Melon Cast - #2 Game Dev Experience. Challenges In Game Dev. The Game Industry.

Melon Cast (Indie Game Dev Podcast)

• In today's episode we talk about our first game dev experiences, the challenges in it and the game industry.

00:00:00 - Intro

0:00:40 - What was your first game dev experience?

0:16:17 - How did you first start learning game development?

0:24:52 - What is or was the biggest challenge of your game dev journey?

0:30:52 - Was there ever a situation when you crunched during the development of a game?

0:38:25 - What are your favorite video games to play?

0:43:40 - What do you think of pay to win games? (from the perspective of a game dev and a player)

0:49:56 - What do you think are the qualities person needs to be a (good) game developer, and why?

1:00:08 - What do you think are the most historically important games, and how do you think they changed the game industry?

1:09:16 - Outro

1:09:40 - Bloopers?!

• Background music from Shovel Knight (Strike The Earth by Jake Kaufman)

• Here are some of the social media links of the cast members:

- Dan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/gamedevdan

- Pxl Dev's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/pxldevThe

Tilemap video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABMvbTyEK8

- Fully Rendered's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3cOFRJLBWS_YApMiw3hRg

- Wolfenrahd's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC43ocReBfXYy9Cf6j1nufDg