Our guest on Octodad at the dawn of fumblecore and being proto-#friendslop. Full ep has a shoutout to Human Fall Flat! 🕹️
The Fourth Curtain podcast
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A podcast about videogame makery, the definitive oral history of videogames. Hosted by Alex Seropian and Aaron Marroquin. podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain
Founder/CEO of Young Horses @ptibz.younghorses.com joined us to explain succeeding w/o greenlights! Student project Octodad went on to IGF fame & solid sales, followed by the charming 🐛Bug Snax. We talk knowing when to ship #videogames & the art of fumblecore - this week! Link below.
When we talked to our next #gamedev guest he was holding a coffee, a phone, pen, cap, tchotchke, donut, flower, and a d20. How⁉️Find out tomorrow on The Fourth Curtain podcast!
A year ago using AI in #gamedev was mostly speculative. What a difference a year makes! 🎮
The Fourth Curtain, the podcast history of #videogames, is back for a 2025 retrospective as we gird our loins for Season 4 next year! Switches, success🏆ratios and gamedev AI - oh my! Spotify - bit.ly/492g10S www.podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain
Tomorrow we have a new episode of The Fourth Curtain podcast! Our intrepid hosts reflect on a topsy-turvy year in #videogames🎮#AI and much more. Listen up!
To sum up our year, @igda.org, how about our biggest District Arcade ever? 500+ attendees and 35 locally-made games. Game developers in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia: we host at least two in-person meetups every month. Come hang out!
Christoph is another guest of ours with too many big #videogames to fit in an image!🎮podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain
Our guest on Sam Houser's vision of an open world for #GTA!
VP Amazon Games Christoph Hartmann is our guest. At BMG he helped launch GTA then co-found 2K Games and publish NBA 2K, Civ, Bioshock. We discuss the upcoming #videogame 👑 King of Meat, a fresh take on how AI can help gamedev and more - this week! t.co/cHXgJ0kf8d
Tomorrow's guest on The Fourth Curtain podcast is a #baller joy-riding river Captain! podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain
Thrilled to speak with Trip Hawkins, founder/CEO Electronic Arts (EA), Digital Chocolate and more. From early football strategy to💥WWIII sim, he made a company of electronic artists and legendary #videogames. Calming Steve Jobs, hacking consoles and many Firsts - this week! youtu.be/jCMldF7hRNg
Our guests built Sucker Punch into a prolific creator of💥hit #videogames, which are not only ghostly but sly and infamous as well!
It's a one-two move w/ Sucker Punch's Chris Zimmerman and Brian Fleming. Now shipping 👻 Ghost of Yotei, they tell us about leaving Microsoft for Sony & becoming a #videogame powerhouse. Tales of exact pitches & being great not good - this week! youtu.be/ZOj4nXXhB00
Thursday we return with a BOOM! A very timely episode about a very big👻#videogame on The Fourth Curtain podcast. podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain
David Gardner joins us this week w/ tales of the early days of #videogames. A teenage tech prodigy, he was employee #11 @EA, ran Atari and is now running London Venture Partners. We talk Hawkins distortion fields, Atari sandwiches and when EA was hip 🔥- this week! youtu.be/gzVG9Vu-TYU
Tomorrow's guest on The Fourth Curtain podcast was a teenage prodigy and renowned sandwich-maker! 🥪
This week's guest is another one with more big #videogames than we can fit on an image! Here are a couple of standouts. 🌟
Our guest on the evergreen appeal of #RPGs!
Our guest is Feargus Urquhart, founder/CEO of Obsidian, premier maker of videogame RPGs. From test and prod of huge titles like Baldur's Gate to Outer Worlds. We discuss snatching victory 🏆 from the jaws of defeat w/ Pillars of Eternity, and when a feature is real - this week! youtu.be/pqB7asfzVuQ
Tomorrow's guest on The Fourth Curtain podcast is veteran of many huge #videogames, whose only fear is in his name!😶
This week's guest made a splash with Spellbreak (which lives on) before getting called up to⚔️Warcraft! podfollow.com/thefourthcur...
We return from break with an "enchanting" episode with Seth Sivak, VP Development for World of Warcraft at Blizzard. We discuss being an Imagineer, the three components of creative 🔥 decisions and "always be pitching" - this week! youtu.be/TlRTvtthwNI
Tomorrow we return from break with a banger episode full of #videogame spells,☘️luck and Warcraft! Not to be missed.
An encore episode in recognition of the PlayStation recently turning 25! That means it's antique. Here's the great Jason Rubin talking about building Naughty Dog, a multi-megahit #videogame studio. youtu.be/gesrOvuT5uE
Episode 30 - All Right the First Time with Crash Bandicoot's Jason Rubin
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As our guest notes, Capture the Flag ⛳️is a hugely popular game type on both playgrounds and in #videogames which is often done poorly in the latter. Nearly every major sport in human history is a version of CTF - curious!
Our guest is Mac Reynolds, CEO/co-founder Night Street Games making Last Flag. As manager of Imagine Dragons, he learned to find magic🧙 in the grind & now applies that to #videogames. We talk Eagle Scouts, learning to advocate & CTF - this week! youtu.be/9DzkafNdDsY
