Dare to enter the future of technology and games, with our tour guide Matt Brown? Matt returns for a second round of our podcast to update us on projects in AI learning, game streaming and the impact of technological advancements on society. Before things get too intense, we lighten the mood with talk about the takeover of social gamification and VR/AR trends we're excited to see.

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Kinman Chan is a concept artist that has a portfolio that spans over 15 years of experience and in multiple industries. His career has taken him from first working on Red Dead Redemption to working 'close to' George Lucas at ILM and many many more places. He gives us a preview of his life going through the industry as a concept artist and dives deep beneath the depths of creative growth.

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Carl Armfelt is a Portfolio Manager at Swedbank Robur with a focus on technology and the game industry. He sits with us to break down the investment side of game development. Find out what makes a game company attractive, what things an indie company should focus on if they want to get investor funding and lastly, the not so obvious do's and don'ts developers should be aware of when considering starting their own company and hoping to partner with VC funds. Some of the investment companies includes : Take-

This Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about the biggest headliners from E3: Microsoft buying up studios, Sony leading the charge, Nintendo doing its own thing, Google entering the arena... How PubG and Zenimax is doing with their respective lawsuits against Epic and Occulus. Smaller studios like Telltale ditching proprietary engines for safer bets like Unity. The stubbornness of Sony with cross play. Also we round it out with how Valve is

Dating developers, the advice and trials as we came up in the industry as a husband and a boyfriend. Hear the benefits of dating in industry, and the difficulties you may be faced with when dating someone at your company or on your team. And to really spice up this episode, we get into wives having our backs against EA and what the industry developers need to do to keep history from repeating.

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A true believer of the unchained life, Jonathon Holmes tells us NOTHING about making secret government military games, but everything about how his environment art career and personal ambitions allowed him to achieve his absolute dream job in the game industry working at Quixel, FROM HOME!

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Danny Oakes is the Director of Operations and Marketing at SpeedTree. He is an experienced marketing manager with demonstrated history of working in the information and service industry. In this episode, we talk about his career and how he got involved in the game industry, traveling for work, and how procedural generation is changing everything.

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Eric Valdes made all the right moves to go from Miami to LA and become a Character Artist working on God of War at Sony's Santa Monica Studios. Hear the story of how he accepted a challenge that changed his life forever. Hear how he started, and found his way and what he's looking forward to working on in his career. Lastly, he talks about sculpting his FAVORITE character model ever and the unlikely bond between that character and one of our podcast hosts!

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Eric Valdes made all the right moves to go from Miami to LA and become a Character Artist working on God of War at Sony's Santa Monica Studios. Hear the story of how he accepted a challenge that changed his life forever. Hear how he started, and found his way and what he's looking forward to working on in his career. Lastly, he talks about sculpting his FAVORITE character model ever and the unlikely bond between that character and one of our podcast hosts!

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Nina Freeman is a video game designer known for games with themes of sexuality and self-reflection. She is currently a game designer at Fullbright. She was included in Forbes 2015 list of influential video game industry figures. In this episode, we talk about ways to self-promote and stay relevant. How streaming narrative-driven games is more helpful than harmful.

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