Interview

with Hunter Bond and Mike Ducarme
#256

It's a Nice Postmortem! Hunter Bond and Mike Ducarme talk the making of Infernax—an old school adventure platformer with puzzle elements, unholy curses, and lots of old-school awesomeness.

2022.04.29
 
with August Brown
#255

What does your work week look like? Are you locked into a 9-to-5 the way that Dolly Parton described it, or are you free to set your own schedule? What about your team as a whole? 

2022.04.15
 
with Alina Matson
#252

This week we're joined by Alina Matson, developer of Fitment—a microworkout app designed with cozy gamers in mind.

2022.03.17
 
with Katrina Ostrander and Jon Kiehne
#247

Your nice hosts (Ellen, mainly) conduct a double-interview, with a consummate professional and a committed amateur, on the subject of game design though the lens of tabletop game mastering.

2021.12.10
 
with Sami Sati and Erick Sati
#242

This week the clubhouse is joined by our second favorite pair of game development brothers - Sami Sati and Erick Sati, developers of Astral Gunners.

2021.11.11
 
with Peter Yang
#231

It's a packed clubhouse for this special episode! Your regular hosts are joined by two guests: Peter Yang and Dale LaCroix.

2021.08.26
 
with Dana Ware
#230

This week, your nice hosts welcome creative director and all-around "VR Specialist" Dana Ware to talk about location-based entertainment, the incredible potential of VR during a pandemic, and where VR will be in 5 years.

2021.08.19
 
with Reese Valentine and Mackenzie Denker
#221

Starting an indie studio is hard, starting a worker-owned cooperative is harder.

2021.06.24
 
with Adam Davis
#219

Can games be used for therapeutic purposes? Absolutely! In this episode we talk with Adam Davis, therapeutic Game Master, and a co-founder and executive director of Game to Grow, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

2021.06.03
 
with Mark Mandel
#217

There's a second Mark in the clubhouse! This week we're joined by Mark Mandel, who is involved in many things worth mentioning!

2021.05.20
 
with Allan Rust
#215

This week, we talk about the core interactions that games are made of with Allan Rust, creative director of The Game Agency. We've been wanting to have Allan on the program for a long time, and it was worth the wait!

2021.05.13
 
with Osama Dorias
#211

It's back to basics this week as we welcome Osama Dorias, lead game designer on the upcoming Gotham Knights at WB Games Montréal, to talk about his multi-year journey of making games with his kids, and what it taught him about h

2021.04.08
 
with Beth Korth and Andy Korth
#204

We have some familiar guests this week! The Korth family (Andy, Beth, and Gabe) join us in the clubhouse to talk about the ways they play games together.

2020.12.10
 
with Tiffany Otto
#202

Holly extends her stay for another week to help your nice hosts interview Tiffany Otto, freshly sprung from government-mandated quarantine to bring her "slimy" wisdom and experience into the clubhouse.

2020.11.25
 
#198

The clubhouse is packed in this episode, as your nice hosts discuss the Kenyan game dev scene with developers Alila Omondi Wekoto, Denis Odero and Shyam Shah!

2020.10.31