Thousand Ant Indie Dev Podcast

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Thousand Ant Indie Dev Podcast - Dan Cook (Dev of Cozy Grove with Spry Fox)

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt Mirrorfish speaks with indie video game developer Dan Cook, developer of Cozy Grove, Triple Town and Alphabear, among many others together with David Edery and the team at Spry Fox. We talk about indie game development theory, game design and Dan's story in the game industry. Find Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danctheduck Read Dan's blog at: https://lostgarden.home.blog/

Thousand Ant Indie Dev Podcast - Tom Betts (Dev of Sir You're Being Hunted, Signal From Tolva)

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt Mirrorfish speaks with indie video game developer Tom Betts, developer of Sir You're Being Hunted, Signal From Tolva and the Light Will Keep Us Safe together with the team at Big Robot. We talk about indie game development, ways of funding indie games, experimentation and more. Find Tom on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tomnullpointer --- Learn Unity and game development with experienced indie game developers. Subscribe for tutorials, devlogs,...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Tor & Bryan of Odin Inspector and Serializer for Unity

In this podcast Matt Mirrorfish sits down with Tory Vestergaard and Bryan Mehr of Sirenix, makers of Odin Inspector and Serializer one of the most popular and powerful Unity editor programming extensions on the Unity Asset Store. We talk about how the company got started, some of their ups and downs, what it's like working as a part of the Unity3D ecosystem and more. Purchase Odin on the Unity Asset Store: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/odin-inspector-and-serializer-8...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Prof. Mike Sellers, Director of Game Design Program Indiana University

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt speaks with Professor Michael Sellers who is Director of the Game Design Program at Indiana University. Mike has a long and storied experience in the game design field with stints at Maxis, Kabam and many others over his decades in the industry. He's also the author of  "Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach". Find Mike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/onlinealchemist Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach on Goodreads: https://www.goodr...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Cozy K from @cozy.games

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt speaks with Kennedy from @cozy.games about her work as a content creator and the community she leads who love to play cute and cozy games like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley and many others. This is a bit of a different episode speaking with a content creator as opposed to a developer or business person so let us know in the comments if you enjoy it.You can find Kennedy on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMfX5Gmyll4ceAX_NIAU3g...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Thomas Reisenegger of Indie Games PR Agency Future Friends (Ep 8)

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt Mirrorfish speaks with Thomas Reisenegger from indie games promotion agency Future Friends Games. Matt and Thomas discuss the fundamentals of marketing and promoting an indie game in 2021, how to succeed on Steam, what makes some games more marketable than others, what a PR agency even exactly does, the social video sharing platform TikTok, it's relevance to indie game devs and how to get started and draw attention for your game on the platfor...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Kyle Kukshtel, developer of Cantata

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt speaks with indie game developer Kyle Kukshtel about the indie game scene in New York, rants a bit about life in America (this was recorded pre-election 2020), indie game scenes in general, Kyle's awesome sci-fi spiritual strategy game Cantata, his free open source game data editor Depot and a whole lot more. You can find Depot for free on the Visual Studio Marketplace here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=afterschool.depo...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Jonas Tyroller, Developer of Will You Snail, Islanders (Ep 6)

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt speaks with Jonas Tyroller, who is a game developer and content creator. He is currently working on Will You Snail, an AI driven platformer with rage-game-elements and runs a terrific YouTube channel publishing game development content. He was also part of the team at GrizzlyGames who released Islanders on Steam, an interesting minimalist city builder game. In the episode we talk about game schools, what makes a good game development universit...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Jonas Tyroller, Developer of Will You Snail, Islanders (Ep 6)

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt speaks with Jonas Tyroller, who is a game developer and content creator. He is currently working on Will You Snail, an AI driven platformer with rage-game-elements and runs a terrific YouTube channel publishing game development content. He was also part of the team at GrizzlyGames who released Islanders on Steam, an interesting minimalist city builder game. In the episode we talk about game schools, what makes a good game development universit...

Thousand Ant Podcast Ep.4: Matt & Jason Storey talk Design Patterns in Unity and C#

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt Mirrorfish speaks with Jason Storey who you may have seen on Infallible Code, Jason Weimann's channel and many other respected channels of the Unity Gamedev sphere. He's also active on the Thousand Ant Discord, along with many others, in particular that of Infallible Code if you want to interact with him on there. Jason brings a great and thoughtful perspective to the topics of Unity3d, game development, coding and writing good C# code specifi...

Podcast Episode 5: Mobile Game Dev, Monetization, Collaboration | Matt Schell and Andrew Garrahan (Computer Lunch)

Thousand Ant Podcast Matt Mirrorfish and Sam Eng Talk Indie Game Dev (Ep. 3)

In this game dev podcast with Matt Mirrorfish and Sam Eng of Thousand Ant we talk about making indie games in Unity3d, game design and the progress on both of our indie game projects Skate Story and Untitled Cute Space Game. We also take a look at the release notes for the Unity 2020.2 beta, talk about giant hamburgers, skate videos and a whole lot more. You can listen to the audio here and if you're interested in watching this as a video, it's available on our YouTube channel linked below. ...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Matt Mirrorfish and Matt Gambell of Game Dev Guide (Ep. 2)

In this game dev podcast with Matt Mirrorfish and Matt Gambell of Game Dev Guide we talk about making indie games in Unity3d, staying motivated on long projects, programming in C#, how to find the right software design architecture, when to use assets or not, and a whole lot more. This is our second episode so we're just getting warmed up but drop us a comment if you enjoyed it or you have any feedback on how we can improve in the future! You can find Matt's Game Dev Guide channel here: htt...

Thousand Ant Podcast: Matt Mirrorfish and Sam Eng Talk Indie Game Dev (Ep. 1)

In this game dev podcast with Matt Mirrorfish and Sam Eng of Thousand Ant we talk about making indie games in Unity3d, programming in C#, how to find the right software design architecture, artistic expression in games and a whole lot more. This is our first episode so we're just getting warmed up but drop us a comment if you enjoyed it or you have any feedback on how we can improve in the future! --- Learn Unity and game development with experienced indie game developers. Subscribe for tu...