After a great weekend at Play By Play festival in Wellington, we stopped by Aurora44’s HQ, played some Ashen and talked about their experience going indie with an ambitious game. This episode is co-produced with Allan Xia from Chromacon. Subscribe to our youtube page for future devtalks, podcast releases and Swordy updates! mp3 | youtube […]

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Frogshark & Chromacon Special: Aurora44, Ashen.

At the end of October, the Frogshark team went over to Melbourne for a week of game conventions and expos. Had an awesome chat with Tony Coculuzzi, lead developer on Cuphead at PAX! Tony shares some insights into how they work at MDHR, then we walk the showfloor, play Cuphead and check out some indie […]

Frogshark Podcast #08: Tony Coculuzzi, Cuphead, PAX Aus

We gather at Rox Flame‘s AirBnB, joined by Chris McFarland and Allan Xia to talk about their games and reflect on NZGDC15 and KiwiGameStarter! Check out Chris’s game Tallowmere, Allan’s festival Chromacon, follow Dynabrick development and watch NZGDC15 Indie gamedev panel! Subscribe to our youtube page for future devtalks, podcast releases and Swordy updates! mp3 […]

Frogshark Podcast #07: Chris McFarland, Allan Xia, Rox Flame

Space engineer turned game developer Ryan McKee came up for a visit to exhibit his game Vector36 at Microsoft Ignite. He tells us about his game, design process and shares his development and release plans. Check out Vector36 and the Greenlight page! Music by Kubix from the game’s soundtrack. Check him out on Soundcloud. Subscribe […]

Frogshark Podcast #06: Ryan McKee – Vector36

We gather with the Gatland siblings Matthew and Alice with Kate Anwen, creators of Pop-Up Arcade, an event designed to showcase New Zealand made video games. They share what Pop-Up Arcade is all about, what other things they have going on and their plans to expand video game awareness and education in NZ. Follow Pop-Up […]

Frogshark Podcast #05: Pop-Up Arcade

We sit down with organizer of Chromacon Allan Xia to talk about the event, difficulties faced setting it up and overall issues of creative independence in New Zealand. Matthew Galtand joins in as a guest, having visited Freeplay Independent Games Festival​ in Melbourne, bringing back some of the experiences and inspirations of the indie scene […]

Frogshark Podcast #04: Chromacon, Freeplay

We got together with Joe Chang from Eyemobi, Matthew Gatland, organizer of popup arcade and Farah Khalaf, a gamedev student at AUT to reflect on our first time ever GDC. We show some of the footage we took at the events, discuss our experiences and takeaways, what does it mean for NZ dev scene and […]

Frogshark Podcast #03: GDC, PAX East

Toby Falconer, Bronwyn Bent and Matthew Gatland join in to talk post-mortem of Wild Streets festival of play that happened on February 7th at Daldy Street Park, Auckland. Discussing nature of street games, design, play testing, managing games for adults and children. Subscribe to our youtube page to get more updates on Swordy and future […]

Frogshark Podcast #02 Wild Streets post mortem

This is the first time we’ve done something like this. We got together with Joe from Eyemobi (Phantasmal) to talk about our experience throughout the 2014 game development events and conventions, starting from NZGDC, Digitalnationz, Armageddon through to GCAP and PAX in Australia. Head over to the youtube page for the list of mentions and […]

Frogshark Podcast #01: PAX AUS Post Mortem

Frogshark podcast came out of events surrounding independent game development and arts culture in New Zealand with developers, curators, organizers and artists involved in the community. We talk about gamedev, indie life and video games! Started by Frogshark, an independent game studio in Auckland.

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