MADE in Progress is back with a third installment! This time, Leland is talking to Daniel Pool, a librarian by day, and game designer, writer, and podcaster by night. However, as it turns out, there's a to learn about game design by being a librarian, and vise versa. Plus, The Boys mourn some of the decisions Sony has been making lately.

You should follow Daniel on twitter, or check out their games profile on itch.io. And if you like the sound of their voice, they've got a podcast too!

This Week Alex and the MADEcast gang have a chat with Khris Brown, the VO director and audio engineer at Double Fine studios. Khris shares some valuable insight into the role of an audio engineer in games as well as her experiences working with some of the finest talent in the industry!

This week Alex chats with the amazing illustrious Roberta Williams, video game designer, writer and co-founder of Sierra On-line. Roberta gives us a first hand account of what it was like designing the first ever adventure games, a legacy that is still carried on in our video games to this very day!

This week, Alex is talking to Christy Marx, a legendary writer who has 4 decades of experience writing for video games, comic books, and animated TV shows (she created Jem!). They touch on her transition from the world of Hollywood to the world of games, and her unique ability to straddle both worlds. Also, she lets Alex in on the secret backstory of a great game she worked on that unfortunately was never made.

On this episode of The MADEcast, Alex talks to Tami Borowick about her transition from studying communications and computer science at Mills, a women's college, to studying Scumm at Lucasfilm Games, a male-dominated workplace. They also chat about her impact on children through her time at Humongous Entertainment, where she educated a generation through lovable characters like Pajama Sam and Putt-Putt.

Today we continue with the classic MADEcast format, and what a treat we have for you! Alex talked to the legendary Lucasfilm Games alum Tim Schafer about his commitment to designing intuitive, beautiful adventure games, whether or not they were profitable. Plus, Red tried to come up with a new jingle for the podcast which... well, you'll just have to listen to it to see how it goes.

For episode 2 of Made in Progress, Leland is talking to Christian Scandariato about how his childhood love of wordy, grindy games turned into his super unique attitude towards designing games for younger audiences. Plus, his take on going to school for game design and learning video game history.

You can find Christian and all of his ongoing work on his twitter. And make sure to check out Floppy Knights when it comes out!

Christian and Leland had so much to talk about for this episode that there is no news report from our other hosts, but don't worry, they'll be back next week, along with some more interviews with Alex and important figures from the history of adventure games. We'll be dropping more episodes of Made in Progress as we go along, so if you know anyone who'd like to come on the show, let us know!

Introducing a brand new miniseries called Made in Progress! We're interviewing up-and-coming & aspiring game devs about the games that influenced them. For our inaugural episode, Leland talks to Cara Hillstock, a twitch streamer and narrative designer about her love of visual novels, the stigma of 'girl games,' and the ways video games can help our future relationships.

Check out Cara's twitter, or her website, and especially her latest game, To Be With You, which is a semi-autobiographical visual novel about an abusive relationship.

On this week's MADEcast episode Alex has a chat with the amazing Ron Gilbert! Inventor of SCUMM, as well as being one of the Lucasfilm Games legends. If that isn't enough, He is also one of the brilliant minds behind Maniac Mansion as well as a fierce champion of adventure games. Seriously, he’s amazing!

On today's MADEcast episode, Alex is talking to another former Lucasfilm games legend, David Fox, about his work on adventure games, as well as the Marin Computer Center, a magical place which directly inspired The MADE! Plus, he answers the age-old question: can you microwave the hamster in Maniac Mansion?