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A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
0$ Marketing, Steam Demos & Custom Game Engine
This is a conversation with the Australian game developer Tommy, co-creator of the tower defense game Gnomes. Thy made it in a custom Rust Engine with just 10 months of time and 0$ marketing budget. It looks like a game anyone could make, but is it? I was curious to learn more. Links to my Guests ➤ Gnomes on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133060/Gnomes/ ➤ Sea of Survivors on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2347940/Sea_of_Survivors/ Listen to the podcast on the...
2025-12-12
2h 20
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Industry Veteran About Coding for Games
This is a conversation with Ricard Pillosu, an industry veteran with over 20 years in both AAA and indie teams, currently working as Co-Founder at Epictellers a 30+ head team working on the CRPG Starfinder: Afterlight. Links to my Guests ➤ Starfinder: Afterlight on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/3245640/ ➤ Epictellers Website: https://www.epictellers.com/ Listen to the podcast on the go (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.): ➤ https://tyrollerjonas.podbean.com/ 0:00 - Intro ...
2025-12-04
1h 58
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
You (Probably) Can’t Trust Game Dev Formulas
This is a conversation with my game dev friend and former collegue Friedemann Allmenröder. We created ISLANDERS together, he then went on to make many more fantastic indie games such as Pizza Possum, Summer House and recently Slots & Daggers. In this conversation with dive into the philosophy of game dev creativity and I try to understand more about how Fridemman's process for making hit games looks like these days. Links to my Guests ➤ Slots & Daggers on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3631290/Slots__Daggers/ ➤ Summer House on St...
2025-11-27
1h 49
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
How to Make Brilliant Games With 0 Combat
This is a conversation with Danny Weinbaum from @EastshadeStudios, the creators of one of my favorite roleplaying games, Eastshade, currently working on a new game called "Songs of Glimmerwick". How do you make successful adventure game? What makes for good quests? How to write peaceful games and bring them to satisfying conlcusion? How to craft beautiful environments? Links to my Guests ➤ On YouTube: @EastshadeStudios ➤ Eastshade on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/715560/Eastshade/ ➤ Songs of Glimmerwick on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/Songs_of_Gli...
2025-11-20
2h 38
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
This Young Solo Dev Built a Steam Hit in 4 Months
This is a conversation with @zoroarts8930, a young solo dev who managed to land an indie hit with his co-op game Paddle Paddle Paddle. We talk about that success, how to potentially replicate it and also about the role of luck. Links to my Guest ➤ YouTube Channel: @zoroarts8930 ➤ Paddle Paddle Paddle on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3570070/Paddle_Paddle_Paddle/ ➤ Makis Adventure on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1843110/Makis_Adventure/ ➤ Rogue Jungle on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2352850/Rogue_Ju...
2025-11-13
1h 37
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Grow Your Game Dev Success Gradually
This is a conversation with Stephen Huang from @isto_inc. They made games such as "Get to Work" and "Atrio: The Dark Wild", each game more successful than the last. Sptephen tells his story and shares his best advice on how to grow your game dev success long term. Links to my Guests ➤ On YouTube: @isto_inc ➤ Get to Work on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2706170/Get_To_Work/ ➤ Atrio: The Dark Wild on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1125390/Atrio_The_Dark_Wild/
2025-11-06
2h 06
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Their Second Game Did Worse, Now What?
This is a conversation with Julian Colbus from DigiTales Interactive, the creators of Lacuna and Between Horizons. We talk about regrets from their last game, how to succeed with story based games and how to make it as an indie game developer. Links to my Guest ➤ Lacua on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1364100/Lacuna__A_SciFi_Noir_Adventure/ ➤ Between Horizons on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1921980/Between_Horizons__A_SciFi_Detective_Adventure/ ➤ The Great Sassanelli on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2195490/The_Gr...
2025-10-30
2h 12
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Making a Cozy Game Hit in 5 Months
This is a conversation with Kathrin Radtke from Spellgarden Games, the tiny development team behind Sticky Business and Ritual of Raven. We talk about making successful cozy games, scope, marketing and more. Links to my Guests ➤ Sticky Business on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2303350/Sticky_Business/ ➤ Ritual of Raven on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2066520/Ritual_of_Raven/ ➤ Spellgarden Website (Social Media links etc): https://spellgardengames.com/ Listen to the podcast on the go (Spotify, Apple Podcas...
2025-10-23
1h 26
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Tiny Team, Huge Sales (Dorfromantik & Star Birds)
This is a conversation with Timo Falcke and Zwi Zausch, two of the devs at Toukana Interactive, the developers of Dorfromantik and Star Birds. This is a game dev success story with some theory crafting about how to potentially reproduce an outcome like this. Links to my Guests ➤ Star Birds on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719750/Star_Birds/ ➤ Dorfromantik on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1455840/Dorfromantik/ Listen to the podcast on the go (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.): ➤...
