Game, Develop, Repeat

Questions: What are the most actionable lessons from FF7, for a solo developer or small team? What can we learn from the materia system? Development Progress: Audio Menu Locking in scope My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GvYRtTQM9m Send...

Questions I ask this episode:   How does Eastshade establish such a calming aesthetic?   Style vs Realism?   Is peace fun? Comments about my development   Learning animation   Deleting massive swaths of code   Choosing what to ignore My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com Join o...

Questions I ask this episode:  How is combat compelling in a game without visuals?  What limitations could I set to create interesting ideas? Devlog: More player controller changes (remove autojump) Tilemaps Started my first song. Drafting levels in Aesprite My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confu...

 This episode, I discuss my childhood love of Warcraft III and ask: How can a game's design inspire the players to "get good? My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GvYRtTQM9m Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'...

Questions I ask myself this episode: What happens when you go extreme with difficulty? How essential are the quotations & taunting? How am I impacting the player's emotions? What did I develop this week? Game development books? What fields have good crossover with game design? What to do when I get stuck? My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Su...

Questions I ask myself this episode:   Was there anything in Nox that I wish was in more games?  What do I want to make, as a result of playing Nox?  Are there any tiny tweaks I want to make to my current project, having thought about Nox?  What did I develop this week? How is this podcast affecting my game development? What keeps me making things? My first game, "Sut" is out: https://st...

Questions I ask myself in this episode: - What makes Katamari Damacy so charming? - Could a game like this be made by someone who is chasing after success? - What is it that makes me love this game? - How does this game communicate so much, so indirectly? My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse...

Why is the Yakuza series so compelling, satisfying, and genuinely moving? My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GvYRtTQM9m Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative communit...

How does Cult of the Lamb remain so accessible while blending multiple genres? My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GvYRtTQM9m Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative com...

My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GvYRtTQM9m Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to build a strong, supportive, creative community.

- In this episode, I express my love of/addiction to fishing minigames, and my desperate search for the perfect one. My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)gmail.com Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GvYRtTQM9m Send me any feedback, suggestions, or questions! I'd love for us to bu...

In this episode I mainly rant about:  The incredible heavily character driven story of Spiritfarer, what it teaches us about character design. How I'm experimenting with character design The deep connections between visual art and storytelling. My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638880/Sut/ Email me: anxiousbuddhagames(this sentence is to confuse bots@)...

On the first ever episode, I rant about: An old JRPG called Legend of the Dragoon, how it overcomes the greatest weaknesses of its genre, and the game development lessons I've learned from playing it.  Unity's Tilemap system and Rule Tiles. The pains of learning to make pixel art Tilemaps. A bunch of other stuff. My first game, "Sut" is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2...