543: Beats of Rage: From Fan Game to OpenBOR - The Retro Hour EP543
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The episode features an interview with Roel van Mastbergen discussing the evolution of Beats of Rage into OpenBOR and its impact on indie game development.
This week, we’re joined by Roel van Mastbergen of Senile Team to discover how a homemade MS-DOS tribute to Streets of Rage exploded to around a million players, crashed two servers and evolved into OpenBOR. Roel also reveals how the project led him into Dreamcast development, the fate of Age of the Beast and what’s next with Hypno Tiles. Senile Team: https://www.senileteam.com/ Zoom Platform: https://www.zoom-platform.com/ Contents: 00:00 – The Week’s Retro News Stories 45:17 - Beats of Rage Interview Please visit our amazing sponsors and help to support the show: Bitmap Books – https://www.bitmapbooks.com Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com for all your PCB needs London Gaming Market: https://www.londongamingmarket.com/ We need your help to ensure the future of the podcast, if you’d like to help us with running costs, equipment and hosting, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://theretrohour.com/support/ https://www.patreon.com/retrohour Join our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/GQw8qp8 Website: http://theretrohour.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ X: https://twitter.com/retrohouruk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/retrohouruk/ Bluesky…
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