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Lightmap - Conversations with video game creators

Lightmap is an Australian Podcast Award winning show that explores the creative process of making videogames and interactive media, and introduces you to the creators of some of the most exciting titles. You'll meet developers, musicians, artists, journalist and more, so come join us here and on SIFTER.com.au

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All Episodes

31:17

HoloVista (Meredith Hall)

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2020/12/06

Meredith Hall wears many hats in the Australian Games Industry. At Aconite the developers of Holovista she is a producer and at Film Victoria she is the Games and Digital Content Officer. Meredith joined us to talk about her experience working with an international team to create an artistic game with inclusivity as a top priority. Pixel Sift is produced by Mitch Loh, Scott Quigg, Sarah Ireland, Fiona Bartholomaeus, Daniel Ang & Adam Christou. Gianni Di Giovanni is our Executive Producer. Thanks

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44:55

Hive Time (Josh "Cheeseness" Bush)

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2020/11/21

Josh "Cheeseness" Bush is the Lead Developer of Hive Time the resource management game centered around a beehive. While playing you will need to adjust population ratios, conduct scientific research, and even occasionally engage in some diplomacy with neighboring insects. Josh let people pay what they wanted and launched it on the smaller indie platform Itch.io and was really candid about how it actually paid off as well as inspirations behind the game. Pixel Sift is produced by Mitch Loh,

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18:39

Path of Titans (Matthew Cassells)

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2020/11/07

Matthew Cassells from Alderon Games' joins us this week to talk about Path of Titans, a cross-platform MMO where you play as a dinosaur. The game is constructed for fans of dinosaurs of all kinds featuring more than 30 dinosaurs to choose from. During the episode, Matthew shared his thoughts on scientifically accurate dinosaurs and building a game with modding in mind. Pixel Sift is produced by Mitch Loh, Scott Quigg, Sarah Ireland, Fiona Bartholomaeus, Daniel Ang & Adam Christou. Gianni Di

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32:27

Simon Boxer (Ring Of Pain)

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2020/10/26

Round and round our voices spiral, to bring you tales of game developers great trials. The Ring of Pain beckons you nearer, will you heed the call and see it all too clearer? A roguelike card crawler where encounters come to you, Ring of Pain by Simon Boxer and Twice Different is a stylish and unique take on the genre. Simon takes us through the design process for the game and how he wanted to create a fresh roguelike experience for players. Pixel Sift is produced by Mitch Loh, Scott Quigg, Sarah

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29:27

Brigitta Rena (When The Past Was Around)

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2020/10/11

Brigitta Rena is the Lead Artist of When the Past Was Around by Mojiken Studio, a story, puzzle game about a girl trying to find her lost memories of a relationship with an owl headed man, a play on the classic beauty and the beast storyline. Brigitta shares how she was initially worried about making "girly" games in a male dominated industry, how she learnt to simplify her art style to be more collaborative with her team and telling a distinctively Indonesian story. Pixel Sift is produced

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33:50

Set sail on the open seas in survival adventure game...

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2020/09/25

Windbound is a game about exploring the seas, living off the land, and building your perfect sailboat. Mitch Clifford, the lead animator and co-founder of 5 Lives Studios the studio behind Windbound joined us to tell us about the inspiration behind the game and his experience in the Australian games industry. We also get to know his dog Koji!SIFTER is produced by Mitch Loh, Scott Quigg, Sarah Ireland, Fiona Bartholomaeus, Daniel Ang & Adam Christou. Gianni Di Giovanni is our Executive

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35:05

Tali Faulkner (Umurangi Generation)

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2020/09/13

Umurangi Generation is a game that is steeped in style and culture, a photographic adventure where you snap pictures as the world around you changes. Tali Faulkner lives in regional New South Wales, who designed the game to draw on layers of experience including his Maori heritage as well as anime and cyberpunk themes. Umurangi Generation was selected as part of the PAX EGX Leftfield collection and you can pick up a demo of the game on Steam right here: Umurangi Generation Demo on Steam Pixel Sift

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28:04

Paul Kopetko (Boomerang Fu)

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2020/09/01

Paul Kopetko is a sound designer and musician who wanted to learn more about making a game from start to finish, so he put together food fight themed Boomerang Fu! It's a six player brawler where boomerangs are your weapons, as you take control of an anthropomorphic coffee cup, watermelon slice or avocado and one hit KO your rivals. Featuring some character design by former guest Julian Wilton of Massive Monster the game has had a surprisingly popular run as people challenge each other at home

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9:57

Aussie scientists use Minecraft to build a replica...

