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I bump into John Watson of Stoic Studios to play the demo of Banner Saga 2. After finishing the demo I bend John’s ear to see how things have been going since the release of the first game. We discuss … Continued The post PAX Prime 2015 – John Watson – Banner Saga 2 appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Jamie, Adam, and Matt return to the podcast to discuss the release of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime! I bumped into the trio at PAX we made a promise to meet up afterwards over the magic of the internet to … Continued The post Episode 206 – Asteroid Base – Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Trent Kusters of League of Geeks returns to the podcast to discuss the upcoming release of the much anticipated Armello! The lovely people of Game Nest, a San Francisco indie co-working space, allowed Trent and I to record out of … Continued The post Episode 205 – Trent Kusters – Armello appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Narrative Designer, Writer and Producer Evan Skolnick comes on the podcast to discuss the changes he’s seen in the industry when it comes to creating a compelling narrative in games. His book Video Game Storytelling offers a wonderful wide angle view … Continued The post Episode 204 – Evan Skolnick appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Mare Sheppard and Raigan Burns have been working on their platformer series N since 2003. With the original release of N back in 2005, and since then, they’ve continued to expand on the the series through both N+ and now … Continued The post Episode 203 – Mare Sheppard & Raigan Burns – N++ appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Bit Bash returns for it’s second year and Tom Eastman and Ryan Wiemeyer return to the podcast to share all the details. Bit Bash is a video game festival that celebrates gaming in ways that larger events like PAX cannot. … Continued The post Bit Bash 2015 – Tom Eastman & Ryan Wiemeyer appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Busan Indie Connect is the first ever indie festival and conference in South Korea. Marc Flury, one of the developers behind Thumper, is helping organize the event and came on the podcast along side other event organizers Sun Park and … Continued The post Busan Indie Connect 2015 – Marc Flury, Sun Park and Jay Jeon appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Home Improvisation is a game about building furniture. The game successfully capture the hilarity and frustration that comes with an over-indulgent trip to IKEA. Colton Spross comes on the podcast to talk about the games birth in a game jam … Continued The post Episode 202 – Colton Spross – Home Improvisation appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Chris Peterson of Beast Games returns to the podcast to discuss about the ever evolving language of gameplay and building a game not just for yourself, but for your audience. These are sticky subjects and Chris holds an honest conversation … Continued The post Episode 201 – Chris Peterson – Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

You slash your friends to make them dash—SlashDash is competitive local multiplayer game being developed by four recently graduated students in NYC. Adnan Agha, Alexandre Gresh, Vivian, and Armand Silvani. The game which was originally started in school was developed … Continued The post Episode 200 – Nevernaut Games – Slash Dash appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Catlateral Damage is a game made in earnest out of a man’s love of cats. Originally prototyped during the 7 Day FPS game jam in 2013, Chris Chung then decided that he wanted to take it from small prototype to … Continued The post Episode 199 – Chris Chung – Catlateral Damage appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Darkest Dungeon has been one of our most anticipated games ever since we first saw it back at PAX East 2014. We’ve marched our parties into the darkness and now emerge to share our stories with the Red Hook’s creative … Continued The post Episode 198 – Chris Bourassa – Darkest Dungeon appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Shape of the World is the latest entry into first person exploration games with striking visuals and and subtle objectives. Stu Maxwell is the man behind the project and when he isn’t working at his day job at The Coalition … Continued The post Episode 197 – Stu Maxwell – Shape of the World appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

In our time as a podcast we’ve seen the rise of new platforms to sell games. From Steam, Humble, GOG, and the slew of pay what you want bundle sites, there seemed to be a never ending supply of places … Continued The post Episode 196 – Leaf Corcoran – Itch.io appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

My recent gaming diet has been filled with a healthy serving of non-linear explorative platformers, or as they are more commonly known as, ‘Metroidvanias.’ This is the genre that first made me realize the interesting things games can do. After … Continued The post Ep. 195 – Arvi Teikari – Environment Station Alpha appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

User Experience(UX) is an area of design that largely overlaps game design. It’s about how the interface, gameplay, tutorial, and basically everything come together to create an experience. To help us look down from this thousand foot perspective Catt Small, … Continued The post Episode 194 – Catt Small appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

I first met Ian Stocker at Indie Press Day two years ago as he was promoting an early version of Escape Goat 2. A year later and his dexterous puzzle-platformer had been in the PAX10, was picked up by Double Fine with … Continued The post Ian Stocker – Escape Goat & Soulcaster appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Alex Golebiowski and Chris Iacobucci come on the podcast to celebrate the release of their first all in-house game Lost Orbit. After their time at Silicon Knights as environment artists they went the way of indie. I ask them all about … Continued The post Episode 192 – PixelNAUTS appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

Lisa Brown comes on the podcast to discuss her history and game design. Lisa recently left Insomniac Games, where she worked on Resistance 3, Sunset Overdrive and most recently Slow Down Bull. She is now a full time indie looking … Continued The post Episode 191 – Lisa Brown appeared first on BigSushi.fm.

It’s been a few months since Train Jam 2015 and now that Adriel Wallick and I are mostly rested, we figured it would be a good time to talk about how this year’s jam went. The second annual Train Jam … Continued The post Episode 190 – Train Jam 2015 Post Mortem appeared first on BigSushi.fm.