Joining BosBattle for episode No. 2 are Gwen Frey and Forrest Dowling, former Irrational Games employees who started The Molasses Flood, a Boston-based indie game studio behind the wilderness survival game The Flame in the Flood.

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Here are a few of the things we talked about:

How working on BioShock influenced the development of The Flame in the Flood

The reception of their first game and whether it met their expectations

What it took to start an indie game studio and keep it running, even when things got a little bleak

How they got singer/songwriter Chuck Ragan to write The Flame in the Flood’s soundtrack

Lessons The Molasses Flood is taking from The Flame in the Flood for their second, unannounced game

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Music by Jesse Gertz. Mastering by Kegan Zema.

Recorded at PRX’s Podcast Garage in Allston, Mass.