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At long last, we welcome special guest Barry Meade! Barry is the head of Fireproof Games, the studio behind the enormously popular and award-winning Room games of which we are huge fans and whose third installment won our 2015 GOTY.

Barry talked with us about his career in the industry, how Fireproof was born and what he thinks has been the key to his company’s success. But more importantly, he made an impassioned plea for innovation and excellence in mobile game design. And he asserted that developers and the industry at large need to rethink the way they approach the platform and its gamers. We might have gotten goosebumps a little.

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Stuff we mentioned:

• Commodore 64
• Amiga
• Bullfrog
• Guildford, UK
• Criterion Studios
• Burnout
• Unity
• Chinese puzzle boxes
• Zen Bound (iOS only)
• Pocket Gamer article from 2013
• Our episode with Asher
• Ryan Cash
• Snowman
• Alto’s Adventure (iOS & Android)
• GTA
• Omega Agent for VR
• Monkey Island
• LucasArts games
• Grim Fandango: Remastered
• The Room on Steam
• Doom
• Quake