Vehicle maintenance, UW-Stout’s video game design program

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Heard On The Larry Meiller Show
Maintenance technician Paul Bourque, of Everett, Mass., installs a wheel with a new tire on a vehicle at a Goodyear Auto Service Center
In this Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017 photo general maintenance technician Paul Bourque, of Everett, Mass., installs a wheel with a new tire on a vehicle at a Goodyear Auto Service Center, in Stoneham, Mass. Steven Senne/AP Photo

First, retired service manager Jim Ward is back to help you prepare your car for a summer road trip. Then, we hear about all the work it takes to create a video game from scratch. Our guest is Karl Koehle, an assistant professor of game design at UW-Stout.

Featured in this Episode

  • How to prepare your vehicle before you hit the road this summer

    It’s a pretty nasty surprise when you get into your vehicle on a hot day and the A/C doesn’t work. We talk about how to keep you and your car cool this summer, plus what to check before your summer road trip.

  • Art, computer programming combine in UW-Stout’s video game design program

    Video games today look a lot different than they did 40 years ago. What started as Pacman and Tetris are now games with beautiful soundtracks and realistic graphics. We talk about video game creation and hear about how students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout are building their own from scratch.

    Play UW-Stout student games: https://uwstout.itch.io/

Episode Credits

  • Larry Meiller Host
  • Jim Ward Guest
  • Karl Koehle Guest
  • Jill Nadeau Executive Producer
  • Clara Neupert Producer
  • Lee Rayburn Technical Director

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