Dec 17, 2025 2 min read

🎙️ Acclaim, Side Projects, and Content Marketing

Matt discusses publishing with Acclaim, how to juggle a job and game dev pursuits, plus thoughts on content marketing.

Finally it's new podcast time! 🎙️

It's been (checks notes) oops 5 months, OK well at least that's not as bad as the ol' YouTube channel, but still we are due for a CHAT! So let's do it:

🎧 Listen now

In case any of the below shenanigans don't work, here's a direct link.

OK, so there's supposed to be an embedded "play the podcast now" iframe above. I haven't had much luck with that, soooo here's the episode cover with a big fat play button on it as a fallback (which you can click), enjoy:

📋 Topics

I've been itching to talk about Acclaim publishing Pixel Washer, which is funny because it's the briefest topic in today's episode. I guess I did already cover it in a YouTube video, so check that out if you want more juicy details.

Here what we discuss in today's podcast:

Acclaim is publishing Pixel Washer
Working Fulltime (while juggling a side project)
Content Marketing™️

I've been trying to be more natural and authentic while podcasting, and I think we got there?! But you tell me.

🔗 Show Notes

I was hoping to do a kind of "my favorite game dev videos from 2025" thing, but I really doubt I'll get to it this year. Maybe early next year! In the meantime, I hope to see you in the Valadria Discord.

🎁🎄 Happy holidays! 🎄🎁

Coming soon: (still) a new cheat sheet and 🚫 No Longer Solo where I talk about working with a team. Also a follow-up video to ⚾️ 9 things I learned pitching my game to publishers.