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Game Maker's Notebook — 255 episodes

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1

Jake Birkett on Forbidden Solitaire, Casual Games, and Surviving Gamedev for 11 Years Without a Hit

2

Dosa Divas' Chandana Ekanayake Talks Food, Music, and Indie Development

3

How People of Note Explores Heavy Subjects with Whimsy and Musical Theater

4

Housemarque's Gregory Louden on Saros, Narrative and Game Design

5

Mewgenics: From Flash Games to Cat Armies with Edmund McMillen & Tyler Glaiel

6

MOUSE: P.I. For Hire - Creating a Rubber Hose Noir Detective Story

7

How Mixtape Tells a Coming of Age Story via Music with Johnny Galvatron

8

Re-release: Bioshock Creator Ken Levine on Judas, Writing and Narrative in Games

9

Re-release: Before Your Eyes with Oliver Lewin and Graham Parkes

10

Re-release: The History of Dwarf Fortress with Zach and Tarn Adams

11

The Sounds of ARC Raiders with Audio Director Bence Pajor

12

Jenny Jiao Hsia Shares The Story Of Her Life In CONSUME ME

13

Arc Raiders Design Director Virgil Watkins

14

Ben Starr on Acting and the State of the Games Industry

15

Battlefield 6 Creative Director Thomas Andersson

16

The State of Games Writing with Writer & Narrative Director Cara Ellison

17

Cory Davis (Spec Ops: The Line) & Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails) on Psychedelic Horror in SLEEP AWAKE

18

The Audio Experience of Ghost of Yotei with Rev. Dr. Bradley D. Meyer

19

Talking Game Maker's Sketchbook with Double Fine's Tim Schafer

20

Abiotic Factor with Geoff "Zag" Keene and Henry Feltham

21

History of the Anno series with Creative Director Manuel Reinher

22

Narrative Design in DISPATCH with Director Nick Herman

23

Double Fine's Lee Petty talks Keeper and Creative Leadership

24

SILENT HILL f Director Al Yang on Creating an All-New Chapter in the Legendary Horror Franchise

25

Making THE OUTER WORLDS 2 with Obsidian's Brandon Adler and Kyle Koenig

26

Becoming the Ghost of Yōtei with Erika Ishii

27

The Challenges of Game Localization, Writing and Recording with Shloc

28

Absolum - Dotemu's Path From Licensed Games to Original IP

29

From "Katamari Damacy" Through "to a T" with Keita Takahashi

30

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer's Thoughts on Creating Engaging RPGs

31

The Development World of RPGs with Jeff Gardiner

32

Games Writing with Lis Moberly, Creative Lead @ 20th Century Games

33

From Used Car Salesman to Indie Game Publisher: The New Blood Story

34

How to Pitch Game Projects to Publishers with Focus Entertainment's Yves Le Yaouanq

35

How Ready or Not Creates Tension Behind Every Door

36

Escape From Tarkov and the Creation of Extraction Shooters with Nikita Buyanov

37

Creating a Modern but Retro Immersive Sim in Skin Deep

38

The Many Roles of Actor Alex Jordan on The Alters

39

Creating the Music for Doom: The Dark Ages with Composer Duo, Finishing Move

40

How Ray Chase went from Actor to Game Developer with Date Everything

41

How Moonhood Handcrafted The Midnight Walk with Real Claymation

42

How Two Studios Brought LEGO Horizon Adventures to Life

43

Uncovering the Secrets Behind Bionic Bay with Creator Juhana Myllys

44

Creating the Music for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with Composer Lorien Testard

45

Exploring Wartales with Shiro Games' CEO Nicolas Cannasse

46

XCOM Creator Julian Gollop Shares Game Design Tips, Dev Stories and More

47

How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Epic Story was Crafted with Jennifer Svedberg-Yen

48

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II with Lead Designer Prokop Jirsa

49

Writing the Mythos of South of Midnight with Zaire Lanier and Dani Dee

50

Expedition 33 with Maelle Actor Jennifer English

51

Navigating the Shifting Corridors of BLUE PRINCE with Creator Tonda Ros

52

How 3 Brothers Started a Game Studio - Butterscotch Shenanigans

53

Avowed Game Director Carrie Patel talks World Building and Narrative Design

54

From Dragon Age to Eternal Strands with Mike Laidlaw

55

Creating the Super Earth of Helldivers 2 with Arrowhead's Johan Pilestedt

56

Becoming Indiana Jones with Troy Baker

57

Magic, Kevlar, and Conspiracies with Tactical Breach Wizards Dev Tom Francis

58

From Theater to Video Games with 1000xRESIST Actor, Nhi Do

59

Mysteries of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with MachineGames

