Shawn Hargreaves talks about the Allegro game programming library and the community that sprung up around it inthe late 1990s. We talk about what happens when your hobby project accidentally turns into something with a lifeof its own, the ine

Episode 5 - Leonard Richardson

Mar 25th, 2018 1h 30m

Leonard Richardson talks about a number of free and open-source games he made, as well as his time running agoofy BBS as a kid. We discuss the experience of having dozens of strangers create their own riffs of a game hetossed together in a co

Episode 4 - Jonah Davidson

Nov 4th, 2017 1h 16m

Jonah Davidson talks about his time as part of the rpg2knet RPG Maker community. We talkabout the desire to push the limits of the tool's strange constraints, the rite of passageof dealing with terrible translations, and how a community can s

Episode 3 - Roman Banias

Sep 2nd, 2017 1h 20m

My childhood best friend Roman Banias talks about the games he made for fun as a youngchild. We discuss the magic and wonder of type-in programming books, the home computeras a toy, the act of creation as a natural extension of childhood pla

Episode 2 - Phil Salvador

Jul 27th, 2017 1h 11m

Phil Salvador of The Obscuritory talks about his tenure as an administrator of the MarioFan Games Galaxy. We discuss the driving energy behind goofy joke games, the fragilenature of early internet communities, the interconnected nature of fa

Episode 1 - Kirk Israel

Jun 23rd, 2017 1h 23m

Kirk Israel talks about JoustPong, a game he has made and remade many times over the years.We dive into the homebrew community surrounding the Atari 2600 in the early 2000s, the strainof obsessive assembly coding on relationships, and the cha

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