In this episode, GDL host Adam chats to Freya from Anything World about the upcoming Global Game Jam 23. They discuss the importance of creativity, how to tackle a game jam, and the importance of sleep! Game Dev London is once again hosting a GGJ site, following running the 8th largest site in the world last year. This year, Anything World is sponsoring the GDL site to help us bring it to more people, as well as give them access to tools to eliminate the barriers to 3D creativity.

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In this episode, Nichola and Karim explore the question "What is gameplay engineering?" whilst deep diving into the skills, requirements and advice for aspiring engineers. 

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In this episode, Stuart De Ville speaks to Niall Crabtree, a game designer at Sigtrap (during the time of recording) and lecturer at The University of Huddersfield, to discuss game dev education, their path into lecturing, and provide top tips for both prospective students and lecturers.

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(Recorded November 2022)

In this episode,  Marek chats with Jeremy from Audio Creatures about what it's like to be a freelance music composer. 

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Anna, Diana and James talk about the unique challenges of writing never-ending narratives for long running games such as MMOs, live service games and even roguelikes.

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Oscar continues his Podquest to learn everything you wanted to know about gamedev but never dared to ask. This time he is joined by fellow host Mafalda Duarte from @GameDevLisbon and @Nerd_Monkeys to explore making games across the world. 

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Nichola, Marek and Mafalda dive into the topic of game dev events, listing international game dev events, how to network within them why attending these events can be both fun and beneficial.  

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Nichola and Jack explore the hypercasual space within mobile games and the process in which these games are designed, made and advertised.

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In this episode, Oscar continues his podquest to learn everything you wanted to know about game dev but never dared to ask by talking to GDL Co-founder Adam about the ups and downs of game development, their studio management experience and what it means to be a resilient game dev.

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In this episode, fellow Game Dev London host, Chris Payne, joins Oscar in his quest to understand the Metaverse and find out if something potentially useful is going on with the ambitions of Meta and other hype-generators.    

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