Make the Game with Matt Hackett Valadria

We're talking about:


Preparing for GDC
Getting a badge (or not)
Lodging around GDC
A tour of Moscone Center
Navigating GDC parties
General tips & advice



🔗 Show Notes


Game Developers Conference
Making a mobile video for quick, in-person demonstration
🐷🫧 Add Pixel Washer to your Steam washlist
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Yerba Buena Gardens
gdcparties.com
hbomberguy

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe and rate this podcast 5 stars wherever you can. Good luck with your game 🛠️


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We cover a lot in this episode! Look at all these links:


Amazon wishlist (thanks!)
📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
Game Marketing GOLD with Chris Zukowski
Twitter: @richtaur
Podcast: Make the Game
📺 YouTube: @Valadria
RedLetterMedia
SEA (space videos)
Join the Valadria Discord
YouTube: @richtaur
Steam: Witchmore, Pixel Washer
The Clark Tank!
Game Maker's Toolkit
🔥 The Steam Dev Cheat Sheet
Create Your Steam Page
No Stacking | Make the Game
Killed by Google (Google Graveyard)
Fruit Ninja designer Luke Muscat talks going solo dev
YouTube: Make the Game (playlist)
TikTok: @richtaur
Chef Reactions
📈 4 viral game hooks for game designers
Game Dev Comics by Matt Hackett
Lostcast (my old podcast)
Kenney (public domain assets)
r/Games - Indie Sunday (oops I said r/gaming)
Game Dev Coaching/Consulting
GDC (Game Developers Conference)
🥓 Bacon and Games
Wonderland Engine (I meant downloadable engine; games run in the browser!)
Building a Web Game in a Day
7 tips from 7 days of game dev for 7 Day Roguelike
You were played out with Remember Me by Joshua Morse

Coming soon: a GDC postmortem, pitch decks, and publishers. Thanks for listening!


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🔗 LINKS
Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/
Coaching: https://www.valadria.com/game-dev-coaching-consulting/

🎬 TIMELINE
0:00 Intro
1:05 GDC 2024
7:27 No Stacking
25:21 Goals
34:51 Outro

🎹 MUSIC
Electro Breaks Loop: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=749
Phantom Anthem Wubs: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879
Interstellar Winnebago: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1050
Joshua Morse: https://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/

#gamedev #indiedev #podcast #gdc


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Links galore: https://www.valadria.com/seeing-things-steam-next-fest-greg-love/



🎬 TIMELINE

0:00 Intro

4:14 Story Machine

11:50 Seeing Things

19:26 Steam Next Fest

36:30 Live streams

42:20 What's next?

45:59 Release after SNF?

49:39 Multiple demos

55:19 Outro



📙 SOLO DEV BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/



#gamedev #steam #podcast


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🎬 Timeline

0:00 Intro

1:36 User Interface (UI)

10:32 Configurable input

21:10 Climbing the wall

26:40 A "game shell"

37:48 The Money Part

43:02 Kickstarter(s)

50:35 Coaching

53:06 Outro


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🎹 Music

https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879

https://stevenmelin.itch.io/lo-fi-atmospheres-music-pack

https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1601


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