web01.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:22:28 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Gamer Radio - Episodes Tagged with “Game Dev” https://gamerradio.fireside.fm/tags/game%20dev Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:00:00 -0400 Gamer Radio is a weekly show covering all things gaming in a family-friendly way ranging from TCGs, classic tabletop games, retro and modern video games and the general gaming ecosystem. An example of games we regularly cover are MTG, Flesh & Blood, Pokemon TCG, classic Nintendo and a wide array of board games. Mike, our host is the host of Coder Radio and a dad who uses gaming to help his son learn many life skills and the virtues of friendly competition. We are audience driven show and welcome your feedback in Discord as well as on Twitter and Mastadon. en-us episodic A weekly discussion of the games we play and the friends we play them with The Mad Botter Gamer Radio is a weekly show covering all things gaming in a family-friendly way ranging from TCGs, classic tabletop games, retro and modern video games and the general gaming ecosystem. An example of games we regularly cover are MTG, Flesh & Blood, Pokemon TCG, classic Nintendo and a wide array of board games. Mike, our host is the host of Coder Radio and a dad who uses gaming to help his son learn many life skills and the virtues of friendly competition. We are audience driven show and welcome your feedback in Discord as well as on Twitter and Mastadon. no The Mad Botter michael@themadbotter.com Episode 12: Dis-Unity https://gamerradio.fireside.fm/12 98cca498-f59e-4562-9e25-c351cbe5006e Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:00:00 -0400 The Mad Botter full The Mad Botter Matt from Alderon comes by to spill some tea on the recent blow-up in the game development community caused by Unity's pricing model changes. 45:14 no (Original Post) https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates Unity Personal and Unity Plus: Those that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime game installs. Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise: Those that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs. (Apology Tour) https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond. For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self-reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed the lesser amount. Unity Create President answers 24 Questions | Q&A w/ Marc Whitten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hCb5K6gskw INTENSE Reaction to New Unity Change! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB90Cse3aaM Garry Newman (Rust) - What Unity Is Getting Wrong https://garry.net/posts/unity-2020 Alderon Games (https://alderongames.com) Alice (https://Alice.dev) Path of Titans (https://alderongames.com/store/path-of-titans) Mike on Weapon X (https://twitter.com/dominucco) game dev, unity, unreal, indie games (Original Post)
https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
Unity Personal and Unity Plus: Those that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime game installs.
Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise: Those that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs.

(Apology Tour)
https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee
The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond.
For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self-reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed the lesser amount.

Unity Create President answers 24 Questions | Q&A w/ Marc Whitten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hCb5K6gskw

INTENSE Reaction to New Unity Change!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB90Cse3aaM

Garry Newman (Rust) - What Unity Is Getting Wrong
https://garry.net/posts/unity-2020

Alderon Games
Alice
Path of Titans

Mike on Weapon X

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https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
Unity Personal and Unity Plus: Those that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime game installs.
Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise: Those that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs.

(Apology Tour)
https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee
The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond.
For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self-reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed the lesser amount.

Unity Create President answers 24 Questions | Q&A w/ Marc Whitten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hCb5K6gskw

INTENSE Reaction to New Unity Change!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB90Cse3aaM

Garry Newman (Rust) - What Unity Is Getting Wrong
https://garry.net/posts/unity-2020

Alderon Games
Alice
Path of Titans

Mike on Weapon X

]]> Episode 10: SEGA SCREAMING https://gamerradio.fireside.fm/10 ccc54d6b-e827-4201-83c8-16a985b33edd Tue, 11 Apr 2023 22:00:00 -0400 The Mad Botter full The Mad Botter Mike and Eric sit-down once again to lament their long fallen love SEGA. 46:50 no What We Are Playing This Week Megaman X-2. I conquered the first entry in the X series as a kid many times, but never gave the sequels much of a chance. Now I’m changing that, and already discovering what I’ve missed. Steamdeck as a retro gaming paradise https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9jDHIDKkU https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/metroid-prime-trilogy-on-deck/ Dreamcast Defense Force Analogy: Imagine a supremely talented athlete being drafted by a franchise that is clueless how to surround the player with talent and is saddled with a front office who are utterly incompetent. That’s what happened to the Dreamcast! In the end, the athlete never sniffs a championship and never gets the full recognition they deserve. Shenmue: The open-world genre owes a huge debt of gratitude to Shenmue. Truly ahead of its time. https://www.thegamer.com/things-super-fans-sega-dreamcast-do/ https://gamerant.com/dreamcast-development-facts-trivia/ https://www.eurogamer.net/dreamcast-a-forensic-retrospective-article Eric on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thercast?lang=en) RPodcast (https://r-podcast.org) Gaming, video games, SEGA, history, game dev, game development What We Are Playing This Week

Megaman X-2. I conquered the first entry in the X series as a kid many times, but never gave the sequels much of a chance. Now I’m changing that, and already discovering what I’ve missed.

