Bonfire Conversations
By Hamidreza Nikoofar
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Welcome to Bonfire Conversations, a podcast where we gather around the metaphorical bonfire to share inspiring stories, explore creative journeys, and ignite deep, meaningful dialogues. Hosted by Hamidreza Nikoofar, each episode delves into the minds of remarkable individuals across various fields, including music, film, art, and beyond.
Join us as we chat with influential guests, uncovering the passions, challenges, and triumphs that shape their unique paths. Whether you’re a creator seeking inspiration or simply a curious mind eager to learn from the best, Bonfire Conversations is your invitation to sit back, relax, and enjoy the warmth of genuine human connection.
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Conversation: "Mick Gordon" on Childhood, Life, Fame, Creativity, and His Work Process
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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"Monster" Composer "Mac Quayle" on Ed Gein, The Last of Us and His Favorite Plugins
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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"DOOM" Director "HUGO MARTIN" on Childhood, Design Philosophy, And Identity of Doom Slayer
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Futuristic Clothing & Cyberpunk Fashion with ETHELING’s "Kamil Miniakhmetov"
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Larkin Seiple: "Weapons" Cinematographer on Life, Career, Shooting Horror, and "This is America"
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Julian Winding: "The Neon Demon" Composer on His Career, Life, "Copenhagen Cowboy" and Uncle Nicolas Winding Refn
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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"Hell is Us" Director on His Life, Career, Deux Ex and Future
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Mor Loushy: Director of "American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden"
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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The Future of Voice Acting: AI, Games & Talent Representation | Emma Harvey Interview
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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GmanLives on Life, Games, Fatherhood, Humor and Success Story
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Was Written – Jennifer Svedberg-Yen on Life, Characters & Story
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Conversation with the Composer of Death Stranding 2: Life, Career, and Working with Hideo Kojima
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Austin Wintory on Life, Childhood, Creativity and Towerborne
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May 20, 2025 |
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Composer of Andor on Season 2, Working with Tony Gilroy, Star Wars Horror and Eli Roth
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May 06, 2025 |
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Loire Cotler (The Voice of Dune) On Music Therapy, Healing and Hans Zimmer
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Christopher Lennertz on Scoring "The Boys", "Back in Action", and Cancelled "Scalebound"
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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UI Design in Games: With "Diablo IV", "The Witcher 3" UI Designer
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Deep Dive with Eivør: Exploring Music, Spirituality, and Life
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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"Nosferatu" Cinematographer: An Interview on Techniques, Style, and Favorites
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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SILENT HILL 2 Remake Director on Crafting the Nightmare
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Grammy-Nominated Composer of Wizardry and God of War, Talks Game Music, Industry Changes, and Future
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Shocking New Charles Manson Tapes with the Director of Making Manson
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Conversation: Designer of Dishonored and Deus Ex on Future Projects, Life and Past
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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CTO of IO Interactive on 25th Anniversary, Glacier Engine, Future Devs Program
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Conversation: Writer of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 & Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Conversation: Unlocking Immortality? The Future of Aging, Gene Therapy & Living Forever with Marcos Arrut
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Conversation: Aza Hand on Mixing Kneecap – The Sound Behind the Rebellion
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Daniel Pemberton and James Griffith on Music Production and Slow Horses
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Conversation: Jacinta Leong (Art Director of Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa)
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Wilbert Roget, II (Composer of Star Wars: Outlaws, Helldivers II, Mortal Kombat 1)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Conversation: Josh Sawyer (Director of Fallout: New Vegas, Pentiment) On Creativity, and Writing
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Conversation: Cinematographer of "Society of the Snow" on His Life, Career and Shooting in Mountains
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Conversation: Oscar Winner Sound Editor of Mad Max: Fury Road and Dune on Success and Failure
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Conversation: Alan Wake's Actor on Life, Career, Alan Wake II, Sam Lake, and Horror Stories
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Conversation: Creator of Castlevania: Nocturne on Vampires, Villains and Season 2
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Conversations: Production Designer of Silo and Star Wars on His Legendary Career and Art
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Conversation: Audio Director of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on Game Audio Mixing and New Book
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Conversation: Jason Graves on His Techniques for Horror Music, Career and Ghost Stories
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Conversation: Tina Guo on Her Career, Life and Success Story
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Conversation: The Writer of Fable, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on Writing for Games and Her Book
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Conversation: Chloe Van Landschoot on From, Being a Nurse and Her New Film
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Conversation: Cinematographer of John Wick: Chapter 4, The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley
