The Game Developers' Library

Joe Baxter-Webb
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A regular "book-club" style podcast where Joe Baxter-Webb [Indie Game Clinic] chats with a range of guest co-hosts about the books we think game developers should read (or at least know the gist of!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. JUL 31

    ep03 - Jesse Schell - The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

    In this episode we cover this weighty game design textbook, discussing its stronger and weaker areas, how it can help new developers to understand design and player psychology, and why so many more technically-oriented folks bounce off the book. Host Joe Baxter-Webb is a game design educator and YouTuber. He has previously been the course lead in Game Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, and has helped develop for multiple commercial games companies including King (Candy Crush Soda Saga) Karta (Blackpink in Roblox, Spotify in Fortnite) and Adult Swim Games. Guest host Jeremy Johnson is an indie dev and also Assistant Professor of Video Game Development at St. Edward's University, Texas, USA, where he teaches from A Book of Lenses every semester.  Most books mentioned are available via my bookshop.org affiliate page. This allows you to purchase books online in a way which benefits small local retailers. https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/indiegameclinic other things cited: Deck of Lenses, the free online version: https://deck.artofgamedesign.com/#/menu/0/?lang=enBrian Eno's Oblique Strategies, online version: https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.htmlAchievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design by Geoff Engelstein: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Achievement-Relocked-Aversion-Playful-Thinking/dp/026204353XFermat and Pascal on Probability (on the games-based origins of probability math): chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/pascal.pdfGeorge Fan: How I Got My Mom to Play Through Plants vs. Zombies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbzhHSexzpYPurple Cow by Seth Godin, Animated Book Summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QkPaJ299UkThe Writer Will Do Something by Matthew Seiji: https://matthewseiji.itch.io/twwdsthe "Japanese inventor with 3500 patents" was Dr. Nakamatsu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnjSjJOEfSc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 16m

  2. JUN 26

    ep02 - Raph Koster - A Theory of Fun For Game Design

    I discuss Raph Koster's game design classic from 2004. Is this a book about craft, or about ethics? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 17m

  3. MAY 18

    ep01 - Derek Yu - Spelunky

    We discuss Spelunky by Derek Yu, which was published by Boss Fight Books in 2016. This episode is hosted by Joe Baxter-Webb (game design educator and host of Indie Game Clinic) and game developer Tom Hughes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 16m
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A regular "book-club" style podcast where Joe Baxter-Webb [Indie Game Clinic] chats with a range of guest co-hosts about the books we think game developers should read (or at least know the gist of!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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