Season 2 of Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast features 11 conversations with 12 game development experts that represent a wide variety of disciplines, identities, experiences, and perspectives. This season moves beyond the themes from the book to look at the power of the collective: how do we scale together via communities, research, and platforms that make us better together? The conversations are wide-ranging, and cover everything from how to cope with the unstable games industry and techniques for interdisciplinary collaboration and usability testing to the evolving role of artificial intelligence in video game development.
Enduring Play is a human-crafted podcast by host Cheryl Platz intended for a wide audience: she intentionally and thoughtfully curates guests and questions that spotlight cutting-edge themes that often push the boundaries of the latest trends in gaming, but with enough additional context on terms, history, and best practices that even fans of gaming and aspiring game developers can follow along.
Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 consists of 10 11 audio-only episodes broadcasting weekly on Tuesdays starting March 3, 2025.
| # | Guest | Title | Date | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joanie Kraut | Powering Up Game Dev by Making Space for All | March 3, 2026 | C-level roles, eSports, self-expression, allyship and inclusivity, game development communities, networking, WIGI, conferences and GDC |
| 2 | Adanna Nedd | Self-Expression, Representation, and Generational Gaming | March 10, 2026 | Narrative design and game writing, game economies, generations of gaming, self-expression, companionship, games research |
| 3 | Steve Bromley | Putting Playtesting into your Process | March 17, 2026 | Games user research, playtesting, cross-disciplinary collaboration, product strategy, games education |
| 4 | Cristina Amaya | Events as a Catalyst for Thriving Communities | March 24, 2026 | Game events as a career, LatinX in Gaming, esports, growing up as a gamer, creating game communities, surviving game layoffs |
| 5 | Tim Cullings | Helping Local Devs Reach Global Impact | March 31, 2026 | Indie game development, Seattle Indies community, games education, running game conventions and conferences, career transitions and networking |
| 6 | Amy White | Proactive People Programs for Thriving Game Studios | April 7, 2026 | Hiring, team culture, people strategy, company values and competencies, people partners, human resources, equity and bias in teams, government policy, Fusebox Games |
| 7 | Jo Cronk | Bringing Technical Design to Higher Game Dev Education | April 14, 2026 | Technical Design, Games education, engineering, game design, prototyping, pre-production, AI in game development, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Crystal Dynamics |
| 8 | Timothy Stanton Davis | Authentic Games through Cultural Technical Design | April 21, 2026 | Cultural technical design consulting, Melanated Game Kitchen, Clock Out By Two, Black in Gaming, Narrative Design, Design Education, University of Southern California |
| 9 | Cory Tsang | Better Production Techniques, inspired by The Sims | April 28, 2026 | Production, Engineering, Design Scripting, Art Production, JIRA Best Practices, The Sims and Object-oriented Scripting, The Elder Scrolls Online, Cross-Disciplinary Production insights |
| 10 | Desirée Rincón | Semper Gumby: Flexible and Resilient Project and Community Management | May 5, 2026 | Project management, publishing, platforms, veterans, accessibility, adaptive controls, anti-piracy, non-profits, Xbox, logistics, physical disk manufacturing, Gold Star Gamers, Always Supporting Games Community, gaming for comfort and community |
| 11 | Lindsey Barnett and James Deighan | From Reviving to Thriving with a Beloved Backyard Franchise | May 12, 2026 | Retro games, sports games, gaming communities, reverse engineering, game revivals, cross-platform releases, accessibility, inclusion, gaming for kids, gaming for families, modernizing games, real-world connections, prosocial gaming, classic game aesthetics, Backyard Sports franchise, Backyard Baseball, Steam |
Season 2 Trailers Coming Soon
