Straight from our mouths to your ears! Hot takes delivered direct from the Devolver Digital Forkcast! We interview Devolver and Devolver-adjacent developers and professionals to give you insights into what makes this weird-ass company work. The Devolver Digital Forkcast: It's a podcast!
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Welcome to the Bottom of the Bucket. Where we deep dive into the “popcorn bucket” of film until we hit the bottom of the bucket. So sit back relax and enjoy the show.
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Living on the coast means living on the front lines of a rapidly changing planet. And as climate change transforms our coasts, that will transform our world. Every two weeks, we bring you stories that illuminate, inspire, and sometimes enrage, as we dive deep into the environmental issues facing coastal communities on the Gulf Coast and beyond. We have a lot to save, and we have a lot of solutions. It’s time to talk about a Sea Change. Sea Change is a new podcast hosted by Carlyle Calhoun an ...
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Episode 172: A Bright Future Full of Hope
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M Goodwin and Joe Tirado introduce us to ASTRONEER: Glitchwalkers, the next DLC from System Era Softworks, coming out on November 13th, featuring new story and mechanics to the beloved Astroneer system.By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson
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Lights, Camera, Action: Climate Change in Hollywood
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Hollywood has been cold on climate change, mostly relegating the issue to documentaries. We talk to two people who are trying to change that. We first talk to David Sirota, who co-wrote the Blockbuster hit, "Don't Look Up" with Adam McKay, and then we talk to Anna Jane Joyner, the founder of Good Energy, a nonprofit that supports TV and film creato…
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Fish to Fork: Bonus Interview with Chef Jim Smith
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Want to know even more about sustainable seafood on the Gulf Coast? Listen to this bonus episode for an extended conversation with Chef Jim Smith of The Hummingbird Way Oyster Bar in Mobile, Alabama. We talk with Chef Smith about threats facing both fishers and fisheries on the Gulf Coast and how we, as consumers, can make a difference...and of cou…
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Your expert guide to sustainable seafood is here! Get ready to feel the salt spray, and tuck into a wide-ranging conversation about what's on your plate and the future of our ocean. Seafood has been called our "last wild food." Humans have been enjoying seafood for a long time—over 2 million years. But in recent decades, how we catch and eat fish a…
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Devolver Marketing Director and industry veteran of 26 years, Sarah Seaby, shares her storied history with some of the greatest games of the past two decades, and reminds us that while the tools may change, the fundamentals of getting games noticed remain consistently important.By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson
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Mobile Observability on OpenTelemetry: Embrace with Hanson Ho
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Hanson Ho (@bidetofevil) is an Android Architect at Embrace, the mobile-first observability solution built on OpenTelemetry. Embrace began as a proprietary platform but went open-source at the end of 2023. Hanson shares about how the project is still at the beginning of its open-source journey and why his team is committed to collaborative developm…
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Are you a big fan of good games based on worlds and characters that you already love? So are Amanda Kruse and Lincoln Hershberger of the newly established Big Fan Games, a publishing subsidiary of Devolver Digital dedicated to finding devs that want to write love letters to the franchises that they adore. From TV and Film, to comics and books, and …
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The Future Is Not Yet Written: A Conversation with Ayana Johnson
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What if we get it right? That's the question marine biologist, climate expert, and writer Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson explores in her new book. Ayana joins us to talk about climate solutions we have right now and what's possible for the future of our planet. Looking for a link to the book? "What If We Get It Right? Visions of a Climate Future" This…
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Liam Lawler and Harry Nelson of the world renowned charity organization Special Effect bring their expertise onto the ForkCast to share with JM and Jared how their organization helps physically disabled people not only to connect with videogames, but to connect with the world and people around them. https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/…
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No PhD Required: Restate with Stephan Ewen
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Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Steph…
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Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Climate Action
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TV Weather Gets Heated. In a world where weather is getting more extreme, the role of meteorologists is becoming more important—and controversial—than ever. Meteorologists have been fired over reporting on climate change, and others have left stations because of death threats. But that hasn’t stopped Jeff Berardelli, Chief Meteorologist for Tampa B…
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Bereft of guests, Jared and JM engage in an exercise of meta-cognition, making a list of their favorite Forkcast list episodes in no particular order.By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson
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Our oceans are heating up—what does that mean for all the life that lives in the sea...and us? Today we’re going on a trip to Florida…we’re hanging out in the Keys, and we're going fishing, and scuba diving all to find out what’s going on beneath the surface. Just how bad is hotter water for sea life in South Florida, and for the people that depend…
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Episode 167: Historically Accurate Werebear
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Artificer CEO and Creative Director Kacper Szymczak infiltrates the Forkcast to deliver a payload of information on the upcoming Sumerian Six, a Commandos-style real-time tactics adventure coming to PC September 2nd! https://discord.com/invite/artificer https://www.artificer.com/By JM Specht, Jared Stults and Robbie Paterson
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The Stormy Insurance Crisis in the Sunshine State
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The home insurance market is collapsing all across the country. Big, brand-name insurance companies are walking away from the riskiest states. And, the companies that are sticking around are often doubling and tripling rates over just a few years. Nothing like this has ever happened before. And nowhere is this crisis worse... than Florida. In fact,…
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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://…
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Even though New Orleans has water in every direction, it’s hard to access. And for a city with increasingly sweltering summers, this irony is painful. In this episode, we’re going to talk about the uncomfortable history of Lincoln Beach, how it led to New Orleans not having any public beaches today, and how a community has rallied together to get t…
