CoffeeWithCross
@coffeewithcross.bsky.social
Studio Game Director. Career from Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness to Silent Hill Ascension. Watch my podcast Brain Arcade. Let’s accelerate the indie revolution.
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I'm on TV! So pumped to be a part of Game Changers and to be part of this cool piece of gaming history. The Discovery series dives into the stories behind everything from Pong to Call of Duty. Give me a shout if you spot me!
#GameChangers #GamingHistory #Documentary #GameDev #IndieGameDev
#GameChangers #GamingHistory #Documentary #GameDev #IndieGameDev
Huge respect for indie devs who plan, persevere, and actually ship!
I chatted with Chris Knauer about his path from TV writer to game designer, lessons from making his own Unreal game, and how to keep scope in check so you finish.
Listen In:
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#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade
I chatted with Chris Knauer about his path from TV writer to game designer, lessons from making his own Unreal game, and how to keep scope in check so you finish.
Listen In:
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#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade
From TV to Unreal with Chris Knauer
Writer Chris Knauer joins Brain Arcade to talk about his leap from writers’ rooms into Unreal Engine. We dig into what it means to treat games as a conversation with players, how art and…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Huge respect for indie devs who plan, persevere, and actually ship!
I chatted with Chris Knauer about his path from TV writer to game designer, lessons from making his own Unreal game, and how to keep scope in check so you finish.
Listen In:
buff.ly/dkV5eoF
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade
I chatted with Chris Knauer about his path from TV writer to game designer, lessons from making his own Unreal game, and how to keep scope in check so you finish.
Listen In:
buff.ly/dkV5eoF
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade
How do you get a job in games when entry roles want experience?
Nathan White, founder of Threeclipse Inc, is helping juniors get real experience shipping games with real mentors. We talk breaking in and how to ship a game with a small junior team.
Listen in: buff.ly/UaopzIA
#GameDev #IndieDev
Nathan White, founder of Threeclipse Inc, is helping juniors get real experience shipping games with real mentors. We talk breaking in and how to ship a game with a small junior team.
Listen in: buff.ly/UaopzIA
#GameDev #IndieDev
How do Juniors Get Experience? with Nathan White (Threeclipse Inc.)
Nathan White, founder of Threeclipse Inc. joins to talk about building opportunities for juniors in game dev through mentorship and real shipped projects. We dig into what it takes to break in today,…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
How do you get a job in games when entry roles want experience?
Nathan White, founder of Threeclipse Inc, is helping juniors get real experience shipping games with real mentors. We talk breaking in and how to ship a game with a small junior team.
Listen in: buff.ly/UaopzIA
#GameDev #IndieDev
Nathan White, founder of Threeclipse Inc, is helping juniors get real experience shipping games with real mentors. We talk breaking in and how to ship a game with a small junior team.
Listen in: buff.ly/UaopzIA
#GameDev #IndieDev
Mergers, layoffs, acquisitions. What do they really mean for the future of games?
Mark Netter, co-founder of ElectraCast Media, and I talk business. From EA’s $55B acquisition to how art and money shape creative industries.
🎧 Listen: buff.ly/eJwMFPU
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcadePodcast
Mark Netter, co-founder of ElectraCast Media, and I talk business. From EA’s $55B acquisition to how art and money shape creative industries.
🎧 Listen: buff.ly/eJwMFPU
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcadePodcast
Profit and Play: The Business of Games
Returning guest Mark Netter and I dig into the business of play. From mergers and layoffs to AI-driven development and the shrinking middle class of indie studios.
We look at how money,…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Mergers, layoffs, acquisitions. What do they really mean for the future of games?
Mark Netter, co-founder of ElectraCast Media, and I talk business. From EA’s $55B acquisition to how art and money shape creative industries.
🎧 Listen: buff.ly/eJwMFPU
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcadePodcast
Mark Netter, co-founder of ElectraCast Media, and I talk business. From EA’s $55B acquisition to how art and money shape creative industries.
🎧 Listen: buff.ly/eJwMFPU
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcadePodcast
Had a great chat with Keith Waggoner on his new podcast Keith IRL! 🎙️
We talked game marketing, creativity, and staying motivated in unpredictable industries. Always love Keith’s energy and “let’s make it happen” spirit.
🎧 Listen here:
We talked game marketing, creativity, and staying motivated in unpredictable industries. Always love Keith’s energy and “let’s make it happen” spirit.
