Holly Gramazio speaking last year on peculiar games throughout the ages, from the ancient Mayans to Edwardians.

Lawrie Russell is making Trash TV, which is really close to being finished. It started life as a clone of Super Crate Box, but he took it in such a different direction that it’s now only really obvious once it’s pointed out. Lawrie talks through all of the steps of that process, as well as the feedback and abuse he got on the way, ultimately ending up with a game that has Vlambeer’s blessing. It’s not vengeance on the people who tried to exploit them so badly, but it is probably the best possible story that can come out of cloning:

George Buckenham, from Wild Rumpus/Die Gute Fabrik, talks about building things, occasionally failing to build things, and how electronics are easy but carpentry is hard. Making custom hardware for your game is really not as difficult as you might think; there’s a lot of stuff out there that makes it easier, such as I-PACs and an ever increasing array of accessible, cheap embedded systems.