Game Maker's Notebook
Game Maker's Notebook
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
Re-release: Before Your Eyes with Oliver Lewin and Graham Parkes
1 hour 19 minutes Posted Apr 27, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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We're on a release break for new episodes, so here's one our past great chats from May 16, 2022! 

Corey May speaks with the Oliver Lewin and Graham Parkes, two of the developers behind Before Your Eyes. Together they discuss how they created the blinking mechanic in game jams; the process of "learning by doing and learning by failing"; the technical and narrative challenges that arose from the game's central mechanic; and their experience releasing their first title to wide acclaim including winning a BAFTA

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Episode Host: Corey May

Producers: Claudio Tapia and Josh Chu, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

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