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It's summertime! Otherwise known as prime reading season. And in this episode, you're going to meet the people behind a couple of the summer's hottest books. We talk with Boyce Upholt about his new bestseller, The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi. The book tells the epic story of the Mississippi River, and he writes about how…
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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
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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
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Most of the world's biggest cities are on the coast. As sea levels rise and storms worsen, how can we reimagine our coastal cities so that they can survive and thrive in the face of climate change? Today we talk with leaders across 3 continents about how they are fighting for the future of their cities. Thank you to our panelists: Dr. Fola Dania - …
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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
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In Vietnamese culture, water and home are so linked that they share a word. The Vietnamese word for water is nước. But nước also means homeland. Today–how the Vietnamese community has to reimagine its relationship with water as Louisiana’s coastline changes. In this episode, we’ll travel to a shrimp dock, a tropical garden, and a neighborhood surro…
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Sea Change Live! Inside the Insurance Crisis
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It started in states like Florida and Louisiana. And, now it's spreading. The home insurance market is crumbling as climate-fueled disasters increase. Premiums are skyrocketing, and already, insurance is playing a role in determining where we can live, and who can afford to live there. So we decided to host our very first Sea Change Live event dedi…
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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
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We have a special episode for you today. We're sharing an episode of the new podcast from APM Studios and Western Sound called “Ripple.” The largest oil spill in American history captivated the public's attention for the entire summer of 2010. Authorities told a story of a herculean response effort that made shorelines safe and avoided a worst case…
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Today, we hear the story of one fish and its journey to fame: the red drum, or more commonly known as the classic redfish. And whether the decline of this fish is a warning of a bigger collapse. This episode was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization. This episode was rep…
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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…
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The Drowning South: A Conversation with the Washington Post
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The ocean is rising across the South faster than almost anywhere else in the world. Today, Eva Tesfaye, a reporter for Sea Change, talks to the two journalists behind the Washington Post’s new series “The Drowning South.” Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis discuss their data-driven reporting, which takes them from Texas to North Carolina. It’s a fascina…
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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…
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All Gassed Up: Inside the International Fight Against LNG
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Sea Change’s series, “All Gassed Up,” exposes the enormous scale of the global expansion of liquified natural gas. Our reporting revealed that this gas expansion not only has big impacts on local communities like Cameron Parish but also on the planetary scale for our future climate. The expansion threatens the effort to slow climate change. And, th…
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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
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Metadata Management: DataHub with Shirshanka Das
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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…
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All Gassed Up, Part 3: The Sugar Daddy of LNG
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Japan was the world’s largest importer of LNG for half a century. In the final episode of “All Gassed Up,” we travel to Asia to learn how the global gas industry is expanding — how the need for LNG continues to be sold. Right now, LNG is in its golden age – times are good, profits are high. And Japan’s big bet is that these good times will keep rol…
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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
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Take Your Own Advice: vlcn with Matt Wonlaw
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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…
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All Gassed Up, Part 2: The German Connection
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Until the Ukraine War, Russia was Europe’s biggest supplier of natural gas. After the invasion, political leaders wanted off Russian gas, and fast. So, they turned to the U.S. In part two, we follow American gas all the way to Germany — Europe’s biggest energy consumer, where the energy crisis hit hardest. US LNG provided a lifeline for Germany. Bu…
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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…
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Secret Sauce: Amplication with Yuval Hazaz
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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…
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Right now in the US, there is a GAS BOOM. A liquified natural gas boom — or LNG. The US produces the most LNG in the world. And the epicenter of this massive expansion? It’s here on the Gulf Coast. For the last year, we’ve traversed Louisiana trying to uncover what this growing LNG industry means for the state. But, after talking with everyone – fr…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Robust Observability: OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker
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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 (@…
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Sea Change is back with a brand new season. And this time, the stakes are even higher. We launch new investigations, travel around the world, and look at how a sea change is underway to solve some of our biggest problems. Come with us to investigate and celebrate life on our changing coasts. Every two weeks, we bring you stories that illuminate, in…
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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…
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Never Build Permissions Again: OPAL with Or Weis
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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…
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Presenting: The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast
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Sea Change is taking a short break before Season 2 launches in March, and we plan to start the season off with a bang. Last fall, we traveled all over the world to report a series about a massive expansion of fossil fuels on the Gulf Coast and what it could mean for the planet. We are very excited to share it with you soon, but in the meantime, we …
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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
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Oxygen Deprivation: FerretDB with Peter Farkas
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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…
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