Dishin' it with the Devs of Tails of Iron 2 - Gaming Podcast
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What is Tales of Iron 2 about?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Tales of Iron 2 is a gritty, dark, fun, and challenging game with a beautiful art style. But how did these rat heroes and frog villains come to be? As gamers, we often wonder... Who thought of this? And today we're going to find out about that and a whole lot more about the game. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh. And joining me, he may have big ears and he's hairy, but he's no rat. It's Ryan. Always with the ears, man. Always with the, at least he didn't call me Dumbo. I actually looked this up. There is a Dumbo rat. I was looking up different species of rats before the show and, and literally there's a Dumbo rat.
And then I went, I don't think anybody is going to know what I'm referencing there. So I just went with the classic.
Give me a sword. Give me a sword. I'm ready to go.
Oh, man. And joining us, he's the guy that set the world record for most mentions of Tales of Iron 2 over a span of six months.
It's Ace of Shame. You know, I'm starting to wonder if maybe I should have got an advertisement cut at some point. Yeah. It's like, write me in, write me in. Oh, yeah. I mean, I got people going in left and right at one point.
Hey, I know you got John to pick this game up, and then John fell in love with it. So that's at least one extra sale right there for Ace. And joining us, he's the man who helped found Oddbug Studios, the splinter to our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the one, the only, Jack Bennett!
Hey guys, thanks for having me. It's fun to be here.
Thank you so much for joining us, Jack. So for everybody that is listening, Jack is one of the co-founders of Oddbug Studios, the fine men and women that brought us Tales of Iron and Tales of Iron 2. Tales of Iron 2 just released in the last week or so, and we are going to be diving into all things related to that. So Jack, thank you so much for giving your time to join us today.
No worries. I love being here. I spent my life talking about Tales of Iron, so I've got to enjoy it.
Yes, that's a good thing. That's a good thing. So we just wanted to start off by saying congratulations on the release and the success of Tales of Iron 2. We can only imagine what that anticipation, the excitement... And probably the anxiety that goes into working so hard on a game and then finally just saying, here you go, world, it's ready for you. I mean, as gamers, we'd love a little bit more insight into that. So if you could... What's that like, man? Is it scary? Is it exciting? Like, do you sleep like the night before the game releases? Like, what is that like for you?
It's a strange one because our studio is all remote, right? So we're not in an office of like, we're all there like stressing and nervous. We're just there at home. And the game's done like two, three weeks because you have to send it off to all platforms. So you're basically just done with it so until that actual day beforehand you're like it it's out of my hands you hear you hear it kind of oh it's gone off to journalists and journalists are reviewing it now and you get these bits of it but there's like almost like a month period where you're just waiting you're just waiting for it you know for the day so like uh Yeah, like it's nerve wracking the day before, but before that is kind of just a numbness. You're like, I'm done with it. There's no more I can do. I've just got to wait until that moment and see how people react. But then when it comes out, that's the big like, well, you don't know what's going on. You're just waiting for those first reviews to come in.
You're waiting for people to tweet about it and that sort of stuff. So it's like a roller coaster of emotions that day.
I guess this is a really good question. It's not something that I think we think of a whole lot. You know, as gamers, we absolutely leave reviews for games, you know, and, you know, we tout games that we love, like aces. Like I said, we joke, but this is absolutely true. He's been telling our community for months and months and months how excited he is for this game.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is Tales of Iron 2 about?
0:11–4:30
2
What was the release experience like for the developers?
4:30–9:16
3
How do developers handle game reviews?
9:16–14:29
4
What challenges do indie developers face?
14:29–21:27
5
What is the role of a lead game designer?
21:27–23:58
6
What are Jack's favorite games and influences?
23:58–26:57
7
What upcoming games are the developers excited about?
26:57–53:25
Speakers
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