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Basically a Podcast - Ep11 Matt Bitner: A Robot Named Fight - Sep 2nd 2017
Basically a Podcast
English - August 02, 2020 16:07 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBHobbies Leisure Video Games Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today Scarf sits down to talk with Matt Bitner, the solo developer of the recently released metroidvania game A Robot Named Fight.
00:00 How Matt got into development
03:34 The first idea for the game
04:59 On recreating the feel of Super Metroid
06:55 What is Unity?
20:03 Art and mechanical influences
24:32 Deadcells and Roguelike Metroidvanias
31:08 Thoughts on Samus Returns
35:22 Releasing a game in the era of Steam Direct
44:44 Crunch as a solo developer
47:00 Tutorials and translations
52:30 Game Options and First Efforts
55:59 Marketing your game
1:02:19 Advice to aspiring developers
Learn more about A Robot Named Fight www.aRobotNamedFight.com https://twitter.com/RobotNamedFight https://www.facebook.com/ARobotNamedF... https://discord.gg/6Bs84xW
Outro Music by Edge
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