A year ago using AI in #gamedev was mostly speculative. What a difference a year makes! 🎮

The Fourth Curtain, the podcast history of #videogames, is back for a 2025 retrospective as we gird our loins for Season 4 next year! Switches, success🏆ratios and gamedev AI - oh my!  Spotify - bit.ly/492g10S www.podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain

Tomorrow we have a new episode of The Fourth Curtain podcast! Our intrepid hosts reflect on a topsy-turvy year in #videogames🎮#AI and much more. Listen up!

To sum up our year, @igda.org, how about our biggest District Arcade ever? 500+ attendees and 35 locally-made games. Game developers in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia: we host at least two in-person meetups every month. Come hang out!

Christoph is another guest of ours with too many big #videogames to fit in an image!🎮podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain

Our guest on Sam Houser's vision of an open world for #GTA!

VP Amazon Games Christoph Hartmann is our guest. At BMG he helped launch GTA then co-found 2K Games and publish NBA 2K, Civ, Bioshock. We discuss the upcoming #videogame 👑 King of Meat, a fresh take on how AI can help gamedev and more - this week! t.co/cHXgJ0kf8d

Tomorrow's guest on The Fourth Curtain podcast is a #baller joy-riding river Captain! podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain

Thrilled to speak with Trip Hawkins, founder/CEO Electronic Arts (EA), Digital Chocolate and more. From early football strategy to💥WWIII sim, he made a company of electronic artists and legendary #videogames. Calming Steve Jobs, hacking consoles and many Firsts - this week! youtu.be/jCMldF7hRNg

Our guests built Sucker Punch into a prolific creator of💥hit #videogames, which are not only ghostly but sly and infamous as well!

It's a one-two move w/ Sucker Punch's Chris Zimmerman and Brian Fleming. Now shipping 👻 Ghost of Yotei, they tell us about leaving Microsoft for Sony & becoming a #videogame powerhouse. Tales of exact pitches & being great not good - this week! youtu.be/ZOj4nXXhB00

Thursday we return with a BOOM! A very timely episode about a very big👻#videogame on The Fourth Curtain podcast. podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain

David Gardner joins us this week w/ tales of the early days of #videogames. A teenage tech prodigy, he was employee #11 @EA, ran Atari and is now running London Venture Partners. We talk Hawkins distortion fields, Atari sandwiches and when EA was hip 🔥- this week! youtu.be/gzVG9Vu-TYU

Tomorrow's guest on The Fourth Curtain podcast was a teenage prodigy and renowned sandwich-maker! 🥪

This week's guest is another one with more big #videogames than we can fit on an image! Here are a couple of standouts. 🌟

Our guest on the evergreen appeal of #RPGs!

But how will you know how our hosts reflected 🤔on this episode? Right here! bit.ly/4fCeAct

Our guest is Feargus Urquhart, founder/CEO of Obsidian, premier maker of videogame RPGs. From test and prod of huge titles like Baldur's Gate to Outer Worlds. We discuss snatching victory 🏆 from the jaws of defeat w/ Pillars of Eternity, and when a feature is real - this week! youtu.be/pqB7asfzVuQ

Tomorrow's guest on The Fourth Curtain podcast is veteran of many huge #videogames, whose only fear is in his name!😶

Who could be tomorrow's #gamedevs of mystery? Is there a clue in that sentence?🔎

This week's guest made a splash with Spellbreak (which lives on) before getting called up to⚔️Warcraft! podfollow.com/thefourthcur...

We return from break with an "enchanting" episode with Seth Sivak, VP Development for World of Warcraft at Blizzard. We discuss being an Imagineer, the three components of creative 🔥 decisions and "always be pitching" - this week! youtu.be/TlRTvtthwNI

Tomorrow we return from break with a banger episode full of #videogame spells,☘️luck and Warcraft! Not to be missed.

An encore episode in recognition of the PlayStation recently turning 25! That means it's antique. Here's the great Jason Rubin talking about building Naughty Dog, a multi-megahit #videogame studio. youtu.be/gesrOvuT5uE

As our guest notes, Capture the Flag ⛳️is a hugely popular game type on both playgrounds and in #videogames which is often done poorly in the latter. Nearly every major sport in human history is a version of CTF - curious!

