Shift Radio

Fourth Wall Studios joins us on this episode of SHIFT Radio! Together, Co-Founders Jim Stewartson, Elan Lee and Sean Stewart build immersive, trans-media entertainment using the real world as a storytelling platform that allows characters to reach out via email, phone, SMS, and social networking sites. Jim Stewartson, President and Executive ProducerElan Lee, Chief DesignerSean Stewart, Chief Creative

CEO of Klei Entertainment, Jamie Cheng joins SHIFT Radio to talk about his award-winning game development studio that has developed and published games for the PC, Xbox LIVE Arcade (XBLA) and PC Online. Prior to founding Klei, Jamie was an avid AI programmer for Relic Entertainment, where he developed the AI for the platinum seller Warhammer 40,000K: Dawn of War, and The Outfit for the Xbox 360. Jamie also co-wrote an article on Planning Systems for Game Programming Gems 5.

On our last episode leading up to JavaOne, Jacob Lehrbaum joins the show to talk about JavaFX! At Sun, Jacob is Sr. Product Manager, responsible for product marketing and developer programs for JavaFX and Wireless. He’ll share insights on JavaOne as well as what he’s looking forward to at the conference.

VP of Cloud Computing Marketing at Sun, Juan Carlos Soto joins the show to talk about the Sun cloud, the future of cloud computing, and what to expect at JavaOne. Prior to joining Sun, Juan Carlos was Director of Product Development at Diba, Inc. a pioneer in the development of Information Appliances, and held various positions at Hewlett-Packard instrumentation divisions.

Founder of Games for Health and Co-Founder of Digitalmill, Ben Sawyer joins the show to talk about the 5th Annual Games for Health Conference, which will be held in Boston on June 11-12. Games for Health looks at how video games can be used to improve health, as well as the impact game technologies can have on health care and policy. Along with leading strategy, technology and business development at Digitalmill, Ben is a published author and regular speaker on e-commerce and other emerging Internet trends.

Sun's Chief Open Source Officer and Director of Open Technologies Practice joins the show to talk about the his involvement with various open source communities. Listen in for a preview of what's to come at the upcoming CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences.

(NEW SHOWTIME: TUESDAYS, 12PM EST/9AM PST) Executive Producer at Media Molecule, Siobhan Reddy joins the show to talk about the British studio that brought LittleBigPlanet to Playstation 3. Since its release, LittleBigPlanet has received eight Interactive Achievement Awards, four Game Developer’s Choice awards and a BAFTA. Siobhan’s work on the game was recognized at this year’s GDC, and she received a production award at the first ever Microsoft Women in Gaming Awards. Prior to joining Media Molecule, Siobhan worked at Criterion Games where she produced Airblade and Burnouts 3 and 4.

Heidi Dailey, Kim Celestre and Jennifer Winger join the show to talk about the JUMP, a massive multiplayer reality game designed to promote the download and use of JavaFX. On pietheory.com, two Paranormal Investigations Experts, or PIE guys, Baron Rude and Hector Macchiato explore the strange and unexplained leading up to a leap in science and technology that they refer to as the JUMP.At Sun Microsystems, Jenn is Emerging Marketing Manager, Heidi is Social Media Marketing Manager, and Kim is Sr. Group Marketing Manager for Java Portfolio Marketing.

Playfish's CEO and Co-founder Kristian Segerstrale joins the show to talk about one of the largest, fastest growing social gaming companies in the world. Playfish is behind five of the top 10 games on Facebook, including "Pet Society" and "Who has the biggest brain?" Prior to Playfish, Kristian co-founded Glu-Mobile, a leading global publisher of mobile games.

Matthew Wegner, CEO and founder of Flashbang Studios joins SHIFT Radio to talk about Blurst.com, Flashbang's destination for quirky, short form games. Matthew is lead programmer and physics designer on Blurst’s Off-Road-Velociraptor Safari and Minotaur China Shop. In his spare time, Matthew edits Fun-Motion, a site about physics games, co-chairs the Independent Games Festival, and will be unicycling from Kenya to Tanzania in June. Special guest appearance by Flashbang’s art director Ben Ruiz on this episode.