On this week's podcast, we had a nice discussion with Dave "[WHO]Them" Kircher. Dave works at Valve and was instrumental for his work on Portal. We ask him about his background at Digipen, accessibility and iteration in game development, the team structure at Valve ("cabal" style, instead of a lead designer), multidisciplinary talent, playtesting and lots more.
Note: The recording of the podcast has some technical problems where Charlie gets out of sync towards the end. This makes for some funny pauses and interruptions, but we figured the podcast was worth posting despite those issues.
Community member Testosteron sends word that he's posted German summaries of the last three podcasts on his website. You can find the summaries here:
This week Max and I discuss TF2 Commentary, design considerations of the NS2 Commander Mode and humor in games.
Have a great weekend!
Update: A transcript of the podcast, courtesy of obsid, is available here.
This week Charlie and I discuss Bang Camaro, the minimum system requirements for NS2, modding and cheating and...caek?
Update: Community member John Top has taken the time to transcribe the podcast. You can read the full transcript here
The fifth weekly podcast covers the shipping of Decoda (and you thought it would hever happen!), organizing a local game development group, Scaleform, the pitching process ("vertical slice") and some NS2 marine and alien abilities.
Hope you enjoy it!