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Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Valadria
46 episodes
4 days ago
Learn to make and sell indie games with Matt Hackett, author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself.
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Learn to make and sell indie games with Matt Hackett, author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself.
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Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Marketing and PR with Robby Bisschop of PiratePR

Article: https://www.valadria.com/robby-bisschop-piratepr/


🎬 TIMELINE

0:00 Intro

0:13 Marketing and PR

35:37 How to get wishlists

49:32 How long to market a game?

59:17 Marketing beats

1:07:05 Keyscammers

1:25:40 Outro


🏴‍☠️ Hire Robby: https://piratepr.com/

📙 Buy my book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/

🐷 Washlist Pixel Washer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/Pixel_Washer/


#gamedev #marketing #podcast

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3 weeks ago
1 hour 27 minutes 37 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Webbiness and Refactoring

See valadria.com for more info!


📋 Show Notes

  • A Wizard's Lizard
  • From Quake mods to game director with Jon Hackett
  • 🐷 Pixel Washer
  • PowerWash Simulator
  • Dr Wahwee
  • Tiled (map editor)
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3 months ago
49 minutes 57 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Playtests, Prototypes, and Permission Games

https://www.valadria.com/playtests-prototypes-permission-games/


Show Notes

  • 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself (Gumroad, Itch, signed copies)
  • Pixel Washer
  • How to make a good Steam page
  • Pixel Washer: 3-day devlog
  • Lost Decade Games
  • Steam Hardware & Software Survey
  • Game Tester
  • 💰 The Money Episode
  • The illusion of skill: how to make a better game in less time
  • Production Point
  • Indie Game Sim
  • Making an Indie Game About Indie Game Making
  • How has web dev changed in the last decade?
  • 💀 How to handle the death of a platform (for example: Twitter)
  • Game Dev Comics by Matt Hackett
  • @richtaur.bsky.social
  • Making Big Indie Games (Gumroad, Itch)
  • Join the Valadria Discord
  • 60 minute video coaching/consulting

Thanks for listening. Now it's time for you to go make the game!

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5 months ago
54 minutes 10 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Godot and YouTube with Sean McKenzie (Bacon and Games)

🔗 Show Notes

  • Bacon and Games
  • How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
  • Steam Dev Cheat Sheet
  • How to Find a Video Game Publisher (Tips for Indie Devs)
  • Armor Games
  • Valadria Discord
  • 10 Godot Features Hidden in Plain Sight 👀
  • 🚫 No Stacking | Make the Game
  • Heartbeast
  • 🔥 Steam Game Promo Art - Photography and Fire
  • Making Big Indie Games
  • Game Maker's Toolkit
  • Cursor Adventure
  • Kenney's Cursor Pixel Pack
  • Golf Story
  • Game Dev Difficulty Tiers
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7 months ago
1 hour 27 minutes 6 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
What's the best thing you ever made?

https://www.valadria.com/the-best-thing-you-ever-made/


0:00 Intro

0:23 What's the best thing you ever made?

3:28 You didn't miss the boat

5:11 Three hours is all you need

9:48 Breaking down hard problems

19:37 Outro


📙 https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/


#gamedev #creative #podcast

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12 months ago
20 minutes 8 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
How to do GDC

We're talking about:

  1. Preparing for GDC
  2. Getting a badge (or not)
  3. Lodging around GDC
  4. A tour of Moscone Center
  5. Navigating GDC parties
  6. General tips & advice


🔗 Show Notes

  • Game Developers Conference
  • Making a mobile video for quick, in-person demonstration
  • 🐷🫧 Add Pixel Washer to your Steam washlist
  • Bay Area Rapid Transit
  • Yerba Buena Gardens
  • gdcparties.com
  • hbomberguy

Thanks for listening! Please subscribe and rate this podcast 5 stars wherever you can. Good luck with your game 🛠️

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1 year ago
17 minutes 14 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Don't Stop Posting

We cover a lot in this episode! Look at all these links:

