Game Dev Unchained

Thoraka first foray into game development was spending two years setting money aside to go indie full time. Since then he has made two games that each generated self-sustainable income with 150K downloads each. He sits with us this week to discuss his process and how he got to where he is now. Check out Thoraka's latest app game: Trainclicker Evolution: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?i...

It's that time of the month again. Roundtable News discussing the biggest topics and trends. This episode includes: PUBG, Dr Disrespect Ban, Fortnite, Rise Of ESPORTS, Lumberyard, And No Mans Sky Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gamedevunchained Check us out on our website https://www.gamedevunchained.com/

Will Armstrong has done it all within the game industry. He has worked on AAA franchises like Bioshock 2, succeeded with indie studios like Firewatch, and is now lending his talents at an engine company such as Unity. He sits down with us this week to discuss how the Spotlight team operates and the common issues and fixes when working with bigger teams.

Matt Colville is a big YouTube personality that has over 100k subscribers that mostly talks about D&D (how to run it), weekly game (stream archive), and occasionally movies. When he isn't giving awesome advice he's a writer and designer in the game industry. In this episode, we talk about D&D, the Tabletop game Reconnaissance, and many more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkVdb9Yr8fc05_VbAVfskCA...

Blaine Pascu is a community manager at Unity. He has been part of Unity when there was only 30 people in the San Francisco office and now has grown over 1000 employees in 3 short years. He drops some sage advice on how best to manage social networking and talks about democratizing game development. *Correction* When asked about the two assets that was made a part of Unity 2017 Blaine said Cinemach...

Sam Wey is a game designer who started his career as a character artist. Since then he has been in both the game and animation industry working as a prop artist, level artist, and a level designer. This man has worked almost all the jobs in the industry before finding his calling in game design. He walks us through his journey and talks about how it was starting over again every time. https://www....

In this Roundtable News, we hit the biggest topics of last month sharing opinions from Game Developers.

Shora Farahani is a professional Environment Artist that has worked on many Call of Duty titles. This week we ask for Shora's unique perspective on everything we can think of and how he use to be a Pro Iranian Basketball player.

Asbjorn and Sophia make up the Brackeys team and are primarily Unity educators. They have crossed over a milestone recently and officially have over 250,000 subscribers on youtube. This week we discuss how Asbjorn created the Brackeys channel when he was 14 and spent the last 5 years evolving the platform to being one of the top resource for learning Unity. https://www.youtube.com/user/Brackeys ht...

Collin Fogel is a Senior Environment Artist that has been working in the game industry for 17 years. His resume includes some of the biggest franchises such as Bioshock and Skylanders, We discuss Collin's semi-retirement from the game industry and look back in his career to share his thoughts and wisdom

Rhianna Pratchett is a writer that have worked on the industry's biggest games like the Tombraider series, Mirror's Edge, and Heavenly Sword. In this episode, she discusses her experience in moving from games journalism and game writing. Her views on women working in the game industry. Also, on her overall writing philosophy. Check out her latest game that is currently in production Lost Words (ht...

Jason Fader was able to give us details on how System Shock's reboot came to be, why he chose to be part of the project and what fans of the game should be looking forward to in this Reboot (NOT REMASTER).

This month's Roundtable News, the crew discuss about how Game Dev Unchained made it first leak involving the Kerbal Space Program, Farcry 5 Controversy, Red Dead Redemption 2, E3, and Netflix Game IP. Join game devlopers discussing game news and how it affects the industry.

Finally an episode dedicated to Unity with our fan favorite Ray Graham. We talk about why Unity is indie developer's number one choice and even dig into how Unity is only getting better.

Jake Birkett has been a indie developer for 11 years without a hit game. He talks about how he survived all those years and how to long tail your projects so that they eventually make a profit. Jake is a founder of Grey Alien Games. http://greyaliengames.com/blog/the-6-steps-to-massive-game-development-success/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/427490/Shadowhand/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/...

Roger Lundeen was a architect for over a decade working at small to large firms before landing his first game dev gig at Valve. He talks about his experience and compares the differences between the architectural, film, and game industry. We also managed to sit back and hear some enlightening stories of his experience at Valve and how much he misses Portland. Roger is currently a design/ environme...

You always hear how getting into the industry is an uphill battle but every game developer have their own little details that makes it different. This week, Damien Evans discusses how he went from having five years of industry experience to going back to school and eventually working at places like Naughty Dog and Sony Santa Monica. Listen in as we also discuss surviving layoffs and go off tangent...

A round table discussion with game industry professionals about last month's biggest bits and news.

Josh Coons has worked with people he had admired all his life like Joe Mad, John Carmack, and Chris Roberts. This week he sits down with us to share stories of his interaction with these legendary developers as well as other topics like his passion projects and his Blizzard art test rumor. Josh Coons is a 3D artist currently working at Cloud Imperium and has been at places like ID Software and Vig...

Accruing student debt is sometimes a necessary evil when learning how to become a game developer. However, paying that down to enjoy a full paycheck can happen sooner than you think. Forest Baker sits with us this week and talks about his struggle and sacrifices he's made to pay down his student debt of $80,000 in 5 years! Forest is a VFX artist that has worked on major franchises like Call of Dut...

Richard Lico has over 20 years of experience in the industry spending the bulk of the last decade at Bungie as a Animation Lead. He has made his mark on the Halo franchise and was the first animator on the Destiny franchise and now he is embarking his journey to the indie world with Polyarc Games (https://www.polyarcgames.com/.) Listen in on his adventure from being a self taught artist to being t...

This episode is likely one of the most special episodes of our podcast yet. We were able to sit down with Kirill Tokarev, and get the entire story of 80.lv We find out how it came about, the early struggles and successes as well as find out what someone needs to have if they want to be featured on their website! Also, we honor the memory of Paul Pepera on this episode with a touching feature in de...

Olaf Piesche talks about his journey through the industry in the United States as a German immigrant. We discuss about his struggles, his big wins, and the impact he faces as a foreigner when the industry gets volatile. Olaf is currently a Senior FX Engineer at Epic.

Another month has passed and so the crew gets back together with special guest Ray Graham to discuss the hottest topics of last month. Giving a unique game developer perspective and how it may affect our industry.

Drew Smith handles Business Development at Google's game division and has an impressive resume working for Bungie and 2K among many other companies. In this episode, we discuss what he does as well as his perspective of the current and future place for gaming entertainment and the lessons he learned from his career. You can check out his blog @ https://medium.com/@drewsmith_11595 linkedin.com/in/d...