Join Ryan Ike and me talking about music and sound design in games! Ryan was my 2024 top listened to artist on Spotify. I can't get the Where The Water Tastes Like Wine out of my head. I think it's brilliant! This discussion is both about the soundtracks in particular as well as about making music for games - Ryan explains this to me as a non-musical person. A great starter for everybody interested! Website: https://www.ryanike.com/ Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - Spotify: https://open.spotif...
Jan 25, 2025•2 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Here is the discussion with Jonathan Blow. I am extremely grateful for this discussion - I am following Jonathan streams and am a fan of his work, both in terms of games and in terms of his programming language jai. Chapters: 0:00:00 - 0:01:37 Intro 0:01:37 - 0:34:38 Status update for JAI (design of macros) 0:34:38 - 1:15:01 When JAI release & info on JAI 1:15:01 - 1:40:14 Upcoming game (includes screenshare!) 1:40:14 - 2:03:23 Jon's company, Thekla 2:03:23 - 2:21:53 Game Design 2:21:53 - 3:...
Jan 18, 2025•3 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 35
This time I'm joined by Ryan Fleury, who is working on RAD Debugger in Epic Game Tools (formerly RAD Game Tools). It's incredibly detailed, technical deep dive into the world of debuggers. On top of that Ryan drops words of wisdom about engineering in general! Worth a watch! RAD Debugger (Open Source): https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger Ryan's blog Digital Grove: https://www.rfleury.com/about Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spoti...
Jan 11, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 34
This time I'm joined by the ex-physicist, creator of Odin programming language Bill Hall AKA Ginger Bill. We discuss Odin, its history and features but also open source reality, state of software, his work at JangaFX and more! Lovely discussion, with sweet accent! Bill: https://x.com/TheGingerBill https://odin-lang.org/ New Odin Book by Karl Zylinski: https://zylinski.itch.io/odinbook Odin in Godbolt: https://godbolt.org/z/M646qdfEc Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Hi everyone! In this episode I'm joined by James Spanos from Wormwood Studios. He is one of the most experienced Adventure Game Studio game developers alive! He programmed Primordia and Strangeland, and in this discussion, relays this experienced with acute sense of humour! Join us! See a discussion with James' colleague - Mark: • Narrative, dialog and design of Adven... WISHLIST Fallen Gods!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/16... Primordia: https://store.steampowered.com/app/22... Strangelan...
Nov 30, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Hi everyone! In this episode I'm joined by Mark Yohalem from Wormwood Studios. He's lawyer by day, and game writer & designer by night. He worked for multiple titles over the years, in the adventure game genre as well as RPG. We focus on his two original narratives: world-renowned Primordia and Strangeland. WISHLIST Fallen Gods!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/16... Primordia: https://store.steampowered.com/app/22... Strangeland: https://store.steampowered.com/app/13... Website: http://w...
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Sina Yeganeh, the creator of the Imposter Kings, joins me to discuss his game! I love it, it's super short rounds of strategy, chess-like thinking and tension! Check out his Kickstarter campaign for the expansion!SUPPORT THE GAME VIA KICKSTARTER!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sinbu/the-imposter-kings-fragments-of-nersettiWebsite: https://theimposterkings.com/The Art: https://hirshon.net/ Michael HirshonDiscord: https://discord.gg/D5ghyZ9Buy the physical version: https://www.minmaxgames.com...
Oct 26, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This Time I'm joined by Dimas Novan Delfiano, a game director for Mojiken Studios which made A Space for the Unbound. I dive into all sides of the development of theirs game, with focus on the narrative aspects and character design. Join us! Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1201270/A_Space_for_the_Unbound/ https://mojikenstudio.com/ @MojikenStudioID https://www.togeproductions.com/ (publisher) Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spot...
Sep 28, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 26
I had the honor to chat with Casey Muratori - one of the most inspiring figure in the programming world. I followed Casey's work for a long time now and I've learned a lot from him. In this discussion I ask a lot about how we got where he is now - where did he learn to program, how his work looked like, how did he handle projects, when did he switch away from OOP. Casey created a lot of educational material, but one course stands out: Performance Aware Programming Series on https://www.computere...
