Hey, since wrapping up Studio Vision, I've been working on something new that's a bit closer to my heart.

It's a podcast called Feed the Muse: open conversations about creativity, from the playground to AI agents.

This is the trailer. New episodes will live on the new show, so if you've enjoyed listening here, I'd love you to come along:

open.spotify.com/show

Thanks for your support as always, it means a lot.

Andy

Hilmar Pétursson is CEO of CCP Games, creators of EVE Online—one of the longest-running MMOs in gaming history. Before CCP, Hilmar worked at Oz Interactive in the mid-90s, building metaverse concepts inspired by Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash, decades before it became a Silicon Valley buzzword. We talk about those early experiments, why they led to EVE's player-driven economy and hands-off governance, the decision that nearly killed CCP but defined the game's ethos, and why they're open-sourcing the Carbon engine to create virtual worlds that could last forever.

Jace Varlet is a solo game developer and content creator, best known for his work as community manager at Coffee Stain Studios for Satisfactory, which has sold over 5 million copies. We talk about the emotional toll of being the public face of a game, building trust through transparency, his journey from programmer to community manager and back to solo dev, and why he's now building his game in public.