Category: Episodes

Cedre Pradier is an illustrator and UI/UX Designer that has contributed to projects such as Wanderstop, Assemble With Care, and Sable and in episode 128 of The Red Tunic Podcast, they have joined me to talk about what got them into the industry, some words of encouragement, their favorite games, their life outside of gaming, the game they feel hasn’t got enough recognition, and some lightning round questions.

Before we get started, don’t forget there are links in the episode description that you can follow to learn more about Cedre as well as the podcast. Also, don’t forget to like and share the episode and without further adieu, enjoy episode 128!

0:00 Start

10:45 What got them into the industry

17:15 Words of Encouragement 

23:45 Favorite Games

47:45 Life Outside Of Gaming

01:01:15 Lightning Round

01:08:00 Game that didn’t get enough recognition

01:17:00 Closing Time

Check Cedre out on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/cedre.bsky.social

Check Cedre out on Twitter: https://x.com/cedre_p

Check Cedre out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cedre.p/

Alex Trowers is a Solo Indie Developer and consultant that has been in the industry long enough to have went by many titles with involvement in many different projects, but for the sake of today we will simply call him a “Bullfrog Legend”.

In this episode we speak about how they got into the industry, some words of encouragement, their favorite games, what makes gaming enjoyable to them, their life outside of gaming, the game they’d like to create given absolute freedom, and some lightning round questions.

Before we get started, don’t forget there are links in the episode description that you can follow to learn more about Alex as well as the podcast. Also, don’t forget to like and share the episode and without further adieu, enjoy episode 127!

0:00 Start

13:30 How They Got Into The Industry

22:15 Words of Encouragement

27:45 Favourite Games

52:30 What Makes Gaming Enjoyable To Them

55:30 Their Life Outside Of Gaming

01:03:45 The Game They’d Make Given Absolute Freedom

01:35:30 The Lightning Round

01:42:15 Closing Time

Follow Alex on Bluesky via https://bsky.app/profile/bulkpaint.bsky.social

Nic Tringali is a Game Designer and Director at Lunar Division who you might recognize for their previous game The Banished Vault as well as the upcoming Amberspire. In this episode we talk about who Nic is and how they got into the industry, game design soft skills, the upcoming Amberspire, games that made them want to make games, game design in practice, their favorite games and series, what makes gaming enjoyable to them, their life outside of gaming as well as some lightning round questions.

0:00 Start

10:00 How they got into games

19:45 Game Design Soft Skills

23:00 Amberspire

30:00 Games that got them into game dev

33:30 Game Design in Practice

42:00 Favorite games and series

47:15 What makes gaming enjoyable

54:00 Life outside of gaming

01:02:00 Lightning Round

01:09:00 Closing Time

Follow Nic on Blue Sky via https://bsky.app/profile/nictringali.bsky.social

Check out Amberspire via https://store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/Amberspire/

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David Galindo is a Creative Lead at Vertigo Gaming whose best known for the Cook Serve Delicious series as well as the upcoming Cook Serve Delicious: Re-Mustard!  In this episode we talk about how they got into the industry, why they feel game jams are important, games that made them want to make games, games best enjoyed through nostalgia glasses and hidden gems, their favorite games, their life outside of gaming, and some lightning round questions.

0:00 Start

06:30 How they got into the industry

13:30 Gamejams?

17:30 Games that made them want to make games

31:30 Games best seen through nostalgia glasses

34:00 Hidden Gems?

40:30 Games that surprised him?

48:15 Favorite games & Series

54:00 Life outside of games

01:06:00 Lightning Round Questions

01:09:45 Closing Time

Follow David on Bluesky via https://bsky.app/profile/chubigans.bsky.social

Wishlist the upcoming Cook Serve Delicious: ReMustard! via https://store.steampowered.com/app/2139040/Cook_Serve_Delicious_ReMustard/

Join their Discord community via https://discord.gg/cookservedelicious

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Kyle Martina Cora, also known as Kylydian, is a video game composer with works found in many of the Minecraft DLCs as well as the upcoming Null Point Protocol by Everbloom Games, as well as an to be announced project. In this episode we talk about how they got into the industry, their guilty pleasure, comfort, and favorite games, their life outside of gaming, and close it off with some lightning round questions.

0:00 Start

2:45 Who they are

11:00 How tey got into the industry

35:30 Guilty pleasure games

46:00 Comfort Games

56:00 Favorite Games

01:02:30 Life outside of gaming

01:11:15 Lightning Round

01:20:15 Closing time

Check Kyle out via his website https://www.kylydianmusic.com/

Check out his works on Spotify via https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Kei2Fs5zKQV8nxB9xiekp

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3520420/Nullpoint_Protocol/

Check Kyle out on the socials via https://x.com/Kylydian and https://bsky.app/profile/kylydian.bsky.social

Follow me on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/RedTunicPodcast

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Ryan Ike is a video game composer and sound designer with his works appearing many titles including Glittermitten Grove, which includes hidden sequel Frog Fractions 2. In this episode we talk about who Ryan is, what got them into the industry, getting to work on the follow up to the cult classic Frog Fractions, his guilty pleasure games, games that caught them off guard, the games that made them want to work in the industry, their life outside of gaming, and probably one of the more philosophical lightning rounds to date.

