we've all used random numbers in our games for stats, spawning, and even name generation right, but are we using them the right way? Adam and Stu discuss the use of random in games, what random generation looks like, and the spectrum from random, to procedural, to handcrafted generation.

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GDL hosts Chris and Stu discuss professional life in large and small studios, soft skills and interview technique, generally talk game dev careers and some of the pitfalls out there.

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Game Dev London Hosts Adam and Stu look at four key stages of development: proof of concept, prototype, vertical slice, and MVP to define the differences between them and why those differences matter.

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In Today's episode of "How much did they make?" we get romantic.

Chris and Adam go head-to-head to predict which of these weird and wonderful indie games got the most love.

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GDL hosts Ahmed and Stuart talk about the exciting sizzler dropped by unreal on the new Meta Human tool, with some roaming a bit of topic...

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In this episode GDL hosts Ahmed and Chris talk about the CD Projekt Red Hack. They discuss this along with other topics including games industry acquisitions, games in general and movies!

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In this week's episode of the GDL podcast, I am joined by Ara Carrasco, an Environment Artist at Rebellion Games. We talk getting into games, starting a new job in a pandemic, and balancing your life when your hobby is also your job!

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For many people the role of a producer is a mystery. In this episode, host Adam talks Caoimhe, a publishing producer at Chucklefish, about her time as producer, the things indie devs need to know about production, and how we can all get better at producing games.

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It's a new year 2021 (but does it feel like it?)

So, four of the GDL team bang their heads together to make awesome powerful predictions on what we can expect in game development for the year ahead! With talk of VR, working practices, events and more. All guaranteed to totally, absolutely, definitely come true...

(Disclaimer, some of these things may not come true 😅)

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In this episode, Jade and Ahmed look back on the games that left a mark of them in 2020 and what games they anticipate to play in 2021!

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