I was lucky enough to with the Creative Director and Co-Founder of prettysmart games, Dr. Miko Charbonneau, shortly after the release of the studio's latest title, The Spirit Lift.
We talked about the many somewhat obscure consoles Miko grew up with access to, a $10,000 camera starting on fire, running a remote indie studio, making games with your partner, and dive deep into The Spirit Lift.
The first video episode of the podcast wasn't intended to be the second episode, so there will still be at least one audio-only release coming up. But with The Spirit Lift have just released a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to get this one out asap.
Checkout the game for yourself: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/THE_SPIRIT_LIFT/
And if you play it, leave a review. And keep up with prettysmart games: https://prettysmartgames.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=d15c1d7b2930908cb83c6143c&id=e2923b14a7
Time codes:
0:00 – Intro & celebrating the release of The Spirit Lift.
4:09 – Learning about Miko's gaming history from early consoles to grad school.
15:51 – Interning at Microsoft, meeting her husband at work, and starting prettysmart games.
34:00 – Sharing personal stories through art, diving into family history & doing prettysmart full-time.
38:30 – Starting The Spirit Lift backstory; building out the remote studio, establishing company culture, what led to this game.
44:36 – Shouting out everyone's work on the game & going into pure The Spirit Lift talk the rest of the way.
1:34:20 – Wrapping up, Shouting out the Minn Max ICE Out fundraiser. Take care of each other.
