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Godot and YouTube with Sean McKenzie (Bacon and Games)

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 • Duration 01:27:06

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What's the best thing you ever made?

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 • Duration 20:08

https://www.valadria.com/the-best-thing-you-ever-made/

0:00 Intro

0:23 What's the best thing you ever made?

3:28 You didn't miss the boat

5:11 Three hours is all you need

9:48 Breaking down hard problems

19:37 Outro

📙 https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/

#gamedev #creative #podcast

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Make the Game with Geoff Blair

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 • Duration 54:17

https://www.valadria.com/make-the-game-geoff-blair/

Main Project Syndrome with Ben Anderson (HeartBeast)

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 • Duration 47:27

4 main topics in this fun chat with Heart Beast (Ben Anderson):

📙 Ben's solo developer book Production Point

🛠 When to pivot projects?

🚒 GameMaker VS Godot

🎮 Ben's new game WASarD

BOOKS!

🛠 Ben's book Production Point: https://courses.heartgamedev.com/p/my-downloadable-87616

📙 Matt's book How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/

GAMES!

🪄 Ben's game WASarD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151870/WASarD/

🐷 Matt's game Pixel Washer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/Pixel_Washer/

🎬 TIMELINE

0:00 Intro

1:27 Main Project Syndrome

5:01 Production Point

15:17 WASarD

27:32 Do people like it?

33:20 When to quit

35:49 GameMaker VS Godot

46:28 Outro

More info: https://www.valadria.com/heartbeast-main-project-syndrome/

The Unity Debacle

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 • Duration 20:13

Unity, owning your tools, JS GameDev Summit, Pixel Washer, & Game music: https://valadria.com/the-unity-debacle/

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Ignore the Great Attractors

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 • Duration 28:55

Time for another game dev podcast! 🎙

You've been so kind & encouraging about last week's episode that I just had to keep talking. Let's do this. We're discussing:

On loving & hating marketing
Ignore the "Great Attractors"
Failing to follow your own advice
Your tools serving you VS getting in your way
Thoughts on crowd-funding

🎸 Music

🫧 Play the Pixel Washer demo!

Notice me burying the lead much? Yeah, I've got a new playable demo for you!

Have a relaxing time power washing beautiful pixels in Pixel Washer!

That's the pitch! It's just gorgeous 2D pixels that you need to clean. That's it. Some of you may remember Weekend game jam: Pixel Washer – yup, this is further development of that concept!

It's early times. I'll probably completely redo how the power washing itself works, which is all the game is about, but do play the demo & let me know what you think in the .

Getting back to my roots

Tuesday, August 8, 2023 • Duration 51:09

It's time for a podcast-style podcast (if that makes sense). A long conversation that rambles & goes off on tangents, but delivers an honest deep dive into my process & what I'm working on.

Topics

🛠 What I'm working on
🎮 Refocusing on game development
🧪 Concept development
😀 I hate marketing (jk, let me explain)
🪑 Being authentic online
💰 (Bonus: Making Big Indie Games)

Music

Diabolical Experiments
Joshua Morse's Waveform
Killer Factory Retro and Evening Dogs by SuloSounds

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https://www.valadria.com/getting-back-to-my-roots/

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Making great game trailers with Derek Lieu

Tuesday, August 1, 2023 • Duration 53:22

https://www.valadria.com/game-trailers-with-derek-lieu/

Does anybody read the text that I type into this box? I have no idea.

Anyway here's a timecode dump from my notes, maybe this is helpful:

0:16: getting into game trailers
4:40: overflow work
5:15: charging not enough, less agency / more indie
5:15: undercharging
8:00: make fan trailers
11:00: where to post trailers / content
13:08: give advice about what you're doing

16:00: trailer categories
17:50 types of game trailers
20:42: trailer lengths
21:40: What gameplay to show?
24:56: Movie trailers

28:28: The magic of good editing
29:50: Kuleshov effect
31:03: Advanced game trailer problems
32:35: End slates
33:01: Logo Soup
33:33: Logos and branding
37:29: Spelunky 2
45:35: Game trailer courses

48:32: Anything identifiable from your game
49:56: Ice Cream Analogy
50:59: Outro

Thanks for listening! Support this show by sharing, rating/writing review(s), and buying my book. I appreciate it.

-Matt

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Witchmore devlog: Introduction

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 • Duration 11:32

🦇 Add Witchmore to your Steam witchlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2289580/Witchmore/ 📙 Read more: https://www.valadria.com/witchmore-devlog-intro/ TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 1:15 Why Witchmore? 2:47 Eggspansion 5:37 Scratch your itches 7:58 What's cool about it? 10:59 What's next? MUSIC * Electro Breaks Loop Remastered: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=749&genre=Electro * Phantom Anthem Wubs: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879&genre=Dubstep

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Steam Game Marketing GOLD with Chris Zukowski

Season 3 · Episode 4

Sunday, May 21, 2023 • Duration 45:27

Learn Steam game marketing from expert Chris Zukowski! Find resources & more: https://www.valadria.com/steam-game-marketing-with-chris-zukowski/

0:00 Intro 0:15 Critical Steam dev marketing advice 1:51 Reliable Steam dev strategies 3:38 Translating your page 6:28 Interest-first dev 9:48 Outro

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