Game Developer Podcast

Latest Episodes:

#35 - Living Your Life With Rod Humble and King Choi Sep 15, 2023

Show notes

Rod Humble and King Choi of Paradox Tectonic join Danielle and Alissa to discuss their enormously ambitious upcoming life sim -- Life by You -- as well as their approach to flat hierarchies, empowering mod communities, balancing feature creep in an inherently sprawling project, and a lot more.

#34 - Marketing Your Indie Game With Chris Zukowski Aug 18, 2023

Show notes

Danielle and Alissa sit down with Chris Zukowski of How to Market a Game to discuss the ins and outs of marketing an indie, including when to launch your game's Steam page, how best to utilize alternative platforms like itch.io, the many perils of Early Access, and a lot more.

#33 - Iterative Prototyping and Tabletop Transposition With Charlie Cleveland Jul 21, 2023

Show notes

Unknown Worlds CEO and co-founder Charlie Cleveland joins Alissa and Danielle to discuss Moonbreaker's miniatures, Subnautica's scares, the importance of gaining creative momentum, integrating community feedback while maintaining design cohesion, the elegance gained by eschewing grids, and a lot more.

#32 - DREDGING UP DESIGN WITH BLACK SALT GAMES Jun 09, 2023

Show notes

Danielle takes a brief voyage with Joel, Alex and Mikey of Black Salt Games to discuss the process and priorities behind their debut horror/fishing game, DREDGE.

#31 - Accessible Complexity in Narrative Tools with Jon Manning Mar 17, 2023

Show notes

Yarn Spinner lead developer and Secret Lab co-founder Jon Manning shares the secret trick to teaching writers to code, sings the praises of good documentation, and explores game dev lessons learned from tool development. And a special thank you to Dove for sponsoring today's episode! Dove is on a mission to challenge and change female representation in video games through the global launch of its Real Virtual Beauty campaign. Learn more at: https://www.dove.com/uk/stories/about-dove/real-virtual-beauty.html

#30 - REMASTERS, REMOTE TEAMS, AND RETURNING TO GAME DEV WITH KEN AND ROBERTA WILLIAMS Mar 03, 2023

Show notes

On Game Developer Podcast episode 30 we have KEN AND ROBERTA WILLIAMS, cofounders of SIERRA ON-LINE and the legendary minds behind games like KING'S QUEST and MYSTERY HOUSE, discussing their RETURN TO GAME DEVELOPMENT after 25 years and their recent REVIVAL OF A TEXT-BASED CLASSIC.

#29 - Production, Career Paths, and Community Building with Maxis's Lyndsay Pearson Jan 09, 2023

Show notes

LYNDSAY PEARSON, VP of franchise creative for THE SIMS at MAXIS joins us to talk about her career spanning 20 years with THE SIMS franchise, touching on lessons learned in QA and PRODUCTION, building games that thrive on COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, and advice for people taking their first steps into game development.

#28 - The "Missing Money Problem" with Funding Pro Jason Della Rocca Feb 17, 2022

Show notes

A hands-on early-stage GAME INVESTMENT GURU in more than 20 independent game studios, game biz vet JASON DELLA ROCCA shares how to PITCH to publishers, venture capitalists, and when you should pitch your project to one or the other (but not necessarily both!).

#27 - Bringing NPCs To Life With Naughty Dog's Bryan Collinsworth Dec 16, 2021

Show notes

BRYAN COLLINSWORTH, game designer at THE LAST OF US PART II developer NAUGHTY DOG, joins us to chat about his philosophies on GAME DESIGN, and how he helped bring outstanding performances to NPC allies in TLOUII.

#26 - Puzzles, Collab'ing, and Creativity with Chicory's Greg Lobanov Nov 17, 2021

Show notes

On GDC Podcast episode 26 we have INDIE MAVERICK GREG LOBANOV, writer and director on the fantastic IGF finalist CHICORY: A COLORFUL TALE. He talks about making Chicory, PUZZLE DESIGN, and bringing CREATIVITY out of players.

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected