All Episodes
30 - Mike Bithell of Bithell Games, maker of the upcoming Vampirium: 1997
Mike Bithell is an independent gamemaking titan who I am absolutely honored to get to talk to today. In 2010, he created the prototype for his breakout game, Thomas Wa...
29 - Doot of Froggy’s Battle, Minami Lane, Kabuto Park, and Milki Delivery
Doot is an indie game dev working on small cute games. He and his partner Blibloop are the developers behind Froggy’s Battle, Minami Lane, Kabuto Park, and the upcomin...
28 - Timothy Staton-Davis of Melanated Game Kitchen
Melanated Game Kitchen is a co-op studio and collective of BIPOC game creators focused on the creation and curation of unique interactive experiences revolving around ...
27 - Francisco González of Rosewater, Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator, and everything in between!
Francisco González has been making adventure games since 2001. His Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series became a cult hit on AGS forums and beyond, and once he f...
26 - Julia Minamata of The Crimson Diamond
Julia Minamata is an artist and solo indie dev. She’s best known for The Crimson Diamond, an EGA text parser mystery adventure game where you play as mineralogist/relu...
25 - Lage Bergman of Chesto: A Chess-Like Adventure
Lage Bergman is the solo game developer behind Chesto: A Chess-Like Adventure. Heavily inspired by the Professor Layton DS games, Chesto allows players to explore a co...
24 - Piotr Bunkowski of One Rotten Oath
Piotr Bunkowski is a solo game dev from Gdańsk, Poland that works on various FMV projects. He created his first game “A Trip to Yugoslavia,” an experimental interactiv...
23 - Willy Picard (AKA Bushmonkey) of The Red Pearls of Borneo
Willy Picard, AKA Bushmonkey, is a hobbyist developer of free detective mystery games, but that doesn’t quite do him or his interactive experiences justice. Inspired b...
22 - Mateus of The Last Lodge
Mateus is from Brazil. He’s the solo developer behind Kusppy Studios and only started programming about 8 months ago, which is wild to me considering that his new game...
21 - Tyler "Zzox" McCarthy of good
Tyler McCarthy, who goes by Zzox online, is a solo game dev and musician who has completed over 25 game projects during his 8+ years of development. His most recent re...
20 - Adrian Vaughan of The Drifter, PlaySide Studios, and SO much more!
Adrian Vaughan might just be the most interesting video game guest I can think of, and I’m not just saying that. I invited Adrian on the show after being absolutely st...
19 - Fer of Tossdown
Fer is the solo developer behind the chaotic and flow-state-inducing delivery roguelike Tossdown. The way I’ve heard Fer describe his game is the stylistic flair of Je...
18 - Matt Fister (AKA Freezebeam) of Realmfold & Towerbound
Matt Fister is an indie game developer based in Boston, Massachusetts. He goes by the tag Freezebeam and is known for creating surreal bitscapes across genres and mode...
17 - Pete of Chaystar Unlimited, the makers of Asbury Pines
Pete is part of a two-person development team called Chaystar Unlimited. They are the developers of Asbury Pines, an expansive, narrative-driven idle game about a smal...
16 - Dave Lloyd of Powerhoof, the makers of The Drifter
Dave Lloyd’s video games inspire me more than any other pieces of media I’ve consumed in recent memory. Dave is a champion of the adventure game genre, having explored...
15 - Nic Tringali of Amberspire
Nic Tringali is a game designer and director at Bithell Games, an independent game studio that specializes in sci-fi stories. Nic works at Bithell’s Lunar Division lab...
14 - Allen Goode of FloWHOA, the makers of Scallywags
Allen Goode is a co-founder of the startup FloWHOA, the game studio currently making Scallywags, a tactical crew management roguelike inspired by FTL and One Piece, wh...
13 - Val Hawes of Little Kitty, Big City
Val Hawes is a 3D character artist, game-maker, and community organizer who embodies the exact kind of grassroots joy in games that Indie Game Garden strives to celebr...