This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra and Kyrene Kim interviewing guest Wendy Young.

The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a broad range of topics, from tackling tough conversations with your team, to preferred tools, methods and software and how to maximise professional and personal growth.

Wendy's classical art background and her passion for art, movies, point & click adventures plus CD-rom games landed her in the early days of the game industry. A love for creative exploration, process of game making, team dynamics & dedication to fostering cross discipline collaboration fueled her transition into production & leadership roles, in which she's been working with top teams & multi platform titles at renowned studios such as EA DICE, Toca Boca, Paradox Interactive and Starbreeze.

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Organised with the amazing support of our GPC Moderator and Guest Host Kyrene Kim and our Supporters for this session, Nooka, Emilie and Angelo ♡

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“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra and Angela Dachowski interviewing guest Jay Myung.

The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a broad range of topics, from tackling tough conversations with your team, to preferred tools, methods and software and how to maximise professional and personal growth.

Jay Myung, with 15+ years of experience in the games industry, has worked in publishing, product management, business development, and licensing before settling in project management at Electronic Arts. After 6 years on the FC Online franchise, he moved from his Head of Development position to a new project as Lead Development Director for external development.

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Organised with the amazing support of our Event Producer Angela Dachowski and our Supporters for this session, Janyl & Ayman ♡

Resources Cited & Recommended

• Atomic Habits
• Never Split the Difference
• Crucial Conversations

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“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra & Angela Dachowski interviewing guest Marchi Loen.

The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a broad range of topics, from tackling tough conversations with your team, to preferred tools, methods and software and how to maximise professional and personal growth.

Marchiano Loen is a Production and Product Management specialist who started his career as a Tester at Electronic Arts. After moving his way up to lead testing teams, he got his Production break at Ubisoft. He has worked on titles such as Candy Crush Saga and Fortnite, and has worked at both large studios and indie studios. Besides a lifelong passion for gaming, Marchi also loves the startup world and has worked for a Silicon Valley startup.

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ABOUT THE GAME PRODUCTION COMMUNITY
“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra, XDI Operations Director at EA, and Angela Dachowski, Producer at Flippfly interviewing guest Anya Zielińska, Production Director at Paradox Development Studio.

The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a broad range of topics, from tackling tough conversations with your team, to preferred tools, methods and software and how to maximise professional and personal growth.

Anya Zielińska is a Production Director at Paradox Development Studio driven by a passion for reaching projects’ goals while prioritizing team growth with over 7 years of diverse experience from kickstarting projects to managing live games, all on different platforms.

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Resources Cited & Recommended: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

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ABOUT THE GAME PRODUCTION COMMUNITY
“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra, XDI Operations Director at EA, and Angela Dachowski, Producer at Flippfly interviewing guest Kimberly Rodatos.

The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a broad range of topics, from tackling tough conversations with your team, to preferred tools, methods and software and how to maximise professional and personal growth.

Kimberly Rodatos, with over fifteen years of experience, has worked with major studios like Perfect World, Crytek, Jagex, and Epic Games. This year, she joined OtherSide Entertainment as Lead Producer and continues to support indie developers through workshops and global conferences.

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Resources Recommended: Everyday Business Storytelling by Janine Kurnoff

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“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra and Jess Avelsgaard interviewing guest Linda Tiger, Paradox Development Studio Black’s Studio Manager.

The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a broad range of topics, from tackling tough conversations with your team, to preferred tools, methods and software and how to maximise professional and personal growth.

A production thought leader with a love for knowledge-sharing, Linda joined the games industry as a QA Tester in 2002 and has since then been involved in over 30 titles - in production roles since 2008 and for the past 2 years as studio manager at Paradox Development Studio’s Studio Black.

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Resources Cited & Recommended

• India GDC Talk on Knowledge & Experience Sharing Initiative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBLACDo-Oy4&list=PLup45nWHfVmVBOOv0LkcQPRHvjOTwg5zh&index=20&t=1s
• Leadership Course: UGL in English - All you need to know | UGL-guiden

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“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guest Katie Rössler, LPC. Burnout is on the rise and though we are talking about it, we’re not discussing how to prevent or recover from it. During this talk, we discussed what burnout symptoms actually look like, why more people are burning out now more than ever, and steps you can take to prevent it.

Katie Rössler is a licensed therapist specializing in burnout and hidden grief specialist. With 15 years of experience, she is shifting the way we think about and experience challenges in our lives and teaching us to transform our pain into our greatest empowerment.

You can find the Slides here: https://katierossler.com/burnout-culture-notes

You can find Katie through:

• https://katierossler.com/links
• https://katierossler.com/podcast
• https://katierossler.com/the-new-face-of-grief
• https://www.instagram.com/katie.rossler/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-r%C3%B6ssler-lpc-08501933/

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“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guest Mae Mierop, Recruiting Operations Program Manager at Striking Distance.

Mae lifted a tip of the veil on the production interview process: How to decode a job description's qualifications and responsibilities to prepare for the questions a hiring manager may ask, and how to approach answering questions truthfully while showing your best self. Bonus: What should you ask in return?

* Mae Mierop, Recruiting Operations Program Manager at Striking Distance Studios. With over 10 years experience in training, recruiting, and mentoring in gaming, tech, and non-profits, Mae is an avid cosplayer who loves to help people reach their goals.

You can find the Slides here.

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“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra & Angela Dachowski interviewing guest Claire Bromley.

The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing conversations on a broad range of topics, from tackling tough conversations with your team, to preferred tools, methods and software and how to maximise professional and personal growth.

• Claire is a Producer at Criterion Games, and has an impressive 17 years of game industry experience across PlayStation Studio and EA. Starting in QA and moving over to Production in 2013, she's worked on a variety of AAA titles, including LittleBIGPlanet, Need For Speed and now Battlefield.

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Resources Cited

• TED Talk by Casey Brown, “Know your worth, then ask for it”

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“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”

This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guests Shams Jorjani, Maria Cornelius and Alex Bolle.

Our latest panel looked uniquely at a chain of three mentors/mentees as mentorship knowledge is passed down and refined across three generations. With Shams mentoring Maria and Maria mentoring Alex, the three panelists discussed their experiences and takeaways from mentorship across the spectrum of professional experience while giving you a framework (and a slight nudge) for taking on your own mentee(s)! The panel is also an excellent opportunity for mentees to understand how to leverage their relationship with their mentor effectively.

• Maria Cornelius, COO at Arrowhead Games Studios, bulldozer for positive change with a passion for developing the leaders of tomorrow.
• Shams Jorjani, Chairman of the Board at Hooded Horse, Shams ran business development for the better part of a decade at Paradox. Today he's the Chairman of publisher Hooded Horse and is about to start a new games studio. Somehow he still finds time to host a podcast about the business of the video games industry.
• Alex Bolle, Lead Producer at Arrowhead Games Studio, used to tame chaos at Ubisoft (lately on Assassin's Creed Mirage), and gave a lot of love for indies in other studios.

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Organised with the amazing support of our Event Producer Albert Bassili & our Supporters with a special call out for Angelo Diktopoulos ♡

Resources Cited & Recommended

Maria Cornelius’ Mentorship Framework: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qkzlpYiUQMIvNt8luRgZX_CYtTfY2aAjrJGvAwIqt-8/edit#slide=id.gcb5028ab6d_1_42

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ABOUT THE GAME PRODUCTION COMMUNITY
“Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.”