In Conversation with Armaan from Frostwood Interactive Gamedev.in - Conversations

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In this episode Yadu and Arjun talk to Armaan of Frostwood Interactive about his roots, inspirations for Rainswept, Forgotten Fields, and his next secret project.
People in the podcast
Armaan - https://twitter.com/Armaan_S92
Arjun Nair - https://twitter.com/NairArjun
Yadu Rajiv - https://twitter.com/yadurajiv
Notes from the podcast
Frostwood Interactive - Link
Rainswept - Link
Unity - Link
How I quit my 9-5 and became a full time indie game dev - Video
Twin Peaks - Link
Memories of Murder - Link
EGX Rezzed - Link
Forgotten Fields - Link
Rami Ismail - Link
Dino Digital - Link
Chit fund - Link
Neon Bedlam - Link
Poets of the Fall - Late Goodbye - Link
Silent Hill - Link
Invisible Waves - Link
Michal Michalski - Link
Goa - Link
Audacity - Link
Adventure Creator - Link
Alan Wake - Link
Silent Hill 2 - Link
Last life in the Universe / "Reung Rak Noi Nid Mahasarl" - Link
David Lynch - Link
Full Transcript
Yadu Rajiv 0:07
Hello, and thank you for tuning in to the gamedev.in podcast. In this episode Yadu, and Arjun talk to Armaan of Frostwood Interactive about his roots, inspirations for Rainswept, Forgotten Fields, and his next secret project.
So I guess I'll give a quick intro, I am Yadu. I mean, we have met Armaan, and I've met before in the IGDC. With the help of a bunch of people, we run gamedev.in. And this whole thing is basically like a way of trying to figure out whether we can kind of archive histories of game designers and developers who kind of make up our industry. How can we preserve this for a future generation, at the same time, also help kind of up and coming developers and also, so yeah, so all these kind of this is kind of where we started, when we thought about doing this kind of a podcast kind of a thing. So it's primarily archival in nature. And then we thought it will be interesting for people to just catch up and also to talk about what they're doing, who they are, those kind of things. So that is where I am coming from, this is Arjun, Arjun?
Arjun 1:26
Yeah. Hey. So I think I joined GameDev(.in) very recently. So my role has been to basically set up these chats so far. Basically, we're trying to have these conversations with all the indie game devs in India, at least, you know, their journey, document their journey and stuff. But my role so far in the industry has been as a professional programmer. So I've been in industry for some time now. And I thought it's time you know, that. And I've been very, you know, closeted kind of individual. I don't, I'm very private kind of individual. I don't mix with people. So I thought it's time to, you know, go out and meet someone new, faces and stuff. So, and Armaan I actually met you in 2019. In IGDC. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you may remember me, and others lost souls, traveling through all the booths, you know, trying to check out stuff.
Yadu Rajiv 2:20
This guy's selling steam keys.
Arjun 2:24
That's what caught my eye like in the sea of commercial people. There's this one guy is selling steam keys ok, I had to check him out. So yeah, so I guess that's, that's us. Maybe Armaan, you can talk about yourself?
Armaan 2:40
Yeah. So I'm a game developer working solo under the name of Frostwood Interactive, and I've released two games so far. One was Rainswept in 2019. And the other one recently is Forgotten Fields. And yeah, I was an architect before that, but wasn't really interested in architecture. I guess we can go more in details later.
Arjun 3:01
Yeah, yeah.
Armaan 3:02
And yeah, so just a game developer, and I'm working on the third game