Steamdeck as a retro gaming paradise

https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9jDHIDKkU
https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/metroid-prime-trilogy-on-deck/

Dreamcast Defense Force

Analogy: Imagine a supremely talented athlete being drafted by a franchise that is clueless how to surround the player with talent and is saddled with a front office who are utterly incompetent. That’s what happened to the Dreamcast! In the end, the athlete never sniffs a championship and never gets the full recognition they deserve.

Shenmue: The open-world genre owes a huge debt of gratitude to Shenmue. Truly ahead of its time.
https://www.thegamer.com/things-super-fans-sega-dreamcast-do/
https://gamerant.com/dreamcast-development-facts-trivia/
https://www.eurogamer.net/dreamcast-a-forensic-retrospective-article

Eric on Twitter
RPodcast

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Megaman X-2. I conquered the first entry in the X series as a kid many times, but never gave the sequels much of a chance. Now I’m changing that, and already discovering what I’ve missed.

Steamdeck as a retro gaming paradise

https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9jDHIDKkU
https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/metroid-prime-trilogy-on-deck/

Dreamcast Defense Force

Analogy: Imagine a supremely talented athlete being drafted by a franchise that is clueless how to surround the player with talent and is saddled with a front office who are utterly incompetent. That’s what happened to the Dreamcast! In the end, the athlete never sniffs a championship and never gets the full recognition they deserve.

Shenmue: The open-world genre owes a huge debt of gratitude to Shenmue. Truly ahead of its time.
https://www.thegamer.com/things-super-fans-sega-dreamcast-do/
https://gamerant.com/dreamcast-development-facts-trivia/
https://www.eurogamer.net/dreamcast-a-forensic-retrospective-article

Eric on Twitter
RPodcast

]]> Episode 4: Alderon Games https://gamerradio.fireside.fm/4 b82474af-029d-4a2f-bcc2-ea6a187ea8d0 Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:00:00 -0500 The Mad Botter full The Mad Botter Mike has a cup of tea with Matt from Alderon Games to discuss life as an indie dev and how Indies can work with large platform vendors. 41:34 no Life of an Indie Game Studio Managing Large Teams 30-40+ per game What the hiring process is like Things that are common to industry hiring like whiteboard tests are broken Difference in getting hired could be your microphone quality Having backup equipment and reliability Open Source as it relates to hiring Accountability and mistakes in hiring Accountability for software vendors / solutions / third party vendors Shipping game updates / testing Game Engines, Unity and Unreal Alderon Games (https://alderongames.com) Path of Titasn (https://pathoftitans.com) Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp) Mike on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dominucco) The Mad Botter on Twitter (https://twitter.com/themadbotterINC) The Mad Botter on Instagr##am (https://www.instagram.com/themadbotter/) gaming, indie games, game dev, video games, Nintendo Life of an Indie Game Studio

Managing Large Teams 30-40+ per game
What the hiring process is like
Things that are common to industry hiring like whiteboard tests are broken
Difference in getting hired could be your microphone quality
Having backup equipment and reliability
Open Source as it relates to hiring
Accountability and mistakes in hiring
Accountability for software vendors / solutions / third party vendors
Shipping game updates / testing
Game Engines, Unity and Unreal

Alderon Games

Path of Titasn

Discord

Mike on Twitter

The Mad Botter on Twitter

The Mad Botter on Instagr##am

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Managing Large Teams 30-40+ per game
What the hiring process is like
Things that are common to industry hiring like whiteboard tests are broken
Difference in getting hired could be your microphone quality
Having backup equipment and reliability
Open Source as it relates to hiring
Accountability and mistakes in hiring
Accountability for software vendors / solutions / third party vendors
Shipping game updates / testing
Game Engines, Unity and Unreal

Alderon Games

Path of Titasn

Discord

Mike on Twitter

The Mad Botter on Twitter

The Mad Botter on Instagr##am

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