Cafe Booleans: A Game Dev Podcast

Darcy and Tom from TNE Productions joins us to discuss their upcoming table top game, Terragon. Terragon is a 2-6 player sci-fi strategy board game involving unit and resource management drawing inspiration from table top games and video games such as Age of Empires and Starcraft. We talk with Tom and Darcy about their workflow, prototyping, play testing, and an upcoming creative collaborative space they're planning to launch called ACOLAB.

Anthony Robinson from Golden Age Studios joins us in this podcast. Anthony is the Creative Director at Golden Age Studios which is working on it's first game Tinker and Spell - a 2D animated adventure role playing game that draws inspiration from Kingdom Hearts, Pokemon, and Jak and Daxter. We talk with Anthony about his vision for Tinker and Spell, his workflow as an artist, and his journey into game development.

Dimitris aka Modern Vintage Gamer (MVG) creates Retro and Modern Tech related content on YouTube. He has also been an active developer in the Original Xbox, Xbox 360, PSP, Commodore Amiga and now Nintendo Switch homebrew and emulation scene. He also is a game developer at Nightdive Studios - an independent developer and publisher well known for remastering classic video games. We talk with MVG about his journey into the home-brew scene and game development, porting games, moving from Australia to the US, and working remotely.

Vee is a games consultant, advocate and relationship maker within the video game and technology industry in Australia. She has managed government funding programs for games and interactive content in Western Australia for Screenwest and most recently in South Australia for the SA Film Corporation. We talk with Vee about her journey with game development, diversity in the industry, grants, and the importance of networking with a cocktail in-hand.

In our third Live Booleans episode we interview Daniel Freer of Pond Games. Dan is a solo indie developer, who recently released his first game, Rite. RITE is a high-speed, precision platformer where you must conquer a series of challenging trials, a rite of passage for every Nim. We talk with Dan about his journey with RITE, the awesome music in RITE, marketing on Twitter, and the Adelaide game dev scene.

In our second Live Booleans episode we interview the fantastical Susannah Emery. Susannah is a lecturer at the University of South Australia and also is currently developing "Hannah: A Friend in Need", a game highlighting the importance of supportive friends and family for victims of domestic violence. We talk with Susannah about her journey as a game developer for social change, lecturing game design, the South Australian game development ecosystem, and video games as an interactive medium.

In our inaugural Live Booleans episode we interview the mighty Dan Thorsland from Flinders University. Dan has previously worked as a comic book writer at DC Comics, before moving to Adelaide and working for Ratbag Games, Krome Studios and most recently Mighty Kingdom. We talk with Dan about his beginnings, the South Australian game development ecosystem, the community, and Dan shares some game development stories from his heyday.