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Pixel Pizza
by Pixel Pizza Productions
Welcome to Pixel Pizza, your ultimate source for video game talk, chiptunes, and pepperoni. Delivered to you from Los Angeles and into the digital cyberspace of the 2020's. Featuring interviews with game industry professionals and music from the newest chiptune artists!Have questions, comments, or guest suggestions? Email us: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com*No Generative AI is used in the making of this show*
Episodes
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Judith Cheung & Jason Loftus (Hope in the City)
Solve the mystery of the missing pizza this week (I definitely didn't eat it 🤐) as we speak with Judith and Jason, the Creative Director & Game Director over at Lofty Sky Games. They're about to release the upcoming mystery adventure game Hope in the City! The duo tells us about drawing…
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Goba (REAL WEB LEGENDS: Carter's Quest)
Solo developer Goba joins us this week to talk about his ambitious action-adventure saga REAL WEB LEGENDS: Carter's Quest! We get into making the game from Goba's teenage years all the way into his 20's, creating cinematic moments with a low-poly artstyle, and the things we both love and hate…
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Ben Soars & PluckyStar (Duels of Fortune)
Give a warm welcome to the two creators of the completely free fighting game Duels of Fortune, Ben Soars & PluckyStar! In their first ever podcast appearance(!), they speak about forming their studio Cosmic Hat Games through a Discord server of another game, having multiple genres in single…
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ENCORE: Aniket Natekar (Dispatch)
This episode originally aired December 12, 2025. Today we're looking back at one of my favorite episodes I've ever recorded, featuring the animation director of Dispatch, Aniket Natekar! Aniket discusses his beginnings in animated film, entering the game industry at Hangar 13, and the process...
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Kimmi Goh (TCG Card Shop Simulator)
Joining us this week from Bangkok is gaming communications expert Kimmi Goh! Kimmi is the Communications Lead at Goldpact Goblins, working with dev teams across Southeast Asia to promote their work and build communities around them. We discuss successful social media campaigns, seeing your...
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Simon Hutt Troussellier (Tinykin)
Hey! Welcome back to another new Pixel Pizza! This week we've got French art director Simon Hutt Troussellier on the show to chat about his work on games like Furi, Tinykin, and the recently announced Acornia. Simon brings some insight on visual worldbuilding, simple yet distinct character…
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Hannes Lugstein (SlopeCrashers)
Summer's about to end, so get ready for the snowy season with Austrian snowboarding game expert Hannes Lugstein aka ByteParrot! Hannes hit the scene about two years ago with the cartoony racing game SlopeCrashers, and is now hard at work on the more intense and stylish boarding game, CarveOut…
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BONUS: 2026 Game Yaps
*chomp chomp* That's the sound of my schedule hungry for an upload of pizza! My guests for this week fell through, but you'll be hearing from them soon ;) I didn't want to leave you guys with another encore so soon after the last one, so here's my annual run-through of what I've been playing. We...
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Alpha Chrome Yayo (Promise Mascot Agency)
Ayo, it's Yayo! This week we have composer and sound designer of the acclaimed Promise Mascot Agency (and several exciting games to come), Alpha Chrome Yayo, on the show. We talk about learning traditional Japanese instruments, capturing the right vibe in your home studio, and chasing your…
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JP Monge Chacon (NeoSprint)
Grab an ice cold drink and join us on this hot summer weekend for a chat with Headless Chicken Games CEO JP Chacon! He tells us about founding his own studio, giving opportunities to industry newcomers, and pivoting the design of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer game in a month! Plus the wild...
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ENCORE: Pizza Hotline (Motorslice)
This episode originally aired on October 13, 2022. Hot off the heels of his video game debut in the hit game Motorslice, we're revisiting a chat with Harvey Jones aka Pizza Hotline! If you've played it, come hear about his earlier work and DJ experience. If you haven't, get ready for some...
