Player Characters

Jordan has a fascinating story about growing up in less than ideal circumstances, and even though he's always loved games, he was kinda guided away from a career in games.

But of course, it crept into his life anyway.

I talk to Jordan about Lord of the Rings, Elder Scrolls, modding, running a remote team, what having construction company can do for your game studio and much more.

I talk to Mark about all the areas of the game industry that he has touched so far.

Writing about the technical qualities of ports for Mac, developing games, seeking funding for games, and organizing talks for game developers.

That leads to topics like how to combat Imposter Syndrome, how to seek funding as a creative person, and what Fortnite has done for game development.

Paul recently started a journey as a solo game developer. We talk about how his background as a web designer and in digital marketing fits into that journey.

We also get around topics like how to manage your time and priorities, where to find help with Unity and programming, analytics and feedback, and Twin Peaks.

In this episode, I talk to Tastygraph the Viking, a streamer and solo game developer.

Making games has always been a hobby project for Tastygraph, but he has plans to change that.

He's put a lot of thought into what it takes to make sure that when you release a game, it has a chance to be seen and discovered by players.

We talked about how he's building his community on Discord and Twitter.

But we started with his obsession with MMO's and also got into how he uses the social interaction around games in his daily work with kids.

In this episode, I talk to the solo developer behind Studio Sploot.

We get into how to structure your work, Impostor Syndrome, asking for help, getting feedback and the whole mentality of working on something on your own.

Virtute tells the story of how he started streaming from his PlayStation 4. Broadcasts that he himself now labels as not good.

But he kept at it and began thinking about ways to improve his stream.

We get into his thought process behind the changes he made and how he keeps changing.

We also talk about how you can prepare something to talk about on stream so that you're not just sitting in silence waiting for viewers to start a conversation.

I talk to Jake about how getting fired from his job lead to streaming video games. He shares his thoughts on all the different aspects of streaming like what type of stream you want, the skills you need, building a community, what games to stream, stream schedule and how to stay healthy when you sit in front of a computer all day.

Jake also shares how much time he spends off stream working on different ways to grow his channel.

I talk to Victor about why his goal is to make art, and why he chose to enter a film school in order to make games.

We also talk about the role of the game jam in the broader gaming industry and all the work that goes into running Nordic Game Jam.

I talked to Daryl about writing and freelancing, how does he use feedback and Google Analytics, what's special about a retrospective and what does his process look like when he's writing, plus how to send a direct message to an editor to ask for a gig.

Rob is an expert on gamification and works at IE Business School in Madrid.

He is involved with the various projects that they make around gamification and also teaches at the school.

We talk about what gamification is exactly, how and why you'd use it in both education and business.

And we also get into the ethical aspects of gamification.