Roll for initiative before listening to this episode 🎲 Our guest this week is Christoffer Bodegård, Swedish game writer and solo dev. He's contributed writing to games like Raft and Apsulov: End of Gods, and has been working for the past several years on his own project, the DnD and Disco Elysium-inspired Esoteric Ebb! We talk about freelance writing, the Swedish gamedev scene, and adding dumb fun choices to your game. Music from Slamhaus!

LINKS:

🎮 Esoteric Ebb Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2057760/Esoteric_Ebb/

🌐 EE Website: https://esotericebb.com/

💿 Slamhaus: https://slamhaus.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Contact us: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Another week I'll be out of town, but not gonna leave you guys high and dry again! Here's a redux of one of our more popular early episodes featuring LakeFeperd, the beloved Brazilian developer behind the Spark the Electric Jester trilogy ⚡️🃏 And music from Sunnexo!

If you're a recent listener I hope you enjoy, and if you were here when this originally premiered thanks for sticking around :)

LINKS:

🐦 Lake’s Twitter: @LakeFeperd

🎮 Feperd Games: https://feperdgames.com/

💿 Sunnexo: https://sunnexo.moe

Hold onto your hats! This week's Pixel Pizza features a convo with Ubisoft Massive lead writer & narrative designer Aoife O'Friel. Aoife has helped bring Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to life, and she tells us about the lore and research that goes into making those worlds as immersive as possible. And our music this week comes from Nicky Spacebum!

LINKS:

🐦 Aoife's Twitter: @AoifeOFriel

🌐 Aoife's Website: https://aoifeofriel.wixsite.com/portfolio

💿 Nicky Spacebum: https://nickyspacebum.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Contact Us: Pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Sleuth around with us on this week's Pixel Pizza as we chat with Julia Minamata, solo dev behind the adventure mystery game The Crimson Diamond 💎

Julia talks about cozy mysteries, Canada's mineral history, and how pixel art can be a great starting point for new artists. Music from WaxWolf!

LINKS:

💎 The Crimson Diamond: https://www.thecrimsondiamond.com/

🐦 Julia's Twitter: @JuliaMinamata

💿 Waxwolf: https://waxwolfofficial.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Contact us: Pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

Is it cold in here? Maybe because there was no episode last week due to vacation, or maybe because this week we've got the Frostman himself, Digital Eclipse's Head of Production Stephen Frost! You might know Digital Eclipse for their in-depth collections of the Street Fighter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, or their interactive documentary Gold Master series. We discuss all of those and everything else Stephen has tackled and learned in his 20+ years in the industry. Music from Chosen Realm!

LINKS:

🌘 Digital Eclipse: www.digitaleclipse.com

🐦 Stephen's Twitter: @Frostman007

✉️ Contact Us: Pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

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One of indie gaming's most clever minds, Arvi Teikari, joins us this week to dive deep into his game design process! With music from Synhancer

*No new episode next week, see you the week after*

LINKS:

🎮 Arvi's Games: https://hempuli.itch.io/

🪄 The Legend of Zelbaba: https://youtu.be/69CH0Zpvnd4?si=vtDNd3ZDh5_FokGO

💿 Synhancer: https://synhancer.bandcamp.com/

✉️ Podcast Inquiries: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com

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