Making Games is Totally Easy (LOL) - Ep. 250

What's Good Games: A Video Game Podcast

What's Good Games

Video Games, News, Entertainment News, Leisure, Games

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Thank you to ExpressVPN, Felix Gray, and Postmates for sponsoring this episode of What's Good Games! Go to http://expressvpn.com/whatsgoodgames to get 3 months free on a 1-year package. Go to http://felixgrayglasses.com/games to get your Felix Gray glasses. Get 50% off your first 5 orders of $50 or more when you use code WHATSGOOD on Postmates. This week Andrea is joined by a special panel of guests to talk about working in game development and the impact diverse perspectives have on the process. But first, Belinda Garcia, Alyssa Harrison, and Mel Ramsden join Andrea in chatting about the Game Awards 2021 nominations before talking about their game Stonefly and taking community questions. Follow Mel on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/melrambles Follow Belinda on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/bbcgarcia Follow Alyssa on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/hyperlyss Thank you to this month's Patreon Producers: Chewy’s Godson Alex Rigopulos David Iacolucci Faris Attieh Justin Foshee Matthew Goderre Punkdefied Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2rAcJvF Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/whatsgoodgames Want audio only? http://whatsgoodgames.com/podcast/ Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/whatsgoodgames Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/whatsgood_games Follow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/whatsgoodgames Follow on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatsgoodgames Our discord channel: http://discord.gg/whatsgoodgames Follow on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/whatsgoodgamesofficial Our website: http://www.whatsgoodgames.com Time stamps: 1:10 - Special guest introductions 3:43 - Game Awards nominations discussion 5:55 - Game of the Year nominees 15:03 - Innovation in Accessibility nominees 24:00 - The weird feeling devs get watching people play their game 28:45 - Sponsor messages 35:15 - What is Stonefly? 37:40 - Does one person pick the idea for a game or a group brainstorm? 49:45 - Media training and game developers: what is interviewing with media like? 1:02:55 - What game idea relevant to women would you like to see? (hint: MOMS) 1:05:17 - Gendered game experiences: is it ok? 1:09:40 - Things they are excited about right now

Transcript

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0:00.0	Coming up in today's show, the Game Award nominations are out and I've got a very fun
0:06.0	panel of special guests.
0:36.0	Welcome to another episode of the What's Good Games Podcast.
0:46.8	Your source for video game news, commentary, analysis and funny stuff.
0:50.6	Every Friday I'm Andrea Verne, joined by three wonderful people who we've been trying
0:56.8	to get on the show for literally months at this point.
1:00.4	Welcome Alissa Mel and Belinda.
1:05.4	I can't be on the show this week because she's got some family stuff to attend to, but
1:09.1	I'm so glad that y'all are here.
1:11.8	We originally were talking about doing this panel with you three ladies back in the spring
1:18.1	of this year.
1:19.1	Then live kind of in sideways for Brittany and I.
1:23.4	We kind of had to shell this, but we're so glad that you're finally here.
1:27.3	To give everybody a proper introduction, please welcome Belinda Garcia, the associate narrative
1:33.4	designer at Sledgehammer Games.
1:35.8	We've also got Alissa Harrison, the associate producer at That's No Moon.
1:41.3	And last but not least, it is Mel Ramstin, the technical game designer at Flight School.
1:48.3	So ladies, what's good games everything you hoped and wanted it to be are all the months
1:54.2	of waiting worth it?
1:56.2	And more.
1:57.2	Absolutely.
1:58.2	Wow.
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