Wookash Podcast

This time I'm joined by lead game designer Hans Emil Hoppe Rauer who's working on  @playprovidence  at Dynasty Studios! Providence is a huge upcoming project I'm excited about! It blends exploration-based extraction shooter mechanics, with PvE and PvP multiplayer combat, with elements of survival with attempt to make emergent-gameplay-unique-events-related-items stored forever on blockchain! Hans walks me through his design philosophy and we discuss everything there is to Providence! Come join us!

This time I'm joined by Maria Aloupi from ⁠ @beyondthosehillsgames ⁠ and we discuss their upcoming game Cat Detective. Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. We also cover Maria's story, how she found herself in gamedev transitioning from piano (sic!).

I'm joined by Sławek who made Shardpunk! We discuss how did he approach the design for his tactical shooter which is a blend of XCOM and Darkest Dungeon. From the design of characters, through design of enemies to design of conveying information through tutorial and Codex, we cover a lot of ground. On top we add Sławek experiences working with freelance artists: the good, the bad and the ugly!

Maria Yue, Principal Lighting Artist at Sharkmob, ex-Ubisoft, ex-Crytek, walks me through her incredible journey from photography, through fine arts degree and then breaking into gamedev industry, working on lighting. Then, Maria was kind enough to do a presentation, a live showcase of her work process of the latest piece Arpeggio! You don't want to miss it!

This time I'm joined by two brothers, Nic and Chris who 10 years ago formed a studio  Brotherhood Games , and since developed Stasis, Cayne, Beautiful Desolation and most recently Stasis: Bone Totem! They walk me through their career, and lessons learned after so many years in the industry (the average for this industry is below 10yrs :D ) and then we discuss in detail their latest masterpiece Stasis: Bone Totem.

Hey! This time I'm joined by Amir Rajan, the creator of DragonRuby Game Toolkit! (https://dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-gtk) It's a solution for 2D games, that lets you iterate incredibly fast, is stripped of the editor, is very programming-oriented. It's powered underneath by SDL (and Ryan C. Gordon is involved in DragonRuby development on the SDL side of things!) probably the most popular graphics framework in gamedev industry. You're using Ruby language to code in DragonRuby (hint is in the name!) but there are also C extensions (kudos to Alex)

This time I'm joined by Nils Slijkerman who is, with Ewoud

It's a cute, casual and cozy game about SCHiM - a spirit who needs to reconnect with it's human. You jump around from shadow to shadow, meet other schims and all that to an incredibly pleasing music and sound. Have fun!

SCHiM Game!

https://schimgame.com/

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/SCHiM-2557749.html

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1519710/SCHiM/

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/schim/

SCHiM social!

https://discord.com/invite/c8UFXDw

https://x.com/Ewoud3D

https://x.com/NilsSlijkerman

Game Engineering Podcast

Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/game-engineering-podcast/id1683109481

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71w

RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd7643a4/podcast/rss

I am joined by incredibly thoughtful Andrejs who with his brother Ernests (Color Gray Games) developed The Case of the Golden Idol, critically acclaimed, BAFTA nominated (finalist) point-and-click mystery game! We discuss the design of the Golden Idol, and more broadly design of the mystery games like Obra Dinn or Outer Wilds!

This time I'm joined by Paul Schnepf who's developing Thronefall - a sweet minimalistic strategy game to be playable on all platforms! Thronefall is incredibly cute and approachable, it's currently in EA, we discuss the art, rendering, the unique input controls and more stuff!