I wanted to bring Connor Rush onto the show to talk about teaching himself how to program in Java as an 11 year old and how he jumpstarted the development of his very own video game studio Fyre Games.
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Ep. 29 – BrolyLegs
BrolyLegs is a grand master Street Fighter pro player that is known for playing differently than most.
Ep. 28 – Vanilla World of Warcraft with John Staats
Blizzard turned the page back in history this summer with the release of Classic World of Warcraft in lieu of a traditional expansion and John Staats, the first 3D level designer at Blizzard, recently published The World of Warcraft Diary. Continue reading “Ep. 28 – Vanilla World of Warcraft with John Staats”
Ep. 27 — Cris Tales and Dreams Uncorporated/SYCK
E3 was jam packed this year and I was starstruck the whole week I attended. In my journeys, I had the pleasure of meeting Carlos Rocha, the founder of Dreams Uncoporated and SYCK games.
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Ep. 26 — Ed Annunziata & Ecco the Dolphin
Ed Annunziata joined me on the latest episode of the show to discuss the Sega Genesis classic Ecco the Dolphin as well as discuss Space War Area, which launched earlier this year on the Nintendo Switch.
We delve into his love of programming that kickstarted his career, starting with Pyramid Run in 1984. He has stuck with the same team since Ecco, modernizing the development approach that has stuck with them for the last three decades.
You can follow Ed on Twitter @edannunziata and follow him on YouTube.
Here is a trailer for his most recent game Space War Arena:
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Ep. 25 —Dwarf Fortress: Toady One returns
Tarn Adams joins me on the show (again!) to talk about the launch of Dwarf Fortress coming soon to Steam and itch.io.
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Episode 24 — From EA Sports to Anthem
Gracie Arenas Strittmatter currently serves as the technical art director over BioWare’s latest IP, Anthem.
She joins me to talk about how she was able to turn her love for art and computer science into a career, and how she found herself at a crossroads as she was finishing up her master’s program: feature films or games?
Episode 23 — Rachel [Seltzer] Quirico
Rachel Quirico, also known online as Seltzer, is an esports host and interviewer for games like Pokémon GO, Overwatch, Hearthstone, CSGO, Starcraft, Street Fighter, and others.
Episode 22 — DaHanG
Tim Fogarty has been competing in various first person shooters for more than a decade, most recently sweeping a first place finish at DreamHack Winter 2018 playing Quake Champions Team Death Match with his teammate Shane Hendrixson, who goes by rapha.
Episode 21 — Game Informer with Andrew Reiner
Andrew Reiner has been driving public opinion about games for more than 25 years now and I was incredibly excited for the chance to bring him onto KakeBytes to learn more about him.
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