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Production Professionals Interview Series - Linda Tiger, Studio Manager at Paradox Black

Game Production Community Podcast - March 05, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour
This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra and Jess Avelsgaard interviewing guest Linda Tiger, Paradox Development Studio Black’s Studio Manager. The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a...

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How to Break the Burnout Culture

Game Production Community Podcast - February 08, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour
This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guest Katie Rössler, LPC. Burnout is on the rise and though we are talking about it, we’re not discussing how to prevent or recover from it. During this talk, we discussed what burnout symptoms actually look like, why more people are burning out now ...

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Lifting a tip of the veil: The Production Interview Process

Game Production Community Podcast - January 04, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour
This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guest Mae Mierop, Recruiting Operations Program Manager at Striking Distance. Mae lifted a tip of the veil on the production interview process: How to decode a job description's qualifications and responsibilities to prepare for the questions a hiri...

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Production Professionals Interview Series - Claire Bromley, Producer at Criterion Games

Game Production Community Podcast - December 03, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutes
This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra & Angela Dachowski interviewing guest Claire Bromley. The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a broad range of topics, from tackling tough conve...

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Mentorship - Level up the leaders of tomorrow: Igniting growth in the games industry

Game Production Community Podcast - November 02, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour
This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guests Shams Jorjani, Maria Cornelius and Alex Bolle. Our latest panel looked uniquely at a chain of three mentors/mentees as mentorship knowledge is passed down and refined across three generations. With Shams mentoring Maria and Maria mentoring Al...

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Cultural Inclusion with Tina Merry

Game Production Community Podcast - January 03, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour
This session featured host Juney and guest Tina Merry, exploring what's meant by cultural diversity plus how our cultural values impact the way we navigate life, including how we communicate, plan and get work done. A game development industry veteran, Tina leverages global leadership experienc...

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Transitioning into the Game Industry: How a Nurse, Make Up Artist, and Private Investigator got into Game Production

Game Production Community Podcast - September 15, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour
This session featured host Juney interviewing a panel of three game production professionals who successfully transitioned into the game industry: Michelle Velez of Electronic Arts, Giulia Carlotta Zamboni of Gamera Interactive, and Ariana Marchigiano of Blackbird Interactive, who discussed thei...

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Even Tom Hanks thinks he's a Loser sometimes

Game Production Community Podcast - August 23, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, Juney hosted a session featuring PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions Art Director Scott Davidson. Scott talked to us about his experience with imposter syndrome throughout his career in the games industry. He will discuss the lows, the highs, the times he thought about giving up and how h...

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Imposter Syndrome: Even Tom Hanks thinks he's a Loser sometimes

Game Production Community Podcast - August 23, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, Juney hosted a session featuring PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions Art Director Scott Davidson. Scott talked to us about his experience with imposter syndrome throughout his career in the games industry. He will discuss the lows, the highs, the times he thought about giving up and how h...

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The Importance of Networking with Demi Mark

Game Production Community Podcast - July 28, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, Juney hosted freelance producer Demi Mark! Demi talks to us about the importance of networking in the industry, sharing her story and other success stories, and giving a 101 on why, how and where to find and connect with peers from the game development community. There was a liv...

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Playtesting Masterclass with Steve Bromley

Game Production Community Podcast - July 09, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, Juney hosted game industry veteran, games user research consultant, author of the “How to be a Games User Researcher” book and most recently creator of “The Playtest Kit”, Steve Bromley! During this session, Steve offered solutions to many of the barriers to regular playtesting...

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Accessibility as Success Criteria: Building accessibility from the ground up

Game Production Community Podcast - February 08, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour
In this panel, host Juney invites four experienced accessibility professionals to guide us through the process of planning, budgeting, implementing and testing accessibility features from the ground up in both new and ongoing projects to make better and more welcoming experiences. Our expert pa...

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Fireside Chat with Maria Cornelius, Operations Manager at Spotify

Game Production Community Podcast - November 30, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour
During this Fireside Chat, Juney invited her guest Maria Cornelius, Operations Manager at Spotify, to talk about supporting and scaling large teams & organizations in ever-changing industries. 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥: Operations Manager at Spotify. Former Business Developer and Operations Manager a...

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A Day in the Life of... Community Managers! Panel

Game Production Community Podcast - July 23, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour
Featuring 3 community managers with varying backgrounds, we explored a community manager's goals, how they achieve these, how this benefits a game production and how we as producers can help facilitate their work. With community managers from AAA to indie, a plethora of interesting perspectives...

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A Day in the Life of... Producers! Panel

Game Production Community Podcast - June 28, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour
A panel featuring 4 wonderful Producers working in the games industry, with highly varying backgrounds: From years of experience to education & culture, and from studio size & composition to role & responsibilities! Topics ranged from their road into the industry, what production looks like at t...

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Games Industry Recruitment panel - Game Production Discord

Game Production Community Podcast - June 24, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes
This session featured three industry recruitment experts from vastly different backgrounds to talk about the do’s and don’ts when looking for a job in the games industry. Throughout the panel, our host Raven asked the panellists to tackle topics the community requested, including but not limited...