2025-10-16
2h 04
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Min-Maxing Your Steam Launch
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Cory Darby, a indie games strategist / profissional min-maxer and the co-creator of Click & Conquer, a game that with just 400 hours of work managed to turn over 100K in profits. We talk about how to optimize your Steam launch for maximum visibility and where the indie games industry on Steam is going. Links to my Guest ➤ No cost 30-Minute consultation: https://tidycal.com/ckdarby/biz-game-dev ➤ Cory on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThornityCo ➤ Click and Conquer on Ste...
2025-10-02
1h 44
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Build an Online Game In a Simple Database
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Tyler F. Cloutier, co-founder and head of Clockwork Labs, who are building their MMO, Bitcraft Online, entirely in a database. They are making this database available for other developers under the name SpacetimeDB. It's a real time relational database that promises to massively simplify infrastructure required for both applications and games alike, almost like an operating system for the cloud. I'm very on board with their vision. Can it actually hold up? Let's have a look. Links to my Guest ➤ SpacetimeDB: ht...
2025-09-26
1h 42
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Marketing Indie Games as a Developer vs. Publisher
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Phiomena Schwab, co-founder/CEO of Stray Fawn Studio, the creators of The Wandering Village, Dungeon Clawler, Nimbatus and Niche. She's the head of Stray Fawn's new publishing branch and she co-founded the Swiss Game Hub, a co-working space for game developers. We talk about what it takes to make successful games, community building, early access, publishing and women in game dev. Links to my Guest ➤ Bootcamp games: Check out the games and leave a comment https://swissgamehub.itch.io/ ...
2025-09-18
1h 45
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
The 3 Layers Every Online Multiplayer Game Runs On
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Erick Passos from Photon Engine (Exit Games Inc.), a company that provides networking solutions and server architecture for online multiplayer games. I try to understand more about how how online multiplayer works in general and in particular how to use Photon's Quantum and Fusion to develop online games faster. Links to my Guest ➤ Photon Engine: https://www.photonengine.com/ Listen to the podcast on the go (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.): ➤ https://tyrollerjonas.podb...
2025-09-11
2h 25
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Making a Competitive Strategy Game Survive
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Youge Wen, aka. "Bearlike", the lead developer of my favorite strategy game Mechabellum, published by Dreamhaven, the publisher and developer founded by Blizzard's Mike Morhaime. We talk about the death spiral for online multiplayer games, game design, balancing for Mechabellum and exchange some advice with each other. Links to my Guest ➤ Play Mechabellum on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/669330/Mechabellum/ Listen to the podcast on the go (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.): ➤ http...
2025-09-04
1h 58
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
How A Text-Only Game Became A Steam Hit
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Huw Millward the creator of Warsim: The Realm of Aslona, an entirely text based asci kingdom simulation game (that was written to a single code file with 700K lines of code). Links to my Guest ➤ Play Warsim on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/659540/Warsim_The_Realm_of_Aslona/ ➤ Dim Parcio (Band): https://www.instagram.com/dimparcioband/ Listen to the podcast on the go (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.): ➤ https://tyroll...
2025-08-22
1h 13
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
TikTok and Shorts Are Insane for Indie Devs
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Johan Grönvall who managed to succeed with his debut game Bopl Battle in some part due to his TikTok and YouTube Shorts strategy, in other parts due to his analytical perspective and going above and beyond to serve a strong vision for his game. Links to my Guest ➤ Play Bopl Battle on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1686940/Bopl_Battle/ ➤ Johan's YouTube Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@johangronvall9473/shorts 0:00 - Intro
2025-08-14
1h 26
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Test Your Game’s Potential in Just 3 Days
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest René Habermann who is behind games such as Domekeeper and PVKK (Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant), running a games studio called Bippinbits together with his wive. In this conversation we dive into how to validate your game ideas early. Links to my Guest ➤ Wishlist PVKK on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2956040/PVKK_Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant/ ➤ Play Domekeeper on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/ ➤ Bippinbits Website: https://bippinbits.com/ 0:00 - Introduction 0...
2025-08-07
1h 47
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Make An Online Game That Lasts 30 Years
This is a Game Dev Podcast, today with my guest Benjamin Zuckerer from Cip Soft, the creators of Tibia, an MMO that has been under continuous operation and development for over 30 years. This is an entertaining and educational look behind the curtain of how to make and run online games that last for decades. Links to my Guest ➤ Wishlist Persist Online on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2082980/Persist_Online/ ➤ Play Tibia Online: https://www.tibia.com/mmorpg/free-multiplayer-online-role-playing-game.php ➤ Jobs at Cip Soft, German...
2025-07-31
2h 24
A Game Dev Podcast With Jonas Tyroller
Make Your Indie Game Go Viral
This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Gavin Eisenbeisz (Two Star) and your host Jonas Tyroller. In this episode I want to learn how to make wildly successful indie games that go viral a lot. Links to my Guest ➤ Wishlist Cuffbust on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592220/CUFFBUST/ ➤ 2nd Channel (Game Design): @ScientiaLudos ➤ Main Channel: @TwoStarGames 0:00 - Intro 0:57 - Look Where The Market Is Going 4:02 - What Makes For a Vira...
2025-07-20
1h 17