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    Welcome back to TwsitedSpoon Studio! It's been a hell of a year, let me tell you. Or better yet, I'll let you tell me. Well, maybe not about Coronavirus, but about your game design journey. This week, I'm interviewing you!  Even if you don't share your answers, it can still be fun to think about the questions and reflect on your own experience. Here are the questions, and to start the dialogue, I've included my own answers as well: How long have you been making games professionally? How long have you made games recreationally? "Professional" is aspirational for me, which is one of the reasons why this blog exists. Recreationally, I've been making games since I was a kid, with more serious efforts starting my sophomore year of college, back in 2016. What medium do you design/develop for? (Tabletop, digital, mobile, etc.) What tools and software do you use regularly? I've developed tabletop games ranging from board games to card games to RPGs, an...

 Welcome back to TwistedSpoon Studio. This is our last Designer Talk before Christmas, so I've saved something special for you: our first interview with a Triple-A designer! Without further adieu, let's meet our guest! - Welcome to TwistedSpoon Studio, and thank you for coming! What should I call you?      Jason Lentz works, but when I suit up in my corrugated costume, I am known as the "Giant Cardboard Robot" (You can google that for more info.)   I thought that was a joke until I looked it up, and boy was I wrong. How'd you get into that?      In my sophomore year of college as an architecture student, I decided to come up with a plan for a giant suit that could be anything. I just needed an armature to base it on, and being a broke college student, my budget steered me in the direction of cardboard.      Long story short, once I had the plans, I had to build it. Then for the next 5 years of college , I iterated upon it, making it...

Welcome back to TwistedSpoon Studio! This week on Designer Talks, we have indie developer Perfect Chaos at the table! - Welcome to TwistedSpoon Studio! What should I call you? Jay will do just fine. Nice to meet you Jay, and thank you for participating in this interview. How long have you been making games? What mediums do you develop for? I started my game in March this year (2021)... Currently, only on PC. I’ll be releasing through the Steam store and on itch.io, with a scope to move onto mobile as it’s a platform I seem to have a lot of ideas for. I would love to get hold of a Nintendo Switch dev kit, but I have two consoles already so can’t really justify it until I have some kind of sales income. As for tools, I’m using Unity, just because I heard it was the most beginner friendly along with various free web based editing and recording tools. Why did you decide to start making games? Is there a particular game, franchise, or developer that inspired you? Me and my friends would dra...

Welcome back to TwistedSpoon Studio! For the month of December, I'll be sharing interviews with experienced designers and developers discussing their experiences in the industry. Let's go ahead an jump in! - Welcome to TwistedSpoon Studio, and thank you for coming. What should I call you? Thank you for having us; we’re a boyfriend & girlfriend and collectively call ourselves Petrified Apple. The story of that coming from a petrified apple one of us owned, split in half. We each carried a half when we were briefly continents apart. How long have you guys been making games professionally?   We’ve been working on our first “commercial” project for about a year now, although the concept art and idea for it was conceived almost 2 years ago-- shortly after whimsically making & releasing our first game recreationally. Why did you decide to start making games? Is there a particular game, franchise, or developer that inspired you?   Girlfriend does art, boyfriend does programm...

     Welcome to TwistedSpoon Studio! I'm excited to announce a new miniseries: Designer Talks! Every Wednesday for the month of December, I'll be hosting interviews with experienced game designers and developers who want to share their knowledge with you! You'll find out what inspired them to become designers in the first place, what challenges they've had to overcome, and their advice for becoming a designer yourself. Think of it as TwistedSpoon Studio's Christmas gift to you!       Tune in starting next Wednesday to see what they have to say. Until then, happy Thanksgiving!