The New “WW1 Italian Front: Isonzo” Video Game with Creator Jos Hoebe
Battles of the First World War Podcast
Mike Cunha
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Join us for a great discussion with Blackmill Games’ CEO Jos Hoebe on their latest WW1 video game, “WW1 Italian Front: Isonzo.”
Jos takes us through his creative process and the research that goes into the games he and his team create. He takes us back to what started his passion for history and where, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised where that “where” is. The world is full of vibrant and creative people who are passionate about what they do, and Jos Hoebe is one of them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Mike from Battles of the First World War podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | Here tonight with us is Yoss Huber of Black Mill Games here to talk about a new World |
| 0:14.7 | World War I based video game. |
| 0:17.6 | So before I screw up anything, because this is already our second take, |
| 0:24.4 | Yoss, would you, if you would, sir, would you please introduce us and tell us about Blackmail |
| 0:30.0 | Games? Yeah, Mike, thanks for having me. It's great to be on podcast. I like what you do. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah, so I'm jose huber founder and a creative director of uh blackmo games and the world for one game series |
| 0:45.5 | so we are um we're a game development company based in the netherlands and i've been |
| 0:52.2 | developing uh the world for uh I game series for the last |
| 0:58.8 | yeah since 2013 officially we started way back in 2006 with the first concept so quite a while already |
| 1:10.0 | personally I've been busy with or involved in, |
| 1:13.9 | with World War I since I was little, |
| 1:17.9 | so that's where the inspiration comes from. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah, we're about 20, 2025 people, |
| 1:25.7 | and we've been developing our new game, |
| 1:28.1 | Ezonso, which is released three weeks ago. |
| 1:30.5 | It's based on the Italian Front. |
| 1:32.1 | And before that, we did Tannenberg, |
| 1:34.3 | which is an Eastern Front shooter in 2019. |
| 1:39.7 | Before that, Verdon on the Western Front in 2013. |
| 1:46.2 | So we're progressing through the entire war in a certain order. |
| 1:54.3 | That is cool. That is, that's amazing. And it sounds like Verdun came out at the right |
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