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Make Play
by Make Play Radio
Make Play is a show by two creators fresh out of college who are finding their way in the worlds of game design and computer science. Never miss a show by subscribing on your podcast platform of choice!Jimi and Nick talk about their current projects in the first half of the show– what they're stuck on, how they're trying to solve design problems, and what brilliant moments of inspiration have hit them in the past week that they've realized are terrible, terrible ideas. In the back half, they move on to talk about the games they're playing as designers and constant consumers of digital media.Enjoy! Have a listen! Email them at [email protected]!
Episodes
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22. Old Flames and Risk of Rain
Jimi and Nick are back from springtime excursions to hop on the Nostalgia Train as they re-visit Runescape on mobile and Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma on Switch. They also get into the exponentially over the top and ridiculously fun Risk of Rain 2. If you’re into this kind of thing, you can follow us…
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21. Fiona Gorry-Hines Makes Plays
Playwright Fiona Gorry-Hines joins us this week to talk about making plays! The tables have turned. If you’re into this kind of thing, you can follow us on Spotify here http://bit.ly/MakePlayRadio. Trust us it’s way better than Podcasts dot Com. Sponsor: Tiny Sink Music: Bjork by Podington Bear…
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20. Realm of the Mad God of War
Jimi and Nick get back in the proverbial horse-seat to talk about plants, Mad gods, and gods of war. As always you can find the rest of our junk at bit.ly/make-play, or wherever you normally listen to people you don’t know talk to each other. Sponsor: Cable Guy Music: XY by Nctrnm, and…
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19. Melissa Weisner & Purple People Eaters
Our first ever inter-state interview welcomes Melissa Weisner to the show! Melissa is an old friend of ours, so naturally we talk about purple people eaters eating the “people”(?) of Animal crossing, games as services, and how to remain zen when getting yelled at over the phone. As always you can...
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18. Michael Dellapi Loves Pizza
The one and only Michael Dellapi joins a lone Jimi this week to talk about the future of pizza, hot demons, and a house that kills people for centuries. It’s a good one. Also, we have news! Next week marks a year of us being on the internet, and to mark the occasion we’ll be streaming all…
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17. Emily Koonce and Suburban Autonomy
This week we welcome the wonderful Emily Koonce to the show! Emily’s a BFA candidate in NYU’s game design program whose work meditates (she thinks, for the most part, at least right now) on autonomy and the lack thereof in everyday life. Emily, Jimi, and Nick talk about being bored in the…
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16. Bass Guitar, Philosophy, and Apex Legends
Jimi and Nick talk about the merging of bass guitar and philosophy this week (it’s even funkier than it sounds), in addition to discussing the twists and turns of freelance gigs. They’ve also been playing a lot of that hot new Apex Legends game so naturally they talk a lot about being really…
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15. Mike Fegreus, Corrine Stein, and lots of nice plants
Michael Fegreus and Corinne Stein join us this week in our first ever 4 person show! We discuss a host of topics, focusing on our guests’ crafts: art and illustration. Mike and Corinne’s upcoming game, Vivarium, is about home, growing up, and escaping from a giant terrarium with the help of...
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14. Steve Goehrig and his Great Games
Hey check it out we’re on actual podcasting platforms!* Which means you can subscribe! To us!! Please do!!! (*Spotify, iTunes, Overcast [coming to Stitcher and Google Play v soon]) More importantly, this week our good friend Steven Goehrig joins the show. Steve’s an animator and game designer...
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13. This Was a While Ago
As you might've guessed, this episode was recorded about a month ago (12/16/18). That was last year! But it's here now and it's not like we ever talk about "relevant" games anyway so... It’s been a long week which means we have a shorter episode this week. But that just means we packed our…
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12. Mario Party Will End Your Family
People change, people make game, so are games changing? Or are we? These and other convoluted questions are asked and sometimes also answered on this weeks episode. More to the point, Jimi and Nick talk about the Museum of the Moving Image’s exhibition on sports games, which was cool, but weird,...
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11. Social Anxiety, Overwatch, and Stealing Lambos
It's been a minute. Or a couple hundred thousand... In the past few months, Nick and Jimi have been busy doing a lot of nothing. And by nothing, we mean living up to the second half of this podcast's name... In all fairness, Jim's been a working guy, and Nick has been on the hunt for a job (which...
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10. Deep Rock Galactic
What do Spongebob, Dwarves, and examinations of the quotidian all have in common? They're all discussed on this week's show! Jimi talks about what it's been like working on the David Bowie is Virtual project, and Nick tries to wrap his head around the rest of his life!! Games discussed include…
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9. Chalkitoomee and Building a PC
Chalkitoomee is a game about drawing stuff on the ground with chalk and erasing your enemies' drawings...WITH SUPER SOAKERS!!! This week Jimi walks through the design of a physical game called Chalkitoomee that he designed with his girlfriend on a bus to New Jersey (and that maybemaybemaybe will…
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8. We're Back with some Qud
We've taken some time off from casting pods we're back now and Nick loves Qud. After graduating back in May (!) and taking some time be unproductive and not feeling guilty about it we're ready to talk to you about video games. This week we talk about the mysteries in Caves of Qud, and complain…
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7. Flappin Lips with Flan Falacci
In this episode, we have our good friend Flan Falacci on the show to talk about their hot new project, Dreams for your Computer. Jimi was out of town this week so it's just Nick and Flan, flappin lips about Skeal, Breath of the Wild, and just a little bit of Smash Brothers 4. (flan wants you to...
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6. GDC + Far Cry 5 = Dad?
After a short break, the boys are back! Jimi has come back from the Game Developer's Conference as Dad, and Nick has come back from Disney as a glitch artist.  We talk in depth about making glitch art, the process of bending data in realreal neat ways. In the 2nd half, Nick tells us about that...
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5. Procedural Music and Sindbad with Kasrah Ghobadi
Nick is in the magical land of Disney World this week, which means in this episode of Make Play we have our first guest! Kas is a good friend of mine and we'd been meaning to have him on for a couple weeks now. Listen in to find out what Kas has been making and playing the past few weeks (if…
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4. The Anti Puzzle
In this week's episode, we talk about how impossible it is to make a decent puzzle, how to make people uncomfortable, and how to go crazy bending space and time. It's a hoot! Brought to you by OakWood Designs. Music by Komiku.
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3. Conceptual Scope
In this episode of Make Play, we talk about what it's like to deal with ~conceptual scope~, level designing with Unreal, and sucking at DOTA 2. Send us an email at [email protected] with any questions you have, games you'd like us to play, or hot new sponsorship deals (especially if they're...
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2. Make Games, PoopWell
In this second (but the first official!) episode of Make Play, we discuss what exactly remains of Edith Finch, how to monetize a game about pooping, and some game called Overwatch?? Can't see that game going anywhere.
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1. An Early Access Podcast?
Welcome to the first episode of the soon-to-be-seminal podcast Make Play! It's a little rough around the edges, but we all start somewhere, right??
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Make Play is a show by two creators fresh out of college who are finding their way in the worlds of game design and computer science. Never miss a show by subscribing on your podcast platform of choice!Jimi and Nick talk about their current projects in the first half of the show– what they're stuck on, how they're trying to solve design problems, and what brilliant moments of inspiration have hit them in the past week that they've realized are terrible, terrible ideas. In the back half, they move on to talk about the games they're playing as designers and constant consumers of digital media.Enjoy! Have a listen! Email them at [email protected]!
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