Game Dev Unchained

Press Start Legal is a law firm based in the United States for Interactive Entertainment Industry. Zac Rich is the cofounder and sat down this week to educate the legal side of indie development, contractual agreements, forming a new company, and many many more about what it takes to make a company legitimate.

Tapas Media is an indie digital comic book company who has just expanded their business to co-develop and publish some of their biggest titles into mobile games.  Tapas has around 2.1 Million active users on its platform, and I think this is a very interesting and unique brand that bridges comics and manga, to indie gaming.  Their newest game is called ‘Dungeon Construction Co.’ and it is an adventure puzzle game based on a best-selling indie comic book.

Immigrants in the United States are facing tougher challenges in recent years as they are up against bigger obstacles. Cecillia Peng was almost forced out of the country even though she has been at one of the top mobile company in the industry for several years now as a UI/UX Designer. We were honored to have her on to tell her story of how her competence in performing her job in a specialized industry has been politicized in recent years. This episode is brought to you by Quixel Megascans.

This Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about the biggest headliners starting out with what's going on with Activision and its split from Bungie. Blizzard getting peanut butter and jealous of that split, and how Epic Games Store is swooning Ubisoft away from Steam.  This episode is brought to you by Quixel Megascans.

Ushering the New Year in traditional fashion we review 2018 news that affected game developers and gamers alike. What the podcast's past and current goals are, and finally semi-announcing our indie game and Games Unchained initiative.

Super.com is a non-traditional indie publishing firm that invests wholly into a game. Recently established in mid 2018 Super.com is offering seed investment for new studios, or venture capital for more mature companies. Hear all your questions answered now on how to get your game funded! You don't want to miss this episode.

Alex Jerjomin is a Senior Environment Artist working at Digital Extremes on Warframe. He has spent 7 years in the industry living on different continents working on the Fable franchise to working on the Spyro series. In this episode we talk about his struggle to get freelance to work as a side hustle and his general view points on where we are as a industry.

Su and Peter both have full time jobs and have had illustrious careers spanning across gaming, film, and tech companies. Their partnership started over four years ago and currently their company, Ugo3D, has a potential valuation of $200 million dollars. Now fresh from their release of GameFace, an app that turns any player into a playable avatar on every smartphone available, they are on the cusp of hitting it big.

Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about the biggest headliners from Epic Games announcing their game store, Fallout 76 upsetting their fanbase, Obsidian being bought out by Microsoft, Game Awards and new game announcements, and the crew's 2019 game predictions.  

Brackeys is one of the fastest growing tutorial resources in game development. Brackeys provides the tools and knowledge needed to program, shape, and design cross-platform applications from ground up using state of the art software. This week we discuss the transition from running a studio office versus renting an office space and how they are advancing to their next goals.