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Birdup & Ratttz (Intergalactic Puzzle Touchdown)
HIKE! We hit the weirdest gridiron this side of Saturn this week with the Birdup and Ratttz, the duo behind the upcoming asymmetric 1v1 puzzler Intergalactic Puzzle Touchdown- releasing in late September! The duo tells us how they met through the competitive puzzle game scene, introducing…
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Keely Brown (Chicken Scratch)
Pick up those pencils, this *will* be on the test! Canadian indie dev Keely Brown joins the show this week to chat about his upcoming party drawing game Chicken Scratch. We discuss everything that went into the game's unique corporate bird theming, roguelike mode, and clever marketing. Featuring...
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Ece Aslı Erikci (BOMBANANA!)
Monkey around with us this week as we speak to Turkish 2D game artist Ece Aslı Erikci. Ece recently entered the industry with the social bomb diffusal game BOMBANANA!, the most played game at this summer's Steam Next Fest! Ece talks about her work on children's books, Turkish rug history, and how...
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Aubrey Rugroden (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown)
We welcome game designer Aubrey Rugroden to the show this week to talk about how she's approached designing for multiple genres. Some of her work has been on the GTA/Goat Simulator-inspired Pigeon Simulator, the turn-based strategy game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, and the...
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Armando Webb (Oh, My Doug!)
Join us for a shorter Pixel Pizza this week (a personal pie?) as we speak with Armando Webb, half of the Mexico-based indie studio Odd Men In! The team's debut title is the 90's cartoon-inspired metroidvania Oh, My Doug! Armando tells us about the handmade visuals (both drawn and modeled) that…
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Cecilia Souza Santos (Atomic Owl)
Join us this week for a talk with Brazilian pixel artist and game designer Cecilia Santos, better known online as CeciHoney! Ceci has done freelance pixel art for a wide variety of indie games, including the upcoming titles Atomic Owl, Torment Hexus, and One Fenix Down. She tells us about her…
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Case Jernigan (Bub)
Fresh off his appearance at Day of the Devs 2026, artist/filmmaker/developer Case Jernigan stops by at Pixel Pizza! Case's new game, Bub, is a heartfelt story of inspiration and identity told through real papercraft, watercolor, and other mixed media. We fittingly get vulnerable and discuss some...
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HappySquared & Emlise (Rusted Moss)
Swing into the weekend with a new episode of Pixel Pizza! Stopping by this week are HappySquared and Emlise of the indie studio Minibunnies. They're best known for their work on the atmospheric momentum-based Metroidvania, Rusted Moss. We discuss the development of that game and its post-launch...
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Slug Glove (Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times)
Spice up your weekend with a chaotic new Pixel Pizza! Joining us this week is Slug Glove, the developer behind the whimsical and wildly open-ended adventure game Rhell! SG explains how the game's striking 2D/3D art style came to be, integrating the over one million spell combinations in the game,...
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Tom van den Boogaart (Grunn)
Get a look behind the totally normal worlds of indie creator Tom van den Boogaart on this week's show! Tom's best known for the recent Dutch countryside mystery game Grunn, as well as the cult hit alien walking sim Bernband. We chat about his experimental work as part of the Sokpop Collective…
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Sabaku (Bubsy 4D)
Dig your paws into an all-new Pixel Pizza! Just in time for the release of Bubsy 4D, we have game artist Sabaku on the show! She tells us about her early days in the German RPG Maker community, bringing her ideas into 3D with Skellboy, and the process of working with Fabraz on Demon Tides and...
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ENCORE: Christoffer Bodegård (Esoteric Ebb)
This episode originally aired on May 10, 2024. Sorry for two encores in a row, but lots of brand new episodes coming over the next few weeks- promise! This time we're revisiting our talk with Swedish game writer and solo dev Christoffer Bodegård. His latest title, the DnD and Disco…
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ENCORE: Jay Choi (Date Everything!)
This episode originally aired on May 30th, 2025. Swipe right on this week's episode to hear from writer on the hotly anticipated dating sim Date Everything, Jay Choi! Jay tells us about his background in writing for animation and film, finding his way into the industry by being a "LEGO drug...
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Paul James (Blue Prince)
This week we talk about a rarely discussed but essential part of game development: QA! And few people are more well-versed in the field than our guest Paul James. Paul has tested over 30 projects in the indie sphere, including breakout hits like Foolish Mortals and Blue Prince. He tells us about...
