Insert Credit Gaiden #12 - GDC 2025, with Liz Ryerson and Brandon Sheffield

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Insert Credit Gaiden #12 - GDC 2025, with Liz Ryerson and Brandon Sheffield

The 2025th Game Developers Conference has ended, and only Liz Ryerson and Brandon Sheffield covered it in the way it was meant to be covered: on-the-floor stories from the industry’s finest minds, and an extensive tour of booths reflecting the state of video games as we know it. Hosted by Brandon Sheffield and Liz Ryerson, with Leaf, Schera Wyss, Frank Cifaldi, K.K. Dream, Alexander Martin, Ty Underwood, Leo Burke, Max Kreiger, and Justin Bortnick. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Chapters:

  1. Brandon talks with Leaf about Funko taking down itch.io (00:00)
  2. Liz seeks the origins of Slugworld with Schera Wyss (13:01)
  3. Brandon chats with Frank about game history (17:02)
  4. Liz trades business cards with K.K. Dream (30:17)
  5. Liz joins friends to reveal the current state of video games, based on the GDC Expo Floor booths (42:24)

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Thanks for the video. I caught it on Youtube and thought it was updating an old episode. This episode is a good rebuttal against that Bluesky tweet (… how do you call a Bluesky message ?) that claimed going to GDC is a complete waste of time.

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the official wording is “post” but users have taken it upon themselves to call them “skeets” sometimes

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the internet was a mistake

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@Skellingtor Thanks! Posts will do. I was honestly expecting some thematic imagery like clouds, trails, nimbus, blues etc.

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hang on, now: the reason people on bluesky call them skeets is because the CEO of the company has asked, repeatedly now, that they Not Be Called That Please. it’s willful resistance by the proletariat.

what i’m saying is, skeets are of the people

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Ah, yes. XBONE logic at its finest.

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lol price of flight is my ex’s baby and the other folks are good friends. i blushed when i heard k.k.'s voice. wow! yay! thanks liz! thank u IC!

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this was fun to do this year! i think it’s a good cross-section of interviews, including Brandon’s interviews with Leaf and Frank. and wandering around the show floor was probably the most fun i’ve had doing that, because i had several friends with me this time around who added a lot to the commentary.

if you get to the end you’ll see our surprisingly positive conclusions about this year’s GDC. ofc it’s all subject to change next year with international travel situation getting worse, since a lot of the more positive aspects of the expo floor were the booths from other countries. will be interesting to see how that continues in the next few years though. but the days of crypto stuff taking over the show floor is long gone and the sampling of AI-based stuff was smaller than you’d expect it to be.

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Plum Wine mentioned

One for the Don’t Mind: Cruxmont fans

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oh btw you can wishlist Alex/Droqen’s game The End of Gameplay on Steam

as well as Price of Flight

also stay tuned towards the end of the month for more info about the NES unreleased title game jam idea i mention on the podcast.

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Thanks to everyone for a lovely little Gaiden there and to what sounded like quite an enjoyable GDC for those who were there. And like me, those who got to hear about it!

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