openindie - your indie game podcast

We love indiegames! If you are reading this, so do you. We tell the stories of passionate indie game developers across the world making them.We explore their motivations, goals, funding experiences, and valuable advice for aspiring creators. 🔗 You can find us here: https://linktr.ee/openindieHave fun listening and if you do, make sure to Follow us for updates on new episodes and tell your friends (and enemies) about us.

openindie - your indie game podcast is a leisure podcast hosted by by Sarah and iV, with 49 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

by Sarah and iV hosts openindie - your indie game podcast, a leisure show with 49 episodes published.

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  Episode #46

  #46 - Dawn Of Defense - 6side Studio - Germany

  May 16, 20261h 7mS6

  <p>Welcome to another dev talk episode of openindie! In this session, host Sarah sits down with Leo, the Creative Director at 6side Studio, to dive into the development of their debut commercial title, Dawn of Defense.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you've ever wondered what happens when you mash up tower defense, real-time strategy, and roguelite mechanics, this episode is exactly what you need. Leo shares the fascinating origin story of the project, from sketching out territorial grid patterns on a whiteboard to securing state funding in Cologne by weaving an Asterix and Obelix-style Roman invasion into the...

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  Episode #45

  #45 - Publisher Contracts Explained (Behind the Build #1) - René Otto (Deviant Legal)

  Mar 12, 20261h 46mS6

  <p>You've poured your heart into developing your game, a publisher shows interest, and suddenly you're staring at a contract full of terms you've never heard of. Our guest today is there to help you in that situation.</p><p>To kick off our brand-new format Behind the Build, Sarah sits down with René Otto, attorney and founder of Deviant Legal, a law firm built entirely for the games industry. René works with over 300 developers and publishers, and he's written a free, 20,000-word guide to help indie devs actually understand what they're signing.</p><p>You can get the guide he...

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  Episode #44

  #44 - Our 2025 Indie Game Favorites & 2026 Picks - Sarah & iV

  Jan 30, 202648 minS6

  <p>Sarah & iV sit down once again for a cozy chat about the indie games they really enjoyed playing in 2025 and the games they're most looking forward to in 2026.</p><p><br></p><p>If you're looking for great indie games to play, give the ones mentioned here a shot. We're pretty sure you won't regret it.</p><p><br></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>EPISODE TIMESTAMPS<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p><br></p><p>TypInc.: 0:25<br>Blue Prince: 10:03<br>Keep Driving: 20:48<br>Dredge: 29:46<br>Vikings on Trampolines: 37:51<br>Shroom and Gloom: 41:50<br>Outro: 46:52</p><p><br></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>GAMES FEATURED<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p><br></p><p>⌨️ TypInc.<br>Developer: Game Game Games<br>Genre: Deckbuilder Typing Game<br>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3230090/TypInc/</p><p><br></p><p>👑 Blue Prince<br>Developer: Dogubomb<br>Genre: Strategy Roguelike Puzzle Adventure<br>https://store.steam...

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  Episode #43

  #43 - Cryptmaster (Mini Review #1) - Sarah & iV

  Nov 22, 202520 minS6

  <p>In this episode, we are trying something new! Instead of our usual developer interviews, Sarah and iV are sitting down to give you a dedicated review and deep dive into the unique indie gem, Cryptmaster.</p><p><br></p><p>We spent 30+ hours snooping around dungeons, typing frantically, and laughing at the Cryptmaster’s insults so you don't have to (but you definitely should).</p><p><br></p><p>Episode Timestamps:</p><p>The Cryptmaster is back: 0:00</p><p>Why this episode: 0:46</p><p>What is Cryptmaster: 1:30</p><p>The devs: 2:02</p><p>Gameplay mechanics: 2:45</p><p>Typing for tr...

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  Episode #42

  42 - Cryptmaster - Paul Hart & Lee Williams - UK & New Zealand

  Aug 25, 20251h 1mS6

  <p>Sarah sits down with Lee Williams, one half of the duo behind Cryptmaster, the word-based dungeon crawler that mixes 80s gamebook visuals with dark humor into one of the year’s most original RPGs.</p><p><br></p><p>Lee talks about his journey from teacher to game writer, voicing the Cryptmaster himself, and collaborating remotely with co-developer Paul Hart across time zones. Expect behind-the-scenes stories such as the placeholder voice that became permanent, a bug that turned into a sea witch summoning feature, and a collectible card game that unexpectedly became a fan favorite.</p><p><br></p><p>...

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