About this episode
Jacob interviews Karla and Zimonja from Ivy Road about their experience building the characters, world, and gameplay systems of their recent release, Wanderstop.
PLAYERS:
Jacob McCourt (Bluesky)
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Davey Wreden (Bluesky)
Karla Zimonja (Bluesky)
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 – Housekeeping
2:00 – Intro
4:30 – Prototypes & Inspirations
7:00 – Approach to Cozy Games
9:10 – How Wanderstop Supports Chill
13:00 – Nodes
15:10 – Monster
20:45 – Finding the Right Balance with Monster
24:30 – When Karla Met Davey
28:20 – Tea vs. Coffee and the Machine
32:50 – The Business Boys
36:00 – Pacing
37:55 – Dirk Warhard
40:30 – The Team at Ivy Road
44:30 – COVID
49:00 – Ren
56:15 – Nana
56:45 – Zenith
1:01:45 – The Last Choice and Why It Doesn’t Matter
1:05:15 – Looking Back at Development
1:10:45 – The Risk of Hurting Players
1:16:45 – Despelote
1:19:30 – What Now?
RESOURCES:
Episode 4: Interview with Karla Zimonja
Episode 196: Wanderstop
BLUESKY: leftbehindgameclub.bsky.social
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