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Lawrence Plofker (Tidekeeper)
Joining us on Pixel Pizza this week is my fellow CMU alum Lawrence Plofker! For the past five years Lawrence has been a game designer at Simcoach Games, developing educational experiences for players on the autism spectrum. We get into his experiences playtesting, teaching life skills through...
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Osama Dorias (Poly Fighter)
Joining us this week is multitalented game designer Osama Dorias! Osama's wealth of experiences extend from mobile games with Gameloft to AAA games like Diablo IV and Gotham Knights to his current independent venture with HeartLoop Games! His small team at HeartLoop is currently working on the...
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Connor Quinn (Lil Gator Game)
Go out and touch some grass while you listen to this week's Pixel Pizza! We've got Connor Quinn, one of the devs behind the wholesome adventure Lil' Gator Game, joining us this week. Connor talks about growing up with ADD, his core pillars of what makes a good game, and the recently-released "In...
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Episode 200! Where Are They Now (Again)?
We've made it to EPISODE 200 BABYYYY! (shhh never mind the encores) I loved what we did last time to celebrate: Hearing from former guests about where their professional and personal journeys have taken them since appearing on the show. So I decided to do it again! Who needs originality anyway?...
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Mat Annal (Shovel Knight Dig)
On episode 199 of the Pixel Pizza Podcast (yes really!), our game industry guest is Nitrome's Mat Annal! In his prolific career so far, Mat's worked on dozens of games spanning flash, mobile, and console platforms. We discuss the missed opportunities that ultimately built up his career,...
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Kenneth Azcurra (Piece by Piece)
Settle in for a brand new Pixel Pizza, where we're speaking to Argentinian developer Kenneth Azcurra! Kenneth is the Chief Technical Officer at indie studio GamKat, who just released their cozy puzzle game Piece by Piece (the one with the fox 🦊). Kenneth tells us about his time teaching as a...
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ENCORE: Sophie Stübinger (Party Animals)
This episode originally aired on May 17, 2024. It's GDC week, so most devs are out of town! But it makes for a good excuse to revisit an older episode that I've heard a bunch of people say they really enjoyed featuring environment artist Sophie Stübinger. Since this episode aired, Sophie's worked...
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Mark LaCroix (Widget Satchel)
Gear up for an all-new Pixel Pizza with multidisciplinary artist Mark LaCroix! Mark runs the development & publishing studio Noble Robot. He talks about creating animations for the show Parks & Recreation, building an open-source engine for the PlayDate handheld, game design philosophies, and his...
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Malte Burup (Death Howl)
Enter the strange world of the Outer Zone with its Denmark-based studio head Malte Burup! Malte is behind the dystopian psychology simulation Mind Scanners and the grid-based soulslike Death Howl (recently released on consoles)! He tells us about creating haunting pixel art, leaning into the...
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Danilo Barbosa (Two Strikes)
Draw your sword and SLICE 'em up :P This week we welcome Danilo Barbosa, lead dev at Spanish studio Retro Reactor, to the show! Dan created the high-stakes samurai fighting games One Strike and Two Strikes, where as the titles suggest a single hit or two decides a match. He talks about his…
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Max Oakland (Wink & the Broken Robot)
Throw some AA batteries into your listening device (it's totally there, I swear) and get ready for this week's show with homebrew Game Boy developer Max Oakland! Max recently released his open-world platformer, Wink & the Broken Robot, on real cartridges. He tells us about all the pieces that go...
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Stephanie Tinsley Fitzwilliam (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
Get a crash course on all things gaming PR this week from industry vet Stephanie Tinsley Fitzwilliam of boutique agency Tinsley PR! Stephanie talks about her journey promoting games from the PS1 era to launching the Xbox 360 all the way to last year’s award-winning phenomenon Clair Obscur:...
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Sam Eng (Skate Story)
It's a blast from the past on this week's Pixel Pizza as I catch up with my former game development teacher Sam Eng! Sam is a founding member of the NYC developer workspace GUMBO, and the creator of last year's surreal hit Skate Story 🛹 He gives insight on capturing the danger and physics of...