  • Amazon wishlist (thanks!)
  • 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
  • Game Marketing GOLD with Chris Zukowski
  • Twitter: @richtaur
  • Podcast: Make the Game
  • 📺 YouTube: @Valadria
  • RedLetterMedia
  • SEA (space videos)
  • Join the Valadria Discord
  • YouTube: @richtaur
  • Steam: Witchmore, Pixel Washer
  • The Clark Tank!
  • Game Maker's Toolkit
  • 🔥 The Steam Dev Cheat Sheet
  • Create Your Steam Page
  • No Stacking | Make the Game
  • Killed by Google (Google Graveyard)
  • Fruit Ninja designer Luke Muscat talks going solo dev
  • YouTube: Make the Game (playlist)
  • TikTok: @richtaur
  • Chef Reactions
  • 📈 4 viral game hooks for game designers
  • Game Dev Comics by Matt Hackett
  • Lostcast (my old podcast)
  • Kenney (public domain assets)
  • r/Games - Indie Sunday (oops I said r/gaming)
  • Game Dev Coaching/Consulting
  • GDC (Game Developers Conference)
  • 🥓 Bacon and Games
  • Wonderland Engine (I meant downloadable engine; games run in the browser!)
  • Building a Web Game in a Day
  • 7 tips from 7 days of game dev for 7 Day Roguelike
  • You were played out with Remember Me by Joshua Morse

Coming soon: a GDC postmortem, pitch decks, and publishers. Thanks for listening!

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1 year ago
59 minutes 31 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
No Stacking

More info: https://www.valadria.com/no-stacking/ 🔗 LINKS Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/ Coaching: https://www.valadria.com/game-dev-coaching-consulting/ 🎬 TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 1:05 GDC 2024 7:27 No Stacking 25:21 Goals 34:51 Outro 🎹 MUSIC Electro Breaks Loop: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=749 Phantom Anthem Wubs: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879 Interstellar Winnebago: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1050 Joshua Morse: https://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/ #gamedev #indiedev #podcast #gdc

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1 year ago
37 minutes 2 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Seeing Things in Steam Next Fest

Links galore: https://www.valadria.com/seeing-things-steam-next-fest-greg-love/


🎬 TIMELINE

0:00 Intro

4:14 Story Machine

11:50 Seeing Things

19:26 Steam Next Fest

36:30 Live streams

42:20 What's next?

45:59 Release after SNF?

49:39 Multiple demos

55:19 Outro


📙 SOLO DEV BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/


#gamedev #steam #podcast

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1 year ago
57 minutes 35 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
The Money Episode

Links & more: https://www.valadria.com/the-money-episode/


🎬 Timeline

0:00 Intro

1:36 User Interface (UI)

10:32 Configurable input

21:10 Climbing the wall

26:40 A "game shell"

37:48 The Money Part

43:02 Kickstarter(s)

50:35 Coaching

53:06 Outro

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1 year ago
54 minutes 50 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
My 2-year indie postmortem

Article: https://www.valadria.com/my-2-year-indie-postmortem/


🎹 Music

https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879

https://stevenmelin.itch.io/lo-fi-atmospheres-music-pack

https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1601

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1 year ago
15 minutes 52 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Gamedev Bosses & Coping with Solodev

Show Notes

  1. The Early Days of id Software
  2. How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
  3. 🐷 Pixel Washer (Steam page)
  4. Silver, a font for games by Poppy Works
  5. Jeremy Jackson
  6. Performative Game Development: The Design and Marketing of Nuclear Throne

Music

  1. Frozen Karma
  2. SuloSounds
  3. Phantom Anthem Wubs
  4. I Am a Monster Sans Vocals
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1 year ago
20 minutes 19 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Pixel Washer devlog: introduction


Pixel Washer: http://www.pixelwasher.com/ 0:00 Intro 0:17 What's Pixel Washer? 1:44 Why's Pixel Washer? 5:22 What's cool about it? 7:11 State of the game 8:57 Outro #gamedev #devlog #solodev


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1 year ago
9 minutes 30 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Make the Game with Geoff Blair

https://www.valadria.com/make-the-game-geoff-blair/

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1 year ago
54 minutes 17 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Main Project Syndrome with Ben Anderson (HeartBeast)

4 main topics in this fun chat with Heart Beast (Ben Anderson):


📙 Ben's solo developer book Production Point

🛠 When to pivot projects?

🚒 GameMaker VS Godot

🎮 Ben's new game WASarD


BOOKS!

🛠 Ben's book Production Point: https://courses.heartgamedev.com/p/my-downloadable-87616

📙 Matt's book How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/


GAMES!

🪄 Ben's game WASarD: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151870/WASarD/

🐷 Matt's game Pixel Washer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/Pixel_Washer/


🎬 TIMELINE

0:00 Intro

1:27 Main Project Syndrome

5:01 Production Point

15:17 WASarD

27:32 Do people like it?

