Issue 1

Writer and actor Ashly Burch gives a remarkable account of her BAFTA nominated performance as Chloe in Life is Strange and the events in her life that informed it.

Jonathan Holmes travels on a quest to meet Yacht Club Games’ Sean Valesco, Nick Wozniack, Ian Fludd and David D’Angelo to give us an in-depth look into the process of making Shovel Knight and its subsequent DLC campaigns, just as they began work on King of Cards.

Dant Rambo outlines his journey from being a fan of Choice Provisions, creators of the Bit.Trip series, to a producer on the very games he admired. This is followed by a series of retrospectives with quotes provided by series’ creators Alex Neuse and Mike Roush.

Ojiro Fumoto discusses the design decisions behind his hit mobile and PS4 game Downwell in this annotated four-page fold-out diagram. Illustrated and laid out to emulate the vertical orientation of the original game.

Composer Jake Kaufman and Undertale creator Toby Fox sit down together to discuss the importance of game music, inspirations, happiness, validation, life, crayons and everything in-between. Illustrated by Temmie Chang, a lead artist on Undertale.

Greg Sewart tells us the story of the Sega Technical Institute and how its unique structure and international composition resulted in some of the Sega Mega Drive’s/Genesis’s most beloved games. Featuring pixel art by Sonic Mania’s Midio Tafuri.