The MGIF Podcast

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. This episode of Making Games Is Fun is with Anita Wong. Anita works at the PR company Indigo Pearl, known for their work with Devolver Digital and Blizzard, amongst many others. We look at Anita’s early, rubbish jobs before she got into PR, as well as how she got the job at Indigo Pearl. We talk about the business ...

MGIF S4 E7: Ho-Yee Li

March 23, 2020 00:01 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. This episode of Making Games Is Fun is with Ho-Yee Li. Ho-Yee is a producer at Mediatonic, and has just released their first game, Murder By Numbers. We talk about how it feels to be, at the time of recording, on the cusp of releasing a videogame. We also chat about extracurricular activities, such as Ho-Yee’s cont...

MGIF S4 E6: George Batchelor

March 16, 2020 00:01 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. This episode of Making Games Is Fun is with George Batchelor of State of Play. George works at State of Play by day, and by night he creates “sad animal games”; conversation-based experiences featuring a broad variety of charming fauna. He is currently working on “Bird Alone”, a sort of “Headspace” meets “Bury Me My...

MGIF S4 E5: Dan Maher

March 02, 2020 00:05 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. This episode of Making Games Is Fun is with Dan Maher, editorial director at Explosive Alan, although you may know him from Inside XBox and Videogame Nation. We chatted about Dan growing up with a love of games, and how he knew from a young age tha being a games journalist was all he wanted to do in life. We also dis...

MGIF S4 E4: Ricky Haggett

February 17, 2020 00:01 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. This episode of Making Games Is Fun is with Ricky Haggett! Ricky, previously of Honeyslug, now heads up Hollow Ponds with his wife and is working on a currently unannounced title. I talked to Ricky about how Hohokum came about from a variety of prototypes, and his process of taking various game ideas to fruition, a...

MGIF S4 E3: Daniel Krupa

February 03, 2020 00:01 - 1 hour - 60.4 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. This episode of Making Games Is Fun is with the wonderful Daniel Krupa of RKG. Dan formed YouTube channel RKG with his two friends and work colleagues Gav Murphy and Rory Powers when they left their roles at IGN UK to turn their IGN youtube series Prepare To Try into a full time endeavour. I chat to Dan about starti...

MGIF S4 E2: Jim Unwin

January 20, 2020 00:01 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. This episode of Making Games Is Fun is with Jim Unwin. Jim is a game artist and a UI/UX developer currently working at Glowmade, an indie dev studio based in Guildford. Jim has worked in the industry for many years, being involved with Core Design back in the day. He has also worked at Lionhead, Kuju, Media Molecule...

MGIF S4 E1: George Osborn

January 06, 2020 00:01 - 51 minutes - 47 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. We start 2020 with an absolute STONKER of a pod with George Osborn. George is head of communications at UKIE, but he’s much more than that - he’s an ambassador for the charity Special Effect, the founder of Gamerbake, a well of industry knowledge and a great talker. We look at George’s life growing up with games and ...

MGIF: EGX Special

October 21, 2019 13:34 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. While you await the new series of Making Games Is Fun, I thought I’d put a mini bonus episode together from my visit to EGX. And, well, here it is! This episode features a catch up with Alex of Polygon Treehouse, previous guests on the podcast, a look at Unto The End and it’s all rounded off with a chat with Jack At...

MGIF S3 E14: Holly Nielsen

September 30, 2019 05:05 - 1 hour - 56 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. This episode of Making Games Is Fun is with videogame journalist and historian Holly Nielsen. We talk about when Holly's interest in both videogames and history began, and how she managed to marry the two and make that into a career. We get into the history of gaming and how communities formed around games. We also l...

MGIF S3 E13: Anna Hollinrake

September 16, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 66.7 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. I sat down with Anna in their home to chat about their artwork and the process of creating concept art, as well as their extraordinary personal work in which Anna creates beautiful landscapes with a tangible sense of place. We also get into Anna’s history with art and videogames and we even reminisce about the ancient...

