Andrew Ashcraft
Game Designer
Andy Ashcraft is a game designer with 30+ years in the video-game industry, and over 10 years in the table-top game industry. He runs his own game design company called Giantsdance Games. He also teaches game design to young game designers and writing for games to young screenwriters at New York Film Academy (in Burbank). He and his colleague, Shlomo Sher, have a podcast called "Ethics and Videogames" in which we talk about all kinds of issues around gaming. Andy and his very funny wife, stand-up comic Jackie Kashian, live in sunny Van Nuys, CA.
Sept. 9, 2026
LiteSwitch: Lock's Quest with Jackie Kashian and Andy Ashcraft
Comedian Jackie Kashian and game designer Andy Ashcraft are locking in for a spoiler-laced talk about Lock’s Quest (Nintendo DS, 2008) with Mike and Jaymo as part of The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog. In this episode, we discuss how Jackie’s using stand-up comedy to be a force for good and dig back to some old merch that Mike had to explain to his mom, Jaymo nerds out about Andy’s experiences workin...
Guests: Andrew Ashcraft , Jackie Kashian