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2020/08/21

Dr Daniel Brown and his colleagues at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery in Adelaide have rebuilt one of the key observatories they use to detect gravitational waves inside the game of Minecraft. It's part of the Australian National Science Week, and they'll be giving audiences a guided tour of the device in game and live streamed on YouTube. The next tour is open on Saturday 22nd of August, at 2:00pm local Adelaide time, which is 12:30PM in Western Australia, and

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26:41

Ashleigh Starmer-Lee (Crossy Road Castle)

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2020/08/17

Crossy Road Castle is the multiplayer, Apple Arcade sequel, tower climbing game featuring all your favorite characters from the smash-hit mobile game Crossy Road by Hipster Whale. Ashleigh Starmer-Lee is the Lead Artist on the game and joined us to talk about her work process when designing characters for the game, working remotely and how her personal creative process is very different to how she works. Pixel Sift is produced by Mitch Loh, Scott Quigg, Sarah Ireland, Fiona Bartholomaeus, Daniel

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32:02

Julian Ball (Len's Island)

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2020/08/09

Len's Island is a game where you can build a new life for yourself using only the tools in your backpack, once you're done grab your weapons and explore the dark dungeons below. Julian Ball from Flow Studio joined us to talk about the creation of his dream game as well as funding through Kickstarter and balancing game development with a successful YouTube channel. ‍Pixel Sift is produced by Mitch Loh, Scott Quigg, Sarah Ireland, Fiona Bartholomaeus, Daniel Ang & Adam Christou. Gianni Di

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9:54

Video games don't make people violent new metastudy...

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2020/07/26

A new study from New Zealand’s Massey University found that in many cases there is no reason to believe violent video games cause violent behaviour. Senior lecturer at Massey University and lead author of the study Aaron Drummond said there has been a rise in exposure to violent video games, and that in the highest quality studies, the effect is so small that it is indistinguishable from zero. You can read a written version of this story on the Pixel Sift website: Study of 21,000 participants finds

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45:53

Matt Ditton (Shooty Skies Overdrive)

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2020/07/20

Shooty Skies Overdrive is the virtual reality sequel to the popular mobile hit Shooty Skies, and Mighty Games CEO Matt Ditton shares why it made sense to convert the Shmup experience to full body 3D bullet hell. Matt started his career in game development in Queensland, working on games like Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, before moving to Victoria to become a producer and CEO. Pixel Sift is produced by Mitch Loh, Scott Quigg, Sarah Ireland, Fiona Bartholomaeus, Daniel Ang & Adam Christou. Gianni Di

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26:39

Daniel Hindes (Wildfire)

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2020/06/26

Daniel Hindes is the Lead at Sneaky Bastards and over the last six years this team has built Wildfire a stealth platformer built upon systemic gameplay . Wildfire is a game where you're only really limited by your imagination and experimentation as you control different elements to win. Before Daniel was a game developer he was a games journalist and editor, and it was conversations with game developers when covering games that encouraged him to make his own. He shares the lessons he's

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12:33

Making PAX Australia a digital experience: Luke...

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2020/06/18

Well you probably have heard the news by now, PAX Australia won't be going ahead in October this year, joining PAX West which has also been cancelled for 2020. In its place is PAX Online, a new digital festival that runs over 9 days between September 12 and 21, streaming content 24 hours a day. Luke Lancaster of ReedPop Australia shared what it was like when he realised that physical conventions just wouldn't work in 2020 due to COVID-19. Music in this episode is "Shopping for the

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32:47

Ben Chandler (Nighthawks)

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2020/06/14

Ben Chandler joins us on the show this week to talk about the upcoming roleplaying game Nighthawks, where you play as a fledgling vampire in a modern world where their existence is no longer a secret. Ben is an artist and animator in the games industry and has worked on titles such as Blackwell Epiphany, Unavowed and Shardlight. Ben shares with us how he got started working as an artist in the games industry as well as what the process is like working as a remote dev creating artwork and assets for

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8:33

Scouting for the next League of Legends champion:...

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2020/06/03

How do you shape a competitive League of Legends player into an esports star? Chris Lee is a coach at the Chiefs Esports Club Academy, his job is to find the up and coming talent and shape them into professionals. He’ll be working with the Australian winner of the Red Bull Solo Q tournament, a unique format of the League of Legends game where two players face each other one on one, as they take their skills to the world. Read a written version of this story here: Scouting for the next League of

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30:12

Christopher Galea (Brimstone Brawlers) & Hacking in...

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2020/05/30

Brimstone Brawlers is a couch multiplayer game that features a collection of unlikely heroes from hired hunters to measly shop keepers fighting their way through Victorian-inspired 3D battlegrounds. Christopher Galea, a developer from Ategig the studio behind Brimstone Brawlers joined us to talk about how he brought his skills from another industry to the game development scene. How do you feel about hacking in single-player games? Recently some players of the latest Animal Crossing have been doing

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30:13

Brendan Watts (Fledgling Heroes) & who protects the...

Lightmap - Conversations with video game creators ·

2020/05/16

Fledgling Heroes is a side scrolling flap 'em up game where you play as collection of brave birds taking on the world. Brendan Watts is the Director at Queensland's Subtle Boom the studio behind Fledgling Heroes join us to tell us about how the game was made. Fledgling Heroes is available on Apple Arcade and the Nintendo eShop. We all have games that we just can't access anymore, but when these games become harder and harder to access, whose responsibility is it to make sure we can

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15:00

Saying goodbye to a lost land in [soon, only the ocean]

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2020/05/09

Game designer Max Myers wanted to make an experience that played out in real time. Each time you visit Glenn Island in [soon, only the ocean] time moves forward and you bear witness to the slow ecological collapse as it sinks into the sea. Adam Christou speaks with Max about the inspiration behind the game, and you can head to pixelsift.com.au to read an essay about what it was like to visit Glenn Island when it was above the waves. This episode was written, presented by Adam Christou. It was

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