Candace Thomas is the former Lead Game Designer on World of Warcraft and Diablo 3 at Blizzard Entertainment and the current Principal Game Designer at Riot Games. In addition to mentoring many game designers, she has a range of design experiences through 15+ years of experience in the video game industry such as

In this episode, we will explore insights from Candace on how to get into the game development industry, her experience starting from a play testing position all the way to becoming a Lead Game Designer for one of the biggest games in the world and sharing collaboration stories with Alex at Blizzard.

Note: We ran into some recording errors, so there will be parts where our guest co-host David's voice is cut off. We are able to put the captions including the few in-audible parts. This will be fixed for upcoming episodes.

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Alexander Brazie has been a full-time video game designer for over 16 years. He has worked on games that have sold hundreds of millions of copies, including World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and more recently, Ori And The Will of The Wisps. He has helped train professional game designers at Riot and on Activision’s Call of Duty’s design team, as well as consulted on games like Starcraft 2, Hearthstone, and Diablo 3.

In this episode, Alex shares the ups and downs of his journey starting from an excited gamer to a fully fledged game designer working or World of Warcraft at Blizzard and League of Legend at Riot.

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David Zheng is the behind the scenes Co-Founder of Game Design Skills. He’s a growth marketing strategist and an avid self learner who has acquired a range of skills during his entrepreneurial journey.

In this episode, we had a nuanced discussion on how to increase your chances on getting your foot in the door in the gaming industry as an aspiring game designer. How to get get noticed by hiring managers and best practices for your game design portfolio.