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  • 80 Level Round Table: Elias Software on Adaptive Music & Sounds for Games

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    Kristofer Eng and Andreas Wickman are the masterminds behind Elias Software, a company that recently released a completely new sound FX engine that revolutionizes the workflow for game composers. The duo joined us for a new episode of Round Table to talk about their company, discuss what is adaptive music and how it can be used for games. 

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    Kristofer Eng is CEO & Co-founder at Elias Software

    Andreas Wickman is CTO at Elias Software

    Elias Software https://eliassoftware.com/
    Twitter https://twitter.com/eliassoftware
    YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/Eliassoftware/featured
    Kristofer Eng on LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/kristofer-eng-78a14454
    Andreas Wickman on LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/andreas-wickman-1bb53710

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    43 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Creating XR Experiences with Theia Interactive

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    Bill Fishkin, the CEO of Theia Interactive, the company that has created award-winning visualizations for companies such as Nvidia, HP, Mohawk Group, Toll Brothers, Suffolk Construction, and Epic Games, has joined the Round Table to discuss the company, their production process, how they use XR to help various industries and more. Bill is a digital strategist with 20+ years of experience and has worked with a myriad of clients from The Carlyle Group to Caesars Entertainment.

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    Bill Fishkin is the Founder and CEO at Theia Interactive

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billfishkin
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/billfishkin
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billfishkin/
    Theia Interactive Website: https://theia.io/ 

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    26 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Porting Skyforge for Nintendo Switch

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    Skyforge Project Lead Dmitry Lisichkin joined the Round Table podcast to discuss the experience of porting Skyforge for Nintendo Switch. The developer discussed technical limitations, monetization aspects, new audience, and more. Dmitry has been working on Skyforge since 2012. He started as a QA lead for game mechanics, then led a team of game mechanics developers, and their team worked on everything related to core gameplay: classes, monsters, and bosses. They were engaged in both the design and implementation of mechanics, as well as visualization and UX. Later, he became the head of the entire development, which is what he still does.

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    Dmitry Lisichkin is Skyforge Project Lead:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-lisichkin-9a1194166/

    80 Level Interview https://80.lv/articles/skyforge-porting-a-game-to-nintendo-switch/
    MY.GAMES Website https://my.games/en
    Skyforge for Switch https://www.nintendo.ru/-/-Nintendo-Switch/Skyforge-1906676.html 

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    35 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Switching From Finance To GameDev

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    A talented 3D artist from Ukraine Ilya Chernobrov joined Kirill Tokarev to discuss his path and how he switched from finance to game 3D art, talked about stages of his career, and shared advice on how aspiring artists can get into the industry.

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    Ilya Chernobrov is a 3D Artist from Kyiv, Ukraine

    80 Level Interview https://80.lv/articles/designing-a-german-swimming-car-in-unreal-engine/
    ArtStation https://www.artstation.com/chil
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F-%D1%87-aa8b7544/

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    55 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Discussing UE5 With Joe Garth

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    Joe Garth, the creator of Brushify.io and UE4 Artist, is the latest guest of our episodic show called Round Table. Following the recent announcement of Unreal Engine 5, we’ve decided to invite the artist to talk about Epic’s engine and how it will affect the industry.

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    Joe Garth is the creator of Brushify.io and UE4 Artist

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/joegarth
    YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS4q2Nx8eZ0hAU-tDfP3b8w
    Brushify - https://www.brushify.io/

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    48 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Procedural Simulation Systems for Games

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    Marcin Jaśkiewicz, CEO, co-founder at Simteract, joined the latest episode of Round Table to discuss his team’s projects. Simteract is a developer of premium indie simulation games with a background in creating professional simulations. Marcin discussed his company, talked about different generators they built, and shared some insights on the business side of things.

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    Marcin Jaśkiewicz, CEO, co-founder at Simteract

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinjaskiewicz/
    Simteract website - https://simteract.com/
    Simteract LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/simteract/

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    50 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Arcturus on Volumetric Videos

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    Piotr Uzarowicz from Arcturus is the latest guest of our podcast with Kirill Tokarev. The company develops HoloSuite, a capture agnostic platform that amplifies, edits, and finesses volumetric captures to fit artistic and production goals. We talked about volumetric videos, how they can be used, and discussed whether the new format will replace good old 2D videos. 

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    28 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Victor Perez

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    Victor Perez, a Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter, and visual effects artist with more than 20 years of combined experience, is the latest guest of our podcast with Kirill Tokarev. Some of the films Perez worked on include Christopher Nolan's ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, and more. Our guest talked about his job and the challenges of working on films, discussing how his workflow evolved over years. The artist also talked about working with Nuke and photogrammetry, plus shared some great cases from his career.

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    44 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Lori Plager

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    Lori Plager, Executive Director, Sales & Consumer Products at Sony Pictures Television, joined our editor-in-chief Kirill Tokarev to talk about licensing and how it works these days. What are the main benefits of working with licenses? What are the main challenges? The specialist answered these and many other questions providing a thorough introduction to the complex topic.

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    46 min
  • 80 Level Round Table: Scott Denton

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    Scott Denton, a Freelance Artist how has experience working with numerous companies, joined us for a new episode of 80 Level Round Table to discuss his career, getting a job today, launching new studios, and more. The artist talked about whether the market is overpopulated today and shared insights into working on different projects.

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    49 min

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80 Level Podcast is an episodic show for game developers, digital artists, animators, video game enthusiasts, CGI and VFX specialists. Join us to learn about new workflows, discuss new tools and…