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Sarah and Colin Northway Discuss I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Jun 19, 2023

01:30:35

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Episode notes

Introduction

5min

The Scottish National Museum

2min

Sarah's First Memory of Video Games

2min

How to Play Video Games

2min

The Wolf Fortress: A Time of Mystery

2min

How I Got Into Game Development

3min

The Importance of Programming in the Game Industry

2min

Colin of the Northways Is Colin in Spellunky

2min

How to Make a Website for Lawyers

2min

10.

How the Internet Blows Up Fantastic Contraption

2min

11.

The Importance of Stress in Life

2min

12.

The Fascinating Contraption

2min

13.

What's Next for the Northways?

2min

14.

The Future of Flash Games

2min

15.

The Power of Indie Developers

2min

16.

The Nomadic Indie Development Duo

5min

17.

The Importance of Community in Indie Games

3min

18.

Laws and Disorder: A Fun Card Game

2min

19.

How to Make Board Games

5min

20.

How to Be a VR Skeptic

1min

21.

The Origins of VR

2min

22.

How to Make a Fantastic Contraption VR Experience

3min

23.

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: A Narrative RPG Life Simulator

4min

24.

The Art of a Colony

2min

25.

Sky From a Beach of Thailand

4min

26.

The Hardest Thing to Deal With as a Studio Head

2min

27.

The Little Card Game

4min

28.

How to Overcome Challenges

3min

29.

The Medium: A Form of Catharsis

4min

30.

The Unconventional Play Testing Strategy

2min

31.

The Importance of Playing Narrative Games

3min

32.

The Cozy Game: The Future of Gaming

4min

33.

The 11th Hour: A Game for Teenagers

3min

34.

The Northways: The Next Generation of Shareware Distribution Networks

2min

35.

The Best of Shopping in Overland Park

3min

Trent Kusters chats with Sarah Northway and Colin Northway from Northway Games. Together they discuss both of their early careers and the path they eventually took which led them to develop games together; early projects including the Fantastic Contraption series and Rebuild; how their releases always seem to be at the zeitgeist of cultural and technological shifts in gaming; traveling the world while developing games; and the development of their latest hit, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist.

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