Polytechnicast
Art journal podcast by Rob Stenzinger, sharing thoughts on his various creative projects and adventures ranging from user experience design, creating comics, making video games, to interactive design.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Polytechnicast - Word Turtle Island 1.0 and Winning an Award at 2D Con
Word Turtle Island is now 1.0. Four years in the making and here it is. Officially released on Apple's App Store, Steam, Google Play, and Itch! I share what it's like now with it officially the full …
Mon 01 Sep 2025
Polytechnicast - Showing Up to Practice
An intertwined creative challenge: make a more ambitious game than I've made before, make it work as a business, and succeed in marketing it well. In this Polytechnicast I focus on the marketing part…
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Polytechnicast - Daily Short Video Creative Challenge Plus Word Turtle Island Progress
Not sure when exactly the marketing push should have started with Word Turtle Island but I do see it needs to be happening now. In this epsisode of the Polytechnicast I'm exploring the creative chall…
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Polytechnicast - Researching Your Game Enough to Learn Enough
Two main topics this episode. First it's what I've been learning so far with making small videos while exploring topics like teaching interactive design, show and tell about Word Turtle Island, and e…
Thu 29 May 2025
Polytechnicast - Experiments Progress aka Metaphorical Plate Spinning
Last episode of the Polytechnicast I shared some projects I'd begun and was about do dive into. These are the spinning plates driving this episode. Did any fall? Are there more plates spinning? Relat…
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Polytechnicast - Teaching Interactive Design and Word Turtle Island Arcade Machine
Sharing some work in progress and what led me to this point - getting back into teaching interactive design and how I've begun making a physical arcade machine for my game Word Turtle Island. In a nu…
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Polytechnicast - How to work within the gaming industry - a question via my blog
A question from someone who knows someone who met me at 2D Con. Every person's path is their own but it's also fun to learn how olther folks got to where they are. Related Links and Resources Word Tu…
Tue 19 Nov 2024
Polytechnicast Special - Growing Your Creative Business with Jerzy Drozd
Earlier this summer I visited Columbus Ohio to visit my friends Anne and Jerzy Drozd. Part of the plan for our visit was to make some creative experiments together, one of them is this very recording…
Thu 25 Jul 2024
Polytechnicast - Word Turtle Island - Available Friday June 21
A new ask me anything form. Some example topics to ask me about like why I made a game for 2.5 years without publishing a whole lot about it publicly. And most important - it's official that Word Tur…
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Polytechnicast - Word Turtle Island Coming Soon to Early Access
Wort and Portia from Word Turtle Island About 2.5 years. That's how long I've been working on Word Turtle Island to get it ready to publish as an early access game. It's about the right time to be ge…
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Polytechnicast - A Place to Practice Spelling
This is Spell, the magical cat who hosts a save place to practice spelling words. In the middle of working on my next big game Word Turtle Island, where you use words as weapons to battle creatures t…
Wed 16 Aug 2023
Polytechnicast - Minimum Viable and Minimum Lovable Product Strategy Question
In the overlapping circles of feasible, viable, desirable, what is the emphasis and culture practiced? I received a question via my Mastodon account about minimum lovable product vs minimum viable pr…
Thu 20 Apr 2023
Polytechnicast - Video Game Delay Thoughts About Word Turtle Island
W-O-R-D up. Reflecting on game development and how it feels affirming in a way that other video game projects meet delays. I thought I'd have Word Turtle Island ready for first or even early access b…
Fri 31 Mar 2023
Polytechnicast - Being Your Own Bad Boss and Products in Progress
Prototype cards for my creative warm up cards game Doodle Creatures Have Needs. An update about Word Turtle Island and a few other projects I tried to finish this month. Related Links and Resources M…
Wed 01 Feb 2023
Polytechnicast - One Big Project and a New Self Discovery
In this episode I ask why I've posted so few things in 2022. It's a bit about what I'm currently working on and it's also something I've been trying to figure out for years. Related Links and Resourc…
Sat 31 Dec 2022
Polytechnicast - Building on the UX and Systems Work that Came Before
Whether the work that you take on is building on skillful work in the past or not, things got to the way they are for some reason. Now you're here. In this journal I share reasons to find others past…
Thu 09 Dec 2021
Polytechnicast - Memory of organizations - repeating other people's stories
Have you been part of an organization that seems to repeat projects that don't learn much from one another? It's a thing I've wondered: why do companies forget? This episode of the Polytechnicast I j…
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Polytechnicast - Making your own art journal prompts #artsoundoff
Any path that brings you to journaling about your art, here I share some context around planning what you'd want to get out of your journaling plus choosing and creating prompts that are a good fit f…
Thu 04 Nov 2021
Polytechnicast - Improving Communication Skills as a Product Engineer
Something I'm grateful for is to be on a learning adventure together with folks I've worked with. At times I get questions from folks who listen to the show and folks I've been on teams with in the p…
Sat 08 May 2021
Polytechnicast - Emotional Effort of Design
The emotional work of discovering, including, representing, and collaborating in design is what I explore in this think aloud journal. This recording didn't start as a Polytechnicast or even an explo…
Mon 08 Feb 2021
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