🎧 Listen here:
Ep.2 Chris Cross IRL
In this episode I sit down with my friend and legendary game designer Christopher “Chris” Cross ,the guy behind Medal of Honor and a career’s worth of AAA and indie projects. This wasn’t some stiff…
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October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Had a great chat with Keith Waggoner on his new podcast Keith IRL! 🎙️
We talked game marketing, creativity, and staying motivated in unpredictable industries. Always love Keith’s energy and “let’s make it happen” spirit.
🎧 Listen here:
We talked game marketing, creativity, and staying motivated in unpredictable industries. Always love Keith’s energy and “let’s make it happen” spirit.
🎧 Listen here:
What’s the biggest challenge for creators today?
Discoverability.
I talked with Emmy-winning Stephan Bugaj (Pixar, Telltale, Genvid) about how game marketing has changed, and why finding your community early matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/g7qoADe
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade
Discoverability.
I talked with Emmy-winning Stephan Bugaj (Pixar, Telltale, Genvid) about how game marketing has changed, and why finding your community early matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/g7qoADe
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade
From Pixar to Silent Hill: Stephan Bugaj on Storytelling, Community & Discovery
Stephan Bugaj (Pixar, Telltale, Genvid) joins me to explore the real reasons games succeed and why traditional marketing no longer cuts it. We dig into the saturation of the games market, the myth of…
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October 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What’s the biggest challenge for creators today?
Discoverability.
I talked with Emmy-winning Stephan Bugaj (Pixar, Telltale, Genvid) about how game marketing has changed, and why finding your community early matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/g7qoADe
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade
Discoverability.
I talked with Emmy-winning Stephan Bugaj (Pixar, Telltale, Genvid) about how game marketing has changed, and why finding your community early matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/g7qoADe
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade
I say this all the time, traditional marketing is dead.
Arthur von Nagel joins me to unpack why discoverability is broken, and how indie hits like Balatro & Cult of the Lamb found their people through community.
🎧 Listen in
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#gamedev #indiegamedev #gamemarketing #brainarcade
Arthur von Nagel joins me to unpack why discoverability is broken, and how indie hits like Balatro & Cult of the Lamb found their people through community.
🎧 Listen in
buff.ly/CQ5d7ht
#gamedev #indiegamedev #gamemarketing #brainarcade
Discoverability, Community, and the Death of Traditional Marketing
Chris chats with Producer and previous VP of Production, Arthur von Nagel (Ubisoft, Genvid, Telltale), about how small teams build community-driven hits like Vampire Survivors, Balatro, and Cult of…
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October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I say this all the time, traditional marketing is dead.
Arthur von Nagel joins me to unpack why discoverability is broken, and how indie hits like Balatro & Cult of the Lamb found their people through community.
🎧 Listen in
buff.ly/CQ5d7ht
#gamedev #indiegamedev #gamemarketing #brainarcade
Arthur von Nagel joins me to unpack why discoverability is broken, and how indie hits like Balatro & Cult of the Lamb found their people through community.
🎧 Listen in
buff.ly/CQ5d7ht
#gamedev #indiegamedev #gamemarketing #brainarcade
Joe Ksander & I have been debating storytelling for 30+ years. From UCLA dorms to his days at Netflix & ILM, we talk perseverance and evoking audience / player emotion. So stoked we finally captured one of our chats!
🎧 buff.ly/pOd7aLz
#gamedev #Storytelling #IndieGameDev #animation
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#gamedev #Storytelling #IndieGameDev #animation
Becoming a Director: Storytelling lessons from Games and Film
Chris sits down with longtime friend, animator and filmmaker Joe Ksander, to trace his path from dorms of UCLA to EA’s Medal of Honor and from Hollywood VFX into making films. They talk about crunch…
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September 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Joe Ksander & I have been debating storytelling for 30+ years. From UCLA dorms to his days at Netflix & ILM, we talk perseverance and evoking audience / player emotion. So stoked we finally captured one of our chats!
🎧 buff.ly/pOd7aLz
#gamedev #Storytelling #IndieGameDev #animation
🎧 buff.ly/pOd7aLz
#gamedev #Storytelling #IndieGameDev #animation
The end of an era. We’re in uncharted waters now. Will have a podcast episode soon about this.
The EA sale is bad news for everyone
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September 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The end of an era. We’re in uncharted waters now. Will have a podcast episode soon about this.
What shaped your sense of funny?
We had an absolute blast talking to Mike Drucker Comedian, Emmy Nominated Comedy writer, and Author of Good Game, No Rematch. How do you write comedy without being corny? What's funny about Mortal Combat?
