https://www.valadria.com/playtests-prototypes-permission-games/

Show Notes

• 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself (Gumroad, Itch, signed copies)
• Pixel Washer
• How to make a good Steam page
• Pixel Washer: 3-day devlog
• Lost Decade Games
• Steam Hardware & Software Survey
• Game Tester
• 💰 The Money Episode
• The illusion of skill: how to make a better game in less time
• Production Point
• Indie Game Sim
• Making an Indie Game About Indie Game Making
• How has web dev changed in the last decade?
• 💀 How to handle the death of a platform (for example: Twitter)
• Game Dev Comics by Matt Hackett
• @richtaur.bsky.social
• Making Big Indie Games (Gumroad, Itch)
• Join the Valadria Discord
• 60 minute video coaching/consulting

Thanks for listening. Now it's time for you to go make the game!

🔗 Show Notes

• Bacon and Games
• How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
• Steam Dev Cheat Sheet
• How to Find a Video Game Publisher (Tips for Indie Devs)
• Armor Games
• Valadria Discord
• 10 Godot Features Hidden in Plain Sight 👀
• 🚫 No Stacking | Make the Game
• Heartbeast
• 🔥 Steam Game Promo Art - Photography and Fire
• Making Big Indie Games
• Game Maker's Toolkit
• Cursor Adventure
• Kenney's Cursor Pixel Pack
• Golf Story
• Game Dev Difficulty Tiers

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

We're talking about:

1. Preparing for GDC
2. Getting a badge (or not)
3. Lodging around GDC
4. A tour of Moscone Center
5. Navigating GDC parties
6. General tips & advice

🔗 Show Notes

• Game Developers Conference
• Making a mobile video for quick, in-person demonstration
• 🐷🫧 Add Pixel Washer to your Steam washlist
• Bay Area Rapid Transit
• Yerba Buena Gardens
• gdcparties.com
• hbomberguy

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe and rate this podcast 5 stars wherever you can. Good luck with your game 🛠️

We cover a lot in this episode! Look at all these links:

• Amazon wishlist (thanks!)
• 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
• Game Marketing GOLD with Chris Zukowski
• Twitter: @richtaur
• Podcast: Make the Game
• 📺 YouTube: @Valadria
• RedLetterMedia
• SEA (space videos)
• Join the Valadria Discord
• YouTube: @richtaur
• Steam: Witchmore, Pixel Washer
• The Clark Tank!
• Game Maker's Toolkit
• 🔥 The Steam Dev Cheat Sheet
• Create Your Steam Page
• No Stacking | Make the Game
• Killed by Google (Google Graveyard)
• Fruit Ninja designer Luke Muscat talks going solo dev
• YouTube: Make the Game (playlist)
• TikTok: @richtaur
• Chef Reactions
• 📈 4 viral game hooks for game designers
• Game Dev Comics by Matt Hackett
• Lostcast (my old podcast)
• Kenney (public domain assets)
• r/Games - Indie Sunday (oops I said r/gaming)
• Game Dev Coaching/Consulting
• GDC (Game Developers Conference)
• 🥓 Bacon and Games
• Wonderland Engine (I meant downloadable engine; games run in the browser!)
• Building a Web Game in a Day
• 7 tips from 7 days of game dev for 7 Day Roguelike
• You were played out with Remember Me by Joshua Morse

Coming soon: a GDC postmortem, pitch decks, and publishers. Thanks for listening!

More info: https://www.valadria.com/no-stacking/ 🔗 LINKS Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/ Coaching: https://www.valadria.com/game-dev-coaching-consulting/ 🎬 TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 1:05 GDC 2024 7:27 No Stacking 25:21 Goals 34:51 Outro 🎹 MUSIC Electro Breaks Loop: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=749 Phantom Anthem Wubs: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879 Interstellar Winnebago: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1050 Joshua Morse: https://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/ #gamedev #indiedev #podcast #gdc

Links galore: https://www.valadria.com/seeing-things-steam-next-fest-greg-love/

🎬 TIMELINE

0:00 Intro

4:14 Story Machine

11:50 Seeing Things

19:26 Steam Next Fest

36:30 Live streams

42:20 What's next?

45:59 Release after SNF?

49:39 Multiple demos

55:19 Outro

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

#gamedev #steam #podcast

Links & more: https://www.valadria.com/the-money-episode/

🎬 Timeline

0:00 Intro

1:36 User Interface (UI)

10:32 Configurable input

21:10 Climbing the wall

26:40 A "game shell"

37:48 The Money Part

43:02 Kickstarter(s)

50:35 Coaching

53:06 Outro

Article: https://www.valadria.com/my-2-year-indie-postmortem/

🎹 Music

https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879

https://stevenmelin.itch.io/lo-fi-atmospheres-music-pack

https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1601

Show Notes

1. The Early Days of id Software
2. How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
3. 🐷 Pixel Washer (Steam page)
4. Silver, a font for games by Poppy Works
5. Jeremy Jackson
6. Performative Game Development: The Design and Marketing of Nuclear Throne

Music

1. Frozen Karma
2. SuloSounds
3. Phantom Anthem Wubs
4. I Am a Monster Sans Vocals

Pixel Washer: http://www.pixelwasher.com/ 0:00 Intro 0:17 What's Pixel Washer? 1:44 Why's Pixel Washer? 5:22 What's cool about it? 7:11 State of the game 8:57 Outro #gamedev #devlog #solodev