The Industry Idiots Game Design Podcast
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In this week’s exciting episode, we’re joined by our good friend Jeff Gagné (Associate World Director @ Ubisoft Stockholm) to talk all things World Design! We chat AC: Syndicate, Prince
Continue readingEP29_ Dynamic Worlds, Combat X Level Design /w Jeff Gagné
In this week’s magical episode, we had the honor to sit down with award-winning author, the dark eye professional design expert, national chairwoman of the German Writers Association (V S
Continue readingEP28_ Building Worlds, GameDev Unions, Writing Process /w Lena Falkenhagen
In this week’s episode, we talk about flying-tornado houses and what it would take to create a new, modern Counter-Strike. As part of the industry and in love with games,
Continue readingEP27_ No One Lives Forever, Re-inventing Counter-Strike
In this week’s hilarious episode, we had the pleasure to sit down with Narrative Designer & Video Game Writer Edwin McRae (Path of Exile, Lost Ember, and more) to discuss
Continue readingEP26_ Narrative Design & Writing Games /w Edwin McRae
In this week’s episode, we talk about game’s release windows, upcoming DC games, and Sven gets really hyped about finally having played Titanfall 2. We also discuss movement and locomotion
Continue readingEP25_ Titanfall 2, DC & Game Releases, Movement in VR
In this week’s episode, we’re chatting about the success of Fall Guys as well as the latest Total War game called Troy. We also discuss Shadow of Mordors Nemesis System
Continue readingEP24_ Fall Guys, Nemesis System, Total War Troy, Metagaming
In this week’s episode, we’re talking about mastering the dungeons, open-world games, and how players are less likely to get lost as well as procedural narratives. We also disagree on
Continue readingEP23_ Dungeon Mastering, Open World Spatial Cinematography, Procedural Narratives
In this week’s episode, we’re publishing one of the recent Patreon specials as it’s vacation time for the idiots and you’ll still have something to listen to while Sam is
Continue readingEP22_ Nostalgia Games (Special + New Support Structure)
In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure to sit down with Mitja Roskaric (Lead Level Designer @ Machine Games) to discuss being in a leadership position, designing for coop
Continue readingEP21_ Leading Teams, Player Expectations /w Mitja Roskaric
In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure to sit down with Max Pears (Level Designer @ CD Projekt RED, Host @ LevelDesignLobby) to discuss all things level design, why