Today’s guest is Jonathan Burroughs, a co-founder of Variable State.

I really enjoyed this conversation, Variable State are a peer of ours in the games industry and create narrative driven experiences heavy with great animation and strong voice acting.

We open with talking about what the video game industry looked like in 2014 with the emergence of walking sims and transition into discussing the impact of long development cycles when you’re a small team.

We then dive into how Variable State thinks about having a voice and confidence in the work they create, working with constraints and bootstrapping as a small team in the early stages of development.

About Jonathan Buroughs
Website: https://www.variablestate.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HilltopClose

About Peter Bottomley
Website: www.whitepapergames.com
X: x.com/pete_bottomley