It's our final Rewind episode before we return for Season 4 of the Story x Story podcast! This week you can enjoy the audio from our February GamePad Report livestream recording. Everyone month Nigel and Tazziii record The GamePad Report, our round-up of announcements for GamePad the mayamada universe. 

We also talk about the gaming news stories that have caught our attention over the past month. And there's only one story on everyone's mind...Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard! 

Listen to what we think and stay tuned for Season 4 of the podcast, starting next week!

We're on a recording break over January, but you can enjoy this Rewind series of podcast episodes about breaking into the video games industry.

mayamada co-founder Nigel Twumasi speaks with Chris Sayers (Mediatonic Games), Saskia Bünte (The Chinese Room) and Matt Lawson-Hall (MADE BY TITANS) about how they found their way to working in games.

In Part 3, we talk about what our panellists enjoy most about working in video games plus what releases they are looking forward to most.

Stay tuned...we'll be back for Season 4 of Story x Story in February!

We're on a recording break over January, but you can enjoy this Rewind series of podcast episodes about breaking into the video games industry.

mayamada co-founder Nigel Twumasi speaks with Chris Sayers (Mediatonic Games), Saskia Bünte (The Chinese Room) and Matt Lawson-Hall (MADE BY TITANS) about how they found their way to working in games.

In Part 2, we talk in more detail about exactly what each panellist does as well as the perception versus the reality of those roles.

Stay tuned...we'll be back for Season 4 of Story x Story in February!

We're on a recording break over January, but you can enjoy this Rewind series of podcast episodes about breaking into the video games industry.

mayamada co-founder Nigel Twumasi speaks with Chris Sayers (Mediatonic Games), Saskia Bünte (The Chinese Room) and Matt Lawson-Hall (MADE BY TITANS) about how they found their way to work in games.

In Part 1, we look at each person's origin story, that is, what it took to make the switch from player to game developer

Stay tuned...we'll be back for Season 4 of Story x Story in February!

We're taking a recording break and will be back with Season 4 of the podcast in February! In the meantime, you can enjoy a rewind of our GamePad livestream interview with Italian Game Designer Pietro Riva, founder of the indie studio Santa Ragione.

Nigel and Tazziii talk with Pietro about his board game background, the challenges of getting your game seen as an indie, as well as his manifesto on minimalist game design.

We'll be back with new episodes next month - enjoy and happy new year!

It's the last episode of 2021!! For our season 3 Wrapped episode, Nigel and Tazziii each put together their personal top five stories of the year. There's room for honourable mentions and stories that surprised us too as we recap our favourite anime, TV shows, films and games that made us stop and take notice over the past 12 months. We'll be back in February with season 4 of Story x Story, but you'll be able to enjoy some bonus rewind episodes over January until we start recording again in 2022!

Show notes: https://mayamada.com/story-x-story-92-2021-wrapped-our-favourite-stories/

In this week's Story x Story episode Nigel and Tazziii welcome back Art Director for TreesPlease Games, Riana McKeith, to look back over the first two seasons of Disney's The Mandalorian.

We discuss what makes this such an accessible entry point into the Star Wars universe, and the impressive technology behind its production. Great worldbuilding, characters and our favourite episodes are all covered...we also spend a lot of time discussing the cuteness of Baby Yoda!

Show notes: https://mayamada.com/story-x-story-91-the-npcs-of-star-wars-the-mandalorian/

It's that time of the year to look back at another year of great story discussions! Listen to some of the highlights, pre-show chats and bloopers from Season 3 of the Story x Story podcast, brought to you by Nigel and Tazziii! 

We've packed in some of our favourite moments from a year of talking about stories across pop culture with some amazing returning and new guests across comics, manga, cosplay, video games and more. Sit back and enjoy the ride as we near the end of another season of the show!

In this week's Story x Story episode, Nigel is joined by guest co-host Pinali to get into one of the biggest film releases of the year.

They are joined by Amiad Fredman and Studio77 member KottaKitty for a deep dive into Spider-Man: No Way Home. We cover all the surprises in the latest entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as examine what the story gets right and wrong.

This week's storytelling tip is about creating protagonists who carry the burden of responsibility.

Other stories we're enjoying this week: Dexter, PEN15, The Witcher, The Arcane, Ori and the Blind Forest, The Mandalorian, Hawkeye.

Show notes: https://mayamada.com/story-x-story-89-find-peter-parker-spider-man-no-way-home/

In this week's Story x Story episode Nigel and Tazziii talk with journalist and author Bounthavy Suvilay, who has literally written the book on indie games. She talks about the making of her book "Indie Games" which takes a detailed look at the history of the craft, culture and business of independently developing video games.

We get into the reality for pursuing your dream, advice for aspiring developers and also find time to talk about Bounthavy's passion for anime and manga.

Show notes: https://mayamada.com/story-x-story-88-behind-the-stroy-with-bounthavy-suvilay-indie-games/