Thrum.gg: Discover Games, Music and Videos Instantly in WhatsApp

The feed is labelled Thrum.gg and names a WhatsApp discovery app, but the episodes on it announce themselves as Game Consultant, a podcast about the games industry. The subject is the business around games: money, markets, events and, now and then, a courtroom. Reinhout hosts, and his guest list reads like a map of where games money comes from. There are fund founders, including Eitan of VGames.vc, a gaming fund from Israel, and Matthew of the Iterative Indie Games Fund. There is Ivan Filletti of GamingMalta, a governmental foundation. There is Timothy Bendt of Tamatem Games, a publishing house in the Middle East, and Rahul of Games24x7. Several of these interviews run across two episodes, with a second part coming in a later one. The exchanges stay practical. In the GamingMalta conversation, the host describes a founder who has raised angel money and asks whether Malta could add a grant or loan. The reply calls that a work in progress, stresses the responsibility that comes with public finances, and compares game investment to the hits and misses of music and film. The Tamatem Games interview turns on Arabic localization, and on whether dialects complicate things when the written language is shared. Talking with Eitan, the host brings up Finland, where he says talent is the sticking point. The answer ties Israel's under-surfaced indie scene to investment and expensive labor. The talk with Jacob of Nordic Game, ahead of NG20 in Malmö, goes somewhere unexpected: Chatroulette, raised as a model for recreating the chance conversation at a conference bar online. News has a place as well. One episode starts with Epic's fight with Apple, covering a ruling that Apple could not block Unreal Engine developers and Apple's closing of Epic's account soon after. Another mentions questions the host received about Trump's move against TikTok's US operation. Chris gives his read on a FaZe Clan executive leaving to start XSET, and Rob comes back for a second part on Plitch.com, which the host frames around esports and cheats. The tone stays loose, with phrases like 'nifty grifty', requests for feedback on the logo and intro, and a 'ciao for now' at the close. Where to start depends on what a listener needs. The host pitches the Iterative Indie Games Fund talk at indie developers looking for project funding. The Malta, Israel and Middle East interviews suit anyone deciding where to build a studio or raise money. The result is a running list of names, funds and markets worth following up, delivered casually enough that a dropped connection stays in at the top of the Nordic Game talk.