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ID@Xbox Game Dev Q&A - Game Production Discord

Game Production Community Podcast - May 29, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour
The ID@Xbox team gave our community the chance to ask questions that will help them and their teams develop and deliver great player experiences for everyone, and now we're sharing in the hopes it'll help you, too! Topics range from being approved to publish on Xbox through post-launch best pra...

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ID@Xbox Game Dev Q&A - Game Production Discord

Game Production Community Podcast - May 29, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour
The ID@Xbox team gave our community the chance to ask questions that will help them and their teams develop and deliver great player experiences for everyone, and now we're sharing in the hopes it'll help you, too! Topics range from being approved to publish on Xbox through post-launch best pra...

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Scrum & Agile Practices in Games Development - Game Production Discord

Game Production Community Podcast - May 04, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour
The Game Production Discord hosted a panel on Scrum and agile practices in game development, featuring four panelists with varying backgrounds from in- and outside the industry! Huge thanks to Maurice Kroes from Abstraction Games who housed a session with panellists Jeff Lindsey from Bossa Stud...

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2.6 Game Production Interviews: A Product Management Masterclass with Anil and Callum

Game Production Community Podcast - July 18, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour
The last time we spoke with Callum Godfrey, we had a blast covering the intricacies of game production in an evolving world. This time around, he's joined by Anil Das-Gupta, a highly experienced product manager with an enviable mobile gaming background. These guys give us an incredible wealth of...

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2.5 Game Production Interviews: Renee Wooten (Part 1 of 2), Associate Producer at KingsIsle

Game Production Community Podcast - July 05, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour
This episode, Renee Wooten was an exceptional guest. Renee has a keen interest in accessibility and inclusion, as well as solid experience with customer and community-facing roles. After gaining a Game Design Bsc from Full Sail University, she started her inevitable climb to production stardom w...

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2.5ii Renee Wooten (Part 2 of 2) - Being A Woman in the Games Industry: Making Space for Everyone in Games

Game Production Community Podcast - July 05, 2020 19:00 - 34 minutes
Part One of our Podcast Episode can be found here: https://www.game-production.com/podcast/episode/49b730cf/25-game-production-interviews-renee-wooten-part-1-of-2-associate-producer-at-kingsisle In Part Two we took a segment out of the chat and based an article around it: https://www.game-produ...

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3.1 Games Recruiter Insights - Simon Hope from Aardvark Swift

Game Production Community Podcast - June 24, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour
I wanted to try something a bit different with this episode: this is the first of a short series of interviews with recruitment professionals in the games industry. Our goal is to find out what recruiters seek out in potential game producers from associate to EP and beyond, from product manager ...

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2.4 Game Production Interviews: Chris Sykora, Associate Producer at Yager

Game Production Community Podcast - June 23, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour
I'm very grateful to Chris Sykora to find the time to chat after a busy week at Yager in Berlin, where he has served as an Associate Producer for a year. Yager has given us its namesake, as well as Spec Ops: The Line, Dreadnought and The Cycle. Previously, Chris worked as a QA Lead at Konami and...

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2.3 Game Production Interviews: Chris Keeling, EP at Street Smarts VR

Game Production Community Podcast - June 10, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour
Our guest today is Chris Keeling, Executive Producer at Street Smarts VR and living in Orlando, Florida. Previously, Chris has had a myriad of impressive roles, including Product Director at Wargaming, where he was the first American to join the Eastern Europe-centric company at the senior level...

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2.2 Game Production Interviews: Anthony Kyne, Lead Producer at Mediatonic Games

Game Production Community Podcast - May 28, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour
The transcript can be found here: https://www.game-production.com/post/anthony-kyne-podcast-episode-full-transcript This being my second ever attempt at recording and editing a podcast, be kind and feel free to give advice! Our guest today is Anthony Kyne, a Lead Producer at Mediatonic Games. T...

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2.1 Game Production Interviews: Callum Godfrey, Head of Production at Bossa Studios

Game Production Community Podcast - May 26, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour
The transcript can be found here: https://www.game-production.com/post/callum-godfrey-podcast-episode-full-transcript This being my first ever attempt at recording and editing a podcast, please forgive the obvious amateurish mistakes! However, that is made up by the quality of our first ever gu...

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1.3 Risk Management Walkthrough

Game Production Community Podcast - May 23, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes
Although I have added this as a podcast episode, you might be better off watching the video of me going through the spreadsheet tabs discussed here! Or grab the files below and travel the journey with me.. https://youtu.be/PljB6IBZW2w Part 3 is a walkthrough of generating a Risk and Issue Log t...

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1.1 Risk Management for Game Producers

Game Production Community Podcast - May 23, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes
A general chat around risk management for those involved in making video games. This is an introduction to the topic and is aimed at game producers. Topics covered include: - Why should you take risks and issues more seriously when making a game? - What does risk management in the gaming world...

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1.2 Risk & Issues Examples for Game Producers

Game Production Community Podcast - May 23, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes
Part 2 goes into more detail on actual risk and issue examples. I have based the categories on the only current academic research I could find on the topic. You can read that in full here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262250152_Risk_Management_in_Video_Game_Development_Projects Topi...

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