

Game Dev Unchained
Game Dev Unchained
Our podcast breaks the mold of don't ask don't tell about the video game industry. We give everyone the real inside look at what its like to be a professional game developer, Every week we'll interview pro and indie developers, we'll talk jobs, studios, salaries and of course crunch horror stories. Tune in!
Hosted by Brandon Pham
Hosted by Brandon Pham
Episodes
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Jul 10, 2018 • 1h 9min
0146: Dating In Development
Dating developers, the advice and trials as we came up in the industry as a husband and a boyfriend. Hear the benefits of dating in industry, and the difficulties you may be faced with when dating someone at your company or on your team. And to really spice up this episode, we get into wives having our backs against EA and what the industry developers need to do to keep history from repeating.
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Jul 3, 2018 • 1h 11min
0145: Jonathon Holmes Unchained!
A true believer of the unchained life, Jonathon Holmes tells us NOTHING about making secret government military games, but everything about how his environment art career and personal ambitions allowed him to achieve his absolute dream job in the game industry working at Quixel, FROM HOME!
Check out his work
https://www.artstation.com/synaesthesia
Night Dive Studios (Streams every Thursday)
http://www.nightdivestudios.com/
https://www.twitch.tv/nightdivestudios
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNFs4mUpyf3

Jun 26, 2018 • 1h 4min
0144: Catching Up To Speed with Danny Oakes
Danny Oakes is the Director of Operations and Marketing at SpeedTree. He is an experienced marketing manager with demonstrated history of working in the information and service industry. In this episode, we talk about his career and how he got involved in the game industry, traveling for work, and how procedural generation is changing everything.
Goto https://store.speedtree.com/ and try it out!
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Jun 19, 2018 • 1h 10min
0143- Accepting the Challenge of a Character Artist with Eric Valdes
Eric Valdes made all the right moves to go from Miami to LA and become a Character Artist working on God of War at Sony's Santa Monica Studios. Hear the story of how he accepted a challenge that changed his life forever. Hear how he started, and found his way and what he's looking forward to working on in his career. Lastly, he talks about sculpting his FAVORITE character model ever and the unlikely bond between that character and one of our podcast hosts!
http://www.ericv3d.com/
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Jun 12, 2018 • 1h 11min
0142: Designing Independent Games with Nina Freeman
Nina Freeman is a video game designer known for games with themes of sexuality and self-reflection. She is currently a game designer at Fullbright. She was included in Forbes 2015 list of influential video game industry figures. In this episode, we talk about ways to self-promote and stay relevant. How streaming narrative-driven games is more helpful than harmful.
Follow Nina
on twitter : @hentaiphd
https://www.twitch.tv/hentaiphd
https://www.instagram.com/hentaiphd
Check out her latest game
https://tacom

Jun 5, 2018 • 1h 3min
0141: Rountable News- Total Biscuit, Fornite $, Cliffy B Sad, COD BF Battle Royale, Star Citizen VIP
This Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about some backlash with Total Biscuit's passing, Fortnite continuing to print money with a $295 million dollar month, Cliffy B's studio closure, Call of Duty and Battlefield having a Battle Royale mode, and finally catch up with Star Citizen and its $27,000 premiere class mode.
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Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/gamede

May 29, 2018 • 1h 9min
0140: Game Unionization with Game Workers Unite Featuring Emma Kinema
Emma from Game Workers Unite gives us the roadmap for seeing a unionized game industry come to fruition. We find out what the importance of unions are, and what benefits and rights us developers should look forward to. Also, from the perspective of employers and companies we discuss what unionizing could mean in FAVOR of a company and how companies and corporations can co-exist with unionized game developers!
Follow on Twitter:
@EmmaKinema
@GameWorkers
https://www.gameworkersunite.org/
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May 22, 2018 • 1h 13min
0139: Traveling and Working Around the World with Galen Davis
Galen Davis is a evangelist for Quixel and is afforded the ability to travel the world and help studios across the industry with tools and support using megascans. In this episode, we talk about his journey from his beginnings in the Art Institute to working on God of War PS4. How he planted his roots at Quixel and what his job entails.
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May 15, 2018 • 1h 10min
0138: Making Game Trailers With Derek Lieu
Game Trailers has a significant influence on announcing games, demonstrating gameplay, and the ability of squeezing a 2-hour plus experience to a comprehensible 90 seconds. It's a tough job and we can't think of anyone else than Derek Lieu to explain the process of making trailers.
Derek has worked on many AAA and Indie titles such as Firewatch, Tacoma, and Absolver and this week he stops by to give the best tips as well as what to avoid when making trailers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dereklieu/
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May 8, 2018 • 1h 14min
0137: Get Your Game Funded by Altered Ventures with Mario Valle
Getting your game funded and published has never been easy, but Mario Valle and his video game venture capital team Altered Ventures, LLC are definitely are making it easier. Mario walks us through the process, and gives us some solid gold advice on preparing your pitch all the way to selling a game idea and getting it funded!
http://www.altered.vc/
Follow Mario Valle on twitter @bilbeny
Games mentioned in this Episode
https://www.lienzo.mx/
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