Game Developers Like You

Today you'll hear from @orchidgoth about her work with Casual Connect (18-20 July 2016 in San Francisco), editing and curating the http://www.gamesauce.biz postmortems, and her first experiences developing games. Music by Danny Baranowsky

Nic Vasconcellos and Holden Link of Turbo Button developed Adventure Time VR, SMS Racing, Floor Plan, and more! This is their talk with http://gamkedo.club The podcast is now Gamkedo.Community (formerly GameDevsLikeYou). Music by Danny Baranowsky

Chad LaClair was a world builder for BioShock Infinite and more recently is an indie studio cofounder and artist for Molasses Flood, creators of Flame in the Flood. Here he was speaking with our practice group, http://gamkedo.club Music by Danny Baranowsky

Erin Reynolds is the Creative Director for Nevermind, a successfully crowdfunded horror game with biosensor feedback integration. Find out more via @nevermindgame and http://nevermindgame.com Music by Danny Baranowsky.

Tabby Rose is a lead developer for Quench, a narrative puzzle game currently on KickStarter. We discuss funding, marketing, and more. Follow their game @quenchgame on Twitter or her at @tabbyrose Music by Danny Baranowsky.

Tyler Coleman is an indie developer working on Merchant, a hit menu-driven mobile game where you play as an RPG clerk. Learn about how they foster community at https://www.reddit.com/r/merchantrpg and more! Music by Danny Baranowsky

Meet Caspar Gray. Today he's half of the Arsenal agency (thearsenalagency.com) helping developers land publishing deals. In the past he worked on the publishing side at Eidos and Square Enix. Follow @unfriendlyghost on Twitter. Music by Danny Baranowsky

Brad Carney started his career as a PS2 developer on an FPS/fighting game hybrid, but more recently has led Wrack game (wrackgame.com) and its sequel Starfall (now on KickStarter). He's @FBECarnevil on Twitter. Music by Danny Baranowsky

Allison Vansickle (@AlliTheAnimal) and Royce Rogers (@Roycetherogers) of @OverHookGames talk about their mobile game ZenFold, console development difficulties, GDC, and making games in the midwest (KC MO!) Music by Danny Baranowsky

In Part 2 Lee Perry (Lead Design for Gears of War and Unreal Tournament) discusses his indie VR game - MoonStrikeVR.com - and he also offers advice to new game developers. Follow him on Twitter as @MrLeePerry Music by Danny Baranowsky

Lee Perry was an artist at SquareSoft, art director and lead level designer for Ion Storm Dallas (Anachronox), then lead/sr. level/gameplay designer on Unreal Tournament and Gears of Wars series. Part 2 is coming next week! Music by Danny Baranowsky

Rob Jagnow, Lazy 8's founder. His indie game Cogs earned nearly $1 million. Their next game, Extrasolar, was a whole new kind of experience. Game About *: http://www.lazy8studios.com/star/index.html Extrasolar: extrasolar.com Music by Danny Baranowsky

Brett Sweeney has programmed for social games, a Lara Croft title, and now League of Legends. Hear about job interviews, getting started, and more. He's ubiquitous42 on most networks and @brettmotron on Twitter. Music by Danny Baranowsky

Today's interview is with Matt Tonks, programmer formerly at Electronic Arts then Epic Games for Gears of War 2 & 3, now on a founding team for bitmonstergames.com We discuss their iOS and Steam early access games and more. Music by Danny Baranowsky

David's been making games professionally for over three decades, with projects for Activision, Disney, and Electronic Arts, including hits like Duck Tales, The Prisoner, Heroes of Might and Magic, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, and dozens more. Music by Danny Baranowsky.

Bethany Martin is a graduate student in USC's Interactive Media program. She has a background in visual art but has taught herself programming in her move to game design and development. Find her on Twitter as @Artizaw5um Music by Danny Baranowsky

This is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Jason Spencer about his professional level design career. Follow him on Twitter as @wolfen420 and view his portfolio at http://wolfenproductions.com Music by Danny Baranowsky

In this first of a 2 part interview Jason Spencer discusses the story of how he got into professional level design as well as the first half of his career experiences so far. Tune in next week for part 2. Music by Danny Baranowsky

For 18 years Tomo Moriwaki has been an artist, lead game designer, creative director, and now a cofounder of http://www.HyperkineticStudios.com Here's his recent talk at Gamkedo LA Club (become a member at http://LAGameDevs.com) Music by Danny Baranowsky

Chelsea Howe is a Creative Director for EA Mobile. She's taught game development, made serious games with Jane McGonigal, is on GDC's advisory board, was a designer on Farmville, and helps run QGCon. @manojalpa ChelseaHowe.com Music by Danny Baranowsky.