In this webinar-to-podcast episode, Liam Wickham breaks down nine critical risks that repeatedly derail game projects, with early warning signals and practical mitigations you can apply immediately.

You will hear:

• Why risk management gives teams a shared language to spot problems early and act before delivery becomes unstable
• The nine critical risk patterns, including:
  • Market misalignment (building a game nobody wants) and vision drift
  • Pre-production shortcuts that create expensive late surprises
  • Scope churn (scope creep and feature creep) as a predictable crunch and delay engine
  • Communication gaps (silos, undocumented decisions, delayed propagation)
  • QA underinvestment, where defects compound until stability and delivery collapses
  • Launch failures, negative reception and the public trust spiral after release - plus what credible recovery looks like

This is designed for producers, studio leads and discipline leads who want fewer late surprises, less rework and more predictable delivery.

Free companion PDF (board export):

https://game-production.thinkific.com/products/digital_downloads/criticalrisks

Original webinar recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-Sfj9rVqc

Welcome to Game Production Academy. I am Liam Wickham. This channel is for game producers and production leaders who want more predictable delivery without burning teams out. I cover planning, leadership and risk management with practical tools you can use immediately - templates, examples and case breakdowns. 

I am also the author of Risk Management for Video Game Professionals (CRC Press, 2026). If you teach or study game production, you can use the same material to build industry-ready practice.

Links

Risk Management Book
game-production.com/riskmanagementbook

Free Resource Library
game-production.com/freeresources

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