- 268
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 179
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 12K
- YouTube views
About They Create Worlds
The games we love reveal something true about who we are, and about the world that made them. They Create Worlds is a podcast about the people, technology, and forces that built the video game industry. Through video game history, the show looks at how culture, business, and technology shaped what we play, tracing the choices and circumstances that led to the games so many people around the world enjoy. Each episode digs into where games came from, who made them, and why they were made the way they were. Business decisions, technological shifts, and creative choices all shaped what ended up on screen, and the show covers all of it together, not just one piece in isolation. Hosted by Alex Smith and Jeffrey Daum, They Create Worlds grew out of long conversations about the strange corners of the industry and the patterns that only show up when you look across companies, platforms, and decades. That conversational feel remains, built on careful research, clear structure and editing that makes even the deepest topics easy to listen to. History turns out to be less settled than it looks. New documents surface, memories conflict, and the clean stories about why things happened the way they did rarely survive contact with the evidence. The show digs into all of that, following the creative and business forces that pushed and pulled on each other, and uncovering the human stories that lie beneath the games so many people around the world enjoy. New episodes are released twice a month.
- Publisher
- Alex Smith, and Jeffrey Daum
- Category
- history · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Sept 2015
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
17 of 268 episodes have a transcript.
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Dragon Quest Part 2
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[…] First of all, in Hokkaido, even though they were developed around the same time, they came out very far apart from each other because he was working on Koryozawa all alone, and Hokkaido had a team. Hokkaido came out in 1984, and Koryozawa came out almost a year later in 1985, half a year later maybe, in 1985. Hokkaido came out first. And the one kind of big innovation here is that after doing Portopia and watching other people play Portopia, Hori kind of realized that parsers just sort of suck. No one likes typing in the mystery words or trying to remember all the mystery words or that word means it. […]
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- YouTube views
- 11,971
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 80 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 99 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100
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- Quality
- 41
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 95
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