Our guest is Mac Reynolds, CEO/co-founder Night Street Games making Last Flag. As manager of Imagine Dragons, he learned to find magic🧙 in the grind & now applies that to #videogames. We talk Eagle Scouts, learning to advocate & CTF - this week! youtu.be/9DzkafNdDsY

Tomorrow's guest never worked on #GTA but is absolutely a rockstar!🎤podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain

As painful as the current multi-year #VideogameLayoffBloodbath is, it has happened before!🩸

What would the classic #videogame The Oregon Trail be without dysentery!💩 youtu.be/bVpYhDOmyHo

Our guest is the paragon of an educational #videogame going massively mainstream, Philip Bouchard. Starting in mainframes he created The Oregon Trail 🐎 a worldwide hit & cultural touchstone on Apple II. We talk Apple getting kickstarted & science for fun/profit this week! youtu.be/bVpYhDOmyHo

Tomorrow's guest is someone you want with your party 🌵if your goal is survival in #videogames! podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain

Our guest this week is Adam Boyes, co-CEO of Iron Galaxy and now founder of Vivrato. From Killer Instinct to The Last of Us Part I, he’s helped bring major #videogames to life. We discuss putting in raunchy 😮 stuff, nemawashi and his magic deck of challenges, this week! youtu.be/W7Z3o1dIJU8

Knowing who will scream - very handy when making horror #videogames!💀 podfollow.com/thefourthcurtain

Our guest is founder/CEO of Behavior Interactive Remi Racine. Famous for the smash Dead By Daylight, his studio began w/ Jersey Devil & led to the Canadian #gamedev Hall of Fame. We talk curious superpowers, getting paid and what to remind your team - this week!⚰️ youtu.be/iQDZ2hiPgaQ

Tomorrow's guest has an unusual #videogame superpower, and is just waiting for the sunrise!🌞

Guest Nolan North brings your favorite #videogame characters to life w/ his voice! From Uncharted's Nathan Drake to scores of others, he is a top talent in the industry. We discuss the freedom of prep & being broke but happy😃- this week! youtu.be/1GBkPRZMVLI

Our guest on how to make a #videogame with a complex franchise like Harry Potter!

Our guest John Blackburn was a founder & CEO of Avalanche Software, makers of many #videogames on many platforms, like Hogwarts Legacy & Disney Infinity. Tales of when games paid royalties, how to talk to execs & being true but not canon - this week! youtu.be/T-SveU15qZw

What's in a name? In the case of Dreamhaven a sanctuary for #videogame dev! 📛

Our guest's #videogames are too numerous and impactful to fit in one post! Haven't played @sunderfolk.com yet but if @shutupshow.bsky.social are right, it should be a banger! 💥

Blizzard's Mike Morhaime on starting a #videogame. Makes me think of Jason Jones playing a bunch of Warcraft II and just wanting to get to the action before @Bungie made Myth. ⚔️

Guest Michael Morhaime was President and CEO of Blizzard during the glory years of shipping Warcraft, Starcraft, WoW, Diablo! Now CEO Dreamhaven he's won an Emmy and is in the AIAS Hall of Fame. We talk red tape & how many $B #videogame 🎮 franchises you need on your resume - this week!

Tomorrow's guest is no meteorologist, but his #videogames hit the industry like a...🌨️

Our guest Bing Gordon has had a long successful run in #videogames and tech. From marketing lead to Chief Creative Officer at EA, he helped shape NASCAR, The Sims and other huge titles. We discuss pitching, two beer strategies and Speilberg's smoke test - this week! youtu.be/8UTM3rwhoeM

Tomorrow's guest got off the leash long enough to form a beer🍻strategy and observe the Spielberg smoke test! #videogames

Guest @k2theswift.bsky.social made a demo into the smash Portal. Once Head of Creative for @Xbox Games Publishing, did level design Left 4 Dead & was Design Director for Battlefront II. We talk how to pitch, IP on Mars and whether the cake🥮is a lie - this week! youtu.be/9hY0ANpLtvI #videogames

Crunch bad, drive good - it comes up again and again in our interviews. What it took for Christian Cantamessa to make the smash #videogame Red Dead Redemption.🤠

Now's THAT's a good gig! Sort of like @Pixar's "plus-ing" - just look for any way to make #GTA better.🏎️

Our guest Christian Cantamessa began in point & click adventures then lead designer and writer for Red Dead Redemption. Now CEO @d4nstudios he is writer and director of the film Air. We talk concern about GTA III & embracing the game - this week! #videogames 🎮https://youtu.be/1WfQJ10jnMg

Tomorrow's guest on The Fourth Curtain podcast made a huge impact on the world of #videogames all with a few horses and six-shooters! 🔫