Show Notes
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 story of how the team acquired their PS4 devkit! Ft music from Cass Preston aka Witch's Cadence 🪄
LINKS: ☁️ JP's BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/loko08.jpmonge.com 🌐 Headless Chicken Website: https://headlesschickengames.com/ 💿 Cass Preston: https://casspreston.bandcamp.com/
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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 real-world inspiration from colleagues in Northeast China, interweaving character development with game mechanics, and what they are most excited for players to experience when the game drops next month on Gamepass November 11th! Featuring some awesome tracks from SoupOOT~
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 about Final Fantasy XVI. It's all funnier than it sounds I swear! Feat. tunes from Kento Dicaprio 💥 LINKS: 🐦 Goba's Twitter: @GobaDev ☁️ Goba's BlueSky: http://gobadev.bsky.social 👾 Carter's Quest Discord: https://discord.com/invite/MUHG5YjMHs 🎮 Carter's Quest on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2409110/REAL_WEB_LEGENDS_Carters_Quest/ 💿 Kento DiCaprio: https://kdicaprio.bandcamp.com/
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 player mode, and translating a variety of fighting game archetypes into their game's simple-to-learn combat system. Plus much more and chiptune music from Subtunes!
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 coworkers grow, and "friendslop" as a term of endearment! Plus, music from DDRKirby~