This Roundtable News brings you discussions from game industry vets about last months biggest news. We talk about some backlash with Total Biscuit's passing, Fortnite continuing to print money with a $295 million dollar month, Cliffy B's studio closure, Call of Duty and Battlefield having a Battle Royale mode, and finally catch up with Star Citizen and its $27,000 premiere class mode.

Goto megascans.se and enter code GDU for 30% off for the first three months!

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/gamede

Emma from Game Workers Unite gives us the roadmap for seeing a unionized game industry come to fruition. We find out what the importance of unions are, and what benefits and rights us developers should look forward to. Also, from the perspective of employers and companies we discuss what unionizing could mean in FAVOR of a company and how companies and corporations can co-exist with unionized game developers!

Follow on Twitter:

@EmmaKinema

@GameWorkers

https://www.gameworkersunite.org/

Goto megascans.se a

Galen Davis is a evangelist for Quixel and is afforded the ability to travel the world and help studios across the industry with tools and support using megascans. In this episode, we talk about his journey from his beginnings in the Art Institute to working on God of War PS4. How he planted his roots at Quixel and what his job entails.

This episode is brought to you by Megascans and Quixel.

Megascans is the definitive standardized content resource, with everything fully PBR calibrated, and all 3D scans c

Game Trailers has a significant influence on announcing games, demonstrating gameplay, and the ability of squeezing a 2-hour plus experience to a comprehensible 90 seconds. It's a tough job and we can't think of anyone else than Derek Lieu to explain the process of making trailers.

Derek has worked on many AAA and Indie titles such as Firewatch, Tacoma, and Absolver and this week he stops by to give the best tips as well as what to avoid when making trailers.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dereklieu/

https:/

Getting your game funded and published has never been easy, but Mario Valle and his video game venture capital team Altered Ventures, LLC are definitely are making it easier. Mario walks us through the process, and gives us some solid gold advice on preparing your pitch all the way to selling a game idea and getting it funded!

http://www.altered.vc/

Follow Mario Valle on twitter @bilbeny

Games mentioned in this Episode

https://www.lienzo.mx/

Goto megascans.se/ and enter code GDU for 30% off for the firs

In this month's Roundtable News session, the crew talks about the biggest news to hit the game industry recently and analyze how it affects game developers. The panel discusses the Dawn of Battle Royale Games like Radical Heights, what's up with Destiny 2, Micro transactions, and Valve's move to acquire Campo Santo.

How to design games with your wife and sell them! Wait no. How to develop a mega hit indie game like Canabalt and put your indie company on the map? No that's not it. The Indie game dev survival guide with Adam Saltsman! That sounds like a winner!

http://finji.co/

http://www.nightinthewoods.com/

Road to Quixel 2018! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UMjzjgcvbU

Goto https://megascans.se/ and enter code GDU for 30% off for the first three months!

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/gamedevunchained

Chec

Cecil Kim gives us one of the best interviews on concept art and a career of breathing life into games through his craft. We follow a young man working in Hawaii for Square, working on FFIX, moving on to develop God of War as the Visual Divelopment Lead in the early days and then finally finding home with a studio (Section Studios) of his very own.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecil-kim-ba4985/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sectionstudios.rival&hl=en_US

https://www.youtube.com/channel/

Roman Goroshkin currently resides as the frontman for Epic Games' PR and Event Manager in Europe and gave us an hour of his time to talk about getting in kahoots with him to attend future Epic events, how to get your software noticed and promoted the right way. Lastly, we have a good time discussing some entry level career tips for anyone seeking to go into Journalism or PR!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/goroshkin/

https://twitter.com/goroshkin

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/gamedevunchained

Check u

We really needed an expert to talk to us about game design for mobile and console and give us the best career advice on that subject. So we found him! This week’s guest, Lucas Gonzalez sits with us to go over a career of mobile game design after a career of console game design, he tells us how kids can accelerate your career climb and what’s most important about being a good designer that can create for any platform.

Lucas Gonzalez is currently the Product Manager for Zeptolab, creators of Cut the Rope