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Up Up Down Down

Allen Pike and Nigel Brooke

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Comedy

Frequency: 1 episode/46d. Total Eps: 48

The podcast about what's wrong and right in the games industry. App developers Allen Pike and Nigel Brooke host an interesting guest each week. Chaos ensues.

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🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
06/05/2025
#67

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http://www.steamclock.com/
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http://www.firewatchgame.com/
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http://www.camouflaj.com/
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http://www.twitter.com/rands/
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https://twitter.com/classam
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https://twitter.com/cities_pdx
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous_Second_Son
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychonauts
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast
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48. We Made a Game

Thursday, January 23, 2020 • Duration 01:32:14

Malin Sundberg joins us to discuss Two Spies, the new turn-based iOS spy strategy we’ve made, along with its UI, Swift as a game development language, and the pros and cons of shipping a game as a side project.

Two Spies
The game on the App Store
Steamclock

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47. You Suck at Micro

Saturday, June 18, 2016 • Duration 01:04:27

Soren Johnson joins us to discuss making strategy games. We discuss his new game Offworld Trading Company, touch on his work on the Civilization series, and the challenges of balance. Afterward, we express our early bewilderment at Overwatch.

Offworld Trading Company
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38. The Bullet Spongiest Bullet Sponge

Friday, March 6, 2015 • Duration 01:19:52

Michael “Rands” Lopp joins us to talk Destiny. We briefly discuss its budget and profitability before digging in to the question of why, despite its problems, it’s a fun game. We dissect the Crucible PvP mode, matchmaking, the story or lack thereof, leveling, and bullet sponges. Afterwards, we fail at going off topic and talk about the expansion, raiding, voice acting, and the surprisingly clever UI.

Rands’ take on Destiny
Bungie on weapon tuning and TTK
Bungie on game modes over on Planet Destiny
The long, long, grind of Burning Crusade’s Netherdrake mount
Rands’, Nigel’s and Allen’s Destiny profiles
Rands in Repose
@rands on Twitter
The 100 Destiny matchmaker
Polygon’s negative Destiny: The Dark Below review

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37. Early Access Without Any Access

Friday, February 6, 2015 • Duration 01:24:34

John Walker, co-director and editor of Rock, Paper, Shotgun, joins us to discuss the state of PC gaming. We talk Early Access, Kickstarter, preorders, and the many pitfalls therein. We dig in to the profitability of PC ports, dismiss various kinds of football, dissect the longevity of old-school games, and try to guess the fate of Oculus. Afterward, we discuss terrible Early Access games, terrible hilarious games, and Allen’s latest terrible game idea.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Spacebase DF-9’s early access ending in a final 1.0
John’s Let’s Play: Salt
Flow Free
Stranded Deep
Time Ramesside’s bad Early Access reviews
Why Didn’t Everyone Play Kingdoms of Amalur?
Retrospective: Soldner
The Magic Circle

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36. Scintillating Amazon Javelins of the Whale

Thursday, January 22, 2015 • Duration 01:02:53

Noel Berry, developer of the upcoming procedural platformer Skytorn, joins us to discuss procedural content in games. We talk about Skytorn and how its levels are built, and discuss many other indie games with procedural levels, from Minecraft to Don’t Starve. We dig in to what kinds of games generated content works for and what kinds it doesn’t, and how to model Paris with only a few hundred artists.

Noel’s upcoming game Skytorn
The edge of the world in Minecraft
Spry Fox’s Road Not Taken
Klei’s Don’t Starve
Crossy Road, the “endless arcade hopper”
No Man’s Sky
Ken Levine’s article on Shadows of Mordor and its procedural content
Noel’s website

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35. We're Made of Bells and Whistles

Tuesday, January 6, 2015 • Duration 01:08:05

Maya Kramer, indie game marketing extraordinaire, joins us to talk PR and marketing. We discuss conferences and expos, getting the word out about indie games, the story of Towerfall, and how games filter up from the noise to journalists and platforms. Afterwards, we talk PSN outages, getting killed by dragons, and dystopian nudity.

GDC, PAX, and the many conferences for game developers
Rami Ismail, Vlambeer’s developer and prolific business guy
The Frankfurt Book Fair
Devolver Digital
The wonderful Towerfall
Indie House Vancouver
Maya’s Patreon and Twitter
PSN’s extensive downtime this Christmas
Spider 2 - Rite of the Shrouded Moon
Papers, Please on iPad

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34. Watching someone else play Minecraft

Friday, December 12, 2014 • Duration 01:22:47

John Moltz, co-author of The Visual Guide to Minecraft, joins us to discuss the weird and wonderful world of Minecraft. We discuss why kids are obsessed it, managing servers, mods, Java, and trolling. Bonus: Nigel does a special interview with three further subject experts - his kids.

Moltz’ book on Minecraft, Visual Guide to Minecraft
The bizarre world of Minecraft mods
The Bukkit Minecraft server
The Rasberry Pi Mineblock server Indiegogo
Attention Mining, John’s article for The Magazine on Minecraft streamers
ROBLOX
Dave Wiskus’ Podcast Intervention
John’s podcasts, Turning This Car Around, The Rebound, and frequently The Talk Show
The Low Earth Orbit podcast
The Silent Age’s mustaches
Old Man Murray’s Death of Adventure Games

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33. Being a Good Citizen on the Platform

Friday, November 28, 2014 • Duration 01:07:24

Matt Comi of Big Bucket joins us to discuss developing games on Apple platforms. We talk about Matt and Neven Mrgan’s new game Space Age, porting games written for iOS and the Mac, Swift and Objective-C as languages for game development, and building the game engine and level editor for Space Age. Afterwards, we talk about a couple of the recent game industry travesties.

Big Bucket’s new iPad game, Space Age
UpUp #12, where we talked to Neven Mrgan about Space Age and retro games
Mike Bithell on porting Thomas Was Alone
Letterpress
Big Bucket Software
The dumb one star reviews on Monument Valley

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32. Perfect Combination of Quality and Quantity

Monday, November 24, 2014 • Duration 01:21:48

This week Federico Viticci joins us to talk digital distribution. We discuss about Nintendo’s attempts to court indie developers compared to Sony and Microsoft’s, the programs that make cross-plaftorm development plausible for indies, the various digital download platforms both on the consoles and the App Store, curation on the App Store and Steam, the effects of discounting on games.

Federico’s shows Connected and Virtual on Relay FM
Gamasutra’s interview with Nintendo on indie games
Shovel Knight on Gamasutra
Unity on 3DS and PlayStation
Directional’s interview with Shahid Ahmad of PlayStation
The Nintendo Seal of Quality
Overwatch
Assassin’s Creed Unity
Fantasy Life

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31. I Want to Kinda Annoy People

Saturday, November 15, 2014 • Duration 53:52

Desert Golfing’s Justin Smith joins us from an alien spaceship to discuss reward in games, or a lack thereof. We talk about the world’s reception to his game Desert Golfing, and game design tools like high scores, story progression, leveling up, and sparkles. We also touch on Justin’s games No Brakes Valet and Enviro-Bear 2000, and the inherent reward you get from watching an indie developer you love succeed.

Desert Golfing on the App Store
Desert Golfing is Life on Medium
The history and rebirth of pinball on NPR
Desert Bus
Enviro-Bear 2000
“F**k You Desert Golfing” on Kotaku
No Brakes Valet

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