15: Star Trek Birth Of The Federation - The Game That Stood The Test of Time with Wella Lasola & Bill Chinn

In our fifteenth episode we have on the show Wella Lasola & Bill Chinn, the developers behind the 1999 Star Trek game, Birth Of The Federation. This episode holds a special place for Jean, the Strategy Wargamer, as it is his all time favorite game. We spend the episode diving back to the development days of this legendary game that stood the test of time, and discovery some interesting design decisions. We also discuss the challenges the team faced developing a Star Trek 4X Strategy game with only The Next Generation license. We round up the interview discussing the possibility of a sequel and getting the old team back together again.

*We apologize for the poor audio quality, we had a corruption in one of our audio files.

Links:
Star Trek Birth Of The Federation Community Forums : https://www.armadafleetcommand.com/onscreen/botf/

Be sure to like & subscribe to our Podcast, as well as visit our Discord where we host our LIVE interviews:

Our Website: https://www.developerdialogue.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/P3NxDeb

Listen to the Developer Dialogue on:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/developer-dialogue/id1524192396
Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvNDUwNTYyMi9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/33DiH9pCrcV9bVw4WeDWmS
Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/developer-dialogue
YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQf5uxS9RrjZT8axwd8-dnz7xEJUkh9Op

Twitter 
Developer Dialogue - https://twitter.com/developerdialo1
Jean, The Strategy Wargamer - https://twitter.com/strategywargamr
Eric, TortugaPower - https://twitter.com/TortugaPowerYT
Matt, The Historical Gamer - https://twitter.com/HistoricalGamer 

YouTube Links:
Jean (StrategyWargamer) - https://www.youtube.com/thestrategywargamer
Matt (HistoricalGamer) - https://www.youtube.com/thehistoricalgamer
Eric (TortugaPower) - https://www.youtube.com/tortugapower

Check out our other strategy game commentary podcast, Single Malt Strategy:
Spreaker - http://www.spreaker.com/user/9172420/episodes/feed 
Apple Podcasts -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/single-malt-strategy/id1148480371
PlayerFM -  https://player.fm/series/single-malt-strategy 
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2YMkUR638whzsK2QD19RjW?si=9XLld5uyQ4qgnRWNJ