MGIF S3 E12: Mode7 Games

September 02, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. New episodes release every other week. Subscribe to the Patreon today to get the next episode of Making Games Is Fun a week early. Go to www.patreon.com/MGIF to find out more. For this episode, I visited Paul Kilduff-Taylor of Mode7 Games in his home in Warwick. We discussed the release of his first solo project, War...

MGIF S3 E11: Alexis Trust

August 21, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. I sat down with the incredible Alexis Trust during their last days at Attention Seekers, a London based creative agency specialising in videogame content. I spoke with Alexis about their incredible, varied career and life, from growing up in a poor family, to joining the army at age 15, their path to being a successf...

MGIF S3 E10: Emily Gera

July 08, 2019 09:58 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. Emily Gera is a freelance videogame journalist who has written for Variety, Polygon, Eurogamer and The Guardian, amongst many others. In this episode, we talk about the process of writing for videogames, how Emily got where she is today and why she prefers writing over speaking. This turns into a therapy session abou...

MGIF S3 E9: Luca Redwood

June 11, 2019 17:09 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. Luca Redwood is the creator of 10000000 and You Must Build A Boat, a pair of light-hearted, beautifully designed match 3 action RPG games for mobile. His latest game, Photographs, is a huge departure from previous titles, as a series of five tragic vignettes moved forward by five different puzzle games. We sat...

MGIF S3 E8: Haley Uyrus

May 10, 2019 12:46 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. To calm my nerves after going so far out of London in the last episode (Cambridge), I decided to delve deep into the heart of the city and interview Haley Uyrus of Mediatonic. Haley recently left Failbetter Games, a previous guest of this podcast, and we talk about what it’s like to move from a smaller studio t...

MGIF S3 E7: Polygon Treehouse

April 19, 2019 13:44 - 1 hour - 69.2 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. Episode seven of this series is with Polygon Treehouse. Polygon Treehouse are an indie dev studio from Cambridge, and are made up of two ex Guerilla Games and Sony veterans Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou and Tom Jones. I ventured JUST OUTSIDE OF LONDON (gasp) into the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside to interview them ...

MGIF S3 E6: Daisy Fernandez

March 21, 2019 12:47 - 1 hour - 55 MB

This episode I sit down with State of Play's Daisy Fernandez. We talk about game dev courses and how they've improved over the years, what Daisy cares about when it comes to telling stories in games and we reminisce about old games and how they made us feel.

MGIF S3 E5: Alysia Judge

September 05, 2018 17:56 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. Episode Five is with the spectacular Alysia Judge, a freelance games journalist, presenter and producer. Bit of a change of the rules with this one as historically I've always spoken to game developers, but I wanted to interview Alysia to get her take on the broader subject of games culture, where it is and where...

The Chucklefish Interviews: Story So Far

August 15, 2018 10:02

Back in May, I announced the launch of a new, additional format for Making Games Is Fun - video profiles. They began with the announcement of The Chucklefish Interviews: a series of video portraits of the good people of Chucklefish. Episode Four is currently in the works, but if you missed the announcement or haven't been following, so far we have heard the stories of Adam, Doris and Rodrigo, and you can catch up with these three episodes right now! These videos take time to get right ...

MGIF S3 E4: Shedworks

August 13, 2018 17:40 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

Hit play for the podcast interview below. MGIF is also available on iTunes or with whatever podcast software you use. Just search for "Making Games Is Fun" and hit subscribe. Greg Kythreotis and Dan Fineberg are a duo known as Shedworks - a two man indie company who work out of a small shed in London. They are currently working on Sable, an open world, combatless title focusing on characters, dialogue and a sense of place. I sat down with Greg and Dan in their lovely shed and we chat...

MGIF S3 E3: Failbetter Games

June 24, 2018 16:50 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB

Failbetter Games are an indie game studio responsible for Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and browser based game Fallen London.

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