Elite Game Developers Podcast

Today I’m talking with Paul Murphy, who is a General Partner at Northzone VC, a venture capital firm from London UK. Paul was previously the Co-founder & CEO of Dots, the company behind the casual hit Two Dots. Paul left the company to join Northzone in 2018 and has invested into companies like Bunch and Klang Games. Will now discuss about investing into gaming with Paul himself.

Today I’m talking with Miska Katkoff who is the founder of Deconstructor of Fun, a game development blog and a podcast. We’ve known each other for a while, and I’m super thilled to share this light hearted conversation with you.

Today I’m talking with Seth Sivak, the Co-Founder and CEO of Proletariat, a games company based out of Boston, Massachusetts. Seth started the company with his co-founders in 2012. They started with free-to-play mobile, with games like World Zombienation, but pivoted to PC and console, and are getting closer to launching their Battle Royale game Spellbreak.

Today I’m talking with Callum Brighting, the Co-Founder and CEO of Netspeak Games, a MMO games company based out of London, UK. Callum is a phenominal first-time founder, who's been taking measures of learning how a games company should be built, what the culture should be like and how you can bring on investors to help grow the company.

Today I’m talking with Daniel Hasselberg, the Co-Founder and CEO of MAG Interactive, a mobile games company based in Stockholm, Sweden. I met Daniel several years ago when they had just launched their hit word game Ruzzle. Since then, the company has IPOed and has been growing with more office locations and several launched games. We'll now discuss the learnings from that journey with Daniel.

Today I’m talking with Reko Ukko, the Co-Founder and SVP of Game Design at Seriously Entertainment, based in Helsinki, Finland. Reko has been in so many gaming companies during his career, so we spent most of the epsiode to cover the different game development processes that he's seen. how do you come up with game ideas, how do you approach game mechanics and how decisions get made, to finally get a game out. From racing games to Best Fiends.

Today I’m talking with Reko Ukko, the Co-Founder and SVP of Game Design at Seriously Entertainment, based in Helsinki, Finland. Reko has been in so many gaming companies during his career, so we spent most of the epsiode to cover the different game development processes that he's seen. how do you come up with game ideas, how do you approach game mechanics and how decisions get made, to finally get a game out. From racing games to Best Fiends.

Today I’m talking with Jani Penttinen, the Co-Founder & CEO of Utopos Games, based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Jani started his career in gaming over twenty years ago, first in Finland, before moving to work at Westwood Studios in the States. Later he founded a few companies outside of gaming, before returning to work on a new gaming startup with his ex-colleagues from Westwood.

Today I’m talking with Minwoo Lee, who is the Head of Product at Dodreams, a Helsinki based mobile games company. Minu's career in gaming started Korea about twenty years ago, when he was designing micro transactions into online games. He's career took him to Europe, and eventually to work in the Finnish games industry. I was just talking to Minu that we both have a passion about game design, through the understand of player motivations, aspirations and career goals. We'll now share more about these topics.

Today I’m talking with Natasha Skult, who is a game developer, an entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of MiTale. Natasha has found purpose to her game making, by changing how educational games could be made. She is an avid spokesperson for diversity in the industry. Let’s hear more from Natasha herself.