Pixel Pizza

Get ready, fighters! The stage has been set for a brand new Pixel Pizza. This week's show has a chat with YouTube FGC creator BabeRuthless. Over the past two years she's become known for her thoughtful and fun analyses of fighting game stages and development history. We discuss how she found that niche, her process for larger-scale videos, and cosplay! With chiptune music from Bit Shifter.

LINKS:

📺 BabeRuthless: https://www.youtube.com/@baberuthless

💿 Bit Shifter: https://bit-shifter.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Write to us! Pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Visual novel writer, game journalist, and Dr Pepper gremlin Kristi Jimenez joins us this week to talk about everything that goes into making a VN (she's written over 20!). From the writing process to collaborating with character artists to making trailers, we get into it all with lots of laughs and goofs along the way. Definitely stay til the end if you're enjoying Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth as much as we are! (No spoilers of course). Music this week is from Malakai Moth 🦋

LINKS:

🐦 Kristi's Twitter: @HusbandoGoddess

🎮 Kristi's Itch.io: https://husbandogoddess.itch.io/

🔪 Drops of Death: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/snowhavenstudios/drops-of-death

💿 Malakai Moth: https://malakaimoth.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Contact Us: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Coming to us from Chicago (though not a deep dish fan) is Joel Corelitz, the composer of some of the biggest games in recent memory-- his resume includes Death Stranding, Mortal Kombat 1, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, and Eastward to name a few! Joel walks us through the surprising usefulness of NERF guns for audio, finding the soul of a project, and being inspired by your collaborators. Killer chip music this week from Zane Little!

LINKS:

🌐 Joel's Website: https://joelcorelitz.com/

🐦 Joel's Socials: @JoelCorelitz

💿 Zane Little: https://zanelittle.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Pixel Pizza Contact: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Pop in this digital cassette and listen in on a new Pixel Pizza 🎧 Joining us from the UK is the co-director at Bytten Studio, Jay Baylis! They are best known for the recently released monster-catching RPG, Cassette Beasts. Jay tells us how he makes his games distinctively British, the times when not balancing gameplay is good, and how multiplayer will be expanded on in the new Cassette Beasts update! Chiptunes from L'Homme Armé.

LINKS:

🐦 Bytten Studio: @ByttenStudio

👾 Bytten Discord: https://discord.com/invite/byttenstudio

💿 L'Homme Armé: https://lhommearme.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Pixel Pizza Contact: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Welcome back to another teen angst-ridden episode of Pixel Pizza! This week we've got acclaimed comic writer and game developer Meredith Gran on the show, talking about her point-and-click adventure game Perfect Tides and its upcoming sequel Perfect Tides: Station to Station 👨‍🎤 We discuss reconnecting with your inner teenager, how socializing on the internet has changed in the past 2 decades, and what a Thingus is! Music from Vaguesoft aka Lucil3.

LINKS:

🌐 Meredith's Website: https://meredithgran.com/

🎮 Perfect Tides: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/Perfect_Tides/

📀 Vaguesoft: https://abitofchiptune.bandcamp.com/album/damn-thats-good

✉️ Pixel Pizza contact: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Coming soon to your earbuds...from the makers of Pixel Pizza Episode 99 and Pixel Pizza Episode 100...it's *gasp* Episode 101!

Alright that bit ran its course. Derek Lieu is this week's guest and he's a professional trailer editor for video games! Derek has made trailers for some of the biggest games in recent memory, like Half-Life: Alyx, Psychonauts 2, Among Us, and many more. He tells us what goes into a great game trailer, some of the common pitfalls in the field, and a little bit on musicals! Songs come from this week's artist Mikro Orchestra:

LINKS:

🌐 Derek's Website: https://www.derek-lieu.com/

⏰ Derek's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@derek_lieu

💿 Mikro Orchestra: https://mikroorchestra.bandcamp.com

✉️ Contact Us: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Buckle in for an in-depth, thought-provoking chat with one of gaming's most prolific new creators, Xalavier Nelson Jr! Whether it's for his journalism at Kotaku, his writing for Hypnospace Outlaw, or his own game development ventures like El Paso, Elsewhere, you have definitely seen Xalavier's work before.

Topics discussed include the context of how games are made, what devs look for in voice acting auditions, and why game controllers are all built the same now (pour one out for the Xbox Duke). Music from Gouphy Mouvy '97!

LINKS:

🎮 Strange Scaffold: https://linktr.ee/strangescaffold

🗣️ Xalavier's Socials: @WritNelson

💿 Gouphy Mouvy '97: https://dukenmaris.bandcamp.com/album/isekai-2-hotel-lobby-core-in-another-world

✉️ Pixel Pizza Contact: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

*insert PS1 startup sound here* Welcome to Pixel Pizza episode 98, two away from triple digits! This week our guest is accomplished video host and editor Rosie Caddick. For the past 5 years Rosie has been one of the faces of PlayStation UK's official YouTube channel, PlayStation Access! She tells us about discovering her passion for gaming industry interviews, taking risks and promoting yourself, and her Twitch channel Buddygames. Music from HM333XO!

LINKS:

▶️ PlayStation Access: https://www.youtube.com/@PlayStationAccess

🎮 Buddygames: https://www.twitch.tv/buddygamess

🗣️ Rosie's Socials: @Rosie_Caddick

💿 HM333XO: http://hm333xo.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Pixel Pizza Contact: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Just in time for the weekend, we've got a new show with a new guest and new tunes! Our guest this week is Senior Art Director at Drinkbox Studios, Gabby DaRienzo. Gabby's super impressive resume includes A Mortician's Tale, Celeste, Super Crush K.O., and Nobody Saves the World 😮 We discuss making games about death, connecting with other developers on social media, and Toronto bar laws. Chiptunes from Vim in the UK!

LINKS:

🗣️ Gabby's Social Media: @GabbyDarienzo

🌐 Gabby's Website: https://gabbydarienzo.com/

💿 Vim: https://vimster.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Pixel Pizza Contact: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com