Game Dev Podcast | Coffee with Butterscotch

Game Dev Podcast | Coffee with Butterscotch

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Game Dev Podcast | Coffee with Butterscotch episodes

  • [Ep323] Jevens Nuance

    Hi, Shenanites! This week, we talk about sure things, hot pipes, and what design by chaos really is. Our old friend the Jevens paradox pays us a visit, and it turns out that heuristic has some layers! Plus, listen in as we dive deep into our most contentious internal debate. Three brothers enter… and, well, three brother leave. Because conservation of mass.

    Questions answered (abbreviated):

    • Flyhoppie Axerompa: Could you talk about why certain games might feel like a sure thing?
    • Fraser_: How long do you think is left before something breaks the pre-Crashlands games, and it’s no longer worthwhile to go back and fix it?
    • Beekie Boppaboop: What would you say are the studio’s design principles?
    • To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

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      52 min
    • [Ep322] Schrödinger's Urgency

      Hello, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss a zombie way of life, a package full of people, and getting out of the work and working on the work. You can’t make people care about something important if they don’t understand what the experience is going to be. And you can’t explain to someone what the experience is because it’s experiential. ...Is lying required to get at a truth?

      Questions answered (abbreviated):

      • TigerSharkBassist: If you guys were to guess Flux's favorite type of music, what genre would it be?
      • allenmb: What're your thoughts on marketing hype vs facts? Expectations vs reality? What's the most outrageous claim y'all have made in life that ended up being 100% bullshit?
      • To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

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        59 min
      • [Ep322] Schrödinger's Urgency
        Hello, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss a zombie way of life, a package full of people, and getting out of the work and working on the work. You can’t make people care about something important if they don’t understand what the experience is going to be. And you can’t explain to someone what the experience is because it’s experiential. ...Is lying required to get at a truth?
        Questions answered (abbreviated):
        - TigerSharkBassist: If you guys were to guess Flux's favorite type of music, what genre would it be?
        - allenmb: What're your thoughts on marketing hype vs facts? Expectations vs reality? What's the most outrageous claim y'all have made in life that ended up being 100% bullshit?
        To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to http://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to http://moneygrab.bscotch.net.
        59 min
      • [Ep321] Breaking the Seal

        What’s up, Shenanites! This week, we talk about wet noodle whips, stress stew, and the walled garden. We’ve also got two -- that’s right, TWO! -- brand new podcast segments for you this ep: Seth’s English Language Corner and DUNKWATCH 2021. Will this be the first and only time that these segments appear? Who’s to say? Once there’s a turn, then there’s the possibility of a return.

        Questions answered (abbreviated):

        • ribdot: How are you bros doing so far with your New Year's dunks?
        • satellite: Has the recent news about Blizzard’s working culture made you rethink supporting their games? (answered incidentally)
        • To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

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          1 hr 1 min
        • [Ep321] Breaking the Seal
          What’s up, Shenanites! This week, we talk about wet noodle whips, stress stew, and the walled garden. We’ve also got two -- that’s right, TWO! -- brand new podcast segments for you this ep: Seth’s English Language Corner and DUNKWATCH 2021. Will this be the first and only time that these segments appear? Who’s to say? Once there’s a turn, then there’s the possibility of a return.
          Questions answered (abbreviated):
          - ribdot: How are you bros doing so far with your New Year's dunks?
          - satellite: Has the recent news about Blizzard’s working culture made you rethink supporting their games? (answered incidentally)
          To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to http://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to http://moneygrab.bscotch.net.
          1 hr 1 min
        • [Ep320] Non-ergonomically Close

          Hail, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss good gestures, brain quirks, and arbitrary rules. The first step of any undertaking is visibility. You can’t think about the problems you’re trying to solve until you know what those problems are. If you don’t know what you’re trying to do, then you’re just doing things randomly. And like we’ve said before, it’s fine to flip randomly, but you better know what gradient you’re looking for.

          Questions answered (abbreviated):

          • TimConceivable: Where in the Bscotch universe did Narwhal Online take place?
          • challosis: Do y'all ever need to use focus techniques like pomodoro?
          • Things mentioned:

            • Favro.com
            • Regular expressions
            • To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

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              56 min
            • [Ep319] The Human Experience

              How’s it going, Shenanites? This week, we talk about the fractal universe, flippin’ bacteria, and urgent chaos. When you navigate by chemical receptors, the best you can do is to flip flop around until you find a nutrient gradient to pay attention to. Even a fancy flip is better than no flip when you’re trying to find new local maxima. Or maybe it isn’t. Everything is chaos.

              Questions answered (abbreviated):

              • BscotchKarl: What kinds of interesting people have you guys networked with over the years? Who was the most interesting of all the people you've met?
              • Things mentioned:

                • Most Days (https://www.mostdays.com/)
                • Habitica (https://habitica.com/)
                • The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker (https://bit.ly/36w5tHJ)
                • To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

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                  1 hr 6 min
                • [Ep318] Swirly Diagonals

                  Good day, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss the torch problem, confetti cards , and table scraps. We’ve talked about project creep and scope creep - now let’s talk about complexity creep! People expand the fill the spaces that they’re in, whether those spaces are physical or virtual. You know you’re outgrowing your current systems if you spend most of your time handing off work instead of actually doing the work. If you don’t filter the noise, then everything is chaos.

                  If you’re curious about Seth’s Warcraft logs… (https://bit.ly/3xpKvG7)

                  Questions answered (abbreviated):

                  • Fraser_: Waaay back in episode 73, you talked about eventually expanding beyond games. What's happened to this goal in the intervening years?
                  • Flyhoppie Axerompa: Seth what is your class/spec in WoW?
                  • To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

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                    57 min
                  • [Ep317] The Exploding Bloviation

                    Hiya, Shenanites! This week, we talk about automagic, motion waste, and toothpaste mining. Sometimes when you use a robot that’s designed for someone else, you have to build another robot to undo some of the design. Better than doing it yourself probably. There are a lot of questions you should ask yourself when you’re investigating a new tool. Chief of these should be “but does it work though?”

                    Questions answered (abbreviated):

                    • Xeflat Doorveer: What other kinds things have you delegated to your robots so you don't have to think about or do?
                    • To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

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                      56 min
                    • [Ep316] Cloth Airplanes

                      Good day, Shenanites! In this episode, we discuss extraneous chats, what happens in the margins, and your house bones. It’s weird to think that we all live in a skeleton that we fill with personalized guts. And that, even though you and your life are changing constantly, that skeleton always stays the same. Well, at least until you decide to turn all your outlets right side up again, but who wants to go to all the effort to do that?

                      Questions answered (abbreviated):

                      • Woland77: Now that you've gone completely remote for your studio, do you think you'll stay in St. Louis? Do you ever think about relocating yourselves or the studio?
                      • To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to [email protected], and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you’d like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net.

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                        58 min

                      About Game Dev Podcast | Coffee with Butterscotch

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                      Coffee with Butterscotch is the hilarity-filled weekly podcast of award-winning indie video game studio Butterscotch Shenanigans, best known for its smash hit Crashlands. Grab a drink and tune in every week to learn the ins and outs of game development, productivity and workflows, the business of selling video games, our takes on entrepreneurship and building a small company from scratch, and how to be an unstoppable problem-solving machine.

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