Henrique Olifiers has been in the game industry for more than 30 years working on web-based games, massive multiplayer games, and social games. He is currently the CEO of the award-winning Bossa Studios, which are the makers of Surgeon Simulator, Monstermind and I Am Bread. Now they are currently working on Worlds Adrift, a sandbox MMO with real-time physics where you band together to build sky ships and explore floating islands of a shattered world.

We discuss:

• Made games since he was a kid in school in a third world country. The games were in cassette tapes! I didn't know there was even such a thing.
• Do 2-day game jams every single month at his company
• There are no oversaturation of good games
• Think about marketing from the beginning
• It's not the players job to know how hard game development is
• Be wary of people that say or post something as gospel
• Excitement for AI that changes the game experience for each type of player
• and much more…

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