Elite Game Developers Podcast

Jami is a long-time games industry veteran, who’s career spans from working at Digital Chocolate, EA, Rovio and now at his own company. Jami and his team have been exploring better ways of working on games, and today now he will share these learnings with us. Jami has always had the entrepreneurial spirit and has had several opportunities to start a games company, but situation and circumstances didn’t get aligned until 2014 when the guys started working on Futureplay Games.

Today we have a true first-time founder story. I’m talking with Robin Squire and Paul Kurowski. Robin is the CEO and Paul the Creative Director of Black Block, a new games company working on an open-world game, in Helsinki, Finland. Highlights from the discussion: Paul believes that the stars aligned and that’s how the eventually got the chance to work on their own company. Robin says that working in a small games company is like baptism by fire, learning as much as possible.

Today I’m talking with Derk de Geus, the co-founder and CEO of Paladin Studios. Derk has been building his games company for close to fifteen years, and has many insights to share with us.

Today I met with Samuli Syvähuoko and Kalle Kaivola from Sisu Game Ventures, on topic around investing into games companies, founder dynamics, investor selection and how founders should operate with their investors.

How to develop your team when the company is still small, how the games market is still a blue ocean, working with games focused VC, building a culture with Stella Wang, Co-Founder and CEO @ Dazzle Rocks