Cafe Booleans: A Game Dev Podcast

Join us as we do a deep dive into:

🎮 Avoiding burnout and managing time as game developers 

🥵 Define what burnout is and how it can affect us

🤔 Give ways to assess burnout in our lives

❗ Provide 9 steps to prevent burnout in our lives

🧰 Share our and listeners personal experiences, tools, and techniques that help us day to day 

Avoiding Burnout & Managing our Time - it's an issue all of us face, in such a creative field like game development. We're ALWAYS not only highly creative but also highly productive – like creativity machines, so we're bound to burn out.

- 9 Ways To Prevent Burnout - LifeHack

- Game Dev Burnout: How to Spot It, How to Cope

Adelaide Game Developer Discord: https://bit.ly/AGDdiscord

Join us at the diner this week as we chat about:

- Xbox Game Pass coming directly to Samsung TVs - how this might open up distribution of games to new audiences

- New research showing that making video games enables new forms of self-awareness for people struggling with their mental health

- Exploring different types of social experiences in games and how games enhance the social experience of players

- Roblox hosting a month-long virtual development conference for creators

- a Google engineer put on leave after saying that an AI chatbot has become sentient

- We take a look at the best demonstration of AI in video games

- Virtual children in the 'metaverse' ?!

Alex Ferrabetta - @amferrabetta

Media:

- Xbox Game Pass Is Coming Directly To Certain Samsung TVs

- Making video games can help support addiction recovery

- How games enhance the social experience of players?

- Roblox is rolling out an all-virtual creator conference

- Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient (Thanks Adrian!)

- Tamagotchi kids: could the future of parenthood be having virtual children in the metaverse? (Thanks Adrian!)

John takes us through a journey of two years of laughs, interviews, jokes, and most importantly, friends and family of this game development podcast.

We would like to thank you all so much for joining us in the studio and the cafe week after week. Your continued support has meant the world to us and we hope we can continue to bring the good times into your mornings, afternoons, evenings and nights.

Onward to the next two years of Live Booleans! We have some exciting things planned, and as always, some amazing people to talk to across this industry.

♥

John Oestmann - @john_oestmann

Susie Emmery - @susannahkemery

Kosta Canatselis - @kostacana

Alex Ferrabetta - @amferrabetta

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Join us at the diner this week as we chat about:

- Tennis legend John McEnroe plays against an AI version of himself via ESPN's Augmented Reality tennis match - what kind of opportunities does this open up in the future?

- AI system DALLE2 which creates art from natural language descriptions, what does this kind of AI open up in game development - will it disrupt or impact workflows?

- The French culture ministry banning English gamer jargon like 'streamer' from being used in government correspondence

- 3 things you can do right now to become a better game designer, and the broader process of improving and honing your skills

- Where did you get your start in the games industry and what did you need to do 'get in'?

- Is video games modding beneficial to developers?

Alex Ferrabetta - @amferrabetta

Media:

- John McEnroe Traveled Back 40-Plus Years in a ‘Tennis Time Machine’ to Play (and Trash-Talk) a Familiar Opponent: Himself

- France Bans Gamer Words

- 3 Things You Can Do Right Now To Become A Better Game Designer

- Six key tools to help break into the game industry

- Gaming the System: Modding is a great thing for games, even if some developers disagree

We chat with Carl Leducq NZ Games Advocate, Host of the Zero to Play game development podcast, and experienced Games Producer about:

- His journey into games and game development

Carl Leducq - Twitter

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Join us at the diner this week as we chat about:

- Batman, Superman, Mickey Mouse, Wizard of Oz, 1984 and other huge IPs are going to, or are currently in, the public domain. What opportunities does this open up for new artistic direction and games for these iconic IPs? What would you like to see enter public domain?

- 9-day Adelaide Game Developers SA Slam Jam coming 17th June!!! (Sean explains)

- Exploring Melbourne's ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) exhibition setup celebrating and preserving Australian game development history

- A new video game study that suggests they boost intelligence in children

- What are some great non-violent video games? and how does no violence impact game design, environment and narrative

- A dive into player types and bartles taxonomy of player types

Alex Ferrabetta - @amferrabetta

UPCOMING ADELAIDE GAME DEVELOPERS SA SLAM JAM

Media:

- 9News Melbourne ACMI News Snippet

- Video games: our study suggests they boost intelligence in children

- BATMAN AND SUPERMAN WILL BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN 10-ISH YEARS

- George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?

- Republicans took away Disney’s special status in Florida. Now they’re gunning for Mickey himself

We chat with Leo Cheung aka BlueTwoDays, Artist and Design lead of Paper Cactus Games about:

- Developing, play-testing and launching the super unique and super fun tabletop RPG, Parselings - a game about tattoos and collaborative word magic

Paper Cactus Games (Leo Cheung) - Twitter

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Join us at the diner this week as we chat about:

- The launch of Game Workers Australia (GWA); the new national union for Australian game workers and the Australian Chapter of Game Workers Unite (GWU) and what this means for indie devs and studio devs

- Examples of educational games and the merit of teaching with games as opposed to the traditional teaching methods

- Twitch to supposedly changing their revenue split with streamers to 50/50 instead of the current 70/30

- Congrats to Sydney-based SMG Studios for Moving Out reaching 1,000,000 sales

Alex Ferrabetta - @amferrabetta

Susie Emmery - @susannahkemery

John Oestmann - @john_oestmann

Adelaide Game Developer Discord: https://bit.ly/AGDdiscord

Media:

- Twitch is reportedly planning major cuts to creator revenue

- Moving Out has reached 1,000,000 sales

Sarah Brown is the Lead Technologist at Code Like a Girl - a social enterprise providing girls, women and minorities with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter and flourish in the world of code. With John and Susannah in the interviewer chairs this episode, we discuss:

- The difference between equality and equity and why it is important

- Why initiatives like 'Code like a Girl' are necessary for our society

- The power of having visible role models

- Great entry points for starting your programming career.

Sarah Brown LinkedIn 

Code Like a Girl

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Join us at the diner this week, as we chat about:

- Meta planning to take a nearly 50% cut on virtual asset sales in its 'metaverse' game Horizon Worlds

Adelaide Game Developer Discord: https://bit.ly/AGDdiscord

Media:

- Meta plans to take a nearly 50% cut on virtual asset sales in its metaverse