60

Becoming Yuffie in FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH with Actor Suzie Yeung

61

Founder Ted Price Reflects on 30 Years of Insomniac Games and Retirement

62

[Sponsored] Chat with Xsolla's Berkley Egenes

63

Astro Bot Director Nicolas Doucet

64

Writing the Haunting Narrative of INDIKA with Dmitry Svetlow

65

Tetris Creator, Alexey Pajitnov

66

17 Year Development Journey with Caves of Qud

67

Creating the Sound and Music for Eternal Strands with Audio Director, Aldo Sampaio

68

Writing Comedy in Games with Thank Goodness You're Here

69

Balancing Procedural and Intimate Storytelling in Wildermyth

70

The Real Life and Theater Inspirations of 1000xRESIST

71

Writing for Call of Duty with Ashley Poprik and Chris Holzworth

72

The Haunting Audio of Hellblade with Ninja Theory's David Garcia

73

Digital Extreme's Rebecca Ford Talks 10 Years of Warframe

74

Indie Publishing and Southeast Asian Game Dev with Ysbryd Games' Brian Kwek

75

Frostpunk and This War of Mine Composer Piotr Musial

76

Exploring the World of Hitman with IO Interactive's Hakan Abrak

77

Demystifying Creativity with Creative Leader and Author Fawzi Mesmar

78

The World of Licensing in Games with Slitherine's Marco Minoli

79

Balatro Creator LocalThunk Talks Inspirations and Jokers

80

Through Castle Crashers and Beyond with The Behemoth's John Baez

81

Talking Sack Boys and Astro Bots with Composer Kenny Young

82

Industry Veteran Jen MacLean Talks Gen Z Audiences and Evolving Expectations

83

The Narrative Design of Slay the Princess with Black Tabby Games

84

Talking Galactic Wars and Live Service in Helldivers 2 with Maria Cornelius

85

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Actor, Briana White

86

Life Changing Art Meets Tech with Ninja Theory's Dom Matthews

87

Brainstorming 50 Games in 1 for UFO 50

88

From Quake to Space Marines with Saber's Tim Willits

89

Marvel Games Executive Producer, Eric Monacelli

90

Finding Creativity within Constraint with Composer Jon Everist

91

Scoring the Witcher and Beyond with Composer Mikolai Stroinski

92

Talking Southeast Asian Game Dev with Kris Antoni, Toge Productions

93

Writing for Live Service Games with Destiny 2 Narrative Director, Alison Lührs

94

Navigating the Business of Indie Games with Dan Adelman

95

From Portal to Counter-Strike 2 with Valve Composer Mike Morasky

96

Generating Human Stories with RimWorld Creator, Tynan Sylvester

97

From Nintendo's Snipperclips to Crow Country with Adam & Tom Vian

98

Creating a Soulslike Under the Sea with Another Crab's Treasure

99

Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure with David Hellman, Nico Recabarren, and Nick Suttner

100

Little Kitty, Big City with Matt Wood & Micah Breitweiser

101

Sustainable Game Development with Xalavier Nelson Jr.

102

Writers and Script Lock Podcast Hosts, Nick and Max Folkman

103

Creating Diverse Characters in Video Games with Jaclyn Seto and Christal Rose Hazelton

104

Making Animal Well as a Solo Game Developer with Billy Basso

105

Harold Halibut with Slow Bros' Onat Hekimoglu & Ole Tillmann

106

Episode Re-release: Hades with Supergiant Games' Amir Rao and Greg Kasavin

107

The Story of 'Potions: A Curious Tale' with Renee Gittins

108

Writing for RPGs with Narrative Designer Whitney Beltrán

109

Game Preservation with Digital Eclipse's Mike Mika

110

From Actor to Game Developer with Abubaker Salim

111

Video Game and Comics Writer Evan Narcisse

112

Making a Sci-Fi First-Person Driving Survival Game with Alex Dracott & Seth Rosen

