Make the Game with Matt Hackett

By Valadria

Learn to make and sell indie games with Matt Hackett, author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself.... more

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The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.

Make the Game with Matt Hackett episodes:

January 08, 2025Webbiness and Refactoring
See valadria.com for more info!

📋 Show Notes
A Wizard's Lizard

From Quake mods to game director with Jon Hackett

🐷 Pixel Washer

PowerWash Simulator

Dr Wahwee

Tiled (map editor)
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50min
November 13, 2024Playtests, Prototypes, and Permission Games
https://www.valadria.com/playtests-prototypes-permission-games/

Show Notes
📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself (Gumroad, Itch, signed copies)

Pixel Washer

How to make a good Steam page

Pixel Washer: 3-day devlog

Lost Decade Games

Steam Hardware & Software Survey

Game Tester

💰 The Money Episode

The illusion of skill: how to make a better game in less time

Production Point

Indie Game Sim

Making an Indie Game About Indie Game Making

How has web dev changed in the last decade?

💀 How to handle the death of a platform (for example: Twitter)

Game Dev Comics by Matt Hackett

@richtaur.bsky.social

Making Big Indie Games (Gumroad, Itch)

Join the Valadria Discord

60 minute video coaching/consulting
Thanks for listening. Now it's time for you to go make the game!
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55min
October 02, 2024Godot and YouTube with Sean McKenzie (Bacon and Games)
🔗 Show Notes
Bacon and Games

How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself

Steam Dev Cheat Sheet

How to Find a Video Game Publisher (Tips for Indie Devs)

Armor Games

Valadria Discord

10 Godot Features Hidden in Plain Sight 👀

🚫 No Stacking | Make the Game

Heartbeast

🔥 Steam Game Promo Art - Photography and Fire

Making Big Indie Games

Game Maker's Toolkit

Cursor Adventure

Kenney's Cursor Pixel Pack

Golf Story

Game Dev Difficulty Tiers
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1h 28min
May 07, 2024 What's the best thing you ever made?
https://www.valadria.com/the-best-thing-you-ever-made/

0:00 Intro
0:23 What's the best thing you ever made?
3:28 You didn't miss the boat
5:11 Three hours is all you need
9:48 Breaking down hard problems
19:37 Outro

📙 https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/

#gamedev #creative #podcast
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21min
April 29, 2024How to do GDC
We're talking about:
Preparing for GDC

Getting a badge (or not)

Lodging around GDC

A tour of Moscone Center

Navigating GDC parties

General tips & advice

🔗 Show Notes
Game Developers Conference

Making a mobile video for quick, in-person demonstration

🐷🫧 Add Pixel Washer to your Steam washlist

Bay Area Rapid Transit

Yerba Buena Gardens

gdcparties.com

hbomberguy
Thanks for listening! Please subscribe and rate this podcast 5 stars wherever you can. Good luck with your game 🛠️
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18min
April 09, 2024Don't Stop Posting
We cover a lot in this episode! Look at all these links:
Amazon wishlist (thanks!)

📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself

Game Marketing GOLD with Chris Zukowski

Twitter: @richtaur

Podcast: Make the Game

📺 YouTube: @Valadria

RedLetterMedia

SEA (space videos)

Join the Valadria Discord

YouTube: @richtaur

Steam: Witchmore, Pixel Washer

The Clark Tank!

Game Maker's Toolkit

🔥 The Steam Dev Cheat Sheet

Create Your Steam Page

No Stacking | Make the Game

Killed by Google (Google Graveyard)

Fruit Ninja designer Luke Muscat talks going solo dev

YouTube: Make the Game (playlist)

TikTok: @richtaur

Chef Reactions

📈 4 viral game hooks for game designers

Game Dev Comics by Matt Hackett

Lostcast (my old podcast)

Kenney (public domain assets)

r/Games - Indie Sunday (oops I said r/gaming)

Game Dev Coaching/Consulting

GDC (Game Developers Conference)

🥓 Bacon and Games

Wonderland Engine (I meant downloadable engine; games run in the browser!)

Building a Web Game in a Day

7 tips from 7 days of game dev for 7 Day Roguelike

You were played out with Remember Me by Joshua Morse
Coming soon: a GDC postmortem, pitch decks, and publishers. Thanks for listening!
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1h
March 19, 2024 No Stacking
More info: https://www.valadria.com/no-stacking/
🔗 LINKS
Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/
Coaching: https://www.valadria.com/game-dev-coaching-consulting/
🎬 TIMELINE
0:00 Intro
1:05 GDC 2024
7:27 No Stacking
25:21 Goals
34:51 Outro
🎹 MUSIC
Electro Breaks Loop: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=749
Phantom Anthem Wubs: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879
Interstellar Winnebago: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1050
Joshua Morse: https://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/
#gamedev #indiedev #podcast #gdc
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38min
March 05, 2024 Seeing Things in Steam Next Fest
Links galore: https://www.valadria.com/seeing-things-steam-next-fest-greg-love/

🎬 TIMELINE
0:00 Intro
4:14 Story Machine
11:50 Seeing Things
19:26 Steam Next Fest
36:30 Live streams
42:20 What's next?
45:59 Release after SNF?
49:39 Multiple demos
55:19 Outro

📙 SOLO DEV BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/

#gamedev #steam #podcast
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58min
January 25, 2024 The Money Episode
Links & more: https://www.valadria.com/the-money-episode/

🎬 Timeline
0:00 Intro
1:36 User Interface (UI)
10:32 Configurable input
21:10 Climbing the wall
26:40 A "game shell"
37:48 The Money Part
43:02 Kickstarter(s)
50:35 Coaching
53:06 Outro
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55min
January 09, 2024 My 2-year indie postmortem
Article: https://www.valadria.com/my-2-year-indie-postmortem/

🎹 Music
https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879
https://stevenmelin.itch.io/lo-fi-atmospheres-music-pack
https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1601
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16min

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