June 18, 2025 • 88 mins
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
BLUESKY: leftbehindgameclub.bsky.social
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