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Lostcast

250 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratings

Lostcast is a weekly podcast about making better video games with small teams.

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Episodes

Lostcast 100: Lovecast

December 02, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 6.14 KB

SURVEY SAYS! Let's talk about the survey feedback and lovely comments.

Lostcast 99: The Setup

November 25, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.09 KB

You need a computer to make video games. But what kind and running what software?! Let's talk it out.

Lostcast 98: Macro Horse

November 18, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.42 KB

Geoff 'n Matt discuss macro game design, failing, success, and failing. Game dev!

Lostcast 97: Word Skirmish

November 11, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.04 KB

One game a month, Open Broadcaster, YouTube, Vine, and PROTOTYPES!

Lostcast 96: Tacticast

November 04, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.14 KB

Greenworks, node-webkit, Native Abstractions for Node.js, and other game devery.

Lostcast 95: Jellycast

October 28, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.55 KB

Let's talk about Halloween, faires, motivation, podcasting, and there's some gamedev in there too.

Lostcast 94: Topicast

October 21, 2014 00:00 - 59 minutes - 3.51 KB

Geoff 'n Matt talk about Steam death threats, Humble Mozilla Bundle, Emscripten, and more.

Lostcast 93: Lizardization

October 14, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 5.31 KB

Nintendo Web Framework, optimization, C++, and more game devery.

Lostcast 92: Ramble On U

October 07, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.92 KB

HTML5 support on OUYA? Why not, it's already on Wii U and maaaaybe Xbox One? Let's discuss!

Lostcast 91: Deprecast 2

September 23, 2014 00:00 - 59 minutes - 3.49 KB

Let's talk about our first Steam sale, deprecate ourselves a bit, and have some fun.

Lostcast 90: Minecast

September 17, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.59 KB

Microsoft bought Mojang! Also Geoff talks about his tactical roguelike prototype (say that three times fast).

Lostcast 89: LocalCast

September 10, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 5.3 KB

Let's talk about Intel Developer Forum, HTML5 monetization, and prototyping.

Lostcast 88: Cache Money

September 02, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.02 KB

Today's myriad topics include prototyping, caching, canvas, Chrome, IDF, Sequelitis, and more. Join us!

Lostcast 87: Curacast

August 26, 2014 00:00 - 57 minutes - 3.38 KB

It's been THREE WEEKS! Let's talk about Geoff's side project, HTML5 tech, and more.

Lostcast 86: PlayMaker

August 05, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.26 KB

Geoff 'n Matt talk about games they've been playing including M:TG and Hearthstone. Also, Geoff's new prototype!

Lostcast 85: Let's Pay

July 29, 2014 00:00 - 52 minutes - 3.09 KB

Controversy! YouTube, Twitch, and Let's Play content creators: ethical, moral, both, neither?

Lostcast 84: Our Best Behavior

July 22, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.58 KB

Behavior trees, mobile, desktop, Steam, and more!

Lostcast 83: Crashifornia Extreme

July 15, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.65 KB

California Extreme, arcade games, crashes, mobile payment services and more in this hour-long episode!

Lostcast 82: Extremeworks

July 08, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.42 KB

Geoff 'n Matt disuss node, webkit, and V8 difficulties, as well as California Extreme and project management.

Lostcast 81: Bidness Time

July 01, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.76 KB

Geoff 'n Matt chat about development contracts, HTML5 game licenses, and general businessery type decisions.

Lostcast 80: Devs of the Steam Table

June 24, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.67 KB

Geoff 'n Matt talk about their FIRST WEEK ON STEAM and the numbers behind that. Also, another dev round table video and more.

Lostcast 79: Steamy Streamers

June 17, 2014 00:00 - 59 minutes - 3.48 KB

WE LAUNCHED A GAME ON STEAM! Let's talk about all the craziness.

Lostcast 78: Separation Axis Feeling

June 10, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.53 KB

Geoff 'n Matt talk about AWL on Steam, California Extreme, E3, and tile map collisions.

Lostcast 77: Deprecast

June 03, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.01 KB

Listen as we self-deprecate ourselves into submission for our terrible design decisions in A Wizard's Lizard.

Lostcast 76: Devs of the Rectangle

May 27, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.62 KB

Geoff 'n Matt discuss their experience with a recent HTML5 Hub round table.

Lostcast 75: You Too, YouTubers?

May 20, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.99 KB

Geoff 'n Matt discuss the impending YouTube/Google acquisition of Twitch.tv, as well as some recent prototypes and learnings.

