Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are joined by Harebrained Studios Mike and Chris to chat Graft! Graft is a cyberpunk survival horror with a very promising future! Join us as we chat the BANGER of a trailer, how they came up with the idea, the challenges of indie game development and learn the difference between a Creative Director and Executive Producer when it comes to gaming. It’s another video game packed episode from the Video Gamers Podcast! Make sure you Wishlist Graft here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3141390/GRAFT/ Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Nothing is quite as fun as finding a game that gets you excited, a game that just looks incredible. We get that hype meter going, the hype train starts rolling, and the rest is nothing but the pure joy of anticipation. Well, boy, do we have an episode for you. But first, some introductions are in order.
I am your host, Josh, and joining me... It's not every day that he starts humming the song to a trailer or it gets him smiling like this. It's Ryan. Dude, I'm just over here raving. Where's my glow sticks? Oh, man. People are going to be like, what? Raven? What is this episode? And joining us, they're the men of the hour. The guys who helped make one of the best trailers we've seen in a while.
The masterminds behind Graft. It's Mike and Chris.
Hey, everybody. Howdy. Thanks for having us on, guys.
How are you guys doing? Oh, absolutely. We are so excited to have you guys here. We are going to be talking about this Graft game that you guys are developing. We're going to talk about this trailer that's got us hyped. We'll talk a little bit about what it's like to be a smaller indie studio as well, get some insight into what you guys do and all of that.
So this is going to be a really fun episode. So thank you both for joining us today. And then, you know what, I'll tell you what, just for the listeners, can you guys give us a little bit of background about like kind of what you do? You guys both work at Hairbrained Studios and what it is that you actually do there.
Yeah, yeah. So I'm Mike McCain. I'm the executive producer here at Hairbrained.
And I'm Chris Rogers. I'm creative director at Harebrained.
We've both been with the studio. We've been making games together since 2011. That's when Harebrained was founded. We're probably best known for Shadowrun, Battletech. Those are two of our big games on Steam. Had over millions of players for both. And yeah, that's kind of our story. We've made a lot of different games over the years. I think a big through line for us is just
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