199: Interview with Karla Zimonja & Davey Wreden

Jacob interviews Karla and Zimonja from Ivy Road about their experience building the characters, world, and gameplay systems of their recent release, Wanderstop.

PLAYERS:

• Jacob McCourt (Bluesky)

SPECIAL GUESTS:

• Davey Wreden (Bluesky)
• Karla Zimonja (Bluesky)

SHOW NOTES:

• 0:00​​ – Housekeeping
• 2:00 – Intro
• 4:30 – Prototypes & Inspirations
• 7:00 – Approach to Cozy Games
• 9:10 – How Wanderstop Supports Chill
• 13:00 – Nodes
• 15:10 – Monster
• 20:45 – Finding the Right Balance with Monster
• 24:30 – When Karla Met Davey
• 28:20 – Tea vs. Coffee and the Machine
• 32:50 – The Business Boys
• 36:00 – Pacing
• 37:55 – Dirk Warhard
• 40:30 – The Team at Ivy Road
• 44:30 – COVID
• 49:00 – Ren
• 56:15 – Nana
• 56:45 – Zenith
• 1:01:45 – The Last Choice and Why It Doesn’t Matter
• 1:05:15 – Looking Back at Development
• 1:10:45 – The Risk of Hurting Players
• 1:16:45 – Despelote
• 1:19:30 – What Now?

RESOURCES:

• Episode 4: Interview with Karla Zimonja
• Episode 196: Wanderstop

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