Greg Lobanov and Alexis Dean-Jones (Chicory) On The Anxieties Of Making Art and the Importance of Finishing Things
Greg Lobanov is a game designer from Philadelphia currently living in Canada. He is the director of Chicory: A Colorful Tale and has previously created Wandersong, and Coin Crypt, and a number of othe...
23 Sep 20211h 33min
Jeff Pianki (Remember It Now) on Being Present and Living a More Intentional Creative Life
Jeff Pianki is a singer-songwriter based in LA. He's released two full-length albums, Paper Window, and most recently, Remember It Now, after a 10-year hiatus from releasing music.We sat down with Jef...
16 Sep 20211h 18min
Steven James Aguilar (Heatmaps) On The Power of Storytelling and Brevity In Music
Steven James Aguilar is a producer, songwriter, sound engineer, and musician based in Seattle, WA. He has worked with artists including The Head and The Heart, Billie Eilish, Macklemore, Dave Matthews...
9 Sep 20211h 41min
Naphtali Faulkner (Umurangi Generation) On Politics, Game Design, And The End Of The World
Tali Faulkner is a Maori game developer behind Umurangi Generation, a semi-realistic photography game set in an apocalyptic future with mechs, an occupational United Nations, and the looming threat of...
2 Sep 20211h 9min
Neil Jones (Never Yield) On His Fight To Stay In Gaming
Neil Jones is a game artist currently working out of Detroit, MI. Jones is an artist and game designer who worked on indie titles like Clique and Aerial Knight’s Never Yield.Neil garnered a lot of att...
26 Aug 20211h 12min
Brooke Maggs (Control) On New Kinds Of Story in Video Games
Brooke Maggs is a Senior Narrative Designer for Remedy Games in Helsinki - although she originally hails from Austrailia. She’s worked on a host of award winning games including Control, Florence, Pap...
19 Aug 20211h 20min
Steve Pardo (Signs of the Sojourner) on the Sounds of Home
Steve Pardo is a composer and interactive audio designer in the video game industry. He’s the co-founder of audio production house SkewSound, a game developer at The Pardo Brothers, and an audio direc...
12 Aug 202158min
Matthew Seiji Burns (Eliza) on Our Connection to Technolgy and the Allure of Interactive Fiction
Matthew Seiji Burns is a writer, director, composer, and game designer. With the help of Zachtronics game studio, he created Eliza a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop...
5 Aug 20211h 3min
