An Interview with Atent Games, Creators of ATOM RPG
A Love Letter to Classic RPGs Developed by the skilled indie team at Atent Games, ATOM RPG satisfies our craving for classic turn-based CRPGs of the past. Officially launched in…
Interviews
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Feature articles consisting of interviews with game industry professional and other game industry luminaries, with an emphasis on mobile games. Hardcore Droid publishes interviews with a variety of game developers.
Often interviews have a subjective focus, wherein developers recount how they started making video games. We also post articles interviewing games journalist. Additionally we interview games industry programmers, artists and sound technicians
Some of our interviews discuss careers in gaming, usually from the perspective of the professional in question. These articles discuss how a developer made their way in the competitive gaming industry. In some cases these interviews are with mobile game industry game designers. Hardcore Droid also publishes with game journalists about game journalism. Often these describe the work of a content writer who focuses on gaming.
As with all of our articles, the question of how core gamers would enjoy an article always stands as the focus of our work.
By way of our interviews, Hardcore Droid applauds the efforts of independent game developers, especially those who develop games for Mobile and Android specifically. Our writers are particularly interested in celebrating the efforts indie creators developing independent games.
We are looking to laud core Android games that contain the depth, richness and narrative complexity of core video games.
From Cyber Knights to Flashpoint: An interview with the Trese Brothers
Indie Veterans Go Big with Cyber Knights: Flashpoint Trese Brothers Games, one of the most revered names in indie gaming, achieved their Kickstarter goal for their upcoming turn-based tactics game,…
Interview with a Game Designer: Sarah Northway
If you’re a fan of our magazine, you can probably tell that we at Hardcore Droid really like Sarah Northway. We’ve lavished her work with praise, written strategy guides for…
Sarah Northway Interview
Sarah Northway is the developer of the Rebuild franchise for PC, Android, Mac and iOS. I played it and loved it, as have others at Hardcore Droid so we caught up…
Trese Brothers Interview
Cory and Andrew Trese are perfectly ordinary brothers living in sunny California. They drive, they sleep and eat just like the rest of us. Oh, and they also developed some…
Lord Vogel
After playing and thoroughly enjoying Avernum: Escape From The Pit, I was excited to talk with designer and writer Jeff Vogel about his work. Vogel, the founder of Spiderweb Software,…
Not Just Another Zombie Apocalypse
After playing and loving the blend of solid strategy and post-apocalyptic narrative in Rebuild 2, I was thrilled to hear about Sarah Northway’s plans for Rebuild 3. Major differences, Sarah…
I, Gladiator Interview with Director/Producer Tim Dvoskin
I, Gladiator is a console-quality action brawler from Belarus-based developer Steel Monkeys that’s been out on iOS for about two months and is now making its way to Android. We…
Team Meat Discusses Cat Lady Sim Mew-Genics
Team Meat talks Mew-Genics. When I first spoke to Edmund McMillen in 2008, life was very different and commercial success wasn’t even a fantasy. “I’m staying indie until I’m homeless,” he…
From the Stone Age to the Mobile Age: An Interview with John Gaby
Thirty-five years ago three college students developed the dungeon crawler Oubliette on the PLATO Learning System, a mainframe computer that took up an entire room. One of those students, software…