Figuring it Out

This week, we talk about a Woman indie developer by the name Renee and thier game that was just released on steam called Potions: A Curious Tale. You can find her devlog at https://www.tiktok.com/@rikukat Go check out their new indie game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/378690/Potions_A_Curious_Tale/ We also talk about the largest QA workers union formed for video games in the US at 600 Activision QA workers. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/600-activision-qa-workers-just-formed-the-biggest-videogame-union-in-the-us/ Users have hit 1 million science per minutes in Factorio using a mod called Clusterio to pool work across several instances of the program (over 160 copies of the game) https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/factorio-world-record-server-god-factory/ And there is a reason companies have people to stand in front of the audience to deliver messages - Helldivers devs found out the hardway that though it may be funny, it can be seen as gaslighting your playerbase giving flippant remarks. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-boss-apologizes-for-horrible-dev-comments-says-arrowhead-has-taken-action-internally-to-educate-our-developers/ The UDP Broadcast podcast is hosted LIVE! WEEKLY on Twitch at 10:30pm Central US on Saturday where we - IMEI, Reina the Critchicken, The Nordic Cajun and LuminariWeekly - get together and offer both informed and uninformed opinions on gaming related topics. We are widely available across most podcasting platforms with a home on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4PuQBgiPnqm4Ag1qp7iu6T?si=10fe6cd1ee244fe7 Outside of the podcast, I am a variety streamer and collaborator with other streamers both in and out of the podcast. Places you can follow me: On Twitch: https://twitch.tv/luminariweekly On Youtube: https://youtube.com/@udpbroadcast -- Podcast Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLULalLGYphEKIcyxvNBpreqOhLHf90MvF on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@luminariweekly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LuminariWeekly Co-Host's Twitter accounts: https://twitter.com/IMEI21 https://twitter.com/NeedsEspresso https://twitter.com/TheNordicCajun --Cajun's Twitch where he Shiny Hunts --- https://twitch.tv/thenordiccajun Website (under construction): https://udpbroadcast.com On Spotify podcaster distribution platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/udpbroadcast We have the best news bot that pulls from Gaming News syndicates every 15 minutes on our discord server. Please feel free to go and consume the sheer amount of news our custom bot pulls 24/7 in the News_Feed channel. https://discord.gg/theudpbroadcast -- Invite Link 00:00 Introduction 02:31 Womens Month - Rikukat 18:27 One Million Science Per Minute - Factorio 28:20 Largest Video Game Union - Activision 33:04 Helldivers 2 Devs Backfire 50:02 Round Table