Skeleton Crew developers Thoma Olsson and Ali O'Brian instruct Jared and JM on the subtle distinctions that define "Forestrike" as tactical kung-fu; the blending of puzzle-solving, action, and a high-stakes permadeath mechanic that make their upcoming title something special. http://twitter.com/VegaMukiwa https://twitter.com/SkeletonCrewEN https://…

Crush House Creative Director, Nicole He, spills the sordid details leading up to Nerial's most innovative reality TV simulator yet, "The Crush House!" Listen in to learn the steamy secrets behind automated dating devices, a ten-person fun-button, and at least one peculiar penis!By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson

Jared and JM compare notes on those games which they feel didn't get the amount of love and adoration that they deserved. Also, Jared's dogs give us all an update on how many dogs Jared still has.By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson

Game dev consultant, crowdfunding expert, and professional saxophonologist Anya Combs shares her thoughts on industry trends, her own career, and her favorite videogame soundtracks in this Jaredless episode.By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson

As part of Devolver Digital's 15th anniversary celebrations, we hosted an AMA on Reddit last week, and JM is here to read the whole thing to you in podcast form!By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear nee…

While JM and Jared are enjoying a chat about videogames, Andy Kelly chestbursts onto the podcast to talk about his years in journalism and what it's like being a PR Manager and Good Words Goblin for Devolver Digital. All while relentlessly plugging his upcoming novel, "Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion" https://unbound.com/books/perfe…

With a flurry of disclaimers about how none of this is actual legal advice, Devolver Solicitor and Legal Counsel Andrea Ng drops in on JM and Jared to discuss the various legal responsibilities and and risks of contracts and property rights in the world of video games.By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson

Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with…

Bereft of guests, Jared and JM snuggle up close to talk about some of their very favorite cozy games.By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson

After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLi…

FireFly Studios, developer of the long adored Stronghold series, dispatches Nick and Tony, two of their elite team members, to conquer the Forkcast and explain to JM and Jared just what makes real time strategy games such a special part of the video game industry. 🏰 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.com…

Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict f…

Solo developer René Rother, creator of the upcoming Children of the Sun, takes a shot at explaining his processless process in creating mood and ambience in the digital space, reveals the secret title that was too hot for Devolver Digital, and shares his plans for after the game's April 9th release. 🚽 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.com…

OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access finan…

Devolver Senior Producer Reese Wright regularly expounds upon their love of spreadsheets while telling the story of their globetrotting path to the hallowed halls of Devolver Digital. 🗺 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@…

Team WIBY Creative Director, Ben Marrinan delves into the creative process of guiding The Phantom Abyss through Early Access and into 1.0 release, shares his biggest surprises from the game's Discord community and deals the deets on dialing in the difficulty. 🐨 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.com…

OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the e…

Devolver Digital Web Engineer and uncontested E-Sports Guru, Josh "Santa" Belkin hacks his way onto the Forkcast to install his insights into the worlds of programming, streaming, and some of his favorite art. 🎅 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht

FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open st…

Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but u…

Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast …

In celebration of the third annual Devolver Public Access Holiday Special, JM and Jared are joined by Hudbus, discoverer of the fifth and final Devolver Golden Ticket from last year's special. He tells us about what it's like getting free Devolver games for life, and gives some tips to any would-be code hunters out there. www.theikim.com 🎫 Join us …

rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no longer exists, but rqlite is going strong. Today, Philip is an engineering manager at Google, while he continues to be the driving for…

Talos Principle 2 writers Jonas and Verena Kyratzes kick back and explain the inspirations and ideas central to the philosophical identity of this year's greatest first-person puzzle experience, while JM and Jared make toilet jokes. 🐈 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

To celebrate the many puppies that Jared has been fostering, he and JM have an idle chat about some of the in-game companions that they have greatly enjoyed through the years. 🐶 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

With Jared somewhere covered in puppies, JM plays host to Pastagames co-founder Nadim, creator of the upcoming cooperative platformer KarmaZoo, and has a chat about how a game about being kind to strangers came to be. 🐘 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Expert excavators and Pepper Grinder developers Riv Hester and Xee Cee tunnel their way onto the podcast to tell the story of how this indie darling went from gifs to game. 🌶 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Kuba Martin (@cube2222_2) is Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform. Terraform is a declarative infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that recently switched to a source-available license. Spacelift and other companies that heavily relied on Terraform came together to fork it into…

