{"podcast":{"title":"Game Maker's Notebook","slug":"game-maker-s-notebook-410178","podcast_index_feed_id":410178,"rss_url":"https://interactive.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.interactive.org/Interviews/the_game_makers_notebook.asp","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/7/b/8/07b82da6bb2817da27a2322813b393ee/gmn-icon-1400-20240513-2qwv47wecw.jpg","author":"Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences","episode_count":259,"summary":"A game dev podcast featuring in-depth conversations between video game makers on the business and craft of interactive entertainment.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T02:19:30.575152+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/game-maker-s-notebook-410178"},"episode":{"title":"Subverting Expectations in Titanium Court with AP Thomson","slug":"subverting-expectations-in-titanium-court-with-ap-thomson","published_at":"2026-07-06T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/game-maker-s-notebook-410178/subverting-expectations-in-titanium-court-with-ap-thomson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/game-maker-s-notebook-410178","url":"https://interactive.libsyn.com/subverting-expectations-in-titanium-court-with-ap-thomson","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/interactive/AP_THOMSON_GMN_.mp3?dest-id=590891","summary":"Trent Kusters chats with AP Thomson , creator of the surreal strategy-puzzle game, Titanium Court . Together they discuss his path into games and meeting his long time collaborator Jenny Jiao Hsia ; working together on the award winning Consume Me ; the development of Titanium Court including creating modular systems for faster development; creating the narrative and his advice on becoming a better writer; winning back to back Seumas McNally Grand Prizes ; and subverting player expectations to create engaging experiences. *Editors Note - 40:30: The book AP references here is 'Game Feel' by Steve Swink (he was mistaken about Katherine Isbister co-authoring it, although she is in the acknowledgements). This episode is supported by Xsolla Episode Host: Trent Kusters Producers: Claudio Tapia and Josh Chu, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and leaving us a rating and review . Support the show and get all of our episodes early/ad-free: https://bit.ly/4kU34Lt Follow us: linktr.ee/AIAS Please consider supporting game dev students with: AIAS Foundation","meta_description":"Trent Kusters chats with AP Thomson , creator of the surreal strategy-puzzle game, Titanium Court . Together they discuss his path into games and meeting…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6277,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/game-maker-s-notebook-410178/episodes/subverting-expectations-in-titanium-court-with-ap-thomson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/game-maker-s-notebook-410178/subverting-expectations-in-titanium-court-with-ap-thomson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}