Art journal podcast by Rob Stenzinger, sharing thoughts on his various creative projects and adventures ranging from user experience design, creating comics, making video games, to interactive design.
Polytechnicast - Making Solo Indie Games with guest Josh Anthony
Have you been curious about making your own video game or perhaps already jumped in? This episode of the Polytechnicast I'm joined by Josh Anthony, indie game developer who created Dice Gun Commando and Dice Tower. In our conversation we get to explore how Josh started making games, what it was like starting from being a creative first and later growing into being an engineer. We talk about picking up skills to make games, learning from failure as data, finding what good-enough means and what that unlocks for learning systemically from what you're making and sharing with your community.
30 Sept 2026
Polytechnicast - Three Topics - Game Dev - Doctor Baer - and Problems With AI
Gettiing back to you from behind the microphone, I had a list of five things and manage to cover three. First is the massive game development focus that's truly been gong on longer but the last couple months hitting some big adventures. That covers telling the story of moving from Godot 3 to 4 with my core game tech and porting Lexilotl fully to Godot 4. After all that: The challenge I had getting Steam Input working on Lexilotl, probably much of that having to do with my learning style. The Doctor Baer Video Game To Be Named (which might have an official name announcement soon). The whole AI topic where I run through my 5 or 6 "gotchas" that with those in mind it really stuns me to see such wide adoption and push for it at least in this current form. A topic potpurri, grab bag, buffet, three for one deal. Two topics didn't make it this time but they are coming: partnering vs dominance and getting unstuck creatively. Also I mention that I'll be doing an interview soon with the game creator of the indie games Dice Tower and Dice Gun Commando: Josh Anthony. Related Links and Resources Lexilotl: Crossword Puzzle Run on Steam Lexilotl - Apps on Google Play Lexilotl - Crossword Puzzle Run - Apple App Store Guitar Fretter on Steam Rob Stenzinger on TikTok Word Turtle Island on Google Play Word Turtle Island on Apple's App Store Word Turtle Island on Steam Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available) Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Sign up for my newsletter Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make Get exclusive merch and private journal posts via my paywall art blog and merch store at Fourthwall Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam. Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free. You can buy me a coffee with an option to send a note along. Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcast app Polytechnicast - Three Topics - Game Dev - Doctor Baer - and Problems With AI Rob Stenzinger
27 Feb 2026
Polytechnicast - Understanding An Artist and Indie Game Developer's Business
Album art for episode featuring a sketch of a conversion funnel for selling indie games Making Lexilotl, my latest game which is a crossword puzzle run where you get a clue and three tries to solve a puzzle and can keep going until your tries run out. I had planned on making ad supported right away but ran into a roadblock and went a different way. Here's the story of that and some of my other explorations in making money by making games. Also, a negative comment on one of the Lexilotl announcement videos gave the the idea to explore this topic. Related Links and Resources Lexilotl - Crossword Puzzle Run - Apple App Store Guitar Fretter on Steam Rob Stenzinger on TikTok Word Turtle Island on Google Play Word Turtle Island on Apple's App Store Word Turtle Island on Steam Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available) Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Sign up for my newsletter Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make Get exclusive merch and private journal posts via my paywall art blog and merch store at Fourthwall Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam. Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free. You can buy me a coffee with an option to send a note along. Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcast app
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