke Nukem 3D before moving on to Valve where he created Gordon Freeman & the G-Man while working on Half-Life which flourished into modeling on Team Fortress & Counter-Strike. His talents carried him many p...

Immorpher is a dark ambient composer creating soundtracks for Quake & indie titles. When he’s not designing desolate soundscapes, he works as a biophysicist studying COVID19 & nuclear magnetic resonance at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This episode is a celebration of the FPS titles of the Nintendo 64 – especially DOOM 64 – while going on tangents on everything from the professional wrestling industry to transhumanism ...

Denzoa is one of the world's premier competitive Doom 2 players with over 15 years of experience. We’re diving deep into what it was like growing up in Belgium as a hyper-competitive gamer, the philosophy of competing in eSports, the importance of maintaining both your physical & mental health, Quake, Diabotical & his landslide victory in the Multiplayer Doom Federation’s Take The Crown Duel Tournament. // Artwork by Ha...

We’re joined by MikeJ (Chief Bidet Officer at Running with Scissors) to talk about his unique journey into the video game business, Postal 4: No Regerts’ development, managing the RWS Team, how marketing has evolved in recent years, I Regret Nothing Podcast, working with Jon St. John & plenty more in this fudge-packed conversation. // Artwork by Haducant/Spaced // Music by Zallum: https://zallum.bandcamp.com/releases // Running...

Awesreek has been working on his game Viscerafest for EIGHT F@#$%ING YEARS & he’s here to tell us about his amazing journey including the do's & don’ts of indie game development, what it’s like seeing his demo take off, working with the infamous & notorious Markie Music & how HP Lovecraft’s mythos ties into a the heartwarming tale of a bloodthirsty female mercenary who just wants to buy a ring & propose ...

The Flying Dutchman himself - The Illustrious Flambeau - is BACK joined by videographer extraordinaire RedEyesGreenDragon & The Dark Messenger of Zdaemon IRC AF-Domains! We’re going through RedEye’s growing YouTube career, recent events in ZDaemon & the U.S. Quake Community, our pitch for the Cacowards & Doom: Annihilation & Flambeau’s "legendary" streaming series Fork-lift Mechanic Simulator! // Artwork by ...

This week we’re joined by Vince Steel, a talented YouTuber specializing in reviews for indie & retro PC games that just so happen to align with the Will of Cthalha. His videos are expressive & informative with an overarching theme of positivity, while exploring a serialized dialogue between him and his therapist who believes that his “game addiction” may be leading to something… dark. // Artwork by Haducant/Spaced // igracs...

Théo “Totos” Touaty is a game developer currently working on the first-person 3D platformer Cyber Hook. The game has a gorgeous retrowave visual & musical aesthetic, fast paced parkour akin to Quake defrag with the added benefit of a grappling hook, double jumping & a time-slowing ability. Totos is also a professor of game development at Isart Digital in Paris, France. // Artwork by Haducant/Spaced // Cyber Hook OST by Thom...

Hakita is back to talk about ULTRAKILL’s newfound status with New Blood, his plot to subliminally plant good music into the ears of gamers & how awesome Gloomwood is gonna be. The new ULTRAKILL demo is available on Steam right now. // Artwork by Haducant/Spaced // Hakita: https://twitter.com/HakitaDev // Ultrakill: DevilMayQuake.com // New Blood: https://newblood.games/ // The Keep: http://inthekeep.com/ // 

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James Haley (Quasar) cut his teeth in the Doom modding scene before becoming one of the main developers at Nightdive Studios. Here is a short conversational tour through his career from Strife to Turok to Doom 64, working with the Kex Engine and the future of retro games. // Artwork by Haducant/Spaced // SiN OST by Zak Belica: https://twitter.com/zakbelica?lang=en // Quasar: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/James_Haley_(Quasar) // The...

This is a friendly debate between game designer Bruno Beaudoin (Nightmare Reaper) & podcast host Conner Howard (Lore Party) on the pros & cons of iD Software’s Doom Eternal. Tune in for this 100% DEFINITIVE point by point settling of all topics related to Doom Eternal’s quality… // Artwork by Haducant/Spaced // Conner: https://loreparty.com/ // Bruno: https://www.blazingbitgames.com/ // The Keep: http://inthekeep.com/ // 

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Sgt_Mark_IV is the developer behind the most popular Doom mod of all time. His success with Brutal Doom was a paradigm shift in the modding scene, launching a storied, groundbreaking and often controversial career. Here we discuss everything from his beginnings with Brutal Doom to his recent projects like VietDoom and his upcoming indie game debut Brutal Fate. // Artwork by Haducant/Spaced // IDKFA by Andrew Hulshult: https://www.h...