Podcasts

Michael and Nick from Melbourne's Digital Lode share the challenges and victories of making VR spy game Espire 1: VR Operative.

Scott is following the Witcher around like Jaskier, and Mitch commands a cute little tank in Pico Tanks

Adam visits a galaxy far far away in Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, and Gianni finishes the fight in Halo: Reach.

Battle your way through the sky then reel in your loot in BattleSky Brigade: Harpooner!

Daniel heads to Russia in the newly shiny Metro 2033 Redux & Mitch finally gets round to trying Borderlands 3.

Dan Golding knows a lot about the craft of making music for video games, such as his work on Untitled Goose Game and how we identify personally as players of games.

What has been happening in the world of triple A games, blockbusters and those cheeky indie smash hits? Join us for our brand new podcast, Mainstream.

Gianni tries to catch them all again in Pokémon Shield, and Adam heads out in search of adventure in The Outer Worlds

Wrestling, Vollyball and Fencing in Wrestledunk Sports, their first game after smash hit Hacknet from Adelaide's Team Fractal Alligator!

Daniel has dug back into LA Noire, and Gianni has been playing Sayonara Wild Hearts!

Rhythm, Platforming and One Small Birb in Songbird Symphony by Singapore's Joysteak Studios

Pins, lines and heaps of amazing video games, this is Party Sift 3 our Western Australian collaborative episode with Party Loaded.

Hurtle through space in as you work with your cosmonaut partner to solve problems on you spacecraft in Heavenly Bodies

A story set in a floating hospital ship in 1970s rural victoria, Wayward Strand is a game that's all about empathy.

Thomas Janson shares his PAX AUS indie showcase winning game Death Hall. I feel like this might be dangerous...

MASOCORE! That's the genre for Massive Monster's new game Never Give Up!

How do you write a narrative when your audience can change the way they experience it? Recorded live at XR:WA 2019

Team up with friends and battle it out in the cute Pico Tanks by Melbourne's Panda Arcade.

Ellie Balson designs games from an artist's perspective, making quirky and charming adventure games.

Recorded live at Supanova Perth 2019, how do some of your favourite creators keep creating?

What happens if you try to make the perfect 90s shooter with modern technology? Leon & Simon from Indefatigable tried to do just that with their game Amid Evil

Western Australia gets its very on interactive media festival with XR:WA, Kate Raynes-Goldie & Sof Mather are here to break it down.

It's stylish, its tactical, it feels like you're inside a very dangerous comic book, it's Void Bastards by Canberra's Blue Manchu!

Feel the thrills of tearing through the waves and sea without ever leaving the shore in VR Regatta by Melbourne's MarineVerse.

Head back to a past that never was in Double Shot, an 1980s inspired neon cyberpunk VR bartending shooter.

Jump inside the gameboard with Tin Man Games' Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown a Playstation VR tabletop game.

How do you turn the ship from marketing & consulting company to full time game developer? Katie Stegs and the team at Lumi Interactive know how.

What do you get when you combine Earthbound, Monkey Island and Groundhog Day? Mars Underground, a timelooping retro adventure.

Can you survive in this multiplayer brawler, where every part of your body can be knocked off?

It's fast, frantic and a little bit hypnotic, join us as we learn how Ian MacLarty developed his new space action game JUMPGRID!

Fight fires and more in a town where EVERYTHING burns in Paperville Panic!

Tactical strategy game Guile & Glory: Firstborn is the first project for Melbourne based Elston Studios and it's built on a love of tactical and tabletop games.

She and the Light Bearer is a storybook tale filled with Indonesian plants, history and culture from Surabaya based Mojiken Studio

Ellen Jurik of Sydney's Blowfish Studios shares their adaptation of the classic children's novel Storm Boy.

Clinton McCleary's first game Infliction isn't for the faint of heart, but it's definitely a powerful piece of horror storytelling.

STONE: Is this the first Ozploitation game? Greg Louden of Convict Games thinks so.

We're teaming up with Party Loaded once again to share some of our favourite parts from PAXAUS 2018!

A mobile Diablo style game? It works better than you think according to Zamfir Dimitru who is working on Dawnlade, a game that is just that.

