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Tech Debt Club is a game development podcast hosted by Yuri Sokolov and Amit Netanel - two game developers who've spent over a decade each making games and accumulating opinions about them. Every episode is an honest, unfiltered conversation about games we love, games we don't, and what it's actually like to make them.

We talk about everything from game design and industry trends to the messy real... more

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Daniel Mironov left Google to help start vgames in March 2020 — a games-only VC fund in a country with two dozen cybersecurity funds and none for games — roughly a month before the world locked down and mobile went vertical. Six years and nearly 50 i... more

Ivan Murzak spent the early 2010s shipping Evil Cogs, a Limbo-style mobile platformer that hit 5 million downloads on Android by squeezing performance out of phones that had no business running it. A decade later, he's a Microsoft MVP maintaining wha... more

Andreas Gielov spent three years helping run Brackeys, one of the most influential Unity YouTube channels of all time. After Brackeys stopped producing Unity content, he went on to manage a string of game development YouTubers before joining Sirenix ... more

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 ... more

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, ... more

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 w... more

The conversation begins with an introduction to podcasting and transitions into a discussion on gacha game development challenges. It then explores the influence of existing games on new game development, highlighting the impact of popular games on t... more

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Ivan Murzak
Software engineer, indie dev, Unity MCP maintainer
Unity MCP / Microsoft MVP (open-source project)
Episode: TDC #06: From Indie Game Dev to Top Unity MCP with Ivan Murzak
Andreas Gielov
VP Marketing at Sirenix, former Brackeys collaborator
Sirenix
Episode: TDC #05: From Brackeys to PanGui with Andreas Gielov
Lior Hadashian
Co-founder of Gavra Games, CTO role in indie studio; invited guest for roundtable discussion
Gavra Games
Episode: TDC #04: From Shark Tank to Steam with Lior Hadashian
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Hosts of the podcast (not named in transcript)
Episode: TDC #04: From Shark Tank to Steam with Lior Hadashian
Karlo Kilayko
Game industry veteran with background in production and indie development
Former THQ/Indie Studio/Unity-related projects
Episode: TDC #03: 40 Years of Shipping Games with Karlo Kilayko

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Yuri Sokolov
Host of Tech Debt Club
Amit Netanel
Co-host of Tech Debt Club

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TDC #04: From Shark Tank to Steam with Lior Hadashian
Q: Lior, can you tell us a little about yourself? Why would we want to invite you to our roundtable?
I spent five to six years leading the technical team at Gavra Games, helped build Warriors Rise to Glory, and I now focus on post-mortem style lessons and lectures for localizing games, as well as mentoring others in indie development.

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This show targets game developers and tooling enthusiasts, delivering honest conversations about design, production challenges, and the realities of shipping games. Episodes frequently center on indie and small-team workflows, engine choices, tooling decisions, and how emerging tech—like AI and ML tooling—affects development, pipelines, and collaboration. A standout trait is the mix of hands-on technical discussion with practical business and production insights, plus occasional roundtable formats that surface local industry dynamics, localization, funding, and marketing considerations for developer tools and games. Listeners can expect pragmatic takes on performance, tooling sustainment, and open-source or community-driven projects, often ... more

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