Author: Josh Bycer

Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I'm also the author of the "Game Design Deep Dive" series and "20 Essential Games to Study"

Indie Game Showcase 11/25/22

Each showcase highlights the many indie games we play here on the channel, if you would like to submit a game for a future stream/video, please reach out.

Dizzy Dwarves Developer Interview

For this Perceptive Podcast, I spoke with one of the designers about the mobile game Dizzy Dwarves about starting their first major game development, working on mobile in today’s market, and more.

ZOR: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs Developer Interview

For this Perceptive Podcast I sat down with Righteous Hammer Games’s Clint Jorgenson to discuss the work on his deckbuilding survival tactical game Zor: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs. We talked about going from AAA to indie, and the many challenges indie developers face.

Indie Game Showcase 11/12/22

The indie showcases highlight the many developer-submitted games and indie demos we check out. If you would like to submit a game for a future video please reach out.

Balancing Education and Entertainment With So to Speak

For this perceptive podcast, I spoke with Erik Andersen about his upcoming game So to Speak. We discussed designing a game about learning Japanese and still providing entertainment as well as education.

Dreamhack Beyond 2022 Showcase

This showcase features the games I enjoyed from Dreamhack Beyond 2022 steam showcase, all games played were demos.

Indie Game Archive Stream (9/28/22) Edition

This is the archive from our nightly stream on Game-Wisdom. If you would like to watch them live, I stream nightly starting around 9:30 PM ET on youtube.com/c/game-wisdom.

Games shown:

  • 0:00 Squad 51 vs. the flying saucers
  • 44:46 Temple of Starlight
  • 1:12:15 Turbo Kid
  • 1:44:12 There is No Light
  • 2:29:41 Taiji

Nextfest 2022 Showcase (finale)

Next Fest 2022 Showcase Part 4

More indie game demos I covered during Steam Next Fest 2022 October Edition.

Next Fest 2022 Demo Showcase Part 3

This is another showcase from Nextfest 2022 of the demos I played on stream.

Steam Nextfest 2022 Showcase Part 2

All games shown were played as demos from Next Fest 2022 October edition on steam.