The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook
A series of in-depth conversations between video game makers on the business and craft of interactive entertainment.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 80 minutes
- Episodes
- 220
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Velan Studios Founders, Guha and Karthik Bala
Ted Price chats with Guha and Karthik Bala, brothers who founded both Velan Studios and Vicarious Visions. Together they discuss their incredible journey in games beginning with the founding of Vicar…
24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Adventure Game of the Year
Listen to the nominees for the 24th Annual #DICEAwards Adventure Game of the Year chat with one another in intimate roundtable sessions, moderated by Spawn on Me's Kahlief Adams.
The nominees include…
24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Outstanding Achievement in Game Design
Watch our extended roundtable conversations from the 24th Annual #DICEAwards, moderated by Spawn on Me's Kahlief Adams, with candid conversations and insights from the nominees for Outstanding Achiev…
24th D.I.C.E. Awards Roundtable: Role-Playing Game of the Year
Brought to you by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, the 24th Annual #DICEAwards is an annual awards celebration by game makers for game makers, honoring the games that connect us around the…
Elder Scrolls Online Director, Matt Firor
Ted Price chats with Matt Firor, Founder and Studio Director at ZeniMax Online Studios and Game Director on The Elder Scrolls Online. Together they discuss how his team built and continues to expand …
Composer, Singer, Songwriter, Mark Mothersbaugh
Austin Wintory chats with Mark Mothersbaugh about his long career in music including his band DEVO; his work in film and television; his transition into video games; his thoughts about game developme…
Arkane Studios Director, Harvey Smith
Ted Price chats with Harvey Smith of Arkane Studios. Together they discuss developing emergent mechanics, the importance of research to underpin creative decisions during development, and the importa…
Insomniac Games Founder, Ted Price
In this special 100th episode of the Game Maker's Notebook, we turn the tables on longtime host Ted Price. Guest host Tim Schafer (Founder, Double Fine Productions) chats with Ted about life before g…
Blizzard Entertainment President, J. Allen Brack
Ted Price chats with Blizzard's President, J. Allen Brack, about his start in gaming and game development; Blizzard's diversity and inclusion initiatives and how it affects the company culture and it…
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Creative Director, Marcus Smith
Ted Price chats with his long-time colleague at Insomniac Games, Marcus Smith. Together they discuss their history at Insomniac Games; his experiences on the Resistance series and Sunset Overdrive; h…
Returnal with Harry Krueger
Ted Price chats with Housemarque's Harry Krueger about their recently released game Returnal. Together they discuss how Housemarque embraced an organic creative process, what effect their gameplay de…
Resident Evil Village Composer, Brian D'Oliveira
Austin Wintory chats with Composer Brian D'Oliveira about his music "laboratory" and using its space as a tool for music creation, how he began his career as a composer and learned to have zero limit…
It Takes Two with Josef Fares, Hazelight Studios
Ted Price chats with Hazelight's Josef Fares about his move from film directing to game development, their focus on delivering a large amount of gameplay variety, their dedication to two-player coop …
Funomena Producer, Arshea Bimal
Robin Hunicke chats with Arshea Bimal about her first big break into games; the journey of a producer in the industry; working on systems that help increase diversity and inclusion in design; making …
Celeste Composer, Lena Raine
Austin Wintory chats with composer Lena Raine about starting her games career as a designer and not in music, the distinct lessons she learned from game design that helped her begin composing for gam…
Thomas Mahler & Gennadiy Korol of Moon Studios
Ted Price chats with Moon Studios founders Thomas Mahler and Gennadiy Korol. Together they discuss the Ori series, Moon Studios' culture and approach around remote development, creating a workplace o…
Chelsea Blasko of Iron Galaxy Studios
Robin Hunicke chats with Chelsea Blasko about her long and varied path towards the games industry, learning via trial by fire at her first job in games, organic growth and diversity in projects and p…
Quantic Dream Founder & Director, David Cage
Ted Price chats with David Cage about maintaining balance at an independent studio while juggling multiple responsibilities, his philosophy on writing and directing video games, Quantic Dream's new p…
Braid and The Witness Creator, Jonathan Blow
Ted Price chats with Jonathan Blow about the personal nature of game development; the intricacies of puzzle design and what it means to players; creating his own programming language; ways the games …
Dr. Mitu Khandaker of Glow Up Games
Robin Hunicke chats with Dr. Mitu Khandaker about her journey around the world and into the games industry, finding her feet at teaching, building games from the ground up rooted in diverse cultural …