KakeBytes
KakeBytes is an adventure through gaming history. Join your host, KatyKakes, on a journey to uncover gaming's long history and talk to industry professionals on their role in the past, present, and future of an industry that is continuously evolving.
Episodes
30 episodes
Fyre Games & Summerland
Connor Rush is a 19 year old video game developer that is getting ready to release his third game, Summerland, on Steam in December and will be free to play. His first two games, Into the Unknown and Welcome to the Dreamscape, are free to play ...
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Episode 30
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33:53
BrolyLegs
BrolyLegs is a grand master Street Fighter pro player that is known for playing differently than most. He was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that inhibits muscle growth and joint movement, and has adapted to learn how to play games witho...
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1:11:35
Vanilla World of Warcraft with John Staats
Blizzard turned the page back in history this summer with the release of Classic World of Warcraft in lieu of a traditional expansion and John Staats, the first 3D level designer at Blizzard, recently pub...
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1:18:47
Cris Tales and Dreams Uncorporated/SYCK
E3 was jam packed this year and I was starstruck the whole week I attended. In my journeys, I had the pleasure of meeting Carlos Rocha, the founder of Dreams Uncoporated and SYCK games. Both companies are working tirelessly on
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49:02
Ed Annunziata & Ecco the Dolphin
Ed Annunziata joined me on the latest episode of the show to discuss the Sega Genesis classic Ecco the Dolphin as well as discuss Space War Area, which launched earlier this year on the...
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Episode 26
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56:28
Dwarf Fortress: Toady One returns
Tarn Adams joins me on the show (again!) to talk about the full launch of Dwarf Fortress coming soon to Steam and itch.io. In our first conversation on episode 16...
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Episode 25
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38:48
From EA Sports to Anthem
Gracie Arenas Strittmatter currently serves as the technical art director over BioWare's latest IP, Anthem. She joins me to talk about how she was able to turn her love for art and computer science into a career, and how she found h...
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Episode 24
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49:05
Rachel [Seltzer] Quirico
Rachel Quirico, also known online as Seltzer, is an esports host and interviewer for games like Pokémon GO, Overwatch, Hearthstone, CSGO, Starcraft, Street Fighter, and others. She is an alumni of Fr...
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40:39
DaHanG
Tim Fogarty has been competing in various first person shooters for more than a decade. Most recently, he has been competing with Team Liquid on their Quake Champions Team Death Match squad and pre...
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Episode 22
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43:13
Game Informer with Andrew Reiner
On today's episode of KakeBytes, he talks about his early love of games and how he vaulted that admiration into a career in gaming journalism. For more than two decades,
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Episode 21
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40:17
Gaming + Therapy
The newest guest on the show is Dr. Mick, a therapist and streamer. He joins me to discuss the intersection of mental health and gaming, and how he has created a community where he can share his exper...
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Episode 21
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47:52
League of Legends NA LCS, World Championship
The next guest on the show is Chris Hopper, the head of Esports for North America at Riot Games.Chris, AKA RiotChopper, has been with Riot since 2012 and began his time building the League of Legends Championship Series from the ground-u...
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Episode 20
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34:31
From FIFA to Final Fantasy
This week's guest is Gus Martin, an AI developer at Capcom has worked for other companies such as EA and Square Enix. Gus has worked on games from the EA Sports franchises as well as iconic series such as Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Q...
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Episode 19
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36:14
GoldenEye 007, TimeSplitters
Joining me on today's episode is video game designer David Doak, most famously attributed to his work developing AI for GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64 (and inserting himself into the game!). David is also know for his role in starting Free R...
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Episode 18
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2:21:51
Dwarf Fortress
In the newest episode of the show I chat with Tarn Adams, the programmer behind the cult-classic PC colony simulator Dwarf Fortress. We discuss how Dwarf Fortress sprang to life unexpectedly at Bay 12 Games, the company that Tarn and his brothe...
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Episode 17
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1:48:02
The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler
In today's episode, Tim McVey shares how a single quarter changed his life. We discuss how he became the first to achieve one billion points and on the little-known title Nibbler. In addition to his billion point game, we discuss the documentar...
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Episode 16
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1:58:03
FATAL1TY
I felt like there was no better person to bring on the show to discuss eSports than one of the best professional gamers in the world: Fatal1ty. Johnathan Wendel joins me in this week's episode to discuss 25 ye...
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Episode 15
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1:17:52
The Radical Empathy Education Foundation (REEF)
Billy Joe Cain is back at it again. And this time, it is the finale. BJC was the first interview I conducted for the show and it was dynamic because he had a lot of personal experiences to share with me throughout his long relationship with gam...
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Episode 14
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29:06
Technical art with Neversoft, Infinity Ward
This week's guest is Simon Ko, an artist who has done concept art for the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises. We discuss his leap from art school into working in the game industry as well as...
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Episode 13
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51:33
King of (the long) Kon
Twin Galaxies has flexed the almighty ban hammer against cheating for the second time in just a few months and this time it's against the self-proclaimed video game player of the century: Billy Mitchell. I have had the great fortune of having S...
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Episode 12
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1:19:33
The Simulation Football League (SFL)
What is the Simulation Football League you ask? It's a football league that YOU could play in. You, as in the universal you. And with me today to school us on the game is the Commissioner of the League him...
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Episode 11
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1:03:50
What do Madden and Medici have in common?
The answer is this weeks guest: André Thomas. André has spent more than 20 years in CGI production, heading projects in both the film and game industries. Credited to him are titles such as Men in Blac...
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Episode 10
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34:21
Do video games cause violence?
I think most of us know the answer to that question, but for this week's episode I brought back Patrick Scott Patterson to talk about the "why." ...
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Episode 9
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46:41
