Episodes

Lior Hadashian, co-founder and CTO of Gavra Games, joins Yuri and Amit to talk about building and shipping Warriors Rise to Glory — a turn-based gladiator fighting game inspired by a goofy Flash game from the internet's ugly years. What followed was five years of bootstrap chaos: a Bilibili influencer blowing up the game overnight, a Chinese localization done in one week, a main font that turned out to be stolen, two appearances on Israeli Shark Tank, and a mobile pivot that never happened.

Karlo Kilayko has been making games since before most of us knew what a game engine was - literally. From programming a CD-ROM murder mystery in C with one reference book and no internet, to shipping 30 mobile games a year across 382 devices at THQ, to becoming one of Unity's earliest professional users, Karlo has lived through just about every era of this industry.

In this episode, Yuri Sokolov and Amit Netanel talk about what AI is actually changing in software and game development - and what it is not. They dig into the difference between productive and destructive AI workflows, why experience still matters when using LLMs, and why most developers and companies still struggle with architecture, tooling, and learning the right lessons at the right time.

A discussion about gacha game development, game design, and how successful games influence new titles, with touches on storytelling, UX, technical challenges, analytics, player feedback, classic game preservation, and parental controls.