🎧 Join the convo
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#GameDev #ComedyWriting
We had an absolute blast talking to Mike Drucker Comedian, Emmy Nominated Comedy writer, and Author of Good Game, No Rematch. How do you write comedy without being corny? What's funny about Mortal Combat?
🎧 Join the convo
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#GameDev #ComedyWriting
Comedy writing from Nintendo to the Tonight Show with Mike Drucker
Emmy-nominated comedy writer, Author, and Comedian Mike Drucker (Nintendo, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Tonight Show) joins Brain Arcade to talk about punching up the comedy for everything…
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September 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
What shaped your sense of funny?
We had an absolute blast talking to Mike Drucker Comedian, Emmy Nominated Comedy writer, and Author of Good Game, No Rematch. How do you write comedy without being corny? What's funny about Mortal Combat?
🎧 Join the convo
buff.ly/u6eiiJz
#GameDev #ComedyWriting
We had an absolute blast talking to Mike Drucker Comedian, Emmy Nominated Comedy writer, and Author of Good Game, No Rematch. How do you write comedy without being corny? What's funny about Mortal Combat?
🎧 Join the convo
buff.ly/u6eiiJz
#GameDev #ComedyWriting
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Games made in New Zealand Steam Event has begun!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3782840/...
We’re super stoked to have Neon Knives, Snug, and Mingle alongside so many other awesome games made in Aotearoa 🫶!
You can find our 3 games here ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/co...
#indiegame #indiedev
store.steampowered.com/app/3782840/...
We’re super stoked to have Neon Knives, Snug, and Mingle alongside so many other awesome games made in Aotearoa 🫶!
You can find our 3 games here ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/co...
#indiegame #indiedev
September 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Games made in New Zealand Steam Event has begun!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3782840/...
We’re super stoked to have Neon Knives, Snug, and Mingle alongside so many other awesome games made in Aotearoa 🫶!
You can find our 3 games here ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/co...
#indiegame #indiedev
store.steampowered.com/app/3782840/...
We’re super stoked to have Neon Knives, Snug, and Mingle alongside so many other awesome games made in Aotearoa 🫶!
You can find our 3 games here ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/co...
#indiegame #indiedev
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i love looking at art and having horrible moments of eldritch-esque fear considering the amount of decision paths an artist /didn't/ take. someone arrived at a choice when they had infinite options, continually narrowed by constraints and then finally, their own taste or discretion.
September 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
i love looking at art and having horrible moments of eldritch-esque fear considering the amount of decision paths an artist /didn't/ take. someone arrived at a choice when they had infinite options, continually narrowed by constraints and then finally, their own taste or discretion.
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My indie game comes out soon and I really want to hit 5,000 wishlists! Wishlist if you like point-and-click games!
Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda
#IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame #PointandClick
Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda
#IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame #PointandClick
Gumshoe Detective Agency: The First Case on Steam
A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.
tinyurl.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My indie game comes out soon and I really want to hit 5,000 wishlists! Wishlist if you like point-and-click games!
Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda
#IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame #PointandClick
Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda
#IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame #PointandClick
External development teams are often the key to shipping games, but how do we invest in these partnerships and empower them to do their best work?
🎙️Janyl Lambee Tanoy joins Brain Arcade to talk building trust, clarity, and synergy with external dev teams.
Listen here!
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🎙️Janyl Lambee Tanoy joins Brain Arcade to talk building trust, clarity, and synergy with external dev teams.
Listen here!
buff.ly/YAwNIRM
September 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
External development teams are often the key to shipping games, but how do we invest in these partnerships and empower them to do their best work?
🎙️Janyl Lambee Tanoy joins Brain Arcade to talk building trust, clarity, and synergy with external dev teams.
Listen here!
buff.ly/YAwNIRM
🎙️Janyl Lambee Tanoy joins Brain Arcade to talk building trust, clarity, and synergy with external dev teams.
Listen here!
buff.ly/YAwNIRM
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Check out Joe on @coffeewithcross.bsky.social !
Thanks for coming on Joe! @terribleposture.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Check out Joe on @coffeewithcross.bsky.social !
What does it take to ship an indie game in 2025?
Joe Mirabello walks us through creating Battle Train and surviving 4 years of dev, funding, growing a company, and finding the right publisher to successfully make a 9/10 on Steam!
