Lars Doucet, Co-Founder of Level Up Labs talks to Kirk about Defender's Quest, Defender's Quest 2, and GameDataCrunch, or industry data as a public good. Find Lars on Twitter: https://twitter.com/larsiusprime or support his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/larsiusprime or just read his blog at www.fortressofdoors.com

See https://gamedatacrunch.com for the latest games industry analysis.

Lauren Frazier, CTO of Ramen VR (www.ramenvr.com) joined us and we talked about Virtual Reality, The Zenith MMO, why communities are important for indie games, and also, Pokemon. Check out the Zenith MMO Discord (https://discord.gg/uR7NNBS) and Zenith MMO Twitter (https://twitter.com/zenithmmo)

Kirk is interviewed by Dwarf-fan Jeff Norris about the iOS RPG "The Lonely Dwarves" (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-lonely-dwarves/id733555203). We discuss composing the music (https://lonelydwarves.bandcamp.com/album/the-lonely-dwarves-soundtrack, some game design details, and what's coming next (http://www.spazcosoft.com/moosestation.md.html).

I had the pleasure of interviewing historian and archivist Jason Scott (https://twitter.com/textfiles) over a few hours on a snowy December night. I learned how Jason played a large role in Twitter's recent inactive account controversy. For those interested in emulation, we discussed how the internet archive allows anyone to use old software through their web browser (Oregon Trail anyone?), and much more. Support his podcast (https://textfiles.libsyn.com) at his Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/textfiles). Jason's inspirational philosophy shines throughout this interview.

Santiago Zapata (@slashie_ on Twitter), discusses building and playing games. Slashie learned a lot of how to make games from the early roguelike community and honing those skills by building a game in 7 days each year for the 7drl contest. We also discuss why Ultima 3 is maybe a good game.

Learn about Ananias, his roguelike, https://ananiasgame.com, and his new project, Expedition https://expedition.games

Brian Bucklew (@unormal on Twitter), talks about growing up, working on OS/2 Warp at age 14, dropping out of high school and college to make enterprise software, and of course, create beloved weird post-apocalyptic roguelike Caves of Qud.

Buy Caves of Qud here: https://www.gog.com/game/caves_of_qud

Support Qud's community using Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/freeholdgames

Jim Shepard is a former AAA developer turned indie. He is best known for Dungeonmans (https://www.dungeonmans.com) and Tangledeep (http://www.tangledeep.com). He can be reached on twitter as @dungeonmans or on twitch as PlayDungeonmans (https://www.twitch.tv/playdungeonmans).