Gaming Podcasts

Skate Story with Sam Eng

In this episode, indie developer Sam Eng discusses the creation of Skate Story, a vaporwave‑styled skateboarding game that blends fluid mechanics, exploration, puzzles, and an existential narrative about a glass demon seeking to eat the moon. Sam explains how the game's concept—skating through the underworld toward a visible moon—shaped both the story and gameplay, and he details the design challenges of simplifying controls while preserving the feel of real skateboarding, including a speed‑linked timing indicator and foot‑placement mechanics. He also touches on the iterative development process, from early Unity experiments to the final camera system that mimics a skate video. Host Joe Nash draws parallels between the game's minimalist storytelling and broader trends in media, highlighting Sam's balance of realism and artistic abstraction.