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Learn to make and sell indie games with Matt Hackett, author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself.
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Signup to Generate a PitchLearn to make and sell indie games with Matt Hackett, author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself.
Make the Game with Matt Hackett is hosted by Valadria. The show has published 49 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Pixel Washer Launches October 15 Into Early Access" (6 October 2026, 43 minutes), "Learning VS Doing" (6 May 2026, 43 minutes), and "Acclaim, Side Projects, and Content Marketing" (17 December 2025, 41 minutes).
Make the Game with Matt Hackett publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 49 episodes.
Booking probability for Make the Game with Matt Hackett is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Make the Game with Matt Hackett requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Make the Game with Matt Hackett's contact route on record: verified email.
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Valadria hosts Make the Game with Matt Hackett, a leisure podcast with 49 episodes published.
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Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Thanks for listening! More info: https://www.valadria.com/pixel-washer-launch-october-15-ea/ TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 1:06 About Pixel Washer 4:30 Development 13:36 How to support indie games 20:40 Where does the time go...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
📝 Show Notes Boy I sure do mention a lot of things in 42 minutes: Pixel Washer 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself Acclaim Alessandro Marani Charlie Dean Geoff Blair A free tip from Miyamoto: Make your first...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
🔗 Show Notes Acclaim / Pixel Washer Washlist Pixel Washer on Steam 🔥 Acclaim is publishing my game Pixel Washer 🕹️ How I got a publisher for my indie game 📺 Video: Publishing with Acclaim Diggy, an open source...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Links and more: https://www.valadria.com/sprint-planning-complexity-and-marketing/ 🎬 Time Codes 0:00 Intro 0:23 Work schedules / time tracking / sprint planning 4:28 Game architecture complexity 8:50 Splitting time on...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Links and more: https://www.valadria.com/how-to-get-back-into-game-development/
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Article: https://www.valadria.com/robby-bisschop-piratepr/ 🎬 TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 0:13 Marketing and PR 35:37 How to get wishlists 49:32 How long to market a game? 59:17 Marketing beats 1:07:05 Keyscammers 1:25:40 Outro...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
See valadria.com for more info! 📋 Show Notes A Wizard's Lizard From Quake mods to game director with Jon Hackett 🐷 Pixel Washer PowerWash Simulator Dr Wahwee Tiled (map editor)
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
https://www.valadria.com/playtests-prototypes-permission-games/ Show Notes 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself ( Gumroad , Itch , signed copies ) Pixel Washer How to make a good Steam page Pixel Washer: 3-day...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
🔗 Show Notes Bacon and Games How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself Steam Dev Cheat Sheet How to Find a Video Game Publisher (Tips for Indie Devs) Armor Games Valadria Discord 10 Godot Features Hidden in Plain Sight...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
https://www.valadria.com/the-best-thing-you-ever-made/ 0:00 Intro 0:23 What's the best thing you ever made? 3:28 You didn't miss the boat 5:11 Three hours is all you need 9:48 Breaking down hard problems 19:37 Outro 📙...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
We're talking about: Preparing for GDC Getting a badge (or not) Lodging around GDC A tour of Moscone Center Navigating GDC parties General tips & advice 🔗 Show Notes Game Developers Conference Making a mobile video for...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
We cover a lot in this episode! Look at all these links : Amazon wishlist (thanks!) 📙 How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself Game Marketing GOLD with Chris Zukowski Twitter: @richtaur Podcast: Make the Game 📺...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
More info: https://www.valadria.com/no-stacking/ 🔗 LINKS Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/ Coaching: https://www.valadria.com/game-dev-coaching-consulting/ 🎬 TIMELINE 0:00 Intro...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Links galore: https://www.valadria.com/seeing-things-steam-next-fest-greg-love/ 🎬 TIMELINE 0:00 Intro 4:14 Story Machine 11:50 Seeing Things 19:26 Steam Next Fest 36:30 Live streams 42:20 What's next? 45:59 Release...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Links & more: https://www.valadria.com/the-money-episode/ 🎬 Timeline 0:00 Intro 1:36 User Interface (UI) 10:32 Configurable input 21:10 Climbing the wall 26:40 A "game shell" 37:48 The Money Part 43:02 Kickstarter(s)...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Article : https://www.valadria.com/my-2-year-indie-postmortem/ 🎹 Music https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=879 https://stevenmelin.itch.io/lo-fi-atmospheres-music-pack https://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1601
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Show Notes The Early Days of id Software How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself 🐷 Pixel Washer ( Steam page ) Silver, a font for games by Poppy Works Jeremy Jackson Performative Game Development: The Design and...
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
Pixel Washer: http://www.pixelwasher.com/ 0:00 Intro 0:17 What's Pixel Washer? 1:44 Why's Pixel Washer? 5:22 What's cool about it? 7:11 State of the game 8:57 Outro #gamedev #devlog #solodev
Make the Game with Matt Hackett
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Make the Game with Matt Hackett
4 main topics in this fun chat with Heart Beast (Ben Anderson): 📙 Ben's solo developer book Production Point 🛠 When to pivot projects? 🚒 GameMaker VS Godot 🎮 Ben's new game WASarD BOOKS! 🛠 Ben's book Production...
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