Seth S. Scott & Membrane

Seth S. Scott’s story is an interesting one. He up and moved to New York City to pursue a career in game development. He tool a game design boot camp and left with his first commercial  game, Membrane. In this episode we talk about risk and how he built a video game.
Show Notes

* Seth S. Scott
* Seth on Twitter
* MEMBRANE
* MEMBRANE on Twitter
* Unity

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Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to episode 84 of How I Built It. In today’s episode I talk to Seth S. Scott about something that has always been of great interest to me: video game development. Seth took a big risk by going to NYC and then going to a sort of bootcamp to learn game design. He’ll talk about how he built Membrane, a game for the Nintendo Switch. I played it a bit and I’m a fan! I bit of a mind bender (pun intended). We’ll get to that and more, but first.
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And now…on with the show.
Joe Casabona: Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of How I Built It, the podcast that asks, “How did you build that?”
Today I’m very excited to have Seth S. Scott with me. Seth reached out because he created a Nintendo Switch game. I’m very excited to talk to him about that today.
Seth, how are you?
Seth S. Scott: I’m doing fantastic, thanks for having me on.
Joe: No problem. Thanks so much for joining me. Why don’t we jump right in it? Because I suspect I’m going to have a million questions. I’m a WordPress Developer primarily, I’ve never programmed on a console or any medium like that, so I’m going to have lots of questions.
Why don’t you first tell us a little bit about yourself? Who you are, what you do, and how you came up with the idea for the game.
Seth: I guess I am a game developer now, game designer currently. Just released this game, Membrane.
I grew up in a creative family. My dad was an artist, and my mom was a musician, and I grew up doing a lot of art but also playing a lot of games and video games and sports and stuff like that. Games were always a part of my life, it was something that I always did for pleasure, but also was something that I wanted to kind of try and create or come up with stuff on my own as well.
After undergrad I became an educator and a teacher for a handful of years, working with kids in various formats. Whether it was summer camps, or before and after school programs, things like that. That was something I did my entire life, ever since I was 14, my first job.