Indie Game International

Today's episode features Rafael Bordoni, based in São Paulo, Brazil. We are talking about his most recent game called To Shed New Light which was completed entirely in the month of October, 2021 for a game jam. The theme for the game jam was "everything changes." I have interviewed Rafael previously for his earlier game called Charge Kid, though that interview has not yet been published on this pl...

Today's guest is Oliver Ulrich, a producer at Studio Fizbin , based in Germany. Studio Fizbin was called out by Alexandra Dahlberg a few episodes back because of Say No! More. I played SN!M and Minute of Islands and thoroughly enjoyed the experiences. We are mostly discussing Say No! More and Minute Of Islands , both released in 2021.  In this episode we will discuss many things, including the rol...

Today we are talking to another video game score composer! Shane Berry is the Audio Director at Demagog Studio . He worked on Golf Club Wasteland and created a radio broadcast for that game, titled Radio Nostalgia From Mars. The game is incredible and Radio Nostalgia From Mars just makes it better. Golf Club Wasteland is available on Switch, Xbox, Playstation, and PC.  In this episode we will ask...

This week is "video game score composer week" here at IGI. Today we are talking with Andrew Rohrmann aka scntfc. Andy has been a video game score composer for over ten years. I first became aware of his work when I played 2016's Oxenfree. Most of the conversation focuses on two games that I recently played and loved that Andy created sound and music for: Journey Of The Broken Circle and Old Man's...

Today's guest is Winston Tang, director, designer, and writer at Samurai Punk , based in Melbourne, Australia. We are discussing primarily their game Roombo: First Blood, released in 2019. I played the game Switch but it is available on PC, Xbox, and Playstation as well.  Winston and I will discuss game jams, how it feels to make your very first game, growing a team, going from creative artist to...

Jan Bubenik is co-founder and co-CEO of Megagon Industries , based in in Berlin, Germany. We are here today to discuss Lonely Mountains: Downhill developed by Megagon Industries and published by Thunderful Games . Lonely Mountains: Downhill is a downhill mountain biking game available on Steam, Switch, Xbox, and Playstation. It was initially released on 2019. This is one of my very first interview...

Isaac and Virgilio Cortez are the co-founders of Hyper Three Studio , based in Barcelona, Spain. Their most recent game, Tiny Lands, is a spot-the-difference game...with a unique twist. I played the game on my Switch and emailed the studio for an interview and they said yes!  In the last episode of IGI we learned all about the founding of the studio and Isaac and Virgilio's inspiring story. For th...

Isaac and Virgilio Cortez are the co-founders of Hyper Three Studio , based in Barcelona, Spain. Their most recent game, Tiny Lands, is a spot-the-difference game...with a unique twist. I played the game on my Switch and emailed the studio for an interview and they said yes! I'm very excited to bring their inspiring story to you now. We talk about indie game DLC, responding to player requests, sca...

Alexandra Dahlberg is a writer at Zoink , now a part of Thunderful Games , based in Sweden. Zoink's newest release, Lost in Random, is a 2021 third-person action/adventure game. I met Alexandra Dahlberg on social media and after realizing she worked on Lost in Random, I bought it, played through it twice, and then interviewed her about a week after the game's release.   We talk about game narrativ...

Nicola Piovesan is the CEO and game developer at Chaosmonger Studio , based in Estonia. Our previous guest, Philipp Zybkovets of Caligari Games called out Nicola as a developer that I should get on the show. So, here we are! We are talking about Nicola's 2021 point-and-click adventure game ENCODYA.   Like Philipp, Nicola was a filmmaker before he was game developer, so we discuss his filmmaking ba...

Philipp Zybkovets is the creative director and co-founder of Caligari Games , based in Moscow. The studio released The Great Perhaps, a 2D adventure side-scroller, in August of 2019. Their next game, Whateverland, is slated for a late 2021 release. I played The Great Perhaps and I really enjoyed it so I reached out to Philipp for this interview.   We talk about narrative design, editing your game'...