Happy Halloween 🎃 Scare Actress Lauren Sanders talks about what it's like haunting people for a living, and I talk about what haunt this year at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights worked particularly well on me.

Nick Fore gives advice on writing screenplays, how to engage any audience, and how to write something innovate and new to an audience while keeping archetypes that are still readable by that audience.

Special guest host Kristin Torrence (learning designer) and I interview Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon, and CEO of Schell Games, Jesse Schell. We talk about his time in Walt Disney Imagineering, how to approach design for VR Experiences, and the difference between a learning game and an entertainment game.

I chat with Matt Fleming about his career working with The Game Show Network, and as Lead Content Desinger on Conan Exiles. We also discuss what makes a good Game Designer, the difference between a Senior Game Designer and a Design Lead, and what makes a good Game Producer.

Scott (Maximo and God of War designer) and I talk about the difference between designing a board game and a video game, how to get your creative passions into the production, and his infamously hard boss design for Pac Man World.

Robert talks about his experience developing the motion capture for movies such as Avatar, and the Lord of the Rings movies, doing the cinematics for games such as Silent Hill, and directing and developing location based VR experiences Alien: Descent, and Army of the Dead: Viva Las Vengeance for Nettflix.

Joe (Game Designer) and co host CJ (Game Producer) talk about what makes a fun horror experience. Are Jason and Mike Myers still scary? And how to design a good horror experience in VR.

Joe (Game Designer) and co host Henry (UX Designer) talk about why safety is the most important part of fun, Seinfeld, Morbius, and Walt Disney.

Joe (Game Designer) and co-host Henry (UX Designer) talk about bad creative leadership, and how to develop an environment that your creative team doesn't want to leave.

Joe (Game Designer) and co host Henry (UX Designer) talk about the difference between art and design, and passion versus business goals.