Interviews

Since Wormwood Studios’ founding, the three of us have given various interviews about our specific projects and about game development in general. While some of those interviews have since disappeared as websites have gone down, or are stuck behind paywalls, many are publicly available. They are grouped below, with projects in chronological order and then a catch-all category at the end. “J” indicates James Spanos participated in the interview, “M” indicates that Mark Yohalem did so, and “V” indicates that Victor Pflug did so.

Primordia

(M) On Primordia and How It Draws on Planescape: Torment and Fallout (Oct. 31, 2012)

(J, M, V) On Primordia, with Dave Gilbert and Nathaniel Chambers (Nov. 3, 2012)

(M) On Primordia and Its Influences (Nov. 7, 2012)

(J, M, V) On Primordia and Wormwood Studios, with Nathaniel Chambers (Nov. 13, 2012)

(M & V) On Primordia and Adventure Games (Nov. 21, 2012)

(M) On Primordia’s Themes, with John Scalzi (Dec. 5, 2012)

(M) On Primordia’s Development (part 2) (Oct. 5, 2013) (video)

(M) On Porting Primordia to iOS, with Janet Gilbert (Sept. 12, 2016)

(M) On Primordia, Fallen Gods, and Strangeland, with Chris Picone (Sept. 5, 2017)

(M) On Primordia, Adventure Games, Fallen Gods, and Cyberpunk, with Christian Miller (Nov. 10, 2017) (video)

(J) On Primordia, Until I Have You, and Game Development, with Christian Miller (Jan. 30, 2018) (video)

(M) On Primordia, Strangeland, and Wormwood Studios (Sept. 27, 2020) (Spanish) (Eng. trans.)

(M) On Primordia, Strangeland, and Game Development, with Damiano Gerli (June 4, 2021) (podcast)

(J, M) On Primordia, Strangeland, and Wormwood Studios (June 16, 2023)

Until I Have You

(J) On Developing Until I Have You (May 18, 2016) (video)

(J) On Until I Have You and Other Projects, with Chris Picone (Sept. 15, 2017)

Strangeland

(M) On Strangeland and Adventure Game Development, with Josh Bycer (May 22, 2021) (video)

(J & V) On Strangeland, Primordia, and Wormwood Studios (May 28, 2021) (video)

(M) On Strangeland (Aug. 3, 2021)

(M & V) On the Artistic and Literary Sources of Strangeland (Oct. 1, 2021)

Fallen Gods

(M) On Fallen Gods, with Vince D. Weller and Chris Picone (Mar. 2, 2018)

(M) On Fallen Gods (Apr. 7, 2023)

Hibernaculum

(V) On Creating a Sci-Fi / Horror Dungeon Crawler (Dec. 7, 2022)

(V) On Hibernaculum (Mar. 24, 2023)

General Topics

(M) On Adventure Games, with Steven Alexander (Sept. 9, 2013)

(J) On Adventure Games Studio (Jan. 10, 2014)

(J) On Indie Game Development (Mar. 1, 2015) (in Greek) (Eng. trans.)

(J) On Greek Game Development, with Konstantinos Dimopoulos (May 17, 2016)

(M) On Worldbuilding in Primordia and Other Games, with Dan Felder (Jan. 30, 2017) (video)

(M) On Adventure Games, with Francisco Gonzalez, Chris Bischoff, Nic Bischoff, Christian Miller, and Chris Picone (Jan. 29, 2019)

(M) On Puzzle Design (Sept. 12, 2020)

(M) On Indie Game Development (Dec. 5, 2020)

(M) On Developing Infinity for the Gameboy Color, with Eric Hache and Mathew Valente (June 17, 2021) (video)

(M) On Science Fiction and Fantasy Worldbuilding in Games, with Cameron Kunzelman (Sept. 8, 2021)

(J) On Linux Game Development (Feb. 18, 2022)

(J) On Game Development and Wormwood Studios (Sept. 3, 2022) (Greek video)