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Silvia Lara Blanco (Denshattack!)
This week we welcome concept artist, UI artist, and 3D modeler Silvia Lara Blanco to the show! Silvia currently works at Undercoders, the Spanish development studio behind the upcoming high-octane train runner game Denshattack! She tells us about her passion for accessibility in UI, the way...
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Nicolas Guérin (Spiritfarer)
Hey and welcome back to the show! On the mic with us this week is Creative Director at Thunder Lotus, Nicolas Guérin. An industry veteran of 20 years, Nick worked on AAA titles like the Assassin's Creed franchise before working on the beloved indie game Spiritfarer. We discuss the themes of his...
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Austo (Bobo Bay)
After a holiday hiatus, Pixel Pizza is hatching into the new year with Austo, lead developer at New Future Kids ✨ He's currently working on the cozy digital pet sim Bobo Bay! We discuss building upon the influences of Sonic Adventure 2's beloved Chao Garden mode, building a community on Patreon,...
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Tom Eastman (Battle Chef Brigade)
Suit up for an all-new Pixel Pizza! Joining us from Chicago is the President of Trinket Studios, Tom Eastman. You may know their work from the Kickstarter success Battle Chef Brigade and the recently released sci-fi deckbuilder Battle Suit Aces 🚀 Tom shares stories about his time working on…
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Aniket Natekar (Dispatch)
Sitting down with us this week is the incredibly talented animator Aniket Natekar! Aniket most recently was Animation Director on one of this year's breakout hit games, Dispatch. Aniket discusses his beginnings in animated film, entering the game industry at Hangar 13, and the process behind some...
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Dmitry Minsky (Final Sentence)
We're back after a holiday break with a jam-packed new episode! This week we are joined by Dmitry Minsky of the Lithuanian game studio Button Mash. The demo of their upcoming typing battle royale game, Final Sentence, has been making waves on Steam for its unique premise and addictive gameplay...
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Mike Roush (BIT.TRIP Runner Trilogy)
Joining us this week is developer of the beloved Runner series, Mike Roush of Choice Provisions! We revisit Mike's career through his days at Santa Cruz Games, then making his own games at the beginning of digital distribution for consoles and mobile, all the way to his more recent work with Riot...
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Seth Wright (Batman: Arkham Shadow)
Put on your nicest pair of headphones and get ready for a masterful audio experience with music designer Seth Wright! Seth's brought his talents to acclaimed titles like Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Marvel's Iron Man VR, and Batman: Arkham Shadow. Most recently he's gone freelance and founded...
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Austin Ivansmith (DuckTales Remastered)
We are back with a brand new game industry interview, and it's a blast! WayForward Producer Austin Ivansmith joins us to talk about his directorial process on games like DuckTales Remastered and The Mummy Demastered, as well as the live TV-like interactive experience Silent Hill: Ascension. We…
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BONUS: 2025 Game Yapping
No new guest this week, sorry! 😞 Rather than another encore episode, though, I decided to use this week to yap about all the games I've played this year so far. From a software perspective it's been an incredible year for gaming and I've had so many unforgettable experiences going through many…
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Sofie Wikström (SteamWorld Build)
Get crafty with us this week as we chat with Art Director & UI Artist Sofie Wikström! Sofie worked for years on the LittleBigPlanet franchise, as well as other popular titles like SteamWorld Build and the recently released Islanders: New Shores. She tells us about overcoming burnout, breaking…
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Kyle Labriola (Rhythm Doctor)
This week we have a fantastic conversation with Co-Lead at 7th Beat Games, Kyle Labriola! Kyle has worked on the popular rhythm games A Dance of Fire and Ice and Rhythm Doctor, and he's also done animation work on some of the Jackbox games. We discuss how Kyle "fell into" the industry, his…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Pixel Pizza, your ultimate source for video game talk, chiptunes, and pepperoni. Delivered to you from Los Angeles and into the digital cyberspace of the 2020's. Featuring interviews with game industry professionals and music from the newest chiptune artists!Have questions, comments, or guest suggestions? Email us: pixelpizza at yahoo dot com*No Generative AI is used in the making of this show*
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