The Fourth Curtain
de Alexander Seropian & Aaron Marroquin
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A GUIDED TOUR OF VIDEOGAME MAKERY! Hosts Alex Seropian (founder Bungie, Wideload, Industrial Toys) and Aaron Marroquin (Art Director, Game Designer, part time magician) take you on a tour of the minds that create our favorite video games. We may also wander around in our own heads too. We aim to inspire, educate and entertain you about the games you love, the people that make them and hey, if you're not a gamer we know you know one. This will help you connect with them too.
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- The Wizard of Wizardry Brenda Romero · 1 h 19 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 8The great Brenda Romero is our guest. CEO and co-founder Romero Games, she’s made both commercial hits like Jagged Alliance, and true art games like Train. BAFTA winner and…
- Octodad's Philip Tibitoski Grows with His Gamers · 1 h 16 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 7Founder and CEO of Young Horses Phil Tibitoski joined us to explain how you can succeed without greenlights! Their student project Octodad went on to IGF fame and solid sales…
- The Spiky Strategies of StarCraft's Rob Pardo · 1 h 47 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 6Our guest was chief creative officer at Blizzard and helped drive some of the biggest videogames ever, like StarCraft and World of Warcraft. Now CEO of Bonfire Studios, he's…
- You Don't Know Jack's Mike Bilder Laughs Out Loud · 1 h 14 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 5If your hilarious party game is laced with snark you know the work of this week's guest, Jackbox CEO Mike Bilder. One of the legion of the Midway diaspora, he saw the transition…
- It's Raining Technology with Nexon's Owen Mahoney · 1 h 13 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 4We have an insight-packed and hopeful discussion with Owen Mahoney, CEO of Maplestory's Nexon. This Choplifter fan went on to acquire JAMDAT and DICE for EA, then saw the future…
- The Guts of Indie with Animal Well's Billy Basso · 1 h 21 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 3We're hyped to talk secrets with Billy Basso, creator of the award-winning smash Animal Well. Beginning with educational and medical games he went on to solo develop Animal Well…
- Patrick Söderlund and the Raiders of the Arc · 1 h 24 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 2We kick off Season 4 with Patrick Söderlund, CEO/founder of Embark Studios and maker of the hit Arc Raiders. Former head of DICE and Battlefield at EA, he found faster ways to…
- We Open the Curtain on Season Fourth · 39 min · Sezonul 4 Episodul 1Our intrepid hosts provide a prologue to the fourth season of the podcast with a wide-ranging conversation on the state of the videogame industry. With appreciation for GDC…
- Grade Expectations 2025 · 46 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 29For our end of year episode Aaron and Alex reflect on the year and a raft of topics in videogame dev: Steam Deck vs Switch, understanding how AI will work for dev, Netflix's…
- Live Long and Prosper with Amazon's Christoph Hartmann · 1 h 22 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 28VP of Amazon Games Christoph Hartmann is our guest. At BMG he helped launch GTA and went on to co-found 2K Games and publish NBA 2K, Civilization, Bioshock and Borderlands. We…
- Trip Hawkins, the Electronic Artist · 1 h 29 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 27We're thrilled to speak with Trip Hawkins, founder and CEO EA, 3DO, Digital Chocolate and more. From childhood football strategy, to WWIII Sims, he grew to make a company of…
- Ghost of Yotei's Mud Blood and Steel, with Sucker Punch · 1 h 16 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 26It's a one-two move with Sucker Punch's Chris Zimmerman and Brian Fleming. Now shipping Ghost of Yotei, they tell us about leaving Microsoft for Sony and becoming a gamedev…
- The Origin Stories of Elder Scrolls' Paul Sage · 1 h 13 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 25We get an inside look this week from Paul Sage, founder and CEO of Ruckus Games. Inspired by Ultima 3, he worked his way up to lead designer of Ultima Online, to Borderlands 3…
- How to Make an Atari Sandwich, with David Gardner · 1 h 17 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 24David Gardner joins us this week with tales of the early days of videogames. A teenage tech prodigy, he was employee #11 at EA, ran Atari and is now a games VC. We talk Hawkins…
- Indie Megabooth's Digital Nomad Kelly Wallick · 1 h 18 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 23This week we talk with the founder of the Indie Megabooth and games VC Kelly Wallick. Through her indie beginnings to her investing portfolio, community has always been the core…
- Fallout's Feargus Urquhart Stares into the Abyss · 1 h 19 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 22Our guest is Feargus Urquhart, founder and CEO of Obsidian, the premier maker of videogame RPGs. Having mastered 27 second pizzas he moved to testing and production of huge…
- Making Myst a World with Rand and Robyn Miller · 1 h 26 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 21Our guests are Rand and Robyn Miller, founders of Cyan (World) and creators of the smash game Myst. From humble beginnings in Hypercard kids' games, they made the 3D puzzle…
- World of Warcraft's Seth Sivak Tips the Dealer · 1 h 15 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 20Our guest this week is Seth Sivak, VP Development for World of Warcraft at Blizzard. From early years at Zynga he became Founder and CEO of Proletariat, shipping big games like…
- Night Street's Mac Reynolds Captures the Last Flag · 1 h 12 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 19Our guest this week is Mac Reynolds, CEO and co-founder of Night Street Games, making the PvP shooter Last Flag. As manager of the band, Imagine Dragons, he learned how to find…
- Oregon Trail's Phillip Bouchard Blazes Deadly Paths · 1 h 1 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 18Our guest this week is the poster boy for educational software going massively mainstream, Phillip Bouchard. Starting in the world of mainframes he created a worldwide hit on…
