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Summary Trevor Stricker of Disco Pixel tells me all about indie game development. Details Who he is and what he does; what is an indie game developer; skills needed to be an indie dev; protecting your work; platforms to develop on, naming your child Unity, learning about Unity, technical limitations; importance of partnerships as a game developer, corporate and developer partnerships; learning non games skills to scale your game; making money; book recommendations, Creativity, Inc.
Eric sits down with Trevor from Disco Pixel to talk Jungle Rumble and an assortment of other video game related topics.
This week on Random Assault, we are joined by Trevor Stricker of Disco Pixel (creators of Jungle Rumble), and formerly of Smilebit and Visual Concepts! We go over Trevor's history in the games industry, the trials and tribulations that he went through to get there, and the games he's working on now! We also talk about The Wolf Among Us, and mention how you could possibly get a Random Assault Episode 100 banner poster!
Here we are at episode 4 of our podcast. This time around we talk a bit about some middleware, have some interviews developers from the PAX East Ingie Mega Booth, discuss making a game fit a small download size, have a book based sound design tip and answer some quetions from listeners. Here's all the devs we talk with at PAX East Gaijin Games - http://gaijingames.com/ Nine Dots Studio - http://ninedotsstudio.com/ 82 Apps - http://www.82apps.com/ Iridium Studios - http://www.playiridium.com/ Deconstructeam - http://www.deconstructeam.com/en Lumenox - http://lumenox.is/ Mi-Clos Studio - http://www.miclos.com/ Firefly Studios - http://www.fireflyworlds.com/ Proletariat - http://proletariat.com/ Owlchemy Labs - http://owlchemylabs.com/ The Tap Lab - http://thetaplab.com/ Disco Pixel - http://discopixel.com/ Switchblad Monkeys - http://secretponchos.com/company We also talked about - Fmod - http://www.fmod.org/ Fabric - http://www.tazman-audio.co.uk/ Wwise - https://www.audiokinetic.com/products/wwise/ The Sound of Star Wars book - http://amzn.to/1rCGx5t
For those who may not know, we have decided to start separating our developer interviews into smaller, stand-alone episodes so you guys can get to what you want that much quicker! In this interview, we talk to Trevor Stricker of Disco Pixel about their new iOS and Android game Jungle Rumble! Trevor has been making games for over 15 years and has worked on tons of awesome games like NBA 2K and Panzer Dragoon Orta! Not to mention that he's a pretty awesome guy. He has tons of awesome insight into the industry and game development!We hope that you enjoy the interview! Check out the video below for more on Jungle Rumble and Disco Pixel!Direct Download of this episode! (right click, save link as)