Game Dev Advice: The Game Developer's Podcast

About Game Dev Advice: The Game Developer's Podcast

🎙️ Game Dev Advice is hosted by 30+ year game industry veteran John “JP” Podlasek, who interviews game designers, programmers, producers, artists, writers, arcade owners, CEOs, and more. Hear insider stories, practical tips, and real-world advice from across the gaming industry. Whether you're an aspiring developer or a longtime veteran, you’ll find valuable insights, career guidance, and behind-the-scenes stories—sometimes funny, always honest. 👉 Subscribe now and visit GameDevAdvice.com for more.

Publisher

The HP Video Game Podcast Network - John JP Podlasek

Category

business · education · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

19 Jan 2019

Latest episode

20 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 78 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Stop Waiting for Perfect, Start Shipping Games | Frank Force

   Host Frank Force shares insights on shipping games faster and overcoming perfectionism, drawing from AAA experience and his LittleJS engine.

2. 

   25 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Game Dev Career Advice, Starting a Studio & AI in 2026 | Rushdown Studios

   Host JP interviews Rushdown Studios' Kirk Becker and Hunter Fortuin about breaking into games, advancing careers, building studios, and AI's impact in 2026.

3. 

   3 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Starting an Indie Studio, Getting a Publisher, and Shipping the RPG Indie Hit Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson with Jeff Linville, Ritual Studios

   Jeff Linville, co-founder of Ritual Studios, discusses starting an indie studio with college friends, securing a publisher, and launching the RPG indie hit Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson, in this interview episode.

Inside a recent episode

Stop Waiting for Perfect, Start Shipping Games | Frank Force

Published 20 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And it is so-called size coding program. Yes, where we try to you probably also heard the term code golf, code golf, which is a little bit different than size coding code golf sometimes gets overlapped with that. But that's where you're trying to make kind of the smallest program. So you might say, like, write me the smallest C++ program that prints out all the prime numbers. Or something like that. Okay. And everyone would try to write, oh, I can do it in 20 bytes of code or whatever like that. And they'll be like, okay, I can do it in 17. That's pretty much the smallest possible or whatever. […]

Who has been a guest on Game Dev Advice: The Game Developer's Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Frank Force
• Jeff Linville
• Tim "Walaber" FitzRandolph
• Mike Drucker
• Stuart Maine

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

39,592

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

51 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

83 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

46

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

95