Welcome to Make That Game, the podcast for indie game developers, design enthusiasts, and creative minds in gaming!

This episode's theme is "Railroads"! Claire makes Blue Prince a train game, and Isaac railroads his Dungeons and Dragons party!

Each episode of Make That Game includes:

- Original game design pitches from our hosts

- Rapid-fire game creation using three random words

- Breakdowns of popular and indie games we've played or discussion of game design topics

Whether you're exploring game mechanics, level design, or just love the chaos of creative brainstorming, this podcast will entertain and hopefully get those juices flowing!

00:00 Intro

04:37 Claire pitches a blue prince-like euro trash

12:47 Isaac Railroads his players

22:28 Rapid fire round!

the VR train game is Locomancer, developed and published by Eric Lipschutz: https://store.steampowered.com/app/490250/Locomancer/

And we do talk about it in episode 53!

Welcome to Make That Game, the podcast for indie game developers, design enthusiasts, and creative minds in gaming!

This episode's theme is "Eye Ball"!

Claire pitches a cooperative multi-player game with a Greek myth them, and Isaac pitches a... game? Folks, he's sleepy today!

Isaac prepared something to discuss but forgot and didn't write any notes, so this week we ramble about speedruns! Did you watch SGDQ? What was your favorite run?

Each episode of Make That Game includes:

- Original game design pitches from our hosts

- Rapid-fire game creation using three random words

- Breakdowns of popular and indie games we've played or discussion of game design topics

Whether you're exploring game mechanics, level design, or just love the chaos of creative brainstorming, this podcast will entertain and hopefully get those juices flowing!

00:00 Intro

03:42 Claire pitches a Gray Sisters game

11:10 Isaac pitches his eyeball watching game

16:11 Rapid Fire Round!

30:52 A little speedrun ramble

New Game+ Time! Put on the nostalgia goggles for the old show format: that's right, you get 2 honks n' bonks! Coffee Talk and Garden Story! Enjoy!

Welcome to Make That Game, the podcast for indie game developers, design enthusiasts, and creative minds in gaming!

This episode's theme is "Horse"! Claire pitches a Horse MMO with heavy moderation and Isaac half-remembers a game he's only seen clips of and makes a new game about horses out of the ethereal material of his dreams!

Isaac continues talking about his city-building game that he is actually making, and how a playtest went!

Each episode of Make That Game includes:

- Original game design pitches from our hosts

- Rapid-fire game creation using three random words

- Breakdowns of popular and indie games we've played or discussion of game design topics

Whether you're exploring game mechanics, level design, or just love the chaos of creative brainstorming, this podcast will entertain and hopefully get those juices flowing!

00:00 Intro

03:19 Claire pitches her heavily moderated horse MMO

10:46 Isaac pitches "I of the Horse"

18:23 rapid fire round!

34:28 Discussion, more on Isaac's game!

Welcome to Make That Game, the podcast for indie game developers, design enthusiasts, and creative minds in gaming!

It's been one year since this podcasting couple got married, so of course, this episode's theme is "Year"! Isaac pitches a Learn'em'up Kids game about history, and Claire pitches a game that you only have 1 year of real time to beat!

After the rapid fire round Isaac talks about some of the game design decisions he's currently making! That's right, he's making a game! We're not supposed to do that!

Each episode of Make That Game includes:

- Original game design pitches from our hosts

- Rapid-fire game creation using three random words

- Breakdowns of popular and indie games we've played or discussion of game design topics

Whether you're exploring game mechanics, level design, or just love the chaos of creative brainstorming, this podcast will entertain and hopefully get those juices flowing!

00:00 Intro02:51 Isaac pitches his history learn em up06:25 Claire pitches her real time year game13:53 Rapid Fire Round!28:36 Isaac talks about his city builder

Welcome to Make That Game, the podcast for indie game developers, design enthusiasts, and creative minds in gaming! This episode's theme is "Tile"!

Claire pitches a game idea about drawing tiles and Isaac decides the one thing Go is missing is imbalance!

After the rapid fire round Claire talks about Tomodachi Life and compares it to Animal Crossing and The Sims!

Each episode of Make That Game includes:

- Original game design pitches from our hosts

- Rapid-fire game creation using three random words

- Breakdowns of popular and indie games we've played or discussion of game design topics

Whether you're exploring game mechanics, level design, or just love the chaos of creative brainstorming, this podcast will entertain and hopefully get those juices flowing!00:00 Intro

01:53 Claire pitches her tile-based mario maker

07:06 Isaac pitches his tile-based go-like

15:17 Rapid fire round!

31:25 Discussion: Tomodachi Life

Welcome to Make That Game, the podcast for indie game developers, design enthusiasts, and creative minds in gaming! This episode's theme is "Jam"! Isaac pitches sliding tile puzzle game and Claire pitches a stealthy game about sticky kids.

After the rapid fire round we talk about "quality of life" and what it means when games get QoL improvements!

Each episode of Make That Game includes:

- Original game design pitches from our hosts

- Rapid-fire game creation using three random words

- Breakdowns of popular and indie games we've played or discussion of game design topics

Whether you're exploring game mechanics, level design, or just love the chaos of creative brainstorming, this podcast will entertain and hopefully get those juices flowing!

00:00 Intro

02:19 Isaac pitches traffic jam

06:37 Claire pitches jam hands

11:38 Rapid fire round!

26:11 Discussion: Quality of life in video games

Music: Lounge Jazz Elevator Music

Audio File URL:https://pixabay.com/music/traditional-jazz-lounge-jazz-elevator-music-324902/

Welcome to Make That Game, the podcast for indie game developers, design enthusiasts, and creative minds in gaming!

This episode's theme is "Four"! Isaac pitches a game that doesn't really count for the theme and Claire pitches a musical rhythm-based learn'em up!

After the rapid fire round we... tease next week's discussion! That's right, Isaac is coughing again so we cut it short to save his poor lungs. Tune in next week to hear us talk about "quality of life"!

Each episode of Make That Game includes:

- Original game design pitches from our hosts

- Rapid-fire game creation using three random words

- Breakdowns of popular and indie games we've played or discussion of game design topics

Whether you're exploring game mechanics, level design, or just love the chaos of creative brainstorming, this podcast will entertain and hopefully get those juices flowing!00:00 Intro

01:15 Isaac pitches Bullet tetris

07:28 Claire pitches a rhythm learn'em up

14:31 Rapid Fire Round!

NEXT LIVE STREAM IS 2/21/2026 AT 11:30 AM EST! Be there or don't! I'm not your boss.What's old is new again with our first "New Game+" episode! It's technically a re-run, sure, but! You probably haven't listened to it! We have stats that say so!

This week, Claire's pitch puts you on the other side of Diner Dash and has you playing a character who... has to order food? That's the game!

Then, Isaac goes into his New England weather-trauma and digs a game idea right out of the snow! It blows! Snow, that is. This game is for you people from warmer climate!

Our deep dive discussion this week is... what's the difference between a hard-lock and a soft-lock? What are they and why do they happen? We also talk about some notable ones!

We also tangentially revisit the honks and bonks for Breath of the Wild, just sneak a few more things in there!