Number of View: 7

Date recorded: 10/17/2009
Guests: Ryan Henson Creighton, Iain Lobb, Edmund McMillen and Daniel Cook

This is the second part (about an hour and twenty minutes long) of the Flash Game Design podcast which was posted here…

Closing music: Flash Love Letter (The Remix) by Nathan Germick

Topics Covered:
-How to get noticed as an indie game developer
-Realism in games
-Art direction
-Vector art
-Another tangent, but it’s a good one… Edmund asks his wife about game design
-Making a game that doesn’t look like a Flash game
-Find out where Dan gets his artistic inspiration from…  You will never guess it
-Americanized Anime
-Different art styles
-Innovation and what not to do in a game
-Camera zooming effect and polish
-What it’s like working for the more main stream companies
-Education and game development
-Tools to use when learning game development for the first time
-IPhone games
-Edmund hints at a new device that will compete with the IPhone
-Return to the discussion of multi-player games
-Procedurally generated content
-Letting users generate the game content for you
-Closing it out with advice for up and coming game developers

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