Mike and Ting talk about solo game developers.

The “book club” game is: Death Stranding.

Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or [email protected]

Show Notes:

Intro

• Fez (video game)
• Phil Fish
• Minecraft: The Story of Mojang (2012)
• Braid (video game)
• SpaceChem
• [2019 TGDF] Making Games in 2019 and Beyond (Jonathan Blow) (YouTube)
• TIS-100 (podcast episode)
• Zachtronics: 10 Years of Terrible Games | Zach Barth | Talks at Google (YouTube)

Lucas Pope

• Papers, Please: Theme Song (YouTube)
• Lucas Pope
• Papers Please
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Mightier
• TIGSource
• Derek Yu

Chris Sawyer

• Transport Tycoon Soundtrack - The 2014 Sessions (YouTube)
• Chris Sawyer
• Transport Tycoon
• RollerCoaster Tycoon (video game)
• Assembly language
• OpenTTD
• OpenRCT2 project
• RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 - The Impossible Maze (YouTube)
• A big interview with Chris Sawyer, the creator of RollerCoaster Tycoon
• xkcd: Honor Societies
• Flow (psychology)

Adam Robinson-Yu

• A Short Hike (Full OST) (YouTube)
• A Short Hike
• Crafting A Tiny Open World: A Short Hike Postmortem (YouTube)
• Frog Detective
• Minit

Markus Persson

• Subwoofer Lullaby from Minecraft - Volume Alpha by C418
• Minecraft
• Markus Persson
• QAnon Conspiracy Endorsed By 'Minecraft' Creator Markus 'Notch' Persson
• The creator of Minecraft outbid Beyoncé and Jay Z on this $70 million megamansion
• Topic: Minecraft (alpha)
• RubyDung
• Infiniminer
• Timeline of events
• PayPal Freezes $750K in MineCraft Dev’s Account
• Roblox

Kan Gao

• To the Moon - Main Theme from To the Moon by Kan R. Gao, feat. Laura Shigihara
• To the Moon
• RPG Maker XP
• Quintessence: The Blighted Venom
• Kan Gao: To The Moon and Back

Summary

• Stardew Valley
• Undertale
• Cave Story
• Spelunky
• FTL
• Slay the Spire
• The Binding of Isaac