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May 09, 2023 |
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Conversation: Composer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Immortality, For Sama
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May 02, 2023 |
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Conversation: Composers of Star Trek: Picard, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and The Dragon Prince
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Composer, Paul Leonard-Morgan (Dredd, Cyberpunk 2077) on Life and Music
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Conversation: Gearbox Creative Director on Designing Loot Systems, Comedy in Games and Boss Fights
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Sam Slater (BF2042, Joker, Chernobyl) on Music Production, Sound Design, and His Latest Album
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Conversation: Writer and Director of Wolfenstein Games on Writing, Career, and Leaving the Franchise
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Conversation: Art Director of Halo Infinite on Creating Worlds, Inspirations and his Workflow
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May 31, 2022 |
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Conversation: Director of Weird West, Dishonored on Immersive Sim, Game Design and the Game Industry
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May 09, 2022 |
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Conversation: Dinga Bakaba (Deathloop) on Immersive Sim Philosophy, His Life and Favorite Games
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Conversation: Far Cry 6's Narrative Director on Politics and Storytelling in Video Games
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Interview: Director of Guardians of the Galaxy and Deus Ex on His Life, and Career
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Interview: Brandon Campbell on Composing for Amazon's New World, Ramin Djawadi and His Career
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Interview: Jordan Mechner on His New Book, And the Legacy of Prince of Persia
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Interview: Paweł Błaszczak on Making Music for The Ascent
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Interview: Shohreh Aghdashloo (Farsi) | Part 2
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Interview: Shohreh Aghdashloo On Life, Acting, Mass Effect and Destiny (Part 1)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Masterclass: Audio Director of "Outriders" on Sound Design and Mixing
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Masterclass: Doug Cockle Talks About Acting and Voicing Geralt for The Witcher
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May 12, 2021 |
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Interview: Thierry Dansereau Talks about Art Directing Immortals Fenyx Rising and Assassin's Creed
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May 05, 2021 |
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Interview: Scott Phillips on Directing Assassin's Creed games and Immortals Fenyx Rising
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Masterclass: Hitman 3's UI Designer Talks about UI/UX | Joined with Cyberpunk 2077's UI Designer
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Masterclass: Helen Hindpere Talks About Writing Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Interview: Mikael Säker (Writer of Battlefield 3,4,1, The Darkness, Riddick)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Interview with Raphael Lacoste | Art Director of Assassin's Creed Valhalla
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Tina Amini (Editor-in-Chief at IGN)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Bradley D. Meyer (Ghost of Tsushima's Audio Director)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Josef Fares (Founder of Hazelight, It Takes Two, A Way Out)
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Weird Wolves: Raphaël Colantonio & Ava Gore (Weird West, Dishonored)
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Sarah Lynn (XCOM Chimera Squad's Producer)
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May 13, 2020 |
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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem's Composers: (Cédric Baravaglio and Jean-Gabriel Raynaud)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Alex Hutchinson (Director of Assassin's Creed 3, Far Cry 4, Journey to the Savage Planet)
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Jordan Thomas (BioShock 2's Creative Director): The Story So Far
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Hamidreza Saeedy (Children of Morta's Narrative Designer): Story of a Family - Farsi
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Codemasters' Audio Team: How to make sounds for a racing game?
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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Mark Petty (Borderlands 3's Audio Director): Sound of Mayhem
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Terry Hess (The Outer World's Environment Artist): Creating a Galaxy
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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David Chateauneuf: (Outlast's Game Designer): All About Horror
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Nov 02, 2019 |
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Johan Söderqvist (Battlefield V Composer): War Stories
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Aryan Hanbeck (Gears 5's Art Director): How The Coalition created the art of Gears of War's Future
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Jehanne Rousseau (Greedfall's Lead Writer): 50 people, 3 years
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Jason Graves (Composer of The Order: 1886): Versatility of a Composer
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Patrice Desilets (Creator of Assassin's Creed): Playing with History
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Wilbert Roget II (Call of Duty WWII Composer): You want to compose for Call of Duty?
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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David Adams (Darksiders' Creator): Rising up from the ashes
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Inon Zur (Fallout series composer): Journey of a Composer
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Chris Avellone: How to be a master at storytelling
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Konrad Tomaszkiewicz (The Witcher 3 Director): From being an intern to directing The Witcher
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Ken Levine: Discovering the man who created BioShock
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Troy Baker: How to create characters and shine as voice actor
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Sep 18, 2019 |