Pixel Pizza

Solve the mystery of the missing pizza this week (I definitely didn't eat it 🤐) as we speak with Judith and Jason, the Creative Director & Game Director over at Lofty Sky Games. They're about to release the upcoming mystery adventure game Hope in the City! The duo tells us about drawing real-world inspiration from colleagues in Northeast China, interweaving character development with...

Solo developer Goba joins us this week to talk about his ambitious action-adventure saga REAL WEB LEGENDS: Carter's Quest! We get into making the game from Goba's teenage years all the way into his 20's, creating cinematic moments with a low-poly artstyle, and the things we both love and hate about Final Fantasy XVI. It's all funnier than it sounds I swear! Feat. tunes from Kento D...

Give a warm welcome to the two creators of the completely free fighting game Duels of Fortune, Ben Soars & PluckyStar! In their first ever podcast appearance(!), they speak about forming their studio Cosmic Hat Games through a Discord server of another game, having multiple genres in single player mode, and translating a variety of fighting game archetypes into their game's simple-to-learn...

This episode originally aired December 12, 2025. Today we're looking back at one of my favorite episodes I've ever recorded, featuring the animation director of Dispatch, Aniket Natekar! Aniket discusses his beginnings in animated film, entering the game industry at Hangar 13, and the process behind some of Dispatch's most hard-hitting scenes. Featuring chiptune music from Aubery aka E...

Joining us this week from Bangkok is gaming communications expert Kimmi Goh! Kimmi is the Communications Lead at Goldpact Goblins, working with dev teams across Southeast Asia to promote their work and build communities around them. We discuss successful social media campaigns, seeing your coworkers grow, and "friendslop" as a term of endearment! Plus, music from DDRKirby~ LINKS: 💼 Kimm...

Hey! Welcome back to another new Pixel Pizza! This week we've got French art director Simon Hutt Troussellier on the show to chat about his work on games like Furi, Tinykin, and the recently announced Acornia. Simon brings some insight on visual worldbuilding, simple yet distinct character designs, and making connections over drinks. He also tells us about his experience working on the Invader...

Summer's about to end, so get ready for the snowy season with Austrian snowboarding game expert Hannes Lugstein aka ByteParrot! Hannes hit the scene about two years ago with the cartoony racing game SlopeCrashers, and is now hard at work on the more intense and stylish boarding game, CarveOut 2160 🏂 He tells us about the six-year development cycle of SlopeCrashers, taking inspiration from the cul...

*chomp chomp* That's the sound of my schedule hungry for an upload of pizza! My guests for this week fell through, but you'll be hearing from them soon ;) I didn't want to leave you guys with another encore so soon after the last one, so here's my annual run-through of what I've been playing. We cover new games, old games, roguelikes, and provide some frigid-yet-relevant takes...

Ayo, it's Yayo! This week we have composer and sound designer of the acclaimed Promise Mascot Agency (and several exciting games to come), Alpha Chrome Yayo, on the show. We talk about learning traditional Japanese instruments, capturing the right vibe in your home studio, and chasing your dreams. With music from the man himself! LINKS: ☁️ ACY's BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/alphachromeyayo.co...

Grab an ice cold drink and join us on this hot summer weekend for a chat with Headless Chicken Games CEO JP Chacon! He tells us about founding his own studio, giving opportunities to industry newcomers, and pivoting the design of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer game in a month! Plus the wild story of how the team acquired their PS4 devkit! Ft music from Cass Preston aka Witch's Cadence 🪄 L...

This episode originally aired on October 13, 2022. Hot off the heels of his video game debut in the hit game Motorslice, we're revisiting a chat with Harvey Jones aka Pizza Hotline! If you've played it, come hear about his earlier work and DJ experience. If you haven't, get ready for some incredible tunes~ LINKS: 🍕Pizza Hotline: ⁠@PizzaHotline_
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HIKE! We hit the weirdest gridiron this side of Saturn this week with the Birdup and Ratttz, the duo behind the upcoming asymmetric 1v1 puzzler Intergalactic Puzzle Touchdown- releasing in late September! The duo tells us how they met through the competitive puzzle game scene, introducing elements of chance, and how hobbies like street hockey and mycology have influenced their work together. Featu...

Pick up those pencils, this *will* be on the test! Canadian indie dev Keely Brown joins the show this week to chat about his upcoming party drawing game Chicken Scratch. We discuss everything that went into the game's unique corporate bird theming, roguelike mode, and clever marketing. Featuring music from Neon Cyan~ LINKS: 🎮 Chicken Scratch on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/226723...