Sep 21, 2024•2 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This time I'm joined by lead game designer Hans Emil Hoppe Rauer who's working on @playprovidence at Dynasty Studios! Providence is a huge upcoming project I'm excited about! It blends exploration-based extraction shooter mechanics, with PvE and PvP multiplayer combat, with elements of survival with attempt to make emergent-gameplay-unique-events-related-items stored forever on blockchain! Hans walks me through his design philosophy and we discuss everything there is to Providence! Come join us!...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 25
This time I'm joined by Maria Aloupi from @beyondthosehillsgames and we discuss their upcoming game Cat Detective. Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. We also cover Maria's story, how she found herself in gamedev transitioning from piano (sic!). Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1810670/Albert_Wilde_Quantum_PI/ [ DEMO AVAILABLE :) ] Website: https://beyondthosehills.com/ Discord: https://beyondthosehills.com/discord X: https://x.com/beyond_hills Game Engineering Podcast: Show links: https://p...
Jul 13, 2024•48 min•Season 2Ep. 24
I'm joined by Sławek who made Shardpunk! We discuss how did he approach the design for his tactical shooter which is a blend of XCOM and Darkest Dungeon. From the design of characters, through design of enemies to design of conveying information through tutorial and Codex, we cover a lot of ground. On top we add Sławek experiences working with freelance artists: the good, the bad and the ugly! Steam Shardpunk: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1183800/Shardpunk/ Game Engineering Podcast Show li...
Jul 06, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Maria Yue, Principal Lighting Artist at Sharkmob, ex-Ubisoft, ex-Crytek, walks me through her incredible journey from photography, through fine arts degree and then breaking into gamedev industry, working on lighting. Then, Maria was kind enough to do a presentation, a live showcase of her work process of the latest piece Arpeggio! You don't want to miss it! Maria Yue: Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/xiaowantou Website: https://mariayue.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariayue_l...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This time I'm joined by two brothers, Nic and Chris who 10 years ago formed a studio Brotherhood Games , and since developed Stasis, Cayne, Beautiful Desolation and most recently Stasis: Bone Totem! They walk me through their career, and lessons learned after so many years in the industry (the average for this industry is below 10yrs :D ) and then we discuss in detail their latest masterpiece Stasis: Bone Totem. Brotherhood games website: https://thebrotherhoodgames.com/ [[ SIGN UP FOR THEIR NEW...
Jun 22, 2024•2 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Hey! This time I'm joined by Amir Rajan, the creator of DragonRuby Game Toolkit! (https://dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-gtk) It's a solution for 2D games, that lets you iterate incredibly fast, is stripped of the editor, is very programming-oriented. It's powered underneath by SDL (and Ryan C. Gordon is involved in DragonRuby development on the SDL side of things!) probably the most popular graphics framework in gamedev industry. You're using Ruby language to code in DragonRuby (hint is in the n...
Jun 09, 2024•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 20
This time I'm joined by Nils Slijkerman who is, with Ewoud van der Werf, developing a game SCHiM which releases on 18th July! It's a cute, casual and cozy game about SCHiM - a spirit who needs to reconnect with it's human. You jump around from shadow to shadow, meet other schims and all that to an incredibly pleasing music and sound. Have fun! SCHiM Game! https://schimgame.com/ https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/SCHiM-2557749.html https://store.steampowered.co...
Jun 01, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 19
I am joined by incredibly thoughtful Andrejs who with his brother Ernests (Color Gray Games) developed The Case of the Golden Idol, critically acclaimed, BAFTA nominated (finalist) point-and-click mystery game! We discuss the design of the Golden Idol, and more broadly design of the mystery games like Obra Dinn or Outer Wilds! The Case of the Golden Idol on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677770/The_Case_of_the_Golden_Idol/ The Rise of the Golden Idol on Steam: https://store.steampowe...
May 25, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Night is Grey is an experience. It challenges you emotionally, it wants you to wrestle with harsh reality, and that is the one beside connecting items and using them together. I had an absolute pleasure to discuss how it was made with Andre Broa, who is leading the Whalestork Interactive and directed Night is Grey. Enjoy the episode! Night is Grey is on Steam (and has amazing demo for free, which perfectly sets the tone!) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1281490/The_Night_is_Grey/ https://whal...
