Talking Tactical Design with Alder’s Blood Part 1 Josh Bycer [email protected]

We spoke with Michal of Shockwork Games about the development of Alder’s Blood and designing an original tactical strategy game.

We started off with discussing how the project came to be, as well as the original concept of the game. …

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Talking RPG Design with Jeff Vogel Josh Bycer [email protected]

For this cast I finally sat down with the “old man of the game industry” himself: Jeff Vogel, for a cast on RPG design, life, and some of the weirdest tangents yet.

We started off with talking about Jeff’s history …

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The Five Year Development Behind Nowhere Prophet Josh Bycer [email protected]

For this cast, I spoke with game designer Martin Nerurkar of Sharkbomb Studios to talk about the development of Nowhere Prophet. We spoke about his background and what it was like to spend five years designing such a mechanically unique …

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The Design of the Dream Machine Josh Bycer [email protected]

For this cast, I sat down with Anders Gustafsson from Cockroach Inc. who made the stop motion adventure game The Dream Machine. We spoke about adventure game design and what it was like to design a literally handmade adventure.

Note: …

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The Design of a RPG Platformer With Viola Josh Bycer [email protected]

For this cast, I sat down with Jelle Van Doorne who is designing the game Viola to discuss about combining platforming and RPG design, along with a bunch of other topics.

We talked about indie development, before focusing on Viola …

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The Psychology of Games With Jamie Madigan Josh Bycer [email protected]

For this cast, I sat down with returning guest and owner of Psychology of Games Jamie Madigan for another discussion about psychology and game design.

After trading war stories about our books, we spoke about different topics in game design. …

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A Post Mortem Game Design Discussion on Void Bastards Josh Bycer [email protected]

For this cast, I spoke with Dean of Blue Manchu after the release of Void Bastards to discuss how the design of the game went. We spoke about some of my complaints, and what Blue Manchu had in store …

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The Long Road of Game Development with One Man Indie Josh Bycer [email protected]

For this cast, I spoke with the owner of One Man Indie about what it’s like to be pursuing indie development and running their first game jam.…

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What Loot Box Regulation Could Mean for the Game Industry Josh Bycer [email protected]

In this cast, I spoke with returning guest and Game Economist Ramin Shokrizade about the recent proposed bill to regulate loot boxes and what it could mean for game developers.

The plans for the loot box bill would basically destroy …

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An Interview With George Fan on Plants vs Zombies Josh Bycer [email protected]

For this cast, I finally had a chance to sit down with the creator of Plants vs. Zombies George Fan to discuss game design.

We were going to originally talk about both PvZ and Octogeddon, but we spent the majority …

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