Skeleton Songs

About Skeleton Songs

A games and literature podcast all about stories and game dev, from London-based indie developers Weather Factory. Currently all about making a CRPG with a two-person team.

Publisher

Lottie Bevan & Alexis Kennedy

Category

arts · leisure · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jan 2020

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 36 episodes have a transcript.

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   10 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   "Nuages"

   Host Alex Skinner interviews game developer Liam Turner about the "Black Museum" and musical influences behind the game "Nuages."

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   1 Jun 2026

   "Scarf Problems"

   Travelling At Night reaches an important milestone: the minimum length of a novel! We talk I/O Interactive, 'Harrison violations' and phatic speech, balancing rich personalities with empty roleplaying vessels and how to make difficult characters likeable - here's looking at you, Hokobald of Pocsind... Support the show

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   27 Apr 2026

   "Mr Chi's Magic Emporium"

   "It's never lupus." Take a turn with us through some of the kookier parts of the Second World War (dropping unmeltable ice into Winston Churchill's bath; how French fashion defeated the Nazis; the British Army's self-mythologising stage musician; etc). We also talk about the importance of art being bold, an infamous bug in Hush House, and why we're aiming for Jason Bourne over James Bond in Travelling At Night. Support the show

Inside a recent episode

"Nuages"

Published 10 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You mean demo? Sorry, the demo. We've announced it so we can talk about it. We're in the Choices Matter Festival that are being hosted by Telltale, who of course are well known for narrative games and are much bigger than us. And they emailed us a couple of months ago to say, do you want to join? To which the answer is obviously yes, please. So that put a hard deadline in a way that you and I don't normally have on this deliverable. And then we ended up, as you say, in this classic cycle where I, from the marketing point of view, was saying, well, look, we get all these bonuses. if we put out a demo in time to capitalise on this opportunity that we can't change the date of and you understandably were saying well from the development point of view that's earlier than we anticipated and can we do it and yada yada. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

95 ratings

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