33:20 When to quit

35:49 GameMaker VS Godot

46:28 Outro


More info: https://www.valadria.com/heartbeast-main-project-syndrome/

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1 year ago
47 minutes 27 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
The Unity Debacle

Unity, owning your tools, JS GameDev Summit, Pixel Washer, & Game music: https://valadria.com/the-unity-debacle/


📝 Show Notes

  • Unity Leadership
  • Unity and ironSource’s $4.4B merger is now complete
  • Game developers are furious about Unity's new installation-based fees
  • Devs discovered that Unity removed GitHub repo to track license changes and updated its TOS be retroactive
  • Witchmore
  • JS GameDev Summit
  • Heart Gamedev Podcast episode 32: Teaser Trailer YouTube Comments and Wishlist Numbers
  • The Diary of a Modern PR Campaign: How to Plan Your Game's Promotion
  • Future Friends Games Podcast
  • 🏡🫧🔫🐷 Pixel Washer (Play! Washlist!)
  • Joshua Morse music
  • Diabolical Experiments
  • I Am a Monster (Sans Vocals)
  • SuluSounds
  • Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia 'Sparkle' [Emerald Mist] by Joshua Morse

🎧 Music

  • Diabolical Experiments
  • I Am a Monster (Sans Vocals)
  • SuluSounds
  • Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia 'Sparkle' [Emerald Mist] by Joshua Morse
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1 year ago
20 minutes 13 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Ignore the Great Attractors

Time for another game dev podcast! 🎙

You've been so kind & encouraging about last week's episode that I just had to keep talking. Let's do this. We're discussing:

  1. On loving & hating marketing
  2. Ignore the "Great Attractors"
  3. Failing to follow your own advice
  4. Your tools serving you VS getting in your way
  5. Thoughts on crowd-funding

🎸 Music

  • Simple but Effective
  • Phantom Anthem Wubs
  • Wanderer
  • Back at it
  • I'm Just Going to Call it Dubstep

🫧 Play the Pixel Washer demo!

Notice me burying the lead much? Yeah, I've got a new playable demo for you!

Have a relaxing time power washing beautiful pixels in Pixel Washer!

That's the pitch! It's just gorgeous 2D pixels that you need to clean. That's it. Some of you may remember Weekend game jam: Pixel Washer – yup, this is further development of that concept!

It's early times. I'll probably completely redo how the power washing itself works, which is all the game is about, but do play the demo & let me know what you think in the Valadria Discord.

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1 year ago
28 minutes 55 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Getting back to my roots

It's time for a podcast-style podcast (if that makes sense). A long conversation that rambles & goes off on tangents, but delivers an honest deep dive into my process & what I'm working on.


Topics

  1. 🛠 What I'm working on
  2. 🎮 Refocusing on game development
  3. 🧪 Concept development
  4. 😀 I hate marketing (jk, let me explain)
  5. 🪑 Being authentic online
  6. 💰 (Bonus: Making Big Indie Games)


Music

  • Diabolical Experiments
  • Joshua Morse's Waveform
  • Killer Factory Retro and Evening Dogs by SuloSounds


More info

https://www.valadria.com/getting-back-to-my-roots/

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1 year ago
51 minutes 9 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Making great game trailers with Derek Lieu

https://www.valadria.com/game-trailers-with-derek-lieu/


Does anybody read the text that I type into this box? I have no idea.

Anyway here's a timecode dump from my notes, maybe this is helpful:

  • 0:16: getting into game trailers
  • 4:40: overflow work
  • 5:15: charging not enough, less agency / more indie
  • 5:15: undercharging
  • 8:00: make fan trailers
  • 11:00: where to post trailers / content
  • 13:08: give advice about what you're doing
  • 16:00: trailer categories
  • 17:50 types of game trailers
  • 20:42: trailer lengths
  • 21:40: What gameplay to show?
  • 24:56: Movie trailers
  • 28:28: The magic of good editing
  • 29:50: Kuleshov effect
  • 31:03: Advanced game trailer problems
  • 32:35: End slates
  • 33:01: Logo Soup
  • 33:33: Logos and branding
  • 37:29: Spelunky 2
  • 45:35: Game trailer courses
  • 48:32: Anything identifiable from your game
  • 49:56: Ice Cream Analogy
  • 50:59: Outro

Thanks for listening! Support this show by sharing, rating/writing review(s), and buying my book. I appreciate it.

-Matt

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1 year ago
53 minutes 22 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Witchmore devlog: Introduction

🦇 Add Witchmore to your Steam witchlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2289580/Witchmore/ 📙 Read more: https://www.valadria.com/witchmore-devlog-intro/ TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 1:15 Why Witchmore? 2:47 Eggspansion 5:37 Scratch your itches 7:58 What's cool about it? 10:59 What's next? MUSIC * Electro Breaks Loop Remastered: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=749&genre=Electro * Phantom Anthem Wubs: https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879&genre=Dubstep

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1 year ago
11 minutes 32 seconds

Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Learn to make and sell indie games with Matt Hackett, author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself.