Skeleton Songs
Lottie Bevan & Alexis Kennedy
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A games and literature podcast all about stories and game dev, from London-based indie developers Weather Factory. Currently all about making a CRPG with a two-person team.
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S4E11 "Scarf Problems"
Travelling At Night reaches an important milestone: the minimum length of a novel! We talk I/O Interactive, 'Harrison violations' and phatic speech, balancing rich personalities with empty…
S4E10 "Mr Chi's Magic Emporium"
"It's never lupus."Take a turn with us through some of the kookier parts of the Second World War (dropping unmeltable ice into Winston Churchill's bath; how French fashion defeated the Nazis; the…
S4E9 "Hyperpimps"
What is the true 'artist's reward'? When are you pushing usefully out of your comfort zone, and when are you banging your head against a rock? Alexis and Lottie discuss developing your own creative…
S4E8 "Down With Art"
Who are the 'old gods' of gamebooks? Why can we mess with rules in Travelling At Night but not in Cultist Simulator? What's 'combinatorial explosion', and why is it ruining your life?Join Alexis and…
S4E7 "Imaginarium"
What's the 'double or half' rule? Why is game design like Khazad-dûm? What the hell is a quaternion? No, really, we don't know. Join AK and Lottie for another jaunt through game dev, via narrative…
S4E6 "The Kazoo Variants"
"There are games where the player is having fun and games where the designer is having fun." - Sid MeierMaps! Music! British pre-decimal currency! We discuss planning game narratives around major…
S4E5 "Agave Aeterna"
"What we want is a sort of semi-glutide octi-frenetic image that is kinda made of lighting and also is a baby..."This week AK and Lottie discuss how art direction works, how to balance being weird…
S4E4 "The Sphinx"
'My fingers are worn to bleeding nubs. I am typing this with my tongue. my keyboard is sticky with game dev drool. Do you not understand...'Thus did 2026 begin. Welcome back to the world of game dev,…
S4E3 "Snow in the Neath"
Our final episode of 2025! Talking Travelling At Night's alpha, the sine wave of game dev, where Fallen London's Overgoat came from and how we're attempting to solve the 'layer of plastic' in AAA…
S4E2 "Don't Be A Cube"
This week in the life of jobbing game developers, we reach ALPHA. Cue period appropriate beatnik slang, a disagreement about potato croquettes and why 2D and 3D are such frenemies in isometric…
S4E1 "Dreamweaver"
Skeleton Songs is BACK with a game-dev-centric season all about the inside story of making an indie RPG. In this episode, find out why CRPGs are such hard work, why UI eats time, why we're scared of…
Only In Silence The Word
"The final victory of sci-fi is its final defeat," says AK, gnomically, before we sing the Beverly Hills Cop theme tune and talk about trombones. Join us for a discussion of 'the best fiction novel…
S3E4 The Wood Between the Worlds
Lord of the Rings + Narnia + Jane Austen = ? A smash-hit 800-page faux-Victorian novel of realist magic and alternate histories, of course! Welcome to the world of Susanna Clarke, whose rules-based,…
S3E3 The Kilns of Smorgasbord
Author. Visionary. Dreamweaver. Plus bellhop. Meet Jack Vance, one of the most inventive fantasy authors we've ever heard of, and probably not a pirate king. What happens when fairies become too…
S3E2 Magic That Hath Ravish'd Me
"If magic works, why isn't the President of the United States doing it?"After a 'brief' hiatus, we're back! We pick up where we left off and talk about the magic of Doctor Faustus, whether magic is…
S3E1 This Thing of Darkness
Welcome to a new season, all about magic and literature! We talk William Shakespeare's Tempest, from women-wizards from Algiers to royal demonology. Caliban's Moth, Ariel's Lantern and AK nearly dies…
S2E9 A City Is Not A Tree
What makes games 'savoury'? Why is Twitter such a bad place to get game design advice? And is it ever sensible to push a count off a cliff?This episode, Lottie and Alexis talk art, games and…
S2E8 The Glittering Lights of Wolfstack Docks
Hiraeth? Sensucht? Saudade? Listen to Alexis and Lottie cry as we talk nostalgia, sequels and games, from 17th-century Swiss cowbells to sailing away from your loved ones into danger. We talk…
S2E7 Now Draw the Rest of the Owl, Part 2
The conclusion of an epic two-parter. Who would win in a fight between TRPGs and CRPGs? What happens if a giant worm swallows a city? Is a dolphin the same as a cat? We attempt to answer these…
S2E6 Now Draw the Rest of the Owl, Part 1
"I don't want to be Elfstar anymore! I want to be Debbie!"Join us for a romp through tabletop gaming's earliest origins and the effect its had on modern video games. Well, that was the intention. We…
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Skeleton Songs has published 35 episodes since January 2020, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Skeleton Songs is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 48m.
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