113

Penny's Big Breakaway with Hunter Bridges and Dave Padilla

114

The Craft of Writing for Games with Insomniac Games Senior Narrative Director, Jon Paquette

115

Outcast Composer Lennie Moore

116

Artist Niklas Åkerblad talks Ultros, Hotline Miami

117

Baldur's Gate 3 Actor Neil Newbon

118

Katsuhiro Harada Discusses the Tekken Series, Live Events, and More

119

A Decade as Miles Morales with Marvel's Spider-Man 2's Nadji Jeter

120

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Director Gabe Amatangelo

121

Remaking Dead Space with Roman Campos-Oriola, Eric Baptizat, & Philippe Ducharme

122

Baldur's Gate 3 Actor Samantha Béart

123

Navigating the Unique Challenges of Games with Composer Oleksa Lozowchuk

124

Narrative Designer Meghna Jayanth talks Thirsty Suitors

125

Composer Duo Ninja Tracks talk Forza Motorsport and Music Publishing

126

Creating an Aura of Spookiness in Dredge

127

GoldenEye, Banjo-Kazooie and more with Composer Grant Kirkhope

128

Painting, Fine Art and Games with Composer Cris Velasco

129

Building Final Fantasy XVI and XIV with Producer Naoki Yoshida

130

Sea of Stars Director Thierry Boulanger

131

Merging Audio and Gameplay in Cocoon with Jakob Schmid

132

Senior Creative Director Bryan Intihar Talks Marvel's Spider-Man 2

133

Blasphemous II with The Game Kitchen's Enrique Cabeza & David Erosa

134

From Darksiders to Remnant II with David Adams & Ben Gabbard

135

Super Evil Megacorp's Kristian Segerstrale

136

Double Fine's Kevin Johnson Shares His Game Dev Journey

137

Creative Director Sam Lake Talks Alan Wake 2 and Live Action Film in Games

138

Naughty Dog's Arne Meyer Talks Community and Game Dev Culture

139

Creating Galactic Ripple Effects in EVE Online with CCP's Hilmar Veigar Pétursson

140

Judas, Writing and Narrative in Games with Bioshock Creator Ken Levine

141

Starfield with Bethesda's Todd Howard

142

Exploring Humanity with Enhance's Mark MacDonald

143

Creating Complex Conversation Systems in Oxenfree II: Lost Signals

144

Making Dave the Diver Endearing with Jaeho Hwang and Nolan King

145

Final Fantasy XVI Actor Ben Starr

146

BattleBit Remastered with Max "Larry" Fink

147

Actor Laura Bailey Talks About Her Career and Stray Gods

148

Re-release: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Creative Director, Marcus Smith

149

Re-release: Marvel's Spider-Man Creative Director, Bryan Intihar

150

Creating More Star Wars Music than John Williams with Composer Gordy Haab

151

Creating a Rhythm-Action Game with Hi-Fi Rush Director John Johanas

152

From Metal Gear to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor with Composer Stephen Barton

153

Sarah and Colin Northway Discuss I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

154

Diablo IV Game Director Joe Shely

155

Creating the "Gamiest Game" in Neon White with Ben Esposito

156

From Blizzard to Vox Machina with Composer Neal Acree

157

Procedural Music Composition with Composer Chance Thomas

158

Shiny Shoe's Mark Cooke talks Monster Train and Inkbound

159

The Last Spell with Ishtar Games' Benjamin Coquelle and Bruno Laverny

160

Real World Inspirations in Tchia with Awaceb's Phil Crifo

161

The History of Dwarf Fortress with Zach and Tarn Adams - Part 2

162

The History of Dwarf Fortress with Zach and Tarn Adams - Part 1

163

Music, Actors, and the Sound of Rats in A Plague Tale: Requiem

164

Korean Game Development with Pearl Abyss America CEO, Jeonghee "JJ" Jin

165

Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök Composer Stephanie Economou

166

Directing God of War Ragnarök with Eric Williams of Santa Monica Studio

167

Opus and Taiwanese Game Development with Sigono's Scott Chen

168

IMMORTALITY Composer Nainita Desai

169

A NieR Retrospective with YOKO TARO, Yosuke Saito, and Keiichi Okabe

170

From Hearthstone to MARVEL SNAP with Second Dinner's Ben Brode

171

"Development Under Siege" with tinyBuild's Alex Nichiporchik

172

Pitching a 16th-Century Murder Mystery Game with Obsidian's Josh Sawyer

173

Creating Escape Room Video Games with Wyatt Bushnell and Mike Salyh

174

Horizon Forbidden West and Gotham Knights Composer Duo, The Flight

175

Creating Cult of the Lamb with Julian Wilton

176

Return to Monkey Island with Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman

