Lessons From 19 Years of Video Game Development at Blizzard, Maxis and Flagship Studios - Leadership Wednesday with Tyler Thompson
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English - April 20, 2016 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBCareers Business Technology coaching coding communication developers interviews jobs leadership programmers programming softskills Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Getting the vision right and effectively communicating that vision to the team is tough to get right. Tyler Thompson has seen both good and bad examples in nearly two decades of video game development. Though this experience he's learned that as a leader, you are responsible for a lot of people's overall happiness. With that responsibility in mind, Tyler and his cofounders have put together a team and are currently developing a new video game.
For 19 years Tyler Thompson has been helping craft games than entertain millions of people. He’s been lucky enough to work on big titles in both small startups and large studios, including Diablo 2, Diablo 3, Hellgate: London, The Sims 4, SimCity, a new Maxis IP and Battle.net.
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