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Zachtronics made singular games for engineers and people who make games. They made the game that inspired Minecraft. Imagine the breadth of their influence and it's clear what their open-ended puzzle games have truly inspired in modern game design. We chat with the studio's founder Zach Barth about the legendary history of these programming-forward computer games, the weight of outsized influence, working for Valve, and what he's up to today. This is Zach Barth's Game Dev Story.
ODR [Outdoor Rink] Hockey Heroes is an exciting new arcade-style hockey game from Christopher Atallah, a fellow hockey historian who has played all the stick-and-puck game conversions and put the best influences back into his game. On the eve of this year's hockey season, we talk about our...
Published 10/25/23
Michael Long of Foolish Mortals joins the show to discuss Kaiju Wars, a great riff on Advance Wars that pits your military against a rogue's gallery of awesome Kaiju. The game is a unique spin on the turn-based strategy play style employing timed puzzles to route the Kaijus before they cause...
Published 10/24/23