177

PlayStation London Studio with Tara Saunders and Stuart Whyte

178

From Silent Hill to Immortality with Sam Barlow

179

Re-release: ID@Xbox Director, Chris Charla

180

Co-Running a Game Studio with Iron Galaxy's Adam Boyes and Chelsea Blasko

181

The History of Housemarque with Co-founder Ilari Kuittinen

182

Arcane with Alex Yee and Christian Linke

183

Weird West with Raphaël Colantonio

184

Horizon: Forbidden West with Guerrilla's Mathijs de Jonge

185

Moss Book II with Polyarc's Chris Alderson and Josh Stiksma

186

Halo Infinite with Joseph Staten

187

Deathloop Composer Tom Salta

188

The Artful Escape with Johnny Galvatron

189

New World Game Director, Scot Lane

190

Sable with Gregorios Kythreotis and Martin Kvale

191

Exploring the Destiny Universe with Bungie's Luke Smith

192

Exploring Tunic with Andrew Shouldice

193

Writer and Content Creator, Alanah Pearce

194

Rainbow Billy with Christopher Chancey

195

Before Your Eyes with Oliver Lewin and Graham Parkes

196

Unpacking Composer and Sound Designer, Jeff van Dyck

197

Guild Wars 2 Composer, Maclaine Diemer

198

Unpacking with Wren Brier and Tim Dawson

199

Resident Evil Village Actor, Maggie Robertson

200

It Takes Two Lead Sound Designer, Philip Eriksson

201

Shannon Loftis of World's Edge Studio, Microsoft

202

Darkest Dungeon with Tyler Sigman

203

DEATHLOOP Director, Dinga Bakaba

204

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy with Jean-François Dugas and Mary DeMarle

205

Unsighted with Tiani Pixel & Fernanda Dias

206

Buzz Burrowes, Audio System Architect at Epic Games

207

Double Fine Art Director, Lisette Titre-Montgomery

208

Back 4 Blood Composer, Martin Stig Andersen

209

Kena: Bridge of Spirits with Mike and Josh Grier

210

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year

211

24th #DICEAwards Roundtable: Fighting Game of the Year

212

Far Cry 6 Audio Director, Eduardo Vaisman

213

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

214

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Racing Game of the Year

215

Psychonauts 2 Composer, Peter McConnell

216

Twelve Minutes with Luis Antonio

217

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game

218

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Online Game of the Year

219

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Character

220

Adam Volker and Bohdon Sayre of Flight School Studio

221

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Sports Game of the Year

222

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Immersive Reality Game of the Year

223

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Animation

224

Peanut Button's Asaf and Eyal Geva

225

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Immersive Reality Technical Achievement

226

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Family Game of the Year

227

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design

228

The Ascent with Neon Giant's Arcade Berg & Tor Frick

229

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition

230

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

231

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Technical Achievement

232

Sr. Director of Sound at PlayStation Studios, Phillip Kovats

233

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Mobile Game of the Year

234

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Action Game of the Year

235

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Story

236

Velan Studios Founders, Guha and Karthik Bala

237

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Adventure Game of the Year

238

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

239

24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Role-Playing Game of the Year

240

Elder Scrolls Online Director, Matt Firor

241

Composer, Singer, Songwriter, Mark Mothersbaugh

242

Arkane Studios Director, Harvey Smith

243

Insomniac Games Founder, Ted Price

244

Blizzard Entertainment President, J. Allen Brack

245

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Creative Director, Marcus Smith

246

Returnal with Harry Krueger

247

Resident Evil Village Composer, Brian D'Oliveira

248

It Takes Two with Josef Fares, Hazelight Studios

249

Funomena Producer, Arshea Bimal

250

Celeste Composer, Lena Raine

251

Thomas Mahler & Gennadiy Korol of Moon Studios

252

Chelsea Blasko of Iron Galaxy Studios

253

Quantic Dream Founder & Director, David Cage

254

Braid and The Witness Creator, Jonathan Blow

255

Dr. Mitu Khandaker of Glow Up Games