John Robertson, comedian and performer joins us this episode as we learn about the Dark Room, his video game adaptation of the YouTube & stage show of the same name, a collaboration with Stirfire Studios.

Jeff and Locky from Grease Monkey Games take us on a ride with Torque Drift, their mobile competitive drift game.

Daniel & James from Melbourne's Pixel Engineers join us to share Hunt 'N Sneak their asymetric local multiplayer game of light and shadow.

Chomp your way to the top in Eatvolve by Melbourne's Aladar Apponyi, and how hard games with an audience are better than hard games on their own.

What if snake was a turn based puzzle game with time travel? Well now it is with Those Six Faces AKA Sean Simon's Snake Time!

Climb into your giant robot for a normal game of basketball just like humans always do in "Regular Human Basketball" by Melbourne's Powerhoof!

Tim Colwill joins us to talk about how writing satire for his comedy games site Point &Clickbait, and working as a union organiser for Game Workers Unite Australia, both aim to get us to demand a better games industry.

Take to the skies with Abi Rahmani as your co-pilot, as we jump into the cockpit of Project Wingman made in Perth, Western Australia.

The president is mad about something and he's gone for the nuclear option, luckily Matt Kelly is here from Mokomoto to talk us through it.

What you can't see might just kill you, Justin Ng of Singaporean developer Gattai Games is our guest this week as we learn about his echolocation style first person games Muffled Warfare and Stifled.

Ian MacLarty makes small fascinating experiential games, and he's here this week to share his puzzle game Dissembler.

A gun in every hand, bullets for any and all situations. Nick McDonnell of Samurai Punk takes us on a journey to "The American Dream"

It's described as Grand Theft Cthulhu by its creator and we're digging it. Come for a cruise down the highway with our guest Mike Blackney and keep an eye out for monsters.

Jump through a geometric world at breakneck speed in Nova Flow a speedrunning platformer from Melbourne's Wrecked Angle Studios.

It all started with a Witch, Tim Bermanseder of Cardboard Keep shares with us his upcoming magical bullet (spell?) hell game Witch Thief!

Lovable robots of the near future just trying to find a place in this world. Listen to our conversation with Ally McLean of Robot House as we discuss RUMU and "The Working Lunch"

Build a beautiful underwater garden and learn more about our precious reefs in Rainbow Reef by Chaos Theory Games.

Take a journey with Arina and Frendt as the explore surreal nostalgic worlds in The Gardens Between!

Strap into your DeLorean we're heading to the neo soaked retro eighties inspired streets of Hyper Jam with Roman Maksymyschyn of Melbourne's Bit Dragon.

Combining RPG, Tabletop and action elements Hand of Fate 2 builds on what Morgan Jaffit and the team at Defiant Development achieved when creating the original game.

We're back for another live episode at Perth Games Festival and this year we're speaking with some early career developers from our home state of Western Australia.

Travers Dunkinson of Melbourne's Atomizer Games joins us this week to talk all about his stealth cat burglar game, HEIST.

Dylan J. Walker, Creative Director and developer from ONERAT GAMES joins us this week.

Ed Orman from Uppercut Games joined us to discuss his latest game, City of Brass, a Rogue-lite FPS that pays tribute to the Arabian Knights tale of the same name.

We hit the floor of PAXAUS 2017 to record a special collaborative episode with fellow Perth podcasters, Party Loaded!

Simon Boxer of Twice Different joins us this week to talk about making his brand new mobile game, Bounce House, a colourful endless runner style side scroller.

We sit down with Peter Curry, a Programmer & Designer from Dinosaur Polo Club, developers of Mini Metro. Mini Metro is a subway planning puzzle game, that puts the fun in fundamental transport logistics, with a great procedurally generated soundtrack and a fantastic minimalist design.

Michael Chu of Sydney’s Shadowplay Studios joined us to discuss his upcoming game Projection, being selected for the PAX Australia Indie Showcase, and rebuilding from scratch.

Collateral Damage is a multiplayer area brawler featuring a cast of unique characters and diverse fighting styles and Perth’s very own Matthew Sears and Jak Gem from Artisans Games joined us this week.

