The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook

Trent Kusters chats with multidisciplinary artist Niklas Åkerblad. Together they discuss his career leading up to his newest title, Ultros, including his early love of games and illustration; the rev…

Alexa Ray Corriea chats with Baldur's Gate 3 Actor Neil Newbon. Together they discuss his journey as an actor and the challenges he encountered that almost caused him to abandon his craft; finding a…

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Shuhei Yoshida chats with longtime producer of the TEKKEN series, Kats…

Alexa Ray Corriea chats with actor Nadji Jeter. Together they discuss his journey throughout games and traditional film and television; what it's like being Miles Morales for the past decade; what it…

Adam Orth chats with the Director of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Gabe Amatangelo. Together they discuss Gabe's journey to game development and how he found himself at CD PROJEKT RED; how the ini…

Adam Orth chats with Roman Campos-Oriola, Eric Baptizat, and Philippe Ducharme from Motive Studio. Together they discuss what led to the decision to remake a beloved classic in Dead Space; which elem…

Writer and Narrative Designer Alexa Ray Corriea chats with Actor Samantha Béart. Together they discuss the difficulty they faced attempting to enter the games industry; working together with the cas…

Austin Wintory chats with award winning composer Oleksa Lozowchuk. Together they discuss Oleksa's career across games, television, and film including writing music for hit games like Capcom's Dead Ri…

Adam Orth chats with narrative designer Meghna Jayanth. Together they discuss Meghna's childhood moving around the world and how those experiences shaped her views; the unique aspects of writing for…

Austin Wintory chats with the composing team collectively known as Ninja Tracks, Kaveh Cohen and Michael Nielsen. Together they discussed how they first met and what drove them to create a composing…

Trent Kusters chats with Alex Ritchie and Joel Mason of Black Salt Games, developers of the indie hit, Dredge. Together they discuss their game development journeys; the original ideas around Dredge …

Austin Wintory chats with legendary composer Grant Kirkhope. Together they discuss his long career composing some of the most iconic music in gaming with titles and series such as GoldenEye 007, Banj…

Austin Wintory chats with award-winning Composer Cris Velasco. Together they discuss his long and illustrious career working on some of the biggest franchises in gaming including Mass Effect, God of …

Shuhei Yoshida chats with FINAL FANTASY XVI Producer Naoki Yoshida. Together they discuss his career and what led to him helping relaunch FINAL FANTASY XIV and eventually producing the newest entr…

Trent Kusters chats with Sabotage Studio President and Creative Director, Thierry Boulanger. Together they discuss his journey into games including the early influences that led him towards developme…

Austin Wintory chats with Jakob Schmid, Co-Founder, Audio Director, and Music Director of Geometric Interactive. Together they discuss Geometric's debut title Cocoon including the way the audio works…

Ted Price chats with his colleague and Senior Creative Director at Insomniac Games, Bryan Intihar. Together they discuss Marvel's Spider-Man 2 including the important pillars that guided development;…

Trent Kusters chats with Enrique Cabeza and David Erosa from The Game Kitchen. Together they discuss their hit series Blasphemous including how they designed the game around the art direction; their …

Trent Kusters chats with Ben Gabbard & David Adams of Remnant series developer Gunfire Games. Together they discuss their careers including their early work at Vigil Games on the Darksiders series; f…

Adam Orth chats with CEO of Super Evil Megacorp, Kristian Segerstrale. Together they discuss Kristian's career and how he found himself on the cusp of several emerging platforms; his journey to becom…