Game Breaking Feature

Special Guest: Juan Vaca is a narrative designer with Endless Entertainment and a Latinx in Gaming co-founder and we’re talking about video games that are adapted from other IPs. How do video game licenses work? Who truly gets to keep the rights and what are some of the creative implications of working around already established media?

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Guest: Juan Vaca | @juancow | https://www.latinxingaming.com/

Special Guest: Amanda Farough is the managing Editor at GameDaily.biz and she makes a house call for a regular check up to discuss health and HP mechanics in games. What does HP represent? How has healing changed over time and what is the meaning of life? We solve all of these problems while creating a few new ones on this existential crisis of an episode.

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Guest: Amanda Farough | @AmandaFarough | https://gamedaily.biz/

Special Guest: Will Lewis is the Co-Founder of Rose City Games and lead community organizer of the Portland Indie Game Squad. He holds our hand through a discussion about different approaches to onboarding in game design. When is tutorialization a resounding success? What makes for a bad onboarding experience? How do I interact with the door to leave this podcast studio?

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Guest: Will Lewis | @gamewillpdx | https://www.rosecitygames.com/

***Producer’s Note: We had some technical issues on Steve’s mic that gets worse over time. You may hear some clicking and popping towards the end that we were unable to get out. The problem has been fixed for future episodes. We apologize for the inconvenience.***

Returning Guests: Kim Belair & Ari MacGillivray are game designers and they step off their golden path to revisit our discussion about Side Quest design. As writers, what is their approach to these tangential trips? How have side quests evolved over time? And: What happens when you run into a Moose?

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Guests: Kim Belair & Ari MacGillivray | @BagelofDeath / @macgillivray514 | https://sweetba.by/

Returning Guest: Matthew Burnside certifies our discussion on how the QA process works for video games. Why do we have so many Day 1 patches these days? Is the QA team considered developers? How many hours does it take to ship a game? He helps us answer all those questions and more on this week’s GBF!

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Guest: Matthew Burnside | @MatthewBurnside | http://www.thisisradpodcast.com/

Special Guest: Dr. Anthony Bean (aka The Video Game Doc) is a clinical psychologist and author. He makes a house call to walk us through daily and weekly quest design in video games. Do those quests deliver effective or meaningful expereinces? And; what’s the psychology of adding daily quests to your game?

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Guest: Dr. Anthony Bean | @VideoGameDoc | https://anthonymbean.com/

Returning Guest: Kahlief Adams from Spawn on Me dances his way into a discussion about emotes in video games. What are the origins of emotes in games? How have emotes worked their way into game mechanics? Who owns the IP of an emote? How to floss dance?

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Guest: Kahlief Adams | @Kahjahkins | http://www.spawnon.me

Special Guest: Elaine Gómez is a game designer at E-Line Media and content developer for Make Room. She schools us on the topic of Educational video games. What’s more effective: A game where you learn through mechanics or a game that identifies itsellf as an “educational game” from the start? What kinds of lessons are games effective at teaching? And did you know that there was more than just the hunting in Oregon Trail?

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Guest: Elaine Gómez| @chulatastic | http://createdvoid.com

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Special Guest: Osama Dorias is the senior game designer at Warner Bros. He stopped by to piece together how puzzles mesh with the rest of the game. What defines something as puzzle game? How has the internet changed the nature of puzzle design? How can we get the license to Clue and who can connect us with Tim Curry?

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Guest: Osama Dorias | @osamadorias | http://osamadorias.com/