Dev's Advocate

In this episode we talk to Josiah Johnson about Awakened Evil, his loving tribute to the classic Castlevania. We discuss the challenges of juggling a day job with game development, managing scope, and finishing your game.

You can check out the developer and play the demo for Awakened Evil below:

In this episode, marketing enthusiast Bobby Mojsovski of Mystive Studios walks us through his game dev projects and shares his important knowledge on how to market your indie game! We talk about the soon to be released Alan Sharp, a mystery/horror game inspired by classics like Amnesia and Lairs of Fear. Bobby takes us through the development process and shares some of his key game development strategies that you can find in his YouTube channel. It was hard to keep this one under an hour because it’s packed full of useful information!

You can checkout Alan Sharp here

In this episode, we talk to artist and game developer, Jesse Bohorquez, who, with his brother, is working on an as yet untitled retro inspired ninja action game. We talk about the iterative approach to game development, working with one's brother, dealing with burnout, exchange lots of game design ideas and get a lot of details about the currently in development ninja game. Check out Royal Den Studios and their other games below:

In this episode we talk to Trever Mock about his game The Path of Ren. Trever takes us on his path from a musician, to a software developer, to an indie game dev. He even titles his game for the first time ever - our exclusive! We talk about gameplay mechanics, inspirations, and the challenge of producing artwork as a programmer.

The Path of Ren is a precision platformer crossing the boundaries of Metroidvania and inspired by games like Celeste.

In this episode we talk to Mike Manojlovic about his Hellbound game, about how he went from software development, to starting his own software company and working on his passion project and the steep learning curves involved in being a solo developer.

Hellbound: Awakening is an Action-RPG inspired by Castlevania, the Souls genre, and the divine comedy. It will be released on the Nintendo Switch as well as on Steam.

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In this episode, we talk with Alia, who has recently got her PhD in Digital Media/Communication and Culture, which was attained with a thesis on Video Games, specifically Multimodal Game Design. We talk about her thesis, about the games she developed for it, about the cultural impact games make, video games as therapy, and other very thought provoking and important subjects.

Alia is a musician, audio producer, software developer, graphic designer, game designer, the list goes on. A true embodiment of a creative polymath. Check out her games and her music at the following links:

In this episode, we talk to Raul, a.k.a. Skull Commando Labs, one of the co-founders of Indie World Order. Indie World Order is an initiative to build a stronger indie game developer community and to help indie creatives in any way possible. This organization has gained tremendous traction in the few years since its inception, and now, they're launching their own immersive and interactive digital indie convention, IWOCon, which will take place on March 26, 2021. In addition to all this, Raul also runs Sidescroller Magazine, and is a game developer, who released Mouse and Cheese Tactics, and is now hard at work, developing Skull's Nightmare. We talk about all this and more in this jam packed and informative interview!

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In the first, fairly short episode, the hosts interview each other. We talk briefly about our history in game development, the projects we're working on, as well as what got us into game development and some of our earliest influences, such a Super Mario Bros and Double Dragon.

Anthony is an indie game and software developer. His current game project is a Norse based board game with rules mixed from from scrabble, checkers, and other classics, titled Battle Runes of the Viking Gods.

Eric is a solo game developer who goes under the brand KovaKreative. He is currently busy developing a Halloween themed 2D platformer called Johnny Pompadouri in "Hey ma! I think I'm havin' a NIGHTMARE!" Find KovaKreative and Johnny Pompadouri at the following links: