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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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32:38

Christy Dena (Crafting Intangibles Event) & Remakes...

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2017/08/17

Christy Dena is a writer, designer and director at Universe Creation 101. She joined us to talk about “Crafting Intangibles”, a free online interactive writing event which you can watch online now. Featuring talks from Narrative Designers and games writers from all over the world, Crafting Intangibles brings them together to share knowledge about how to write better for games and interactive experiences. Christy also shared with us what it takes to unite gameplay mechanics and storytelling in

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29:41

Ian Gregory (Masquerada: Songs and Shadows) & esports...

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2017/08/05

Ian Gregory, Creative Director, of Singaporean based Witching Hour Studios the studio behind their latest project Masquarada: Songs and Shadows joins us on the show this week. Ian shared this thoughts on the struggles of developing a game in a country that is just getting its head around the idea of games being a positive influence and proving to the world Singapore’s creative strength. Ian also joined us to talk about esports on TV. With the immense popularity of competitive gaming on online

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30:12

Anthony Sweet & Paul Turbett (Battlestar Galactica...

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2017/07/22

Paul Turbett and Anthony Sweet from Black Lab Games who are based right here in Perth talk to us about their latest project Battlestar Galactica Deadlock and we asked what it is like to be responsible for the new game adaptation of one of the most beloved science fiction series ever and how to write a game in an established universe With subscription services like Netflix making it much easier to access bold and unique shows, new services like Jump are looking to fill in the gap in the gaming market

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36:19

Cheryl Vance & Joel Styles (Yonder: The Cloud Catcher...

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2017/07/06

Cheryl Vance and Joel Styles are developers of the soon so be released Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles. Yonder is a gentle and friendly open world game releasing on Steam and Playstation 4 on Tuesday 18 of July! While we had them they shared what it is like to develop a game with a unique soft style and an adventure experience with no combat involved, while drawing on the open world games you played when you were young. An article by Nathan Birch got us thinking about the target audiences of

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31:52

Adric Polkinghorne (Think of the Children),...

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2017/06/23

Adric Polkinghornefrom Jammed Up Studios joins us to talk about Think of the Children, a game that teaches us the struggle of keeping children alive. It's a chaotic child micromanagement game, built out of the adrenaline and excitement of a game jam, which in now being translated into a commercial release. Spurred on by a very vocal Twitch chat, Adric shared his thoughts on walking the thin moral line while developing his game, and travelling the world putting the game in front of players and

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27:42

Julian Wilton & Jay Armstrong (The Adventure Pals),...

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2017/06/09

Julian Wilton from Sydney and Jay Armstrong from the UK are from Massive Monster, creators of The Adventure Pals. We spoke about working together despite the distance between them and merging two iconic gaming genres into one. For years Steam Greenlight has been the number one way that indie developers could get their ideas out there, generate interest and build an audience. But after 5 years of service it is being shut down and Stream Direct , it's replacement will launch on the 13th of June

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34:34

David Clark (Ori and the Blind Forest), Bad Guy...

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2017/05/26

David Clark one of the creators of Ori and the Blind Forest, joined us this week. Did you know that Ori was programmed right here in Western Australia? David filled us in on what it was like developing a game with a team he first met when showing off the game at E3. David's friend and former housemate Simon Holland joined us as well to share some stories of living with him as he made Ori. This week on the show we're taking a closer look at Valve, more particularly the Steam Marketplace. An

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26:48

Dr Jennifer Hazel (Checkpoint.org.au), games & mental...

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2017/05/16

Dr Jennifer Hazel is one of the co-founders and Director of Checkpoint an organisation that aims to get the conversation going around mental health and gaming. Checkpoint have just launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund a video series which looks at the way mental health is portrayed in games, and to promote healthy practices for those who play games and work in games. We talk about healthy and functional behaviours, game design and what role governments play, plus learn why Dr Hazel wanted to

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33:37

Sean Gabriel & Travis Avery (Desync), customisation...

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2017/04/27

Travis Avery and Sean Gabriel from THE FOREGONE SYNDICATE spoke to us about their latest game DESYNC. A set in digital world laced with neon and classic 80s style geometry DESYNC forces players to think on their feet be quick on the trigger and more importantly, improvise. We’re also tackling the “Frustum Culling” conundrum. Last week when Kotaku gave their readers a peek under the hood of PS4 flagship title Horizon Zero Dawn they included a GIF that demonstrated how Frustum Culling works, and

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33:19

Nick Smith (Forts), G2A 💔 Gearbox & Persona 5...

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2017/04/14

Nick Smithis the lead art director at EarthWork Games and he joined us to talk Forts. Forts is a 2D base fortification & assault game, finely crafted by an experienced team. Nick took questions from us and the viewers on Twitch. With the much anticipated Persona 5 finally on on the shelves many fans were raring to dive into the JRPG. But the western release came with a warning from publisher Atlus, not to spoil plot points of the game. While a perfectly reasonable request it also came with

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26:39

Andrew Freeth (Brief Battles), exclusivity effect &...

