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If you love space games, you will at least know Homeworld. The at that time revolutionary strategy game with its fleet maneuvers in three-dimensional space fascinated many players as well as critics. Rob Cunningham was the art director for Homeworld and co-founder of its former developer Relic Entertainment. That was in 1997.

Twenty years later, we visit Rob in his studio Blackbird Interactive in Vancouver and talk to him about the past, the present and of course about the future.

Besides, we also did a short interview with him for Gamestar, in which he tells us anecdotes about his work on Homeworld (only visible to Gamestar Plus members).

On Wednesday we had a fantastic shoot at GameStar in Munich, one of the biggest and most successful game magazines in Europe. A very friendly editorial department with relaxed staff members caused us to, time and again, nerd about games, movies, photos, and actually everything we could think of. Almost the whole day we’ve been there to capture impressions from the daily editorial work and to do an exciting interview. I’m just looking through the material and I’m still excited about all the figurines and props that were there.

space.games.film becomes academic! Björn Bartholdy, who is a professor at Cologne Game Lab, talked (in length) about space games and video games in gerneral.

Rockfish Games from Hamburg, Germany, are the makers of Everspace, which is financed (among others) through the most successful kickstarter campaignto date for a German video game. For the whole day we had the chance to look the team over the shoulder and were just being nerds with them in between takes. The hospitality we recieved will not be forgotten and made our trip to Hamburg worth while.

The office of the newly found development studio Daedalic West is in Düsseldorf, which when looking from Cologne is only a stone’s throw away. So we were able to go there on an afternoon to have an elaborate interview with Creative Director Andreas Suika about the setting of “Space”, the mood of and between developers and, of course, his newest project “The Long Journey Home“.