207 episodes
PlayWrite - The video game idea podcast Ryan Quintal, Ryan Hamann
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5.0 • 11 Ratings
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A weekly creative video game idea workshop between hosts Ryan Hamann, and Ryan Quintal, and the Play;Write community. Play;Write is a podcast about creating and sharing new ways to play. Each week, new ideas for new video experiences to bring to life. A proud part of the Cane and Rinse Network.
Visit PlayWriteCast.com or email playwritecast@gmail.com to share your idea today!
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PlayWrite 207 - NSFW, Finals, Pareidolia
Slide around NFC chips, go to battle royale school, and best the photo recognition algorithm.
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PlayWrite 206 - Beautiful Ride, A Link between Words, Dewey Decimate, Heart Defense, Mushroom Kingdom Revolution, City of Trade, Arkanoidvania
Work together to solve problems, have a wizard duel, have a literary fight, discover Nintendo's take on Civilization, build a kingdom as a citizen, and go on a minimalist arcade adventure.
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PlayWrite 205 - Sandbagged, Lunch Crunch, Time Flies
Manage a TV show taping, deliver food, and race aircraft through time.
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PlayWrite 204 - Casting Quest, BuilderDash, Time's Arrow
Play tabletop games with celebrities, build collaboratively, and create a time-warped shooter.
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PlayWrite 203 - Riddle Me This, Sine Rider, Almighty Academy
Become serial killers, learn how to create chiptune music, and go to school with the gods.
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PlayWrite 202 - Laces Off, Time after Time, Memory Lane
Have a parkour race, inadvertently travel through time, and become memory.
Customer Reviews
What an awesome idea!
This is the podcast for lonely gamers who wish they had friends to share their crazy ideas with. It’s for the creative who feels like they could use a bit of inspiration. I’ve only recently started listening and I’m already quite sure this will be one of my favorite podcasts ever!
A Must For Creative Gamers
Probably every gamer has come up with a game idea or story,
and PlayWrite is a great podcast to explore those ideas. Each
episode includes 3 game pitches (one from each host and one from the community) involving game style, story, and/or design with 10 minutes of brainstorming for each game.
The podcast has covered a large number of genres, and while I'm not a fan of every pitch that's been made I enjoy hearing the creative process as the hosts analyze the idea and think of story and gameplay that would improve it.
Also it was a great touch to add a community pitch. I'm not a game designer and yet I'm sure I'm not the only one that has an idea for a game that I wanted tell people about.
If I were to have a criticism, it seems more often than not the pitch is more of an idea on game mechanics than story. There’s nothing wrong with that, but my hope is that as more people pitch ideas we’ll hear a larger variety of stories. After all, isn't it the story that often makes a game with familiar mechanics become a great game? (The Last of Us, for example.)
All that said this podcast is a great listen, and has already produced
many game pitches that I keep thinking about and wish I could play
right now!
Fun Podcast for Brainstorming Game ideas
I have only one complaint, none of these amazing sounding games exist. So, come on game devs, there are hours of great ideas in here!