0:00 Start

08:45 What got them into the industry

18:30 Frog Fractions 2!?

24:00 Guilty Pleasure Games

33:15 Games that caught them off guard

39:15 Games that made them want to work in the industry

48:45 Life outside of gaming

57:45 The lightning round

01:11:45 Closing time

Check Ryan out via his website https://www.ryanike.com/

Check Ryan’s works out on Spotify via https://open.spotify.com/artist/25WFJNbldvTxvd3enTT8rb

Check them out on Instagram via https://www.instagram.com/ryanikeaudio/

And their Tiktok via https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanikeaudio

And their Bluesky via https://bsky.app/profile/ryanikeaudio.bsky.social

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Mairi Spaceship Nolan is a freelance Puzzle Designer that has designed puzzles for video games, escape rooms, and in this episode we talk about who she is, her views on designing for video games vs real world puzzle games, how she into into this line of work, the games that made her want to work in the industry, some of her favorite games, her life outside of games, and some lightning round questions. Oh, and we also talk about how she got the awesome legal middle name of Spaceship

0:00 Start

7:15 Video games vs Puzzle Games

16:30 How she got into the industry

24:00 Words of encouragement

30:15 Games that made her want to design puzzles

36:45 Favorite Games

44:30 Life outside of games

01:00:30 Lightning Round

01:04:00 Closing Time

01:05:30 – Spaceship!?

Check Mairi out via https://www.mairispaceship.com/

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Hey Link here, thanks for joining me for episode 121 where I speak with Courtney Millman where we talk about what got her into the industry, some words of encouragement, games that made her want to work with games, working on the game that inspired her, favorite games, their life outside of gaming, and some lightning round questions.

Before we get started, don’t forget there are links in the episode description that you can follow to learn more about Courtney as well as the podcast. Also, don’t forget to like and share the episode and without further adieu, enjoy episode 121!

0:00 Start

13:30 What got her into the industry

19:30 Words of Encouragement

29:00 Game that made her want to work with games

36:30 How it felt to work with games that inspired her

43:15 Favorite games & series

57:45 Life outside of games

01:04:30 Lightning Round

01:07:20 Closing Time

Check Courtney out on Twitter via https://x.com/Courtney_Fay_M

Check Courtney out on Instagram via https://www.instagram.com/courtneyfaym/

Check out Courtney’s Art Station via https://www.artstation.com/courtneyfayart

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Hey Link here, it’s been a bit but thanks for joining me back from my hiatus with episode 120 featuring Megan McDuffee! In this episode we talk about how they got into doing music, game music that got them interested in the industry, favorite games, words of encouragement, what kind of projects they’d like to work on in the future, some lightning round questions, as well as their life outside of gaming!

Before we get started, don’t forget there are links in the episode description that you should check out to learn more about Megan as well as the podcast. Also, don’t forget to like and share the episode and without further adieu, enjoy episode 120!

0:00 Start

05:30 How they got into doing music

12:45 Any game music/OST that got her interested in scoring games

17:00 Favorite Games

24:45 Words of Encouragement

27:30 Heights they hope climb

31:30 Lightning round

35:45 Life outside of gaming

43:30 Closing Time

Learn more about Megan via –

Hyperfollow – https://hyperfollow.com/MeganMcDuffee

Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/artist/4n34M10wtYMrhh5tNsKwnn

Apply Music – https://music.apple.com/us/artist/megan-mcduffee/1117816839

Webpage – https://meganmcduffee.com/

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Hey Link here, thanks for joining me for episode 119 where I speak with indie game dev Devon Wiersma where we talk about topics such as who they are, the Toronto indie scene, how they got into the industry, some words of encouragement, life outside of games, games that surprised them, favorite games, and lightning round questions

Before we get started, don’t forget there are links in the episode description that you can follow to learn more about Devon as well as the podcast. Also, don’t forget to like and share the episode and without further adieu, enjoy episode 119!

0:00 Start

07:15 Elevator Pitch

15:00 The Toronto scene

24:30 How they got into the industry

38:30 Words of Encouragement

45:30 Life outside of games

53:15 Game that surprised them

55:15 Favorite games

01:09:30 Lightning Round

01:18:30 Closing Time

Check Devon out on socials via –

https://bsky.app/profile/devonwiersma.bsky.social

Check out CodeCWA and UVW-CWA via

https://code-cwa.org

https://uvw-cwa.org

Check out their games catalogues

Steam –

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2669580/Centauri_Dark

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1758320/Lofty_Quest

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1527520/Bombing_A_Graffiti_Sandbox

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2109570/Bombing_2_A_Graffiti_Paradise

Itch.io –

https://devonwiersma.itch.io/centauri-dark

https://devonwiersma.itch.io/lofty-quest

https://devonwiersma.itch.io/bombing-a-graffiti-sandbox

https://devonwiersma.itch.io/bombing-2-a-graffiti-paradise

Learn more about the podcast via –

Tweets by RedTunicPodcast

https://bsky.app/profile/theredtunicpodcast.com

https://pod.link/TheRedTunicPodcast