Make Games, Drink Coffee

About Make Games, Drink Coffee

A weekly caffeine-spiked dose of hot game industry brew, featuring interviews with game developers telling their best war stories, sharing their artistic inspirations, and showing what making games is all about. This isn't a how-to, an in-depth guide, or a marketing tie-in; It's all about entertaining conversations with interesting people! Make Games, Drink Coffee is hosted by veteran game designer and developer Aaron Nemoyten, who's worked on a few games you might have heard of and a lot more you definitely haven't. Subscribe now to stay up to date, and check out http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com/ for more information!

Publisher

Aaron Nemoyten

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Oct 2025

Latest episode

18 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Jun 2026

   S1E22 - Lauryn Ash (Part 2 of 2) - Screenwriting and the Matrix

   This is part two of my interview with Lauryn Ash, a San Francisco-based game designer, writer, explorer of cities, texture enthusiast, and player who jumps on things that probably weren’t meant to be jumped on. With 13 years development experience, she’s worked on indie titles like Dungeon Defenders 2 and Star Child and AAA titles such as Marvel’s Avengers and State of Decay 3. We talked about screenwriting, the Matrix, and what makes screenplays unique! 00:00 Intro 00:30 Lauryn Asks ME About Film School 04:18 Creating An Experience For The Viewer 11:09 Why Screenwriting Is Unique 18:39 How The Matrix Script Establishes Tone 25:47 Quick Tangent: Kingsman 29:26 The Matrix Came At The Right Time 31:03 Outro Here's a link to that Matrix screenplay: https://imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html (https://imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html) Lauryn's Portfolio Site: https://laurynash.com/ (https://laurynash.com/) You can find the podcast at: http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com (http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com) Questions? Comments? makegamesdrinkcoffee@gmail.com (mailto:makegamesdrinkcoffee@gmail.com)

2. 

   4 Jun 2026

   S1E21 - Lauryn Ash (Part 1 of 2) - Theater, Level Design, Foreshadowing, And Finally... COFFEE!

   In this episode, I spoke with Lauryn Ash, a San Francisco-based game designer, writer, explorer of cities, texture enthusiast, and player who jumps on things that probably weren’t meant to be jumped on. With 13 years development experience, she’s worked on indie titles like Dungeon Defenders 2 and Star Child and AAA titles such as Marvel’s Avengers and State of Decay 3. We talked about level design as it relates to theater, foreshadowing, and about coffee for fifteen whole minutes! Yes, finally, an episode of Make Games, Drink Coffee about coffee! 00:00 Intro 01:01 How Theater Can Teach Us About Game Design 05:57 How Level Design Is Like Performing "In The Round" 09:26 The Importance of Negative Space and Novelty In Level Design 16:22 Foreshadowing! 21:02 "Ad" Break 21:26 In Which We Talk About Coffee For 15 Whole (Bean) Minutes 35:35 Outro We'll be talking about the publicly-available Matrix screenplay in our next episode, so if you want to get a head start, it's here: https://imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html (https://imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html) Lauryn's Portfolio Site: https://laurynash.com/ (https://laurynash.com/) You can find the podcast at: http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com (http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com) Questions? Comments? makegamesdrinkcoffee@gmail.com (mailto:makegamesdrinkcoffee@gmail.com)

3. 

   21 May 2026

   S1E20 - Conventions, E-readers, and Evil Factorio (With Lindsay Barnett and James Deighan)

   In this episode, I spoke with Lindsay Barnett, founder/CEO of Playground Productions, and James Deighan, founder/CEO of Mega Cat Studios. This is part 2 of a two-part series; In part 1, we spoke about reviving the Backyard Sports franchise. In this episode, we'll go on some tangents, covering conventions (and recruiting), how E-readers affect education, and James and Lindsay's dream projects! 00:00 Intro 01:01 MAGFEST and the Importance of Staying Involved 08:47 Studying Screens In Education And Being Seen Reading 17:18 What's Your Dream IP / Project? 19:43 Tangent: Hopecore, Rick and Morty 22:34 Sports Teaches Life 25:53 Anyway, What's Your Dream IP / Project? 30:35 What Does Fitness Teach About Game Development? 34:43 Outro Playground Productions: https://playground-productions.com/ (https://playground-productions.com/) https://www.instagram.com/playground.productions/ (https://www.instagram.com/playground.productions/) https://www.linkedin.com/company/playground-productionsllc/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/playground-productionsllc/) https://www.youtube.com/@backyardsports (https://www.youtube.com/@backyardsports) Mega Cat Studios: https://megacatstudios.com (https://megacatstudios.com) https://www.facebook.com/megacatstudios/ (https://www.facebook.com/megacatstudios/) https://www.instagram.com/megacatstudios/ (https://www.instagram.com/megacatstudios/) https://www.youtube.com/megacatstudios (https://www.youtube.com/megacatstudios) You can find the podcast at: http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com (http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com) Questions? Comments? makegamesdrinkcoffee@gmail.com (mailto:makegamesdrinkcoffee@gmail.com)

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