Imladris Podcast

Today we talk about the Game Dev. Fund - a non-profit donation destination used as grants to start, finish, boost, and train our friends and fellows in the games industry.


As 2020 was closing out, God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then, I've asked many people to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

This series will wrestle with this question and apply it to video games and entertainment.

In this episode, we talk about Imladris: a community hosted by Soma Soulworks to gather and train the kings and queens of the video game industry; if you want to know precisely how and why we do this - this episode should answer your questions.


As 2020 was closing out, God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then, I've asked many people to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

This series will wrestle with this question and apply it to video games and entertainment.

In this episode, we discuss the Sphere of Family. What does this sphere encompass?  What is its primary role? And how does the Sphere of Arts and Entertainment relate to it?


As 2020 was closing out, God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then, I've asked many people to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

This series will wrestle with this question and apply it to video games and entertainment.

In this episode, we discuss the founding principles of the video game industry. What do we stand for and how do we enforce it? Hear more of our insights in this week's episode. 


As 2020 was closing out, God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then, I've asked many people to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

This series will wrestle with this question and apply it to video games and entertainment.

In this episode, we discuss NFTs. What are they, how does it affect my work, should I even care about them? Join us as we dive into taking ownership of our work. 


As 2020 was closing out, God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then, I've asked many people to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

This series will wrestle with this question and apply it to video games and entertainment.

In this episode, we discuss the Sphere of Business and how our Sphere of entertainment can and possibly should interact with it and vice versa.


As 2020 was closing out, God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then, I've been asking many people to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

This series will wrestle with this question and how it applies to video games and entertainment.

This episode was recorded in the middle of 2021 shortly after our co-founder, John Bergquist, was killed in a car accident. It was recorded when everyone was still quite raw and hurting. In it, we discuss the experience of grief, the helplessness we feel, and the hope or something eternal.

We're releasing this episode now, a year later, as we continue to reflect on both the fragility of life and the stability of an eternal Hope.

In this episode, we follow up on episode 6 where we introduced the idea of 7 sphere diplomacy. In this episode, we specifically look at how gaming and the sphere of Celebration might interact with the sphere of faith.


As 2020 was closing out God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then I've been asking this question to many people as a way to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

In this series of podcasts, we'll be wrestling with this question and how it applies to video games and further to entertainment.

In this episode, we discuss an idea whereby there ought to be a kin of diplomacy between the seven spheres just as there is between kingdoms and nations.


As 2020 was closing out God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then I've been asking this question to many people as a way to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

In this series of podcasts, we'll be wrestling with this question and how it applies to video games and further to entertainment.

In this episode, we look at the totally unsexy topic of infrastructure - those systems and functions that serve only to facilitate the other, more sexy things. 


As 2020 was closing out God asked me a weird question, "What if you were the king of the games industry? What would you do? What would you even want?" Since then I've been asking this question to many people as a way to frame our thoughts way beyond a 5-year plan to a 100-year horizon.

In this series of podcasts, we'll be wrestling with this question and how it applies to video games and further to entertainment.