The MGIF Podcast

This episode I sit down with State of Play's Daisy Fernandez. We talk about game dev courses and how they've improved over the years, what Daisy cares about when it comes to telling stories in games and we reminisce about old games and how they made us feel.

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. MGIF S3 E5: Alysia Judge Making Games Is Fun Episode Five is with the spectacular Alysia Judge, a freelance games journalist, presenter and producer.    Bit of a change of the rules with this one as historically I've alw...

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe.   MGIF S3 E4: Shedworks Making Games Is Fun Greg Kythreotis and Dan Fineberg are a duo known as Shedworks - a two man indie company who work out of a small shed in London.  They are currently working on Sable , an open w...

Failbetter Games are an indie game studio responsible for Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and browser based game Fallen London.

Lauren Cason is an artist at ustwo games, but not for much longer. As she makes her next move back to America, I ask her about her adventurous spirit and why she never stays still for too long.

After falling in love with Ninja Theory's Hellblade, released in August 2017, I sat down with Dominic Matthews, Tameem Antionades and the face and voice of Senua herself, Melina Juergens, to discuss Hellblade's development, as well as their own development as people and as a studio. We also discuss mental health and its depiction in videogames, and why this game was so important and personally rel...

I talk to Jessica Curry and Dan Pinchbeck of The Chinese Room about their lives together as husband and wife but also as coworkers. We talk Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, the games we enjoy, plus we discuss why Jessica has decided to take another step back from the industry

Dan Pearce of Four Circle Interactive talks to me about nearly dying, overworking yourself, open world systems, the future for indie companies and a stupid game about a unicorn with a six pack. Obviously.

This episode, I go to Cambridge to visit Anisa Sanusi. We discuss her move from Petaling Jaya in Malaysia to the UK when she was 19, and her subsequent journey to where she is today. We also get really nerdy over UI and UX chat and also go a bit silly. It's the first MGIF of 2016! Enjoy!

The very first Making Games Is Fun live episode featuring three men all called Dan talking about videogames, dev life and lots of off topic daftness

This episode I talk to Andrew Smith of Spilt Milk studios about their new game Tango Fiesta, what it's like to develop on Early Access, dealing with angry Internet people and educating mum and dad on games

This time I sit down with producer and digital magic maker extraordinaire Dan Gray, for an insightful games chat and some emotional, personal storytelling.

I talk to Aubrey Hesselgren, indie dev who previously worked with Splash Damage and Preloaded

I talk to Dan Marshall of Size Five Games about living and working in the sticks, independence, professionalism, sheep and his upcoming game The Swindle