🎧 buff.ly/WqvtYDH
#BrainArcade #GameDev #IndieDev #battletrain
Joe Mirabello walks us through creating Battle Train and surviving 4 years of dev, funding, growing a company, and finding the right publisher to successfully make a 9/10 on Steam!
🎧 buff.ly/WqvtYDH
#BrainArcade #GameDev #IndieDev #battletrain
September 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
What does it take to ship an indie game in 2025?
Joe Mirabello walks us through creating Battle Train and surviving 4 years of dev, funding, growing a company, and finding the right publisher to successfully make a 9/10 on Steam!
🎧 buff.ly/WqvtYDH
#BrainArcade #GameDev #IndieDev #battletrain
Joe Mirabello walks us through creating Battle Train and surviving 4 years of dev, funding, growing a company, and finding the right publisher to successfully make a 9/10 on Steam!
🎧 buff.ly/WqvtYDH
#BrainArcade #GameDev #IndieDev #battletrain
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Our cozy semi-idle game Plantasia just officialy released on Steam! The Full Release includes several new features: decorate your bedroom, buy and shuffle seeds, have an overview of your seed database, and more!
🌿 store.steampowered.com/app/3236330/...
#cozygame #game #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
🌿 store.steampowered.com/app/3236330/...
#cozygame #game #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
September 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Our cozy semi-idle game Plantasia just officialy released on Steam! The Full Release includes several new features: decorate your bedroom, buy and shuffle seeds, have an overview of your seed database, and more!
🌿 store.steampowered.com/app/3236330/...
#cozygame #game #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
🌿 store.steampowered.com/app/3236330/...
#cozygame #game #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
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My indie game comes out soon and I really want to hit 5,000 wishlists! If you like mystery games, check it out!
Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda
#IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame
Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda
#IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame
Gumshoe Detective Agency: The First Case on Steam
A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.
tinyurl.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My indie game comes out soon and I really want to hit 5,000 wishlists! If you like mystery games, check it out!
Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda
#IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame
Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda
#IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame
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My friend and video game developer @coffeewithcross.bsky.social has a great podcast called "BRAIN ARCADE," and on MY episode, we discuss Creativity vs. Business. Chris was an important interview subject for my 8 episode HBO series about video games called "Game Changers."
Give it a listen, please!!
Give it a listen, please!!
Creativity vs. Business with Game Changers Producer Steve Hoffmann
Podcast Episode · Brain Arcade · 08/28/2025 · 50m
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August 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My friend and video game developer @coffeewithcross.bsky.social has a great podcast called "BRAIN ARCADE," and on MY episode, we discuss Creativity vs. Business. Chris was an important interview subject for my 8 episode HBO series about video games called "Game Changers."
Give it a listen, please!!
Give it a listen, please!!
The layoffs keep coming! We need to talk about what happens when spreadsheets and creativity meet. Steve Hoffmann joins me on Brain Arcade to talk game history and the business of creative industries.
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#Gamedev #Indiegamdev #Brainarcade #Gamepodcast
🎧 Join the convo!
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#Gamedev #Indiegamdev #Brainarcade #Gamepodcast
August 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The layoffs keep coming! We need to talk about what happens when spreadsheets and creativity meet. Steve Hoffmann joins me on Brain Arcade to talk game history and the business of creative industries.
🎧 Join the convo!
buff.ly/CmVXsVq
#Gamedev #Indiegamdev #Brainarcade #Gamepodcast
🎧 Join the convo!
buff.ly/CmVXsVq
#Gamedev #Indiegamdev #Brainarcade #Gamepodcast
How do you design player choices? Show consequences like Telltale—or hide them like Chrono Trigger? 🎮 In this Brain Arcade ep, I chat with Martin Montgomery on agency, dissonance & what makes outcomes feel meaningful.
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#gamedev #indiedev #BrainArcade
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#gamedev #indiedev #BrainArcade
Answering your questions! Hidden Consequences vs. Explicit Feedback
Today we answer your questions and we had a great question come from Plexicraft! Narrative expert, Martin Montgomery, returns to Brain Arcade to dig into how player choices shape narrative. From…
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August 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
How do you design player choices? Show consequences like Telltale—or hide them like Chrono Trigger? 🎮 In this Brain Arcade ep, I chat with Martin Montgomery on agency, dissonance & what makes outcomes feel meaningful.
🎧 buff.ly/BflPNJU
#gamedev #indiedev #BrainArcade
🎧 buff.ly/BflPNJU
#gamedev #indiedev #BrainArcade
I hire designers who make sound effects 🎶
Sounds ridiculous but sound design and game design truly go hand in hand. Jon Ontiveros talks how audio can shape a player’s heartbeat, heighten tension, and build terror.
