Make the Game with Matt Hackett

Make the Game with Matt Hackett

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Make the Game with Matt Hackett episodes

  • Don'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!

      1 hr
    • 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

      38 min
    • 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

      58 min
    • 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

      55 min
    • 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

      16 min
    • Gamedev Bosses & Coping with Solodev

      Show Notes

      1. The Early Days of id Software
      2. How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
      3. 🐷 Pixel Washer (Steam page)
      4. Silver, a font for games by Poppy Works
      5. Jeremy Jackson
      6. Performative Game Development: The Design and Marketing of Nuclear Throne


        7. Music

        1. Frozen Karma
        2. SuloSounds
        3. Phantom Anthem Wubs
        4. I Am a Monster Sans Vocals
          5. 21 min
        7. Main Project Syndrome with Ben Anderson (HeartBeast)

          4 main topics in this fun chat with Heart Beast (Ben Anderson):


          📙 Ben's solo developer book Production Point

          🛠 When to pivot projects?

          🚒 GameMaker VS Godot

          🎮 Ben's new game WASarD


          BOOKS!

          🛠 Ben's book Production Point: https://courses.heartgamedev.com/p/my-downloadable-87616

          📙 Matt's book How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/


          GAMES!

          🪄 Ben's game WASarD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151870/WASarD/

          🐷 Matt's game Pixel Washer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/Pixel_Washer/


          🎬 TIMELINE

          0:00 Intro

          1:27 Main Project Syndrome

          5:01 Production Point

          15:17 WASarD

          27:32 Do people like it?

          33:20 When to quit

          35:49 GameMaker VS Godot

          46:28 Outro


          More info: https://www.valadria.com/heartbeast-main-project-syndrome/

          48 min
        8. The Unity Debacle

          Unity, owning your tools, JS GameDev Summit, Pixel Washer, & Game music: https://valadria.com/the-unity-debacle/


          📝 Show Notes

          • Unity Leadership
          • Unity and ironSource’s $4.4B merger is now complete
          • Game developers are furious about Unity's new installation-based fees
          • Devs discovered that Unity removed GitHub repo to track license changes and updated its TOS be retroactive
          • Witchmore
          • JS GameDev Summit
          • Heart Gamedev Podcast episode 32: Teaser Trailer YouTube Comments and Wishlist Numbers
          • The Diary of a Modern PR Campaign: How to Plan Your Game's Promotion
          • Future Friends Games Podcast
          • 🏡🫧🔫🐷 Pixel Washer (Play! Washlist!)
          • Joshua Morse music
            • Diabolical Experiments
            • I Am a Monster (Sans Vocals)
            • SuluSounds
            • Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia 'Sparkle' [Emerald Mist] by Joshua Morse

              • 🎧 Music

              • Diabolical Experiments
              • I Am a Monster (Sans Vocals)
              • SuluSounds
              • Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia 'Sparkle' [Emerald Mist] by Joshua Morse
                • 21 min

              About Make the Game with Matt Hackett

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