The Handmade Pixels Interviews
While writing Handmade Pixels, I interviewed 21 independent game developers and festival organizers. The book contains interview exercepts, but the full interviews are found here.
The interviews gathered a breadth of opinions about and approaches to independent games. The interviews informed my writing, but they are also documentation in their own right, of a moment in the history of independent games.
I am gradually releasing the final interviews.
The Handmade Pixel interviews
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Game designer known for games such as Dys4ia, author of the Rise of the Videogame Zinesters manifesto. |
Educator and game developer behind punishing games such as QWOP and Getting over it with Bennett Foddy. |
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Pioneer in physical and communal games, including with the New Games movement. |
Educator, writer and game developer who has worked with games, VR, and multimedia since the late 1980s. |
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Composer and game developer of games such as Proteus and Oikospiel. |
Independent game developer of games such as Passage and One Hour One Life. |
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Independent game developer, best known for Braid and The Witness. |
Chairperson of the Independent Games Festival since 2015, CEO and founder of Indie MEGABOOTH. |
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Game designer, author, and department chair of the New York University Game Center. |
Pippin Barr is an educator and game developer behind conceptual games such as Pongs, The Trolley Problem, and The Artist is Present. |
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CEO and cofounder of Funomena, co- organizer of the Experimental |
Festival director of the IndieCade festival. |
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Belgium-based artist duo—Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn—known for their earlier work with experimental and experiential games such as The Path and The Graveyard. |
Director of the USC Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, author of the design textbook Game Design Workshop, and designer of experiential games such as Night Journey and Walden, a Game. |
Upcoming interviews
Rami Ismail
Mattie Brice
Paolo Pedercini
Zach Gage
Nathalie Lawhead
Thorsten Wiedemann