Since SimCity we were able to build the cities of our dreams. But what if you could re-design the city you live in to give it your personal note? Enodo Games give you this chance with their current game The Architect Paris. Raphaël Reynes talks with Sarah about the motivation for the game, how they incorporated feedback from players and why France is a good country for indie developers.

As always, have fun listening to this new episode of openindie :) 

Also, if you want to find more info's about this game and our previous guests, visit us at www.openindie.eu and tell your friends (and also your enemies) about us.

I ain´t cleaning that up! But we know some guys who will... for a price. Jacek Głowacki and Krzysztof Szczudłowski from the polish studio Draw Distance talk to Sarah about their upcoming game Serial Cleaners. They share lessons learned from their first game in the series Serial Cleaner (singular), how the story and gameplay mechanics will be expanded in the sequel and the transition of their studio from mobile games to Console and PC.

As always have fun listening to this new episode of openindie :) 

Also, if you want to find more info's about this game and our previous guests, visit us at www.openindie.eu.

Sycoforge puts Skyrim, Lord of the Rings, and Hellblade into a blender and creates their own story driven universe in their upcoming game Return to Nangrim. Lukas Nowak took the time to talk with Sarah about the idea behind their game, how development is going and about the changing landscape in the swiss gaming industry.

As always have fun listening to this new episode of openindie :) 

Also, if you want to find more info's about this game and our previous guests, visit us at www.openindie.eu.

ONDE is a indie title being developed by studio 3-50. One of the dev´s (Grhyll) shares his favorite scene from the game and also his "don´t judge a book by it´s cover" moment at the start of his career as developer.

Help each other to thrive and survive - not as an individual, but as a community. That is the motto of Alambik Studio´s game Diluvian Winds. Kilian Dufour and Arthur Schmitz set the mood for their upcoming game and share their most memorable moment as indie devs.

Nura´s Wish is the debut project from team Young Wolf Interactive. 

Dev Rene Rathmann describes how a cute red panda brings light into the darkness. He also shares his story of how attending a gamesjam at the beginning of his dev career substantially influenced his path.

How about some Tower Defense? 

Daniel Bonrath from Clockwork Origins sure is and currently develops Elemental War 2. With Sarah he talks about the TD genre, the game and the road to publishing. Ready your defenses.

The panflute is mightier than the sword! That´s the idea of Hanging Gardens Interactives upcoming game Sonority. 

The devs Ralf Neubauer, Vlad Trutniev and Willi Schorrig talk about their idea for the game and what moment in the recent past will echo in their memory like the soothing sound of a panflute in the wind.

Toby and Lars from Hexagon took the time out of their busy Gamescom schedule to talk to Sarah about their upcoming game Sphere Flying Cities and about the meaning of the word Feierabend when you are an indie dev doing what you love.

Imagine having a newsletter and over night the subscriber count jumps by almost 8000 % from 500 to 40.000. This happend to indie dev Niki Crisci (PartTimeIndie).

He is currently working on his new game School of Magic which aims to replace Diablo´s endgame grind with deck building. Still he found the time to talk to Sarah during Gamescom 2021.