The Game Developer's Radio

Yup, yup… I know it sucks But some times life just gets busy! Don’t worry we will return (we always do) with a fresh batch of interviews and game design chatter. Anyways… Until then you can listen to some older episodes of the podcast Always good stuff!

Thanks,

-Joe

Hosts: Devin Becker, Andy Moore

Editing done by Colten Becker

Date Recorded: 07/19/2012

In this episode new host of the show Devin Becker and co host Andy Moore discuss free to play games.

Show Notes:

Games
Diablo 3
Eve Online
Call Duty
Tiny Towers
Pocket Planes
Team Fortress 2
Skyrim

Companies 
Valve
Blizzard
Nibble Bit
5th Planet Games

Podcasts
Level Up Radio

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Hosts: Joseph Burchett, Devin Becker, Andy Moore

Date Recorded: 03/15/2012

In this episode we talk about how to become a game designer.

Show Notes:

Games
Tic Tac Toe
Ice Burgers
Hopscotch

Tools 
Adobe AIR
Game Salad
Construct
Stencyl
Flixel
Flash Punk

Education Resources 
LudologyU
Challenges for Game Designers
Game Career Guide

Source code
Andy Moore’s 5 minute jam Crab Attack
Andy Moore’s GPU Class and more useful information related
Direct link to Andy Moore’s GPU Class source

Companies
KlickNation
Double Fine
Flash Game License

Schools
Digi Pen
Art Institute
Full Sail
Princeton top ten game design programs

People
Phil Fish

Other episodes to listen to
Game Developer’s Radio: Exploring Design #13 Game Jams

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Hosts: Joseph Burchett, Devin Becker, Andy Moore

Date Recorded: 03/01/2012

In this episode we talk about social games, going deep into what we think makes a good social game.

Show Notes:

Games
Eve Online
Gaia Online
Resistance Mafia/Werewolves
Halo
Team Fortress
Call of Duty
Master of Orion
Diplomacy
Neptune’s Pride
Fantastic Contraption
Team Fortress
Risk
Little Big Planet
Dungeons & Dragons
Minecraft
Journey
Hero Academy
Age of Champions
Starship Command
Batman: Arkham Asylum

Companies
Game Fly
Onlive
Redbox
Media Molecule
Twitter
Kabam
Zynga

Articles
4X
Live Action Role Playing (LARP’ing)
Trade Wars
Multi-User Dungeon (Mud)
Pow Wow
HTML5
Emergent gameplay
Boardgame Remix Kit
The Something Awful Forum

People
Colin Northway

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First off thank you to everyone who have given so much praise to the podcast… I am pretty surprised in the amount of love the show has received. Even though the show has been on an almost 4 month hiatus now I assure you it’s not dead or anything… There are tons of episodes of exploring design and interviews back-logged, and will be released soon.

So until the show returns I highely recommend you all subscribe to one of the co-hosts of the exploring design show, Andy Moore’s DevVlog series. He releases them pretty often and each episode is pretty insightful with game dev advice.

ANDY MOORE YOUTUBE CHANNEL

His Blog
His Live Stream
His Twitter
His Google Plus

Thanks again everyone for the support!

-Joe

Andy Moore is one of the co-hosts of the Exploring design show and a pretty awesome indie game developer, in this episode of his DevVlog he talks about a lot of his failings, very informative! Make sure to check out his other stuff

His Blog
His Live Stream
His Twitter
His Google Plus

Hosts: Joseph Burchett, Devin Becker, Andy Moore

Date Recorded: 02/23/2012

In this episode we talk about difficulty in games. Also I would like to do a bit of a correction… During the show we talked about Uncharted and how it would show big glowing arrows, this may have been incorrect. Although the game does still give you hints and tips on what to do next if you wait long enough I do not believe any arrows appeared. Either way I still think everyone gets the idea in what we were talking about.

Show Notes:

Games
Eve Online
Uncharted
Oblivion Elder Scrolls
Warcraft
Kingdom Rush
Rocksmith
Super Monkey Ball
Super Meat Boy
Braid
IceBurgers
Team Fortress
Angry Birds
Mirror’s Edge
Leisure Suit Larry
The Binding of Isaac
Mirror’s Edge
Pizza vs Skeletons
Diablo
Mass Effect 3
Metal Gear
Mario Bros Wii
Deus Ex
Canabalt

Articles
Valve
Valve developer Commentary
Modding
Perma death
Speed run
Arcade
Death cam
Penny Arcade comic

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Hosts: Devin Becker, Andy Moore

Date Recorded: 02/16/2012

In this episode Devin Becker and Andy Moore discuss Gamification.

Show Notes:

Games
Eve Online
Trauma Center
World of Warcraft
Ribbon Hero
Nimble Strong: Bartender in training
Rocksmith
Urgent Envoke
Rockband 3
DJ Hero
Typing of the Dead

Websites
Ludologyu
Gameful
Gamification summit
Serious Games
Games for change

Articles
let’s move Campaign
Positive Psychology
Gamification
DMV
World of Warcraft End game
Walt Disney Imagineering
Indiana Jones Adventure ride
Sebastian Deterding response to “Gamification by design”
Gamification is bullshit
Wii Surgery

Books
Total Engagement
Reality is Broken
Gamification by design

People
Michelle Obama
Gabe Zichermann
Sebastian Deterding
Jane Mcgonigal
Ian Bogost

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Hosts: Joseph Burchett, Devin Becker, Andy Moore

Date Recorded: 02/09/2012

In this episode we share our experiences running and participating in Game Jams, and also give lots of tips and tricks for new people.

Show Notes:

Games
Binding of Isaac
Steam Birds

Tools
Unity3d
Construct
Game Maker
Flash
C++
SDL
SFML
Flash Punk
Flixel
Stencyl
Visual Basic

Websites
Global Game Jam
IGDA
TigJam
PegJam
OrcaJam
Ludologyu
Ludum Dare
 Experimental Gameplay Project

Articles
Lean Startup
Agile development
Extreme Programming
Scrum
ECMA Script

Books
Challenges for Game Designers

People
Chevy Ray
Edmund McMillen

Recommended Listening
Game Developer’s Radio: Exploring Design #08 Prototyping
Game Developer’s Radio: Exploring Design #13 Agile Game Development
Game Developer’s Radio #07 SDL

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Hosts: Joseph Burchett, Devin Becker, Andy Moore

Date Recorded: 01/26/2012

In this episode we give our thoughts on designing a game for mobile devices, and actually a lot of talk about just how to design a mobile application. The audio was a little wonky but I think it turned out okay.

Show Notes:

Games/Applications mentioned
My Town
Foursquare
Shop town hero
Waze
Amazon flow
Yelp
Google goggles
Boggle
Spell tower
Eye pets
Card.io

Websites
Andy Moore dev blog posts on his mobile game

Articles
Augmented reality
GPS
Pedometer
QR codes
Crowd sourcing
Eye toy
Kinect

Books
Spook Country

Recommended Listening
Game Developer’s Radio: Exploring Design #04 Gimmicks

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