Episode Description
Jacob interviews Karla and Zimonja from Ivy Road about their experience building the characters, world, and gameplay systems of their recent release, Wanderstop.
PLAYERS:
- Jacob McCourt (Bluesky)
SPECIAL GUESTS:
SHOW NOTES:
- 0:00 – Housekeeping
- 2:00 – Intro
- 4:30 – Prototypes & Inspirations
- 7:00 – Approach to Cozy Games
- 9:10 – How Wanderstop Supports Chill
- 13:00 – Nodes
- 15:10 – Monster
- 20:45 – Finding the Right Balance with Monster
- 24:30 – When Karla Met Davey
- 28:20 – Tea vs. Coffee and the Machine
- 32:50 – The Business Boys
- 36:00 – Pacing
- 37:55 – Dirk Warhard
- 40:30 – The Team at Ivy Road
- 44:30 – COVID
- 49:00 – Ren
- 56:15 – Nana
- 56:45 – Zenith
- 1:01:45 – The Last Choice and Why It Doesn’t Matter
- 1:05:15 – Looking Back at Development
- 1:10:45 – The Risk of Hurting Players
- 1:16:45 – Despelote
- 1:19:30 – What Now?
RESOURCES:
BLUESKY: leftbehindgameclub.bsky.social
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