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2017/03/31

Andrew Freeth joined us live from South Australia to give us the details on his new game Brief Battles. Brief Battles is studio Juicy Cupcake's first shot at a commercial release, featuring a cast of quirky characters with even quirkier power doing battle over a number of interactive 2D battle ground. We look into gaming history, specifically how StarCraft has gripped its dedicated community for the better half of two decades. With an HD remake of the classic version recently announced we try to

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48:55

"Why do you create?" - Live at Oz Comic Con 2017

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2017/03/27

We're back at Oz Comic Con again this year and we've brought along some of our pals. This year we were joined by Sof Mather, Hien Pham and Oscar Brittain. We asked them "Why do you create?" which is basically the these statement of Pixel Sift, but why not be explicit for once? Join us for this extended live episode and learn a little bit about what makes these game developers, artists and musicians do what they do. Thanks to Oz Comic Con for having us back again, and thanks to

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33:24

Ash Ringrose (Death Squared), Rumblemonkey P2P...

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2017/03/16

We’re back into the swing of things this week with episode 65 of Pixel Sift. We’re joined by Ash Ringrose the head of SMG studios. He filled us in on their latest project Death Squared. Death Squared is a co-op multiplayer puzzle game that pushes players to work together to solve problems of increasing difficulty all with the looming threat of obliteration around every corner. Ash also talked about making different games for other companies and how the experience compares to his own works. With all

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33:59

Daniel Sun (Armed with Wings: Rearmed) , Nintendo...

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2017/03/03

Mitch leads the way this week on the 64th episode of Pixel Sift. This week we’re joined by joined by Daniel Sun of Sun Studios, during the show Daniel spoke about his experiences moving his game Armed with Wings: Rearmed from the online flash collections of Newgrounds.com to more current distribution system the Stream market place. The streaming community took a hit last week when popular Twitch streamer Brian Vigneault AKA "PoShYbRiD" passed away on the 19th of February 2017 while

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32:44

Justine Colla (A Township Tale), US travel ban &...

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2017/02/17

This week we're joined by Justine Colla, she's from Alta and is making the immersive social game A Township Tale. Justine told us all about how society works in a VR world, what happens when players enforce the rules and what Alta can do if people get into each other's personal space. A Township Tale will be shown at GDC on 27 February to 3 March 2017. Head to townshiptale.com Speaking of GDC, a number of developers may not be able to attend the conference this month due to the US Travel

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29:14

Yosha Noesjirwan (Inflatality), the end of Good Game...

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2017/02/03

This week we’re talking design style changes, when games change certain elements of their art style, gameplay mechanics or story tone. This comes of the back of a recent Kotaku article telling gamers to “Not take Ghost Recon Wildlands Seriously”, referring to the apparent style changes of the new tittle. We’re also joined by YoshaNoesjirwan the 3D artist and animator behind Inflatality. It has taken the combined effort of both Hojo Studioand Deepforge Studio to bring this quirky, physics based

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30:34

Jack Knobel (Kieru), the last console generation &...

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2017/01/26

We’re back with more console talk, this time focusing on the importance of good player networking features. In the past console generation Microsoft ruled this domain with it Xbox Live Gold but Sony’s game has been strong with the PS4’s PlayStation Plus service. With players now expecting robust solid ways to communicate with each other while they game, Nintendo’s proposed solutions to this issue has us scratching our heads. You like stealth? Multiplayer? Ninjas? Then you might wanna stick around to

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31:17

Alberto Santiago (Goat Punks), Twitch IRL + the end...

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2017/01/19

It is hard to believe that we have been around for 60 episodes but here we are! Up first today like almost everyone on the net we’re talking Nintendo Switch news. With the new system casting aside the region locking of its predecessors we will soon be able to indulge in the dating sims and abstract JRPGs that have been kept out of our reach due to pesky region based DRM. We are also joined by Alberto Santiago, the creative director of the brand new multiplayer competitive tower climbing game Goat

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31:18

Sam Izzo (Resynth), licence liquidation & the value...

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2017/01/12

When games are made in the wake of a major movie or comic book property there is time limit in which the properties in question are able to appear in the game. When the time runs out these tittles much be pulled from their market places. Unfortunately for a number of Activision games their licences have changed hands and these games can no longer be found. We first heard of Sam Izzo last year when he constructed the brilliant “No Mario Sky” now he and Andrew Trevillian are back. They go by the name

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32:18

Ellen Jurik (Siegecraft Commander), contractor pay...

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2016/12/16

Game Designer & Producer at Sydney’s Blowfish Studios, Ellen Jurik is our guest this week. We speak to Ellen about the trials of working in a studio with as many active as Blowfish while still reminding in love your work. Ellen was nice enough to join us for the the entire episode speaking about herself but also shedding an informed light on the episode other topics. The first topic of the episode looks at developer Crytek, who hit the news headlines yet again this week for failing to pay their

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