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Mystery Adventures with Joey Lopes | MGD Podcast #5

Mystery Gamedev Podcast #5

Today's guest is Joey Lopes, the director, writer, and composer of the upcoming mystery game Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved. The game’s demo was recently featured in Steam Next Fest, and the full game is set to be released sometime later this year.

Topics covered in today’s episode include:

  • The inspirations behind Detective Instinct

  • How the art for Detective Instinct was made

  • The origins of mystery adventure games

  • Why the command-select system is so powerful

  • When you should build a custom game engine

  • How the music for Detective Instinct was made

  • Creating videos about game music on YouTube

  • …And more!

Support this episode’s guest:

Wishlist Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam

Join the Detective Instinct Discord Server

Follow Detective Instinct on X and Bluesky

Subscribe to Joey’s YouTube channel


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