Free Wi-Fi

It’s a special vacation episode! Catherine comes to LA! Recording, anime style! Free Wi-Fi theme song! Life after game launch! Game recommendation of the week: airports!

Super thanks to Jami Lynne AKA clover & sealife AKA @cloversealife for the theme song! Check out her work!!

Next Time: The gang stops mumbling!

Follow Catherine Fox at @foxyredspecs

Follow Esteban Fajardo at @estebanthinks

Esteban brought a skeleton to the recording. His name is Manny. He keeps quiet, so don’t worry about him too much.

This week is all about cooking!! Videogames are just like cooking… right? Kinda? Catherine and Esteban completely fail to explain version control, but they sure try.

There’s a new build of Esteban’s Investigation game to poke around with! Check it out here, with the password “free”

This week’s music is some skeleton sounding stuff. I don’t know what it is.

NEXT TIME: Our hosts fail yet again to explain something completely basic.

Catherine made a dog petting game!!! Play it heeeeere~*

https://foxby.itch.io/pet-that-dog

We talk about petting dogs, polishing dogs, monetizing dogs, kingdom dogs, and brain bugs.

This is the first time Esteban’s using his new microphone, so we’re still working on improving the audio, but if you’ve got any tips reach out! He’s going to post a new build of the game soon, but until then here’s a quick gif of the UI test:

Find us on Twitter @FreeWifiPodcast! Catherine Fox is at @foxyredspecs and Esteban Fajardo is at @estebanthinks !!!

Next time: Fox and Esteban only talk about anime and never acknowledge the existence of videogames

Intro and Outro music is Mushrooms by Komiku.

Hey you guys hear about that new thing all the kids are doing called “streaming”? Pretty wild! Fox and Esteban recount Hbomberguy’s DK64 Nightmare Stream, and then discuss developing core loops for their games.

More information about Hbomberguy’s stream can be found here, and you can find the charity Mermaids here! We also shout out our friend Patrick’s livestreams, you can subscribe to him here~

Core Loops:

Opening theme from Donkey Kong 64. Idk what song it is, tweet @foxyredspecs

Catherine and Esteban are back from their break, but they’re not quite ready to be done with the holidays. That’s because first we gotta talk about all the delightful interactive holiday cards people made! Afterwards, the topic drifts into exploring the different ways we start conceptualizing a game project. Can you tell Esteban wrote this? Luckily, the podcast is at least 50% Catherine, so it’s much more fun that this description! What are you doing? Listen to it already!

Also, we have a twitter account! Follow us @FreeWiFiPodcast!

THIS WEEK’S DISCUSSION QUESTION: How many versions of Unity is too many?

Here are the holiday cards <3

(Links and images available at estebanfajardo.com)

Holiday Card 2018 – Esteban Fajardo

Winter Woods – Catherine Fox

Crimbus Card – Kevin Wong

Birb Card 2019 – Jocelyn Kim (sorry, the passwords are secrets)

Esteban’s Design Document Template Part 1!

Next Time: Fox goes to the opera AGAIN! Esteban gets a new microphone! There, I sent that out, so now I HAVE to do it.

The weather outside is frightful, even in Los Angeles. Fox got a cold, and Esteban’s street vendor burrito got soggy from the rain. Under these harsh conditions, they press on to give a 100% accurate recap of the release of Smash Bros. Ultimate and The Game Awards, which have definitely happened when they recorded. Yep.

Catherine has proposed a challenge: Make an interactive holiday card for your friends before the new year rolls around. The conditions are: It must take place in a single scene or setting, and it must have a bordered frame of some kind. If you want to join in and make one, please share it with us on twitter!

Catherine Fox is at @foxyredspecs and Esteban Fajardo is at @estebanthinks !!!

Check out the Ludem Dare game “No, Not the Booty!” that Esteban collaborated on:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/no-not-the-booty

The Investigation game has an updated prototype with the journal feature added, check it out on itch.io with the password “free”

https://estebanfajardo.itch.io/investigation-prototype-12-5-2018

Next Time: The results of the Winteractive Challenge! Will it be heartwarming… or horrifying??

Catherine makes a videogame bento box and Esteban makes a horrifying prediction about the new Smash Bros. game. The two talk about how to tackle the ennui that starts after the first month on a project, and gush about the latest game releases. BONUS! Stick around after the end, where Esteban delves into the secrets of controller rumble!

Catherine Fox is at @foxyredspecs and Esteban Fajardo is at @estebanthinks !!!

Next Time: Catherine and Esteban VS game jams!! and . . .  a special winter challenge??

You can see a screenshot of Catherine’s “Pretty Lunch” at http://estebanfajardo.com/2018/11/30/episode-3-the-herald-of-haptics/

It’s our Halloween episode, with special spooky guest Jocelyn Kim!!! We learn the story behind the recently released cute-’em-up TWINKLE WITCH ~Save the Sweets!!~ and get some good Unity tips from Jocelyn. Catherine explains how she procrastinated on her project by making a Bloodborne anime OP, and things get contentious when Esteban shows his latest build – but don’t worry I think the two of them will stay friends… at least for now.

Check out screenshots of the games at http://estebanfajardo.com/2018/11/16/episode-2-ghost-…y-question-marks/

Follow our guest, Jocelyn Kim at @jocelynkimchi !!!

Catherine Fox is at @foxyredspecs and Esteban Fajardo is at @estebanthinks !!!

Next time: Catherine and Esteban definitely absolutely work diligently over two weeks without rushing to make progress at the last minute. They stick to a plan and nothing unexpected happens and it’s GREAT. SUPER GOOD. Esteban in particular has definitely already started work. Yep. YEP.

Intro and outro song from the Twinkle Witch soundtrack. Download and play Twinkle Witch ~Save the Sweets!!~ at https://jocelyn.itch.io/twinkle-witch

Catherine recommends the GDC talk “Procedurally Generating History in Caves of Qud” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0sLa1y3BW4

And lastly, Catherine made a Bloodborne anime OP!!! It’s so cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40–i6otxXI

Catherine and Esteban avoid talking about games for as long as possible, and then share their first progress! Catherine made a locomotion system, and Esteban made a broken UI mockup. Wait, didn’t he say he was going to make something functional but ugly? Well, maybe next time Esteban will stick to the plan!

Images available at: http://estebanfajardo.com/2018/11/09/episode-1-early-steps/

Follow Catherine Fox at @foxyredspecs

Follow Esteban Fajardo at @estebanthinks

Next time: Will Catherine and Esteban’s friendship survive??? And: a surprise guest!!!

Intro and outro song is “Street Corner of Youth” (青春の街角) by Haneda Kentarou from the Super Dimensional Fortress Macross soundtrack.

Catherine and Esteban pitch their projects and talk about the false promises of Harvest Moon, and make a few false promises of their own. Will they be able to reach their dreams?? The journey starts here!!

Follow Catherine Fox at @foxyredspecs

Follow Esteban Fajardo at @estebanthinks

Next time! Catherine makes a locomotion engine! Esteban does the opposite of his goals!

The intro and outro song is “Sea Breeze,” credited to the fake musician Sergei Mantis, from the Metal Gear Solid 3 soundtrack, riffing off the song “Agua De Beber” by Anotnio Carlos Jobin.