The Secret Lives of Games

Rob Beschizza

Booking Overview

This is a long-form game-design interview show featuring candid conversations with independent developers, designers, artists, scholars, and other creators, often examining a specific game or creative process in depth. Agencies could credibly pitch notable indie game creators, emerging designers with distinctive projects, game scholars, toolmakers, and experienced creative practitioners; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need meaningful credits or specialized expertise.

Metrics

Episodes: 280

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.1k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

thesecretlivesofgames@gmail.com

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Host

Rob Beschizza - Designer, writer, and independent game creator whose work spans interactive projects and commentary on games.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Independent or professional game creators, designers, artists, scholars, writers, and toolmakers with a distinctive body of work, a notable released project, or specialized expertise in game-making and interactive art.

Required Achievements:

Created or contributed to recognized independent games, Developed distinctive experimental or generative-art projects, Published specialized writing or scholarship about games, Held a meaningful creative, academic, or design role in the games field

Recent Guest Discussions

Noah Sasso - Game Design And Imbroglio.

Eddy Boxerman - Game Design And Imbroglio.

Nicole He - Game Creation, Independent Development, And Imbroglio.

Mark Essen - Developing Blood Dungeon Alongside A Larger Project, Creative Constraints, And Genre Development.

Bennett Foddy - Helix, Game Design, And Unusual Action-game Mechanics.

Recent Topics

Gaming, Game Design, Indie Games, Game Development, Interactive Art

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Secret Lives of Games

All Systems Brough - Imbroglio

September 15, 2026

We're joined by Nicole He (The Crush House, Kinlo Labs), Eddy Boxerman (Osmos, Karmaka, Broken Rules), and Noah Sasso (Sportsfriends, Iron Galaxy Studios) to discuss Imbroglio, a deck-building, grid-based, genre-defining brough-like. It's the ninth installment in our yearlong special series exploring the work of Michael Brough: All Systems Brough. Next episode: Cinco Paus Audio edited by Dylan Shumway. Discussed in this episode: Imbroglio https://apps.apple.com/us/app/imbroglio/id969264934 ...

158: Moonlighting in the Dungeon with Mark Essen (Blood Dungeon)

September 04, 2026

We chat with Mark Essen (Nidhogg, Wheel World) about his "feverish bullet heaven platformer" Blood Dungeon. We discuss making a small game in the shadow of a bigger project, the constraints it takes to do it sanely, and building on the foundations of a nascent genre. Discussed in this episode: Messhof https://messhof.com Blood Dungeon https://messhof.com/blooddungeon exp. zine - Vampire Survivors https://expzine.com/2026/07/21/vampire-survivors-poncle-2022/ Death to the Self-Playing Game ...

All Systems Brough - Helix

August 04, 2026

We're joined by v buckenham (Downpour, Beasts of Balance), Izzy Kestrel (Electrifying Incident, A Little Game Called Mario), and Bennett Foddy (Baby Steps, QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy) to discuss Helix, a spiral-action shmuplike about staying alive. It's the eighth installment in our yearlong special series exploring the work of Michael Brough: All Systems Brough. Next episode: Imbroglio Audio edited by Dylan Shumway. Discussed in this episode: Helix https://apps.apple.com/gb/app...

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