Lostcast 74: Game Design Rhyme

May 13, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.63 KB

Geoff 'n Matt embarrass themselves by exposing how little they understand about game design.

Lostcast 73: Charted Blairitory

May 06, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.35 KB

Entity component systems, Humble Store sales, game deverey, Blairitory, and general indie life! Join us for this and some of that.

Lostcast 72: Ramble On Redux

April 29, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.03 KB

Geoff 'n Matt discuss the difficulties of finishing large projects, music tastes, and other rambly gamedev topics.

Lostcast 71: Make Game Loop

April 22, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 3.55 KB

Geoff 'n Matt discuss build tools, game loops, and more in this hour-long chat.

Lostcast 70: Metacast

April 15, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 4.08 KB

The Lostcast about Lostcast! Download numbers, listener counts, CHARTS and GRAPHS OH MY! Also as always lots of dev/HTML5 talk and tangents.

Lostcast 69: Greencast

April 08, 2014 12:28 - 50 minutes - 2.95 KB

Matt 'n Geoff interview Patrick Klug of Greenheart Games, makers of Game Dev Tycoon.

Lostcast 68: Tweencast

April 01, 2014 12:28 - 1 hour - 4 KB

Matt 'n Geoff discuss scheduling their daily indie lives, and little side projets like Tweencast.

Lostcast 67: Devs of the Roundtable

March 25, 2014 12:28 - 1 hour - 4.23 KB

Matt and Geoff discuss last week's GDC 2014 experience, including Intel's Future of Cross-Platform Game Development roundtable.

Lostcast 66: Love and Marketing

March 19, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 4.86 KB

Matt 'n Geoff chat with Gregory Love of Whippering, an independent business development and marketing firm.

Lostcast 65: HorseFaerie in Pixi Land

March 11, 2014 12:00 - 56 minutes - 3.31 KB

Matt 'n Geoff discuss their decision to continue with their own rendering tools and not switch to Pixi.js (which is a great tool).

Lostcast 64: Tool-Assisted Podcast

March 04, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 4.05 KB

Matt 'n Geoff discuss speed runs (both tool-assisted and manual) and other fun gaming nonsense.

Lostcast 63: Tweenworks

February 25, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 3.65 KB

Matt 'n Geoff discuss tweening, polygonal hit detection, and Steamworks.

Lostcast 62: Motivation Conversation

February 18, 2014 12:00 - 57 minutes - 3.37 KB

Matt 'n Geoff discuss the TINY EPIDEMIC that is lack of motivation.

Lostcast 61: Test Driven Code Style

February 11, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 4.13 KB

Matt 'n Geoff ramble on about test-driven development, code style, and more!

Lostcast 60: A Link Between Wizards

February 05, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 3.71 KB

Matt 'n Geoff talk about A Wizard's Lizard, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Steam Greenlight, and more!

Lostcast 59: Streamer Car Physics

January 28, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 3.57 KB

Matt 'n Geoff talk about the power of streamers, car physics, PIXI, and more!

Lostcast 58: Legend of Backups

January 21, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 3.57 KB

Matt 'n Geoff talk about backups, Legend of Grimrock, Steam Greenlight, and more!

Lostcast 57: LDG Catchup

January 14, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 3.54 KB

Matt 'n Geoff talk about the first 5 days of A Wizard's Lizard on Steam Greenlight, Horse Blair, and other things.

Lostcast 56: 2013 Retrospective

January 08, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 3.66 KB

Matt 'n Geoff talk about A Wizard's Lizard on Steam Greenlight, oh and all of 2013.

Lostcast 55: When Wizards Collide

December 23, 2013 12:00 - 1 hour - 3.95 KB

Matt 'n Geoff talk about A Wizard's Lizard development, including a brand new collision script.

Lostcast 54: Follin in Love with HTML5

December 17, 2013 12:00 - 1 hour - 4.99 KB

LDG interviews world-renowned game composer Tim Follin about his upcoming HTML5 game Contradiction.

Lostcast 53: Iodine Design

December 09, 2013 12:00 - 1 hour - 4.48 KB

Geoff 'n Matt talk about bitmasking, tile edging, and general game design.

Lostcast 52: Macrotastic

December 03, 2013 12:00 - 56 minutes - 3.31 KB

Geoff 'n Matt talk about "macro" game design.

Lostcast 51: A Wizard's Beta

November 26, 2013 12:00 - 1 hour - 6.13 KB

Geoff 'n Matt talk about A Wizard's Lizard development and delivering the beta to hundreds of wonderful preoderererers!