Moonlight Game Devs

Todd Mitchel is an indie dev who has recently published a book. I discuss a lot of topics regarding being a creative, staying motivated to realize your projects, etc. He also hosts a blog and podcast for game developers!

CodeWritePlay on Twitter: https://twitter.com/codeWritePlay
Todd on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mechatodzilla

Erik Rempen is creating the unique village building game Kainga, inspired by one of his favourite childhood games. We had a discussion about his game, including howhe went from having no game development experience and teaching himself everything from art to blueprint programming. He is also working a full time job and dedicating most of his free time to the game! Kainga is set to release on Steam Early Access only a couple years later.
In our chat, he details how he approached his Kickstarter, his story of going from 0 to where he is now and more. Hope you enjoy!

Follow Kainga
Twitter: https://twitter.com/game_tribal
Discord: https://discord.gg/q5uTrGG
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/search/developer=Erik%20Rempen
Website: https://www.kaingagame.com/

Oscar Clarke is a veteran and pioneer in the games industry, riding the waves of early trends like Mobile, Free to Play and Virtual Social Spaces.
We had a chat about live ops game development, specifically the common problems that developers run into.

Follow Oscar
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/athanateus?lang=de
His Website: http://www.fundamentally.games/

Jake Birkett is an indie developer who is well known among developers for his famous GDC talk. His latest game is in the making too:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371750/TMinus_30/

We had a chat about a lot of important topics for aspiring indie developers, like idea validation, time management and more!

Follow Jake Birkett:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreyAlien
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/GreyAlienGames?snr=1_5_9__2000
Website: greyaliengames.com

Chira Chopra is the creator of wemake.games and a co-founder of Lucid Labs, an alternative mobile game indie studio.

We had a chat about staying motivated as an indie developer and how to succeed in the mobile game space as an indie studio without making Free To Play style games.

Follow Chirag:
wemakegames on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wemakegamesapp
Lucid Labs Webiste: https://lucidlabs.in/

Ed Kay is an indie developer who left his career in triple A to strike out on his own. Hang Line is his first solo-developed project and has been downloaded several million times on mobile.

He shares the crazy story behind his game's success, which includes his game getting pirated before official release!

Get Hang Line for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yodo1.hangline&hl=de&gl=US
Get Hang Line for IPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hang-line-mountain-climber/id1372005090

Follow Ed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edform

Have a great Winter!

Size Five Games is a two-man indie games studio. One of the members is Dan Marshall, a BAFTA award winning game developer who joins me to talk about his indie game development process and some of the challenges he had to overcome while creating his latest game, available now on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/Lair_of_the_Clockwork_God/).
It was a really interesting chat that has lots of valuable advice for aspiring indie game developers. Hope you enjoy!

Follow Size Five Games (or Dan):
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/danthat- Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/sizefive- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sizefivegames/- Website: http://www.sizefivegames.com/

Follow Moonlight Game Devs:
- Website: https://moonlightgamedevs.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/devs_moonlight
- Discord: https://discord.gg/rfcYJJB
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoonlightGameDevs
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Moonlight-Game-Devs-117297853384521
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrGAw9i5HoaByeiQAV5FaLA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonlightgamedev/

Mana Break Studios is a Hyper Casual Studio founded by 2 Friends that met at University. Now, they stand before releasing their first game with a publisher.  
The two developers share their experience of getting into Hyper Casual and the lessons that they learned. Hope you enjoy and learn from what they had to share!

Follow Mana Break Studios
PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=7154037358046059520
Website: https://manabreakstudio.wixsite.com/main
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manabreakstudio/Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxon3iodUxeOpfiTcNE1NA
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxon3iodUxeOpfiTcNE1NA

Hyper Casual has been a growing phenomenon in the mobile gaming space for the last 5 years - games that make a vast majority of their revenue through advertising. Matte Studios have recently release their hit game Crowd Masters 3D with Voodoo, the biggest publisher in the Hyper Casual space.
Erdem and Gocke of Matte Studios were nice enough to share the background of the company, as well as how they go into making mobile games. This eventually lead to them diving into Hyper Casual after discovering Voodoo and learning how to leverage their data-driven approach to improve their games. It was really educational, hope you guys enjoy it too!

Follow Matte Studios- Website: https://matte-studio.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattestudiocom/
Follow Erdem:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erdemtu/

Follow Gocke:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gokcegunn

Follow Moonlight Game Devs:
- Website: https://moonlightgamedevs.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/devs_moonlight
- Discord: https://discord.gg/rfcYJJB
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoonlightGameDevs
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Moonlight-Game-Devs-117297853384521
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrGAw9i5HoaByeiQAV5FaLA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonlightgamedev/