Elite Game Developers Podcast

Today I’m having a chat with Kristian Metzger, the Co-Founder and CEO of Stratosphere Games, who are based out of Berlin, Germany. Kristian and his team are building midcore games with a team of 22 people, and they have always bootstrapped the company. There story is an interesting and inspiring one

Today we are kicking off the Friday episode on Elite Game Developers. I'm sharing what is to come and what other things are cookin on the Elite Game Developers site. https://elitegamedevelopers.com

Josh Buckley started his first games company as a teenager and sold it before he graduated high school. His entrepreneur journey took him to US, where he got accepted to the Y Combinator accelerator with his new company. Years later, we discuss what has happened to Josh and his business and what he has learned from running a venture backed games company.

Today I’m talking with Matias Myllyrinne, the co-founder and CEO of Redhill Games. Matias has been running game studios for nearly two decades and he is now embarking on his first founder journey with Redhill Games.

Simon Davis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mighty Bear Games out of Singapore. We talk about Simon's career and the road to staring his games company, and his experiences of running the company as a first-time founder.

Mika Kuusisto is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kopla Games, a mobile games company from Tampere, Finland. Mika and his co-founders quickly built and launched their first game, Non-Stop Knight, and got acquired in a short period of time by Flaregames. Mika shares his thoughts on the entrepreneur journey so far.

Martial Valery is the Co-Founder and COO of Oh Bibi, a mobile games company based out of Paris, France. Martial and his co-founders have been experimenting with a flat organization model since the founding of the company. Through trial and error, they have identified the right model that works.

Today I talking with Tuomas Erikoinen. Tuomas is a very special game developer and solo entrepreneur, who has built several games and launched them on the App Store with amazing success.

Before his company Part Time Monkey, Tuomas was a co-founder in a venture backed games company, and even earlier than that, he was part of the crue who build the first Angry Birds games.

Riku Rakkola is the co-founder and CEO of Traplight, a mobile gaming studio from Tampere, Finland. Riku and his team where trying to find success for several years, until they finally got the right approach to game development, and through months of prototyping different ideas, they came up with the right idea and started their validation process.

Today I had a chat with Aron Beierschmitt, the CEO of Beyond Games, a games company based out of San Francisco, CA.

The company is a distributed games company, with teams operating from several locations. Aron started his games career in 2010, when he founded his first games company Foundation Games, out of his college dorm room.