Alanah and Mike discuss indie game marketing, and the fact that getting past being worried about something sucking is the best way to start... making something!
This week, Alanah, Mike, and Austin chat about Hollow Knight: Silksong (yes, it's hard) and how media seems to prefer difficult games, Alanah's recent ChatGPT video (though this was recorded before it was published), and the Freewrite Traveler.
This week, we sat down to chat with Matt Nava from Giant Squid, all about the studio's latest game - Sword of the Sea.
Austin, Mike, and Alanah chat about IP Rights and our (very early, uniformed lol) thoughts on the "Stop Killing Games" petition.
This week, Mike and Alanah talk about learning to use game engine Godot, the brilliant lighting in TRON: Catalyst, and ethics in genitalia shown in film.
This week, Alanah, Mike, and Austin sat down to chat to Tonda Ros - the director of Blue Prince. Apologies for Tonda's echo!
Alanah and Austin chat Blue Prince, addictive video games, and Satisfactory.
This week, Mike, Alanah, and Austin chat to co-founder of Stoic, the creators of The Banner Saga and, more recently, Towerborne!
This week, Alanah and Mike discuss the Switch 2 presentation!
This week, Alanah and Mike start out by talking about the lay-offs across WB Games, then jump into talking about Microsoft's newly announced AI "Muse", and then we - finally - get Alanah's thoughts on Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
This week, Austin and Alanah sit down to talk to Mike Laidlaw, the game director of Dragon Age: Origins who most recently started his own studio and make ETERNAL STRANDS. Which Austin also worked on, because of course he did. He cannot be contained.
Apologies for the delay here - the audio file was corrupted! This week, Mike and Alanah are joined by Strange Scaffold's Xalavier Nelson Jr to talk about how the studio makes so many high quality games, and what it really means to be a good game director.
After a break due to the LA fires - which we talk about to begin with here - we chat about a recent 200-page document called "The State of Video Games in 2025" from Matthew Ball. If you'd like links to the charities we mentioned, please check those out on the YouTube version of the podcast!
Happy four years of PWL! Sorry about Mike's audio here, we don't know what happened.
Alanah left her job at Sony, and Mike got in trouble for saying something on Bluesky. We discuss the state of the games industry now that it's December 2024, and the notion that "indies will save" everything.
We're back from a brief hiatus! Immediately discussing: should Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree be nominated for GOTY even though it's a DLC? Also: Mike announced another video game!
This week, AUSTIN TURNS 40 (technically over a week ago at the time of publishing). So, we indulge him with almost an entire episode about Star Wars (Outlaws) and video game bugs.
This week, Alanah, Austin, and Mike discuss the economic state of the games industry and if game prices need to go from $60 to $70.
After a month off, we have returned to bring you TOP QUALITY VIDEO GAME CONTENT! But mostly, a lot of us talking about the TV show The Expanse. And Sex in the City?
Rd _Nauthiz_
the Most favorite sofar (I'm listening from ep01)
Rd _Nauthiz_
Ok. Now I appreciate and recognize the quality of Troy's mic.
Andy Dunn
Holy hellthe timing is way out for Mike Bithells audio, he's like 6 seconds ahead of everyone else so there are huge silences followed by everyone talking!
Caleb B
can't stream or download this one for some reason
Sean Belohovek
my God Troy talking backwards is.... fucking scary but awesome at the same time.