Teardown is a 22 sandbox puzzle game developed and published by Tuxedo Labs.

The game revolves around the owner of a financially stricken demolition company

who was caught undertaking a questionable job and becomes entangled between helping police

investigations and taking on further dubious assignments.

The game stands out for its technical achievements, particularly its use

of voxel-based rendering, which enables highly interactive and fully destructible environments.

Dennis Gustafson is the founder of Tuxedo Labs and the creator of Teardown, among other games.

In today's episode, Dennis speaks with Joe Nash about his 20-year history and game development,

his passion for physics and games, tear down, the advantage of using voxels, and much more.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at

companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got a start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Gary's mod.

And game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts. Welcome to the show, Dennis. How are you doing today?

Thank you. I'm very good. Really happy to be here.

Yeah, awesome. Thank you so much for joining us. So where I want to start today is your journey into game development.

Because, you know, poking around in preparation for the show, it seems you come from a very much like rendering background, which makes a lot of sense looking at teardown.

So I'm really interested.

What was your career to date leading up to tear down?

That's actually not entirely correct.

For being a game developer, I've been pretty uninterested in rendering for a long time.

I've been working in games since 2001 or two. It's more than 20 years now. And I only started

tinkering with rendering really just a couple of years before starting on Teardown, really.

I've been doing some rendering, of course,

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