Monkey around with us this week as we speak to Turkish 2D game artist Ece Aslı Erikci. Ece recently entered the industry with the social bomb diffusal game BOMBANANA!, the most played game at this summer's Steam Next Fest! Ece talks about her work on children's books, Turkish rug history, and how Avatar: the Last Airbender influenced the blindness mechanics in Bombanana. And much more! Fea...

We welcome game designer Aubrey Rugroden to the show this week to talk about how she's approached designing for multiple genres. Some of her work has been on the GTA/Goat Simulator-inspired Pigeon Simulator, the turn-based strategy game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, and the hand-drawn metroidvania GNAW. (Wow was that a lot of hyphens or what?) Aubrey tells us about her time...

Join us for a shorter Pixel Pizza this week (a personal pie?) as we speak with Armando Webb, half of the Mexico-based indie studio Odd Men In! The team's debut title is the 90's cartoon-inspired metroidvania Oh, My Doug! Armando tells us about the handmade visuals (both drawn and modeled) that went into the game, creating a game world out of the human body, and not saying no to your own id...

Join us this week for a talk with Brazilian pixel artist and game designer Cecilia Santos, better known online as CeciHoney! Ceci has done freelance pixel art for a wide variety of indie games, including the upcoming titles Atomic Owl, Torment Hexus, and One Fenix Down. She tells us about her pixel art method, how tarot cards helped revitalize her career, and her collaborations on character design...

Fresh off his appearance at Day of the Devs 2026, artist/filmmaker/developer Case Jernigan stops by at Pixel Pizza! Case's new game, Bub, is a heartfelt story of inspiration and identity told through real papercraft, watercolor, and other mixed media. We fittingly get vulnerable and discuss some heavy topics including anxiety, bullying, and multiple sclerosis. Plus some talk about real Italian...

Swing into the weekend with a new episode of Pixel Pizza! Stopping by this week are HappySquared and Emlise of the indie studio Minibunnies. They're best known for their work on the atmospheric momentum-based Metroidvania, Rusted Moss. We discuss the development of that game and its post-launch support, and even get into the making of their hotly anticipated successor to Rusted Moss, Iron Bram...

Spice up your weekend with a chaotic new Pixel Pizza! Joining us this week is Slug Glove, the developer behind the whimsical and wildly open-ended adventure game Rhell! SG explains how the game's striking 2D/3D art style came to be, integrating the over one million spell combinations in the game, and valuing yourself in freelance work. Plus, they give more insight into the currently-in-development...

Get a look behind the totally normal worlds of indie creator Tom van den Boogaart on this week's show! Tom's best known for the recent Dutch countryside mystery game Grunn, as well as the cult hit alien walking sim Bernband. We chat about his experimental work as part of the Sokpop Collective, and the Bernband remaster currently in development! Featuring tunes from Missu Kissu 💋 LINKS: ☁️...

Dig your paws into an all-new Pixel Pizza! Just in time for the release of Bubsy 4D, we have game artist Sabaku on the show! She tells us about her early days in the German RPG Maker community, bringing her ideas into 3D with Skellboy, and the process of working with Fabraz on Demon Tides and Bubsy. Featuring chiptune music from Refmaven~ LINKS: ☕️ Sabaku's Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/sabbi_tabb...

This episode originally aired on May 10, 2024. Sorry for two encores in a row, but lots of brand new episodes coming over the next few weeks- promise! This time we're revisiting our talk with Swedish game writer and solo dev Christoffer Bodegård. His latest title, the DnD and Disco Elysium-inspired Esoteric Ebb, came out earlier this year and is one of 2026's best reviewed games so far! We...

This episode originally aired on May 30th, 2025. Swipe right on this week's episode to hear from writer on the hotly anticipated dating sim Date Everything, Jay Choi! Jay tells us about his background in writing for animation and film, finding his way into the industry by being a "LEGO drug dealer", and making wholesome romantic storylines. Music from Epshirey! LINKS: 🌐 Jay's We...

This week we talk about a rarely discussed but essential part of game development: QA! And few people are more well-versed in the field than our guest Paul James. Paul has tested over 30 projects in the indie sphere, including breakout hits like Foolish Mortals and Blue Prince. He tells us about how his work touches on all aspects of game dev, when in the process developers should bring in QA test...