Bonfire Conversations

In this episode, Thierry Dansereau, art director of great games such as Immortals Fenyx Rising and Assassin's Creed Odyssey talks about behind the scene of those games and his general approaches toward creating the visual world of massive games. Please consider donating to Wassup Conversations via this link"https://www.nikoofarmusic.com/support-and-donationsYou can watch or listen to Wassup Conver...

In this episode, I celebrate the career of a veteran in the video game industry. Scott Phillips is the director of many great games such as Immortals Fenyx Rising, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Saints Row The Third and Saints Row 4.We talk about his background, techniques and behind the scene of many great games. Please consider supporting "Wassup Conversations" to help us...

In this masterclass, we study the art of UI/UX design in video games. Morten Elgaard, UI designer at IO Interactive talks about his experience and Hitman 3. Arash Naderi, UI designer of Cyberpunk 2077 at CD Projekt Red and Emad Ameri, Visual Artist have joined me to have a fun conversation. Watch or Listen to Wassup Conversation on YouTube or any other podcast streaming platform via this link:http...

Helen Hindpere is the Award-Winning writer of the genre-defining Disco Elysium. In this episode, she talks about her techniques and the way she and her colleagues wrote Disco Elysium. Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is the definitive edition of the smash-hit RPG. New political vision quests, more characters, and full English voice-acting. Coming to PlayStation and Google Stadia March 2021.The Final...

An interview with the writer of many great games such as Battlefield franchise, The Darkness and The Chronicles of Riddick series. We talk about Mikael Säker's background, behind the scene of many memorable games and some unannounced projects. Listen or watch to Wassup Conversations, wherever you're getting your podcasts: https://li.sten.to/HYq5GVZMikael Säker's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikael...

A chat with Raphael Lacoste, art director of Assassin's Creed franchise and the newly released Assassin's Creed Valhalla. We talk about Raphael's childhood, techniques, future projects, favourite games and movies. Watch this interview on YouTube. More information about Wassup Conversations on www.nikoofarmusic.comListen to the podcast from this link:https://li.sten.to/HYq5GVZFollow me on Twitter:h...

In this episode of Wassup Conversations, I speak with Tina Amini, editor-in-chief at IGN.com. We talk about Tina's childhood, growing up with games, IGN, females of the game industry, our favorite game developers, and lots of fun stuff. You can listen to the podcast on all the major podcast streaming services from the link below:https://li.sten.to/HYq5GVZYou can keep up with the channel via my Twi...

An interview with Bradley D. Meyer, Audio Director at Sucker Punch. In this video chat, we talk about Bradley's background, Ghost of Tsushima, the ins and outs of the industry, his techniques, and the way Sucker Punch recruits new sound designers and composers. To get more from "Wassup Conversations" visit: www.nikoofarmusic.comTo keep up with Brad, check out his Twitter handle https://twitter.com...

A chat with Josef Fares, Founder of Hazelight Studios, director of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out and It Takes Two. In this episode, we talk about Josef's background, his techniques, and his life as a game director. Support the show

In this episode, I had a chat with Raphaël Colantonio & Ava Gore, members of the Weird Wolves band. Raphaël Colantonio is the founder of Arkane Studios and the brain behind Dishonored series and his new game, Weird Wolves. You can watch the video version of this conversation on Wassup Conversations YouTube channel.www.weirdwolves.comwww.facebook.com/weirdwolvesmusichttps://open.spotify.com/tra...

A cool conversation with my cool guest, Sarah Lynn. She is the producer at Firaxis Games, working on XCOM and Civilization series. Her recent work is XCOM: Chimera Squad. Support the show

In this episode, I speak with two talented music composers of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem about composing that game and trailers for films like Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. Support the show

A chat with Alex Hutchinson about his legendary career. He is the game designer of The Sims, Spore and the director of Assassin's Creed 3, Far Cry 4 and the newly released, Journey to the Savage Planet. Support the show

In this episode, I talked to Jordan Thomas, the designer of Thief: Deadly Shadows, Director and Writer of BioShock 2 and The Blackout Club. We talk about his past, breaking into the video game industry, working with Ken Levine on BioShock and some new interesting insights about his career. Support the show

In this episode, I had a chat with my friend Hamidreza Saeedy about writing and designing the acclaimed indie ARPG, Children of Morta. Since both of us speak Farsi, I thought it'd be cool to do it this way, so, sorry if you don't know the language. Support the show

In this special episode, I had an awesome conversation with eight awesome guys from Codemasters working on the audio of their games and specially GRID. This conversation is gold for all the sound designers and anyone working with audio in the game industrySupport the show

A chat with the audio director of Gearbox Software about sound and creating the audio experience of Borderlands 3.Support the show

In this episode, I had a talk with Terry Hess, lead environment artist of The Outer Worlds. We talked about creating the world of this huge game and environmental story-telling. Check out Terry's amazing work: https://www.artstation.com/terryhesshttp://terryhess.com/Support the show

A deep and fun conversation with David Chateauneuf, co-founder of Red Barrels and Game Designer of Outlast games. We talk about everything related to the horror genre, crazy stories, games, movies, and techniques of making a horror game like Outlast. Support the show

In this episode, I had the honor to talk to the legendary Johan Söderqvist, composer of many great films like Let the Right One In, Kon-Tiki and Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V. We talk about Johan's background, work and writing emotional music. Support the show

In this episode, Aryan Hanbeck talks about becoming an artist in video games, how to go up the ladder in the industry, Gears 4 and 5 art style and continuing the saga of this beloved series. Support the show

In this episode, I chat with Jehanne Rousseau, CEO of Spiders and Lead Writer of Greedfall. We talk about her past, making Greedfall, one of the best RPGs of the year with only 50 in 3 years. Support the show

From Dead Space to Tomb Raider or The Order: 1886, Jason Graves is one of the most versatile and talented composers in the video game industry. I talk about his childhood, growing up to become a composer and his techniques and tools. Support the show

In this episode, I talk to Patrice Desilets about growing up loving video games and history, Assassin's Creed creation, leaving Ubisoft and starting his own studio. Support the show

In this episode I speak with one of the kindest souls out there, a man who has scored best selling games of this generation, Call of Duty WWII and Mortal Kombat 11, he tells me how he got a call to compose the new Call of DutySupport the show