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 nutshell I have a few months of ambitious work and this is my planning and thinking about it all. Outline: Starts with how I focused on making WTI for 2.5 years, summary of why and how that came about. Learning from 6 months of further iteration, marketing, and being published as an early access game. Big take away is: thankful for the time to learn enough to make enough to discover the strong version of WTI, wishing that space for other folks and projects. Current situation: improving the instant visual/story/promise of WTI via feeling the urge to teach again feeling my overall social connections are too small of a bubble both online and in person inspired by projects like Springboard for the Arts' Rural Urban Solidarity Then the ambitious plan: a combination of projects to grow my online and in person connections, teach interactive design with an advocacy focus, and increase sales of my games and teaching. In short: make games and teach interactive design. More specific: WTI Arcade Machine + Regional touring show/tell this game and teaching indie game creating Build WTI to full 1.0 Teach interactive design for free on TikTok and soon also YouTube Publish new paid classes, starting with Paper Prototyping for Interactive Design Know of any places and people to connect with who'd like a visit from me on my Word Turtle Island Indie Game Dev Tour? Send me a message! Related Links and Resources Jerzy's free workshops mentioned as inspiration but are currently happening - act fast since they're being offerred now until all sessions are taken Teaching Interactive Design on TikTok Word Turtle Island on Google Play Word Turtle Island on Steam Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available) Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Sign up for my newsletter Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam. Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free. You can buy me a coffee with an option to send a note along. Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcast app