Thousand Ant Indie Dev Podcast Matt Mirrorfish and Sam Eng

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt Mirrorfish speaks with indie video game developer Dan Cook, developer of Cozy Grove, Triple Town and Alphabear, among many others together with David Edery and the team at Spry Fox. We talk about indie game development theory, game design and Dan's story in the game industry.

Find Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danctheduck

Read Dan's blog at: https://lostgarden.home.blog/

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt Mirrorfish speaks with indie video game developer Tom Betts, developer of Sir You're Being Hunted, Signal From Tolva and the Light Will Keep Us Safe together with the team at Big Robot. We talk about indie game development, ways of funding indie games, experimentation and more.

Find Tom on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tomnullpointer

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In this podcast Matt Mirrorfish sits down with Tory Vestergaard and Bryan Mehr of Sirenix, makers of Odin Inspector and Serializer one of the most popular and powerful Unity editor programming extensions on the Unity Asset Store. We talk about how the company got started, some of their ups and downs, what it's like working as a part of the Unity3D ecosystem and more.

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00:00 Intro
00:24 - Introduction to Odin
02:03 - The Inception of Odin
04:08 - The Origin of Odin and Norse Mythology
06:41 - Odin's Business Model: A Question of Sustainability
14:37 - The Enterprise: A Subscription Model
19:01 - The Stigma of a Third-Party Tool
21:46 - Tools Adapting to the Current Market Demand
24:07 - Generating Profit from Creating Engines and Tools
29:12 - The Open Source Initiative
36:18 - Unity's Shift to Packages
38:23 - Unity's Development First Culture
39:43 - Why Is Unity Not Making Their Own Games?
42:35 - Unity's Vision
43:36 - An Engine Company to Compete with Unity or Epic
48;53 - Unity as a Universal Engine
55:03 - Software Companies in the Future

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt speaks with Professor Michael Sellers who is Director of the Game Design Program at Indiana University. Mike has a long and storied experience in the game design field with stints at Maxis, Kabam and many others over his decades in the industry. He's also the author of  "Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach".

Find Mike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/onlinealchemist

Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35135766-advanced-game-design

In this episode of the Thousand Ant Podcast Matt speaks with Kennedy from @cozy.games about her work as a content creator and the community she leads who love to play cute and cozy games like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley and many others. This is a bit of a different episode speaking with a content creator as opposed to a developer or business person so let us know in the comments if you enjoy it.You can find Kennedy on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMfX5Gmyll4ceAX_NIAU3gFind @cozygames on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@cozy.games?lang=enAnd also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cozy.games/