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Tone Control

Idle Thumbs

Steve Gaynor of The Fullbright Company sits down with noteworthy video game developers for an in-depth conversation about their career and creative process, and the tricky work of establishi...

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Listen to Tone Control, a Games & Hobbies podcast by Idle Thumbs. Stream 28 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Tone Control 28: Karla Zimonja

We've been through a lot together, Karla and I. And now, in what seems a fitting series finale for Tone Control, my business and creative pa...

02:51:02Jun 15, 2018

Tone Control 27: Derek Yu

Derek Yu has been making video games for almost as long as he can remember. In that time he's helped build thriving game developer communiti...

02:11:54Jun 1, 2018

Tone Control 26: Robert Yang

Robert Yang is awesome. Educator, advocate, and subversive game developer all in one, his work focuses on issues of gay culture, sex and sex...

01:47:01May 15, 2018

Tone Control 25: Siobhan Reddy

Due to some scheduling requirements, we take a break from our GDC chats to visit sunny London, England! While I was in the UK for BAFTA, I s...

01:52:39May 1, 2018

Tone Control 24: Bennett Foddy

Some games love you. Some games are indifferent to you. Some games fucking hate you. Some game DEVELOPERS fucking hate you. Bennett Foddy, b...

01:53:41Apr 15, 2018

Tone Control 23: Richard Lemarchand

Naughty Dog Month is completed by my interview with Richard Lemarchand! One of the sweetest, most thoughtful and supportive folks I know in...

02:13:59Apr 2, 2018

Tone Control 22: Bruce Straley

Naughty Dog Month begins on Tone Control! This time I'm talking to former Dog Bruce Straley about his long and storied career-- starting wit...

02:41:10Mar 15, 2018

Tone Control 21: Meggan Scavio

Anyone who's been to GDC knows, it's a massive, vibrant, overwhelming, inspiring event. As a game developer, it's one of the most important...

01:18:17Mar 2, 2018

Tone Control 20: Davey Wreden

A thirteen-foot-tall octopus named Edward Scissorhands rampages into your life and destroys everything you love. What do you do? If you're m...

01:53:31Feb 15, 2018

Tone Control 19: Harvey Smith

Harvey Smith is a mensch. Not only has he been a lead or director on some of the most inspiring and foundational Immersive Sim games of the...

01:45:16Feb 1, 2018

Tone Control 18: Nina Freeman

It's like rain on your podcasting day. It's when a train goes by, and you can't hear what I say. It's the hammer blows, that ruin your take....

01:59:12Jan 15, 2018

Tone Control 17: Charles Webb

Charles Webb, self-styled "Senior Black Writer" at Hangar 13, joined the Mafia III team after a long and winding path that included writing...

01:53:53Jan 1, 2018

Tone Control 16: Mariel Cartwright

Classic 2D animation: the art of drawing the same thing in slightly different poses over and over and then flipping through them so fast tha...

01:39:40Nov 25, 2017

Tone Control 15: Leighton Gray

Welcome back... to Tone Control! Steve shipped another game, so conversations with video game developers begin anew. Kicking off Season 2 of...

01:55:27Nov 24, 2017

Tone Control 14: Ken Levine

A long journey's road comes to an end. We always arrive back where we started. Circles within circles... there's always a man.. there's alwa...

01:32:11May 1, 2014

Tone Control 13: Jake Solomon

Do you like aliens? No-- you like KILLING aliens. And so does Jake Solomon. He's made a career of it, in fact. But how? Learn all the alien-...

01:32:50Apr 15, 2014

Tone Control 12: Tim Schafer

Few creators in the games industry are fortunate enough to have decades-long careers, much less ones where their own work and that of their...

01:40:53Apr 1, 2014

Tone Control 11: Ryan Payton

Creeping. Sneaking. Running and hiding. Ryan Payton has spent many years working on games about sticking to the shadows, keeping out of sigh...

01:30:30Mar 15, 2014

Tone Control 10: Amir Rao & Greg Kasavin

Amir's dad's living room. Computers on folding tables. One busted old car. These are the humble beginnings that would lead to the hit indie...

01:56:48Mar 1, 2014

Tone Control 9: Jonathan Blow

We all know Jonathan Blow as the creator of Braid and The Witness. But what was he up to before bursting onto the scene circa 2008? Not craz...

01:58:03Feb 15, 2014

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