Left Behind Game Club: A Video Game Podcast

199: Interview with Karla Zimonja & Davey Wreden

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Jacob interviews Karla and Zimonja from Ivy Road about their experience building the characters, world, and gameplay systems of their recent release, Wanderstop.

PLAYERS:

  • Jacob McCourt (Bluesky)

    • SPECIAL GUESTS:

    • Davey Wreden (Bluesky)
    • Karla Zimonja (Bluesky)

      • SHOW NOTES:

      • 0:00​​ – Housekeeping
      • 2:00 – Intro
      • 4:30 – Prototypes & Inspirations
      • 7:00 – Approach to Cozy Games
      • 9:10 – How Wanderstop Supports Chill
      • 13:00 – Nodes
      • 15:10 – Monster
      • 20:45 – Finding the Right Balance with Monster
      • 24:30 – When Karla Met Davey
      • 28:20 – Tea vs. Coffee and the Machine
      • 32:50 – The Business Boys
      • 36:00 – Pacing
      • 37:55 – Dirk Warhard
      • 40:30 – The Team at Ivy Road
      • 44:30 – COVID
      • 49:00 – Ren
      • 56:15 – Nana
      • 56:45 – Zenith
      • 1:01:45 – The Last Choice and Why It Doesn’t Matter
      • 1:05:15 – Looking Back at Development
      • 1:10:45 – The Risk of Hurting Players
      • 1:16:45 – Despelote
      • 1:19:30 – What Now?

        • RESOURCES:

        • Episode 4: Interview with Karla Zimonja
        • Episode 196: Wanderstop

          • BLUESKY: leftbehindgameclub.bsky.social

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