Dev Diary Paul James

An interview years in the making, Paul chats to Jason De Heras, the experienced Design Director at Respawn who has had a hand in some of the biggest games of the decade, God Of War III, God Of War Ascension, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and 2023's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Join them as they discuss Jason's early love of games and how fighting games formed the basis of his journey into and through the game-development scene

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Chris Mosely has been a staple of the local industry for decades and has founded some of Australia's biggest studios. Now, with Playcorp, Chris is on a new adventure, and joins Paul for this new entry of Dev Diary to discuss the incredible road to this point.

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There's never been a dull moment in the career of Dambuster's David Stenton. Going way back he worked on PS1 adaptations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but built his way up to be a key player in the peak of Mass Effect with Mass Effect 2 and 3. Nowadays he's steering the ship for Dambuster, a studio who has been saving the day on multiple titles of later, Homefront: The Revolution, and the new release, Dead Island 2. David stops by to discuss his journey in this new episode of Dev Diary!

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Rob walks a fine line between video game journalism, video game content creation, and, of course, video game development, and he discusses how he entered each space, as well as some of his game dev works in this new episode of Dev Diary!


Mental Procreation: Andrew Braybrook's Morpheus Diaries: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/mentalprocre.html
Rob's "Guide" to Morpheus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQgi3p_SW8M
Rob's Paradroid Retrospective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvO4o5UY9A
Heart of Neon: https://heartofneon.com/
Atari Archive: https://www.youtube.com/@AtariArchive

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Andrew Trevillian didn't begin his career with video game development in mind, but it certainly evolved into something special in the space. From working on the likes of De Blob and Resynth, as well as his work in educating the next generation of developers, Andrew is a bit of a local legend, and so we're thrilled to have him aboard Dev Diary to discuss the road to this point

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon has been responsible for some of the industry's most visually identifiable games, from Fortnite to Genital Jousting, and his team at Free Lives are returning with the poignant Terra Nil. Jono joins Paul for this new entry of Dev Diary to discuss the journey so far in game art.

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