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The Business of GamesDirect-to-consumer: building the infrastructure that makes it realWelcome to The Business of Games Podcast, powered by Xsolla.In this episode, hosts Chris Hewish and Lia Ballentine go a layer deeper into direct-to-consumer — past the strategy, past the economics, and into the infrastructure that determines whether a studio's direct-to-player ambitions actually hold up at scale.Most direct-to-consumer conversations start with intent and end with outcomes. But between the two sits a layer most studios underestimate: the technology stack. Identity systems, payments infrastructure, data pipelines, commerce backends, and emerging Web3 tooling aren't supporting characters in the direct-to-player story. They're the plot. And the studios ge...
2026-04-1036 min
The CircuitPython ShowWriting a CircuitPython Library for the Community BundleJan Goolsbey and Tod Kurt return to the show and share their experience in writing libraries and drivers for the CircuitPython Community Bundle.
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Guests:
Jan Goolsbey - Jan’s GitHub repositories
Tod Kurt Tod’s GitHub repositories
00:00 Welcome
00:18 The CircuitPython Community Bundle
2:01 When is your code is ready for the bundle?
2:50 Creating a library using cookiecutter
Creating and sharing a CircuitPython library Learn Guide
9:01 Documentation requirements
11:15 Submitting a library to the Community Bund...
2025-03-1034 minThe CircuitPython ShowBuilding a weather system with Jan GoolsbeyJan Goolsbey joins the show for his second visit. He shares how he built a weather monitoring system using sensors, weather APIs, display devices, CircuitPython, and Adafruit IO.
Jan was previously a guest on episode 33.
The CircuitPython Show is now on Bluesky!
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:16 Welcome Jan
00:28 The start of the weather system
2:09 How to solve the corrosion problem
4:50 Internet connected sensors with a PyPortal and Adafruit IO
7:43 Adding external weather conditions from an API to Adafruit IO
9:47 Evolving...
2025-01-2731 minThe CircuitPython ShowJan GoolsbeyJan Goolsbey joins the show. He and Paul discuss the CircuitPython Community Bundle, Jan’s contributions to the bundle, his IoT wind chimes project, and the string car racer.
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00:30 Welcome Jan
2:24 Discovering CircuitPython
3:52 CircuitPython’s Community Bundle
6:10 Jan’s favorite libraries in the Community Bundle: Range Slicer
7:45 Graphics libraries including PaletteFader
9:27 Advice for adding to the CircuitPython Community Bundle
10:30 Using synthio for the Internet of Things Wind Chimes project
Wind Chimes repository
14:14 The String Car Ra...
2023-12-1822 min