🎧Listen Now!
buff.ly/iNEAlot
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade #Sounddesign
Sounds ridiculous but sound design and game design truly go hand in hand. Jon Ontiveros talks how audio can shape a player’s heartbeat, heighten tension, and build terror.
🎧Listen Now!
buff.ly/iNEAlot
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade #Sounddesign
August 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I hire designers who make sound effects 🎶
Sounds ridiculous but sound design and game design truly go hand in hand. Jon Ontiveros talks how audio can shape a player’s heartbeat, heighten tension, and build terror.
🎧Listen Now!
buff.ly/iNEAlot
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade #Sounddesign
Sounds ridiculous but sound design and game design truly go hand in hand. Jon Ontiveros talks how audio can shape a player’s heartbeat, heighten tension, and build terror.
🎧Listen Now!
buff.ly/iNEAlot
#GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade #Sounddesign
Can’t find the MMO you want to play? David Siddock couldn’t either, so he’s building one.
We talked nostalgia, what we're missing today, and what MMOs could be next.
Listen here:
buff.ly/iNEAlot
#indiegamedev #MMORPG #gamedev #BrainArcade
We talked nostalgia, what we're missing today, and what MMOs could be next.
Listen here:
buff.ly/iNEAlot
#indiegamedev #MMORPG #gamedev #BrainArcade
August 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Can’t find the MMO you want to play? David Siddock couldn’t either, so he’s building one.
We talked nostalgia, what we're missing today, and what MMOs could be next.
Listen here:
buff.ly/iNEAlot
#indiegamedev #MMORPG #gamedev #BrainArcade
We talked nostalgia, what we're missing today, and what MMOs could be next.
Listen here:
buff.ly/iNEAlot
#indiegamedev #MMORPG #gamedev #BrainArcade
Blockchain? Yeah, I know some of it's crazy😅 but knowledge is power so let's talk about it! Is there a way small teams could use it to build trust and transparency?
Episode here: buff.ly/nHMQHsq
#IndieDev #GameDev #BrainArcade #NewPodcast
Episode here: buff.ly/nHMQHsq
#IndieDev #GameDev #BrainArcade #NewPodcast
July 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Blockchain? Yeah, I know some of it's crazy😅 but knowledge is power so let's talk about it! Is there a way small teams could use it to build trust and transparency?
Episode here: buff.ly/nHMQHsq
#IndieDev #GameDev #BrainArcade #NewPodcast
Episode here: buff.ly/nHMQHsq
#IndieDev #GameDev #BrainArcade #NewPodcast
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"but that's what kickstarter is for" says the strawman
Do you know how much it costs to run a Kickstarter campaign that *might* be successful? It's all the difficulty of marketing a game, piled on top of funding the game.
Do you know how much it costs to run a Kickstarter campaign that *might* be successful? It's all the difficulty of marketing a game, piled on top of funding the game.
Some people want to play video games.
Some other people want to make video games.
If only there were a way for video games to get made.
Some other people want to make video games.
If only there were a way for video games to get made.
July 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM
"but that's what kickstarter is for" says the strawman
Do you know how much it costs to run a Kickstarter campaign that *might* be successful? It's all the difficulty of marketing a game, piled on top of funding the game.
Do you know how much it costs to run a Kickstarter campaign that *might* be successful? It's all the difficulty of marketing a game, piled on top of funding the game.
I’ve got notebooks full of small multiplayer game ideas but the server costs always killed them.
Talking to Ken Anderson about serverless, peer-to-peer games felt liberating!
No servers. No sunsets. Just games that could live forever.
🎧 Listen in—Ken’s always a great guest!
buff.ly/I9RBvNG
Talking to Ken Anderson about serverless, peer-to-peer games felt liberating!
No servers. No sunsets. Just games that could live forever.
🎧 Listen in—Ken’s always a great guest!
buff.ly/I9RBvNG
July 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I’ve got notebooks full of small multiplayer game ideas but the server costs always killed them.
Talking to Ken Anderson about serverless, peer-to-peer games felt liberating!
No servers. No sunsets. Just games that could live forever.
🎧 Listen in—Ken’s always a great guest!
buff.ly/I9RBvNG
Talking to Ken Anderson about serverless, peer-to-peer games felt liberating!
No servers. No sunsets. Just games that could live forever.
🎧 Listen in—Ken’s always a great guest!
buff.ly/I9RBvNG