May 18, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 17
This time I'm joined by Paul Schnepf who's developing Thronefall - a sweet minimalistic strategy game to be playable on all platforms! Thronefall is incredibly cute and approachable, it's currently in EA, we discuss the art, rendering, the unique input controls and more stuff! Steam EA Thronefall: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2239150/Thronefall/ Grizzly Games: @grizzlygamesdev https://twitter.com/_grizzlygames https://discord.com/invite/KYWRumnUtW Devs: https://twitter.com/paul_schnepf @Jo...
May 11, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 16
This time I'm joined by Sebastien from Asteroid Labs and we talk about their debut strategy game Terraformers! Terraformers on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244800/Terraformers/ Goblinz Studio Publisher: https://goblinzstudio.com/game/terraformers/ Asteroid Lab: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asteroid-lab/?originalSubdomain=ch Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd Appl...
May 04, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This time I'm joined by an author of Flax Engine: Wojciech Figat. He breaks down two amazing features of Flax: - Global Illumination for all Graphics Cards - How compiler-assembly-hack powers their Scripting setup Learn more about Flax: https://flaxengine.com/ Flax Source Code: https://github.com/FlaxEngine Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple....
Apr 29, 2024•16 min
This time I'm joined by an author of Flax Engine: Wojciech Figat. He breaks down two amazing features of Flax: - Global Illumination for all Graphics Cards - How compiler-assembly-hack powers their Scripting setup Learn more about Flax: https://flaxengine.com/ Flax Source Code: https://github.com/FlaxEngine Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple....
Apr 28, 2024•15 min
This time I'm joined by an author of Flax Engine: Wojciech Figat. He breaks down two amazing features of Flax: - Global Illumination for all Graphics Cards - How compiler-assembly-hack powers their Scripting setup Learn more about Flax: https://flaxengine.com/ Flax Source Code: https://github.com/FlaxEngine Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple....
Apr 27, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Ali Motisi from Out of the Bit Studio, discusses their latest game Full Void, written from scratch using their own custom game engine in C programming language! Check out Full Void on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1859580/Full_Void/ Out Of The Bit Studio Website: https://www.outofthebit.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/outofthebit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outofthebit/ Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https...
Apr 20, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Alex Serex, ex-Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Detroit Become Human) talks about Motion Capture Tech that was used to bring to life the iconic, realistic scenes in the studio! Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/game-engineering-podcast/id1683109481 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71w RSS: https://anchor...
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 12
This time I'm joined by @tedbendixson who walks me through how he developed Mooselutions from scratch in C++! Also, we discuss how he switched careers from iOS to game development and we discuss the state of making games today! Episode links: Mooselutions on Steam : Ted YouTube Channel Handmade Hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee3EtYb8d1o&t=2274s The Brandenburg Concertos (Bach): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTm2kEAfo8o&t=3873s Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcast...
Apr 06, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Kevin Peclet discusses Helvetii and shares his brilliant takes on game design. We discuss Hollow Knight and Dark Souls and how they approach the relationship between player and the game. You can buy Kevin's game Helvetii on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094590/Helvetii/ Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/game-engin...
Mar 30, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 10
I'm joined by Oriol Cosp, creator of the chess roguelike The Ouroboros King. He has really made the chess fun. You should watch this to learn how to do this effectively (TOK was made in 12 months!). Full game & free demo here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2096510/The_Ouroboros_King/ Follow Oriol: Blog: https://oriolcosp.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/VeDmFJZrR9 Twitter: https://twitter.com/oriol_cosp Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 9
I was honored to speak with Guy Davidson, a legendary figure in the world of game programming. He’s the man with over two decades of experience at Creative Assembly (Total War franchise) the ISO C++ committee voting member and the author of the "Beautiful C++" book. In our conversation, we discuss his programming journey, he shares his thoughts about C++ direction, he walks me through step by step how C++ Standards body operate, and then we discuss his approach to memory management and IO in gam...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Season 2Ep. 8
I was honored to host Tomislav who worked on my beloved Talos Principle! He walks me through all the technical details about making beautiful scenes! We discuss landscape, foliage, water shaders, light and more! He grounds this in Unreal and explains technologies like Nanite and Lumen and how they're used and what are their limitations. It was a blast! Find Talos Principle 2 on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/835960/The_Talos_Principle_2/ Look out for future developments of Croteam her...
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 7
