Pixel Pizza

This pizza IS fit for consumption 🍴 Take a seat and join us for a delicious chat with Consume Me developers Jenny Jiao Hsia & AP Thomson! Jenny and AP share a bit about bringing the game's minigames into a cohesive whole, taking on hobbies outside of game development, and the teenage experience. With music from The Red Noob!

LINKS:

🎮 Consume Me: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/Consume_Me/

📸 Jenny's Instagram: @Q_dork

📷 AP's Instagram: @Bad_tetris

💿 The Red Noob: https://rednoobmusic.bandcamp.com/

Take a seat by the campfire and join us for a deep conversation with Vidu of Team Empreintes, developers of the asymmetrical conversation game Fireside Feelings. Vidu tells us about how he pivoted from working on film to games, making an experience focused on listening, and sending pop-up cards to publishers! With music from Hoznok~

LINKS:

📸 Team Empreintes Instagram: @team_empreintes

☁️ Team Empreintes BlueSky: team-empreintes.bsky.social

👾 Team Empreintes Discord: https://discord.com/invite/jBM4TC58Af

💿 Hoznok: https://hoznok.bandcamp.com/

Step into the macabre, poetic world of the hand-sculpted adventure game The Midnight Walk with its co-directors, Klaus Lyngeled and Olov Redmalm! Klaus speaks on his decades of experience in the industry with Shiny Entertainment and Zoink, and how he came to meet and bond with Klaus over their shared sensibilities in making games like Lost in Random. The duo share their character-first creation process, maturing the themes of their games over time, and how the recently announced TV adaptation came to be! Featuring music from 29Q 🎧

LINKS:

🗣️ Moonhood Studios Socials: @MoonhoodStudios

📸 Klaus's Instagram: @Zoinkling

📸 Olov's Instagram: @Olovr

💿 29Q: https://nin29q.bandcamp.com/

Join us this week for an in-depth chat with Animation Lead at Fair Play Labs, Ariana Bolaños Guevara! She's directed animated projects for a variety of studios, and is now working on the upcoming SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed. Ariana gets vulnerable about her childhood and how it defined her as a creative. She also gets into the process of animating fighting game characters and communicating across disciplines. Plus, music from Dane Certificate!

LINKS:

💼 Ariana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariumami/

📸 Ariana's Instagram: @Ariumami

💿 Dane Certificate: danecertificate.bandcamp.com

Draw your sword and prepare for an exhilarating repartee with Concept Artist & Art Director Julien Fenoglio! We discuss the many hats he wore on the production of the indie hit swashbuckler En Garde! Julien also shares stories from his experience translating, researching world mythologies, and other wisdom from ten years in the industry. With music from (T-T)b!

LINKS:

📸 Julien's Instagram: @Julfenart

💿 (T-T)b: https://t-tb.bandcamp.com/

☁️ Pixel Pizza Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pixelpizza.bsky.social

Swipe right on this week's episode to hear from writer on the hotly anticipated dating sim Date Everything, Jay Choi! Jay tells us about his background in writing for animation and film, finding his way into the industry by being a "LEGO drug dealer", and making wholesome romantic storylines. Music from Epshirey!

LINKS:

🌐 Jay's Website: Jayperior.com

☁️ Jay's BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/jayperior.com

📸 Jay's Instagram: @Jayperior

🎮 Date Everything!: https://dateeverything.com/

💿 Epshirey: https://epshireytcc.bandcamp.com/

It's been a while since the last compilation episode, but here we are again with a little taste of the past year of Pixel Pizza. Hear some stories you might have missed about making connections, making mistakes, and making concepts into reality!

If you like what you hear, please go back and listen to the full episodes these are taken from! With new chiptune music from Panther Cat Animal 🐆

Devs featured include Arvi Teikari (Baba is You), Megan Fox (Skatebird), Stoyan Stoyanov (Enotria: The Last Song), Remy Siu (1000xResist), Ali Cedroni (What the Golf?!), Aoife O'Friel (Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora), and Kenneth C.M. Young (Astro Bot).

LINKS:

💿 Panther Cat Animal: https://panthercatanimal.bandcamp.com/

☁️ Pixel Pizza Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pixelpizza.bsky.social

Hey hey! We're back with a talk with composer & community manager Kimi Arquines. Kimi talks about how her work as a social worker informed both her music making process and how she brings people together as part of the AAPI in Gaming group, Amir Satvat's Games Community, and her job at Intel Gaming. She’s also composing for an upcoming indie game by Guava Pixel Studios (guavapixelstudios.com). Plus the story of how I won $10,000 on a game show! Music from Azakaela 🎶

LINKS:

🌐 Kimi's Website: kimikimimore.com

☁️ Kimi's BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/kimikimi-more.bsky.social

📸 Kimi's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimikimi_more/

💿 Azakaela: https://azakaela.bandcamp.com/

Pizza à la mode? More likely than you think 🍕🍦 This week we've got the co-founders of à la mode games, C.B. & Tom Bedford, on to discuss their horror story of love and self-acceptance, Sorry We're Closed. We get into how the two of them met over Phantasy Star Online, the challenges of designing a game with two worlds, and debate the merits of cold pizza. Featuring music from the game!

☁️ à la mode Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alamodegames.bsky.social

🌐 à la mode Website: https://alamode.games/

🫀 Sorry We're Closed Physical: https://store.serenityforge.com/products/sorry-we-re-closed-premium-edition

For our 157th show (yes, really 🤯), we are joined by game composer & narrative designer Hassan DuRant! Hassan talks about his narrative work on games like WarGroove 2, making themes and trailer music for Ooblets, plus his past as a science journalist. Music from Minus World!

LINKS:

☁️ Hassan's BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mrhassansan.bsky.social

💿 Minus World: https://minusworld.bandcamp.com/