Game Dev Unchained

This Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about the biggest headliners like Google Stadia, Apple Arcade, State of VR, and Unity vs Unreal. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Our first year as press to GDC 2019 was a huge success. Aside from doing onsite interviews we had our first official GDU mixer sponsored by Quixel meeting past guests and mingling with listeners. It was great and we are already looking forward on how to improve it next year. This is the first of three series of the interview we did at GDC that are also available in video form on our youtube account starting Thursdays. Support us on Patreon (www.patreon.com/gamedevunchained) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Dave Mervik joins us from Tarsier Studios to discuss early development for Little Nightmares. We also talk about the studio's transition turning from a co-development game studio to a independent one. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

In this episode, we lay out our plans for GDC 2019. Many announces are made including our Official GDU Mixer at GDC sponsored by Quixel. As well as our journey to doing this full-time and how we are pumping our Patreon efforts. In addition, forming a umbrella company to house all of our ventuers such as GDU, GSO, etc into BLU Champs. More merch and many many more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Unionizing game workers caught a major spark in discussion across the industry far and wide and has reached a fever pitch in recent months. Game Workers Unite is at the forefront of the movement and it is no doubt that this upcoming 2019 Game Developers Conference will be about Unionization in a huge way. To help lay out what developers can expect and also come to GDC prepared for, Emma from Game Workers Unite joins us this week to share their plans. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Glassdoor Confessions is a segment where game devs analyze a company's strengths and weaknesses based on glassdoor reviews, anonymous tips, and articles. Activision Blizzard recently laid off 800 developers after a record-breaking year because they weren't able to reach their 'full potential.' Larry and Brandon sits down this week to give a game developer's perspective on what needs to change and what developers need to do now to prepare themselves for what affects all of us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

This Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about the biggest headliners starting out with what's going on with Activision laying off 800 people, 2K Silicon Valley, Apex, Fortnite Dance Lawsuits, and Starbreeze Bankruptcy This episode is brought to you by Quixel Megascans. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

GDC 2019 is in a month and it's a time for many indie developers to network and pitch their games to investors. Rebekah Saltsman owns 51% of Finji, which makes and publishes indie games. She has a decade of experience listening to pitches and making pitches and is gracious enough to share her insight. Rebekah helps us answers all the common questions an indie developer may have and all the do's and don'ts when meeting with prospective investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Press Start Legal is a law firm based in the United States for Interactive Entertainment Industry. Zac Rich is the cofounder and sat down this week to educate the legal side of indie development, contractual agreements, forming a new company, and many many more about what it takes to make a company legitimate. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Tapas Media is an indie digital comic book company who has just expanded their business to co-develop and publish some of their biggest titles into mobile games.  Tapas has around 2.1 Million active users on its platform, and I think this is a very interesting and unique brand that bridges comics and manga, to indie gaming.  Their newest game is called ‘Dungeon Construction Co.’ and it is an adventure puzzle game based on a best-selling indie comic book. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Immigrants in the United States are facing tougher challenges in recent years as they are up against bigger obstacles. Cecillia Peng was almost forced out of the country even though she has been at one of the top mobile company in the industry for several years now as a UI/UX Designer. We were honored to have her on to tell her story of how her competence in performing her job in a specialized industry has been politicized in recent years. This episode is brought to you by Quixel Megascans. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

This Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about the biggest headliners starting out with what's going on with Activision and its split from Bungie. Blizzard getting peanut butter and jealous of that split, and how Epic Games Store is swooning Ubisoft away from Steam.  This episode is brought to you by Quixel Megascans. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Ushering the New Year in traditional fashion we review 2018 news that affected game developers and gamers alike. What the podcast's past and current goals are, and finally semi-announcing our indie game and Games Unchained initiative. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Super.com is a non-traditional indie publishing firm that invests wholly into a game. Recently established in mid 2018 Super.com is offering seed investment for new studios, or venture capital for more mature companies. Hear all your questions answered now on how to get your game funded! You don't want to miss this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Alex Jerjomin is a Senior Environment Artist working at Digital Extremes on Warframe. He has spent 7 years in the industry living on different continents working on the Fable franchise to working on the Spyro series. In this episode we talk about his struggle to get freelance to work as a side hustle and his general view points on where we are as a industry. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Su and Peter both have full time jobs and have had illustrious careers spanning across gaming, film, and tech companies. Their partnership started over four years ago and currently their company, Ugo3D, has a potential valuation of $200 million dollars. Now fresh from their release of GameFace, an app that turns any player into a playable avatar on every smartphone available, they are on the cusp of hitting it big. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about the biggest headliners from Epic Games announcing their game store, Fallout 76 upsetting their fanbase, Obsidian being bought out by Microsoft, Game Awards and new game announcements, and the crew's 2019 game predictions.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Brackeys is one of the fastest growing tutorial resources in game development. Brackeys provides the tools and knowledge needed to program, shape, and design cross-platform applications from ground up using state of the art software. This week we discuss the transition from running a studio office versus renting an office space and how they are advancing to their next goals. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

Jonathan Hawkins is the founder of White Elk Studios and have been decorated with high praise and awards from his first VR game Eclipse. His second game Covert for the Occulus GO has been freshly released and is picking up a lot of buzz. This week, Jonathan having spent over a decade working on the God of War series as a designer, has a real conversation with us of what it is like leaving AAA to explore the new frontier of AR/VR. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support

When the folks over at thatgamecompany start moving on a new project hoping to follow up the success of their previous games Journey and Flower, there was only one person they trusted to help head up development, Eric Koch. Eric’s career started out in QA testing, but later transitioned into design and then production as well before joining up at the good folks at TGC. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevunchained/support