Podcast appearances and mentions of jenna hoffstein

In this lecture, Michael Carriere and Jenna Hoffstein from the Indie Game Collective discuss managing a game studio, through the perspective of the Indie Game Collective.

We welcome awesome indie game developer Jenna Hoffstein to the show to talk about her game, The Counting Kingdom, how being an indie isn't always all sunshine and rainbows and much more.

Welcome to Gaming With The Moms, the podcast about gaming with families! Host and Managing Editor of Pixelkin Nicole Tanner takes us through the gaming news of the week. She is joined by Pixelkin staff Simone de Rochefort and Courtney Holmes (filling in for Linda Breneman), and Jenna Hoffstein, creator of the awesome math game The Counting Kingdom. Check out the interview we published with Jenna last February. We have a lot of questions for her about educational games. We also talk about same-sex marriage in Fire Emblem: Fates, and whether the new Star Wars: Battlefront should really be rated T for Teen. Here are the show notes!

Our 2nd episode introduces our podcast's next subject: "What is Game Design?". 1st Segment - Main Topic (0:00 - 25:10) Oleg takes the reign with his experience as a designer for his company, Mustachio Games, and explains the differences between system and content designers, and their importance in the development of a game. Renzo and Maxine bring up questions on what designers do for games, and Renzo forgets that The Last of Us does not have procedurally generated enemies in its design. :) 2nd Segment - Interview (25:58 - 58:32) We also ask this question in an interview Boston-based indie developer Jenna Hoffstein, founder of Little Worlds Interactive, who has worked in multiple studios and on multiple projects as a designer for content, combat, and levels. She has contributed a lot to the game industry with her game The Counting Kingdom and continues to work as a fantastic designer on projects. 3rd Segment - News (58:55 - end) We end the podcast with our first-ever news segment! We discuss current topics happening in the games industry and our thoughts and different opinions. This week we bring up: - Oculus VR founder sued - Konami PR Statement on Mobile Shift/Konami Speechless on Kojima - (Rumor!) Silents Hills to be purchased by Microsoft - FIFA 16 Gets International Women’s Teams Follow us on http://fps-podcast.blogspot.com/ and feel free to contribute feedback to firstpersonstudent[at]gmail.com

Jenna and Aleen talk about Counting Kingdom, making a living as an indie game developer, and programming Twitter bots.

One might have thought that edutainment went the way of the dodo. And it did. But with technology literally in the palm of our hands, now seems like a great time to bring them back. In this episode Brian Tyler and Jonathan Miley talk to Jenna Hoffstein, the one-woman dev-team behind Counting Kingdom, a game that put math as its main game mechanic. This is an archived episode of DarkCast Interviews that originally appeared on Darkstation.com

Guest lecture by Jenna Hoffstein on designing games for usability, taking into consideration player attention and visual design.