Celebrating 20 Episodes of The Creative Coding Podcast

Last January, me and Seb Lee-Delisle had an idea to record our Skype chats, and launched The Creative Coding Podcast. Here we are just over a year later, and we've got 20 episodes! We've had an amazing year, been nominated for a .net magazine award for best podcast, had 18 world-class guests and been downloaded almost 200,000 times! Please enjoy the latest episode or have a browse through the archives for something that takes your fancy.

Episode 1 – Web games, HTML5 and Jangaroo
Episode 2 – Mobile Devices Special
Episode 3 – Molehill and Processing with Jer Thorp
Episode 4 – Flash Special (plus WebGL and Unity3D)
Episode 5 – Game Design and Conference Etiquette with Ryan Henson Creighton
Episode 6 – openFrameworks, Adobe CS5.5 and multi-touch gaming
Episode 7 – openFrameworks and Open Source with Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis
Episode 8 – Rome, Chrome and Angry Birds
Episode 9 – Processing and Cinder with Robert Hodgin (Flight404)
Episode 10 – Teaching Game Development, Stencyl and New York
Episode 11 – Eyeo Festival with Golan Levin and Ben Fry
Episode 12 – Art from code with Casey Reas and Marius Watz
Episode 13 – JavaScript, Corona and Seb’s jumbotron
Episode 14 – Live from Flash on the Beach! With Lee Brimelow, John Davey and Keith Peters
Episode 15 – Unity3D with Aras Pranckevičius
Episode 16 – Flashageddon with Stacey Mulcahy
Episode 17 – coding a platform game, haXe NME and Big Spaceship’s Joshua Hirsh
Episode 18 – How to teach programming, with Daniel Shiffman
Episode 19 – Trolling, jQuery and Open Frameworks with Joshua Noble
Episode 20 – CSS Special with Val Head

Podcast Episode 4 - Flash Special (plus WebGL and Unity3D)

Flash is undead. It has been killed many times already - first by Ajax, then by Silverlight, then by web standards, then by Steve Jobs, then by HTML5 - and yet it moves! Watch in horror as this bloated, rotting zombie terrorizes the internet and Iain and Seb scramble to to find a cure before it is too late. Which is to say, go listen to the latest podcast.

Podcast Episode 3 - Molehill and Processing with Jer Thorp

The unstoppable juggernaut that is The Creative Coding Podcast continues on its inevitable rampage of destruction, this week flattening Molehill and making mince meat out of Processing. Special guest Jer Thorp jumps on board to crush those who would oppose us. Listen now!

Podcast Episode 2 - iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and more!

Me and Seb are back with another episode of The Creative Coding Podcast. This time it's a mobile devices special, with iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 under the spotlight. For your aural pleasure: The Creative Coding Podcast - Episode 2. Enjoy!

Web games, HTML5 and Jangaroo on The Creative Coding Podcast

Me and Seb had nothing better to do at the weekend, so we had a chat about web games, HTML5 and Jangaroo, and we're releasing it as a podcast - hopefully the first of many to come! So here it is, The Creative Coding Podcast - Episode 1. Enjoy!

Gamedev and Indie Games Podcasts

Some decent podcasts about designing, developing and playing games:

Audio

Another Castle - Professionals talk game design.

Game Developers Radio - Great guests, a different game or development platform discussed each week.

Brainy Gamer - Game design from designer, journalist, academic and player perspectives.

DigiPen - Professionals and educators talk games.

IndieGamePod Interviews with developers about their games.

A life well wasted Arty, philosophical trip around gaming culture.

IndieGames.com Podcast (iTunes) (site) Fun interviews with A-list indie developers.

Infinite Ammo (iTunes) (site) In-depth 2 hour discussions on gamedev!

Irrational Behavior The team behind BioShock on how they make games.

Irrational Interviews Interviews with gaming luminaries.

Video

Bytejacker - Fun video reviews of great indie games.

Co-op - Fun video reviews and chat.

Start Repeating Yourself

On the latest Game Developers Radio is a great nugget of advice from Manuel Saint-Victor of infiniteunity3d.com, which is basically that you need to tweet / blog something 3 times before all the potential audience will actually see it. At first this seems like it might be annoying, but I decided to try it out, by repeatedly posting the youtube video of my Flash on the Beach Elevator Pitch from last year. The results were good. The first tweet took it from just 15 views to 29, then the next from 29 to 49. At this point some other people retweeted it, taking it up to 69, and it's still going up. That's 54 new viewers, when I had assumed that everyone who follows my output had already seen it, as I had already posted the Vimeo version here on my blog. (Update: a few hours later and it is up to 150 views). The crazy thing is that, even more people will watch it now after reading this post. And so far nobody has complained that I'm repeating myself annoyingly. One thing that you can't say enough though, is if you want people to respect you, *don't sell anything* - just educate and entertain. In my experience the rest will sort itself out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxAqjbmoic

Game Developers Radio podcast - Flash game design special (with me!)

I was recently on a special 2 hour edition of The Game Developers Radio podcast with host Joseph Burchett, Ryan Henson Creighton of Untold Entertainment, Daniel Cook of Lost Garden and indie developer Edmund McMillen. It was a great laugh to record and has some great pointers about making Flash games too - I learnt a lot recording it, hope you get just as much from listening, so listen here.

Podcasts for designers and developers

A good way to learn something while you would otherwise be bored commuting or doing the dishes is to listen to podcasts by other designers and developers. There aren't a huge number devoted entirely to Flash, but you can also learn a lot by listening to how people do things in other technologies, so here are some good podcasts grouped by theme. All these podcasts are free; the best way to listen to them is to subscribe in iTunes. You can find most of these podcasts on the iTunes music store, or failing that in iTunes go to "Advanced / Subscribe to Podcast" and paste in the feed URL.

1. Specifically focussed on the Flash Platform, there is only really The Flex Show and (I'm guessing for a limited time) also Summer of Flash. We have a great blogging community, so there should really be more. For Rich Internet Applications in general, there is also RIA weekly.
2. The .NET world is frankly spoiled for decent podcasts, with Elegant Code, Hanselminutes, Herding Code, .NET Rocks!, Spaghetti Code and The Thirsty Developer. I normally skip the epsiodes devoted to the minutiae of .NET and listen to the more general chats about programming techniques, best practices etc.
3. For Java, I've only really come across Java Posse, but it is excellent, and covers a broad range of topics, not just Java.
4. Boagworld is really the one and only listenable podcast I've found about web design - like Flash this is a topic that I thought would generate more content.
5. About programming in the general, there is the excellent Stackoverflow podcast with Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, two very smart and funny developers.

Well, that's all the ones on my battered old iPod - I recommend checking a few of them out. Any suggestions for me? Stick them in the comments...