Skull Commando Labs (107) - Single Screen Platformers, Pushing Pixels, and Indie World Order

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The Indie Dev Game Break

Stray Voltage Games

13 episodes

6 days ago

The Indie Dev Game Break podcast interviews indie game creators and forces them to take a break from their labors of love and talk about their inspiration, technology, and the top games that influenced them.

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Skull Commando Labs (107) - Single Screen Platformers, Pushing Pixels, and Indie World Order

The Indie Dev Game Break

1 hour 19 minutes 3 seconds

2 years ago

Skull Commando Labs (107) - Single Screen Platformers, Pushing Pixels, and Indie World Order

Skull Commando Labs (107) - Single Screen Platformers, Pushing Pixels, and Indie World Order

Our guest today is Raul Martinez, known as Skull on Twitter. His ominous sounding Studio, Skull Commando Labs, is based out of beautiful El Salvador. Raul is very active in the indie game community. He is a co-founder of the Indie World Order and runs the SideScrollerMagazine, an online magazine featuring indie games. As well Raul is part of the IWOCon team, a virtual gaming conference hosted by the Indie World Order. Raul himself has published several games in the 1 bit retro pixel art style including Mouse and Cheese, a precision single screen platformer and Dr. Brown an arcade arena shooter. He is currently working on a new single screen precision platformer dubbed Gusanito Joe - which translates roughly to Little Worm Joe, in English!

Our conversation included:

Side Scroller Magazine and Indie World Order
Pixel Art
Improving from game to game
Learning Unity and entering game development
The Indie Community and giving back
Whiteboarding!
And of course, the top 5 games that influenced him.

Resource Links:

Unity - https://unity.com/
Indie World Order - Discord: https://discord.gg/jgmNWtan
Indie World Order Web - https://www.indieworldorder.com/
IWOCon on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2212710/IWOCon_2/
Side Scroller Magazine - check out Twitter - #sidescrollermagazine
How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: 10 steps, just you and a computer, by Matt Hackett (can find in most bookstores)
Playmaker - Visual Scripting for Unity
Piskel (Pixel Art)
And from the Episode here is the whiteboard of Skull’s prototype game still in progress! Concept art ala whiteboard. Amazing.

More on Skull Commando Labs:

Skull Commando’s Games on Itch.io: https://skull-commando-labs.itch.io/
Twitter: @labsskull ( https://twitter.com/LabsSkull )

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