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.... more

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The podcast currently has 46 episodes available.

Make the Game with Matt Hackett episodes:

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
November 28, 2023Gamedev Bosses & Coping with Solodev
Show Notes
The Early Days of id Software

How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself

🐷 Pixel Washer (Steam page)

Silver, a font for games by Poppy Works

Jeremy Jackson

Performative Game Development: The Design and Marketing of Nuclear Throne

Music
Frozen Karma

SuloSounds

Phantom Anthem Wubs

I Am a Monster Sans Vocals
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21min
October 24, 2023 Pixel Washer devlog: introduction

Pixel Washer: http://www.pixelwasher.com/
0:00 Intro
0:17 What's Pixel Washer?
1:44 Why's Pixel Washer?
5:22 What's cool about it?
7:11 State of the game
8:57 Outro
#gamedev #devlog #solodev

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10min
October 17, 2023 Make the Game with Geoff Blair
https://www.valadria.com/make-the-game-geoff-blair/
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55min
September 26, 2023 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/
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48min
September 19, 2023The 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
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21min
August 15, 2023Ignore the Great Attractors
Time for another game dev podcast! 🎙
You've been so kind & encouraging about last week's episode that I just had to keep talking. Let's do this. We're discussing:
On loving & hating marketing

Ignore the "Great Attractors"

Failing to follow your own advice

Your tools serving you VS getting in your way

Thoughts on crowd-funding
🎸 Music
Simple but Effective

Phantom Anthem Wubs

Wanderer

Back at it

I'm Just Going to Call it Dubstep
🫧 Play the Pixel Washer demo!
Notice me burying the lead much? Yeah, I've got a new playable demo for you!
Have a relaxing time power washing beautiful pixels in Pixel Washer!
That's the pitch! It's just gorgeous 2D pixels that you need to clean. That's it. Some of you may remember Weekend game jam: Pixel Washer – yup, this is further development of that concept!
It's early times. I'll probably completely redo how the power washing itself works, which is all the game is about, but do play the demo & let me know what you think in the Valadria Discord.
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29min
August 08, 2023Getting back to my roots
It's time for a podcast-style podcast (if that makes sense). A long conversation that rambles & goes off on tangents, but delivers an honest deep dive into my process & what I'm working on.

Topics
🛠 What I'm working on

🎮 Refocusing on game development

🧪 Concept development

😀 I hate marketing (jk, let me explain)

🪑 Being authentic online

💰 (Bonus: Making Big Indie Games)

Music
Diabolical Experiments

Joshua Morse's Waveform

Killer Factory Retro and Evening Dogs by SuloSounds

More info
https://www.valadria.com/getting-back-to-my-roots/
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52min

FAQs about Make the Game with Matt Hackett:

How many episodes does Make the Game with Matt Hackett have?

The podcast currently has 46 episodes available.