Christy Dena a writer, designer and director at Universe Creation 101 joined us to talk about her online event “Crafting Intangibles“, a free online interactive writing event which you can watch online now.

Ian Gregory, Creative Director at Singaporean based Witching Hour Studios, speaks to us this week about his newest project Masquarada: Songs and Shadows.

Paul Turbett and Anthony Sweet from Black Lab Games who are based in Perth talked to us about their latest project Battlestar Galactica Deadlock and we asked what it is like to be responsible for the new game adaptation of one of the most beloved science fiction series ever and how to write a game in an established universe.

Cheryl Vance & Joel Styles of Brisbane's Prideful Sloth join us to talk about Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles their peaceful exploration game.

Adric Polkinghorne has to spend a lot of time thinking about how kids can get themselves into strife, and he joins us this week to talk about his new game Think of the Children!

International team Massive Monster's Jay Armstrong & Julian Wilton jump on the line to talk about their game The Adventure Pals which has grown out of the flash games of Newgrounds.

David Clark programmed the indie darling Ori and the Blind Forest right here in Western Australia while working as an international team spread throughout the globe.

Games and how they relate to mental health has always been a hot topic and this week we speak to Dr Jennifer Hazel about how her organisation Checkpoint aims to help promote positive outcomes.

Jump into this synthwave shooter designed for score attack and emulates competive online shooters for a singleplayer environment.

Build higher and stronger in Forts by Brisbane's EarthWork Games, a vertical real time strategy game.

Pull on your comfy underdacks and join us for a fun chat with Andrew Freeth of Adelaide's Juicy Cupcake.

In our second live episode from Oz Comic Con Perth we ask some local developers why they create games, and what drives them to finish them.

Ash Ringrose of Sydney's SMG Studio talks all about making his cooperative puzzle game Death Squared.

Armed With Wings; Rearmed is a black and white fast paced platformer that draws from and builds on the legacy of games that were featured on legendary game site Newgrounds.

Join us as we speak to Justine Colla of Alta as she tells us all about their new multiplayer VR sandbox game A Township Tale.

Wacky wobbly noodlemen deathmatches in Inflatality by Hojo Studios and Deepforged Studios

Move through light and shade in ninja deathmatch game Kieru, Jack Knobel joins us this week to share how he and Pinefire Studios made it.

Bounce your way to the top of the tower with Alberto Santiago developer of Goat Punks a hilarious local multiplayer game where you battle to see who is king of the mountain.

Step sequence puzzler Resynth is our feature and developer and musician Sam Izzo joins us this week to talk all about it.

Ellen Jurik of Sydney's Blowfish Studios joins us this week to talk about producing games and their new title Siegecraft Commander an innovative console real time strategy game.

Rotate the world in John Kane's Mallow Drops a sokoban style puzzle, and he joins us this week to tell us all about them.

Guide cute critters to their death on the worst carnival ride of their lives in Crazy Coasters: Rainbow Road, and developer James Cook joins us this week.

Enter the immersive narrative world of Kept with lead developer Jack Condon from Sydney's S1T2.

Quick draw swipe shooter Barking Irons is a pixelly western adventure perfect for playing on the go, and Tom & Lincoln from Sleepyhead Studios join us this week to talk about how it came together.

Build your own village of goblins and use them to take over the world in Goblins of Elderstone and Gustav Seymore of Lost Goblin joins us this week to tell us all about it.

Blast your way through space with Western Australian made shooter Starlost, and developer Ken Johnson joins us in the studio live!

Remnants of a fallen empire, a new adversary in a beautiful painterly world. Tom Cox of Canberra's Whalehammer Games joins us this week to talk all about their recently release game.

We couldn't answer all your questions and answers at Perth Games Festival, so here are some of our favourites.

We're live at Perth Games Festival 2016 with special guests Liam Hunt, Anthony Sweet and Mark Mennell.

Mike De Piazzi joins us to talk all about his multiplayer top-down shooter Final Days!

What happens when you make a jam game that mashes two existing titles together, Super Mario and No Man's Sky, and the long arm of the law comes down on you?

Two robots find each other in a ruin world in WANDA a story about friendship by Caroline Thant and Kodots Games, our guest this week.