Wizard with a Gun Creative Director Patrick Morgan shares in the story of Galvanic Games, tells us about the challenges of developing a game during the pandemic, and briefly considers getting everyone on his team a free puppy. 🧙‍♂️ Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Cullen Dwyer and Joseph Bourgeois of doinksoft join JM and Jared in talking about the recent release of their gritty platformer, GUNBRELLA ☔ Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Ry Walker (@rywalker) is the founder and CEO of Tembo, the Postgres developer platform for building any and every data service. To Ry, the full capabilities of Postgres appear underappreciated and underused for most users. Tembo is an attempt to harness the large ecosystem of Postgres extensions, and ultimately collapse the database sprawl of the m…

With JM out of town, Jared recruits a special guest to talk about what gaming is like for someone who doesn't play games. 👩‍🌾 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy Jared Stults

Jake Hollands, creator of Spaceplan and Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows, lands on the ForkCast to talk about what fascinates him most in videogames and design. 🛰️ Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Jan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thr…

Celebrating a recent dream-come-true for JM, he and Jared prattle on about some of their favorite melee moments in videogames. ⚔ Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Glauber Costa (@glcst) is the founder of Turso and the co-creator of libSQL, an open source, open contribution fork of the database engine library, SQLite. Most people believe that SQLite is open-source software, but it actually exists in the public domain and doesn’t accept external contributions. With their big fork, Glauber and his team have set…

Robbie Paterson returns to the ForkCast to regale us all with the tale of how he tricked the entire world into believing that Volvy never existed. https://www.youtube.com/@donthugmeimscared 📼 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Ruben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and internal apps with auto-generated UIs. Windmill doesn’t force engineers to change their coding style or adopt a convoluted API, and its low-code design makes it accessible to non-technical users. Tune in …

Lead Animator of Nomada Studios' Gris and upcoming Neva, Adrián Miguel tells how a love of drawing comics led him to discover a love of animation, and how that love led him to become a part of creating one of the most beautiful games ever released, and one of the most beautiful games yet to. https://tapas.io/series/SkullsandCoin 💀 Join us on Discor…

Jesse Clark (@jn2clark) is a co-founder of Marqo, the end-to-end, multimodal vector search engine. Vector search has exploded along with the rise of generative AI models, so Marqo’s arrival has had excellent timing. The project has quickly grown to almost 3000 GitHub stars, despite being less than a year old. Jesse and his team weren’t exactly expe…

Co-creator of "The Plucky Squire," Jamie Turner tells the tale of his twenty-plus years designing characters and making art for games, both big and small, as well as his love of silly little drawings that bring a smiles to the world. 🖼 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Jeu George (@jeugeorge) is the co-creator of Conductor, the open-source application building platform. Conductor began as a workflow orchestrator and was originally developed at Netflix. Jeu also co-founded Orkes, a company which offers a cloud product based on Conductor. Tune in to find out how Conductor has evolved into an open-source, battle-tes…

Composer and Sound designer Damjan Mravunac dives into the origins of Croteam's legendary games and offers a sneak peek into the future of The Talos Principle. Hear Damjam at Reboot: http://rebrand.ly/reboot_2023 🎼 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

Advait Ruia (@Advait_Ruia) is the co-founder of SuperTokens, the open-source user authentication and authorization framework. SuperTokens integrates natively into both your front-end client and your backend endpoint. This approach gives developers more control over the user experience and allows for custom workflows. Tune in to find out why SuperTo…

Wildly successful marketing genius, Nigel B. Lowrie, takes a breather from redefining the indie games publishing world to sit down with one of Devolver Digital's longtime employees, JM Specht, in the dazzling premiere episode of, "The Hawt Seat with Nigel B. Lowrie." [Warning: Due to technical difficulties, the part of JM will be played by JM.]…

The genres of videogames are as nuanced as they are multitudinous, so JM and Jared take it upon themselves to share some genre-defining games that they think are pretty cool. 👣 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Jared Stults

BleakSword DX developer Luis Moreno of More8Bit hacks and slashes his way onto the Forkcast to share the story of how he bluffed his way to greatness and shares his personal training regimen of private game jams. Featuring special guest co-host Vieko! 🛡 Join us on Discord Visit DevolverDigital.comBy JM Specht and Vieko Franetovic

Loris Degioanni (@lorisdegio) joins Eric Anderson (@ericmander) to chat about Falco, the open-source runtime security tool for modern cloud infrastructures. Loris is the founder and CTO of Sysdig, and co-creator of Wireshark, the legendary open-source packet analysis tool. Today, Loris talks about all these projects and more - tune in to learn abou…