Mahdi Bahrami's guest appearances

Mahdi Bahrami

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Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

Justin Ma

Tim Schafer

Raigan Burns

Zach Gage

Cara Ellison

Edmund McMillen

Bennett Foddy

Sarah Elmaleh

Richard Garfield

John Davison

Richard Garriott

Jason Rohrer

Siobhan Reddy

Sean Vanaman

Walt Williams

OwlTail

Mahdi Bahrami joins us to discuss his beautiful, mind-bending new puzzle game Tandis. We discuss teaching complex geometry concepts without any numbers, poetry as playtesting, and drawing a line through Mahdi's math-inspired oeuvre. Show notes: Mahdi Bahrami Tandis Engare Farsh  ArsTechnica Tandis review Waldorf Education Mercator Projection

Mahdi Bahrami joins us to discuss his beautiful, mind-bending new puzzle game Tandis. We discuss teaching complex geometry concepts without any numbers, poetry as playtesting, and drawing a line through Mahdi's math-inspired oeuvre. Show notes: <a href="https://mahdibahrami.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mahdi Bahrami</a> <a href="https://www.tandisgame.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tandis</a> <a href="https://www.engare.design" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Engare</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/49958127" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Farsh</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/tandis-review-the-ultimate-geometry-based-puzzle-game/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ArsTechnica Tandis review</a> <a href="https://www.waldorfeducation.org/waldorf-education" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Waldorf Education</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mercator Projection</a>

91: Finding Poetry in Geometry with Mahdi Bahrami (Tandis)

My guest today is Iranian video game developer Mahdi Bahrami. Annoyingly young, Mahdi already has an incredible game under his belt with the release of Engare in 2017. A unique puzzle game inspired by Islamic art which also comes with a creation mode that reminds me of soothing afternoons of my youth spent making endless patterns with a spirograph.We talk about the video game scene in Iran, how his puzzle game enthusiast mother is still a tough critic, his dad teaching him to program, moving to Holland to study game design and programming, how vastly different his cultural touchstones are to most people who work in games (he's never seen Star Wars and is fine with that), the ridiculous number of hoops he had to jump through to get to GDC, how bittersweet his first taste of video game success was, the huge popularity of FIFA in Iran, and the universal language of video games."To be international, you have to first be local."PATREON - patreon.com/checkpointsiTunes HERE -  SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEWTheme song by Samuel BakerArt work by Craig Stevenson

My guest today is Iranian video game developer <a href="http://www.mahdibahrami.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mahdi Bahrami.</a> Annoyingly young, Mahdi already has an incredible game under his belt with the release of <a href="http://www.engare.design/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Engare</a> in 2017. A unique puzzle game inspired by Islamic art which also comes with a creation mode that reminds me of soothing afternoons of my youth spent making endless patterns with a spirograph.We talk about the video game scene in Iran, how his puzzle game enthusiast mother is still a tough critic, his dad teaching him to program, moving to Holland to study game design and programming, how vastly different his cultural touchstones are to most people who work in games (he's never seen Star Wars and is fine with that), the ridiculous number of hoops he had to jump through to get to GDC, how bittersweet his first taste of video game success was, the huge popularity of FIFA in Iran, and the universal language of video games."To be international, you have to first be local."PATREON - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/checkpoints" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/checkpoints</a>iTunes <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/checkpoints-declan-dineen/id961200224" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a> -  SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEWTheme song by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/furoshiki/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Samuel Baker</a>Art work by Craig Stevenson

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