Positive Chilled Out Video-Game Industry Discussion

In this Positive Chilled Out Video-Game Industry Discussion, Pascal Luban talks about what's there for aspiring game designers during this time, how knowledge will be available to everyone regardless of the demography and how approachable this game industry is which results encourages knowledge sharing for everyone.

In this Positive Chilled Out Video-Game Industry Discussion, Arnold Nesis of Capricia Productions talks about his journey from a metal band composer to a console/PC developer and how he became the largest developer in this space in Israel. Arnold also talks about how quickly the game industry adapts to new normal and how other industries are learning from it.

In this Positive Chilled Out Video-Game Industry Discussion, Marco Accordi Rickards talks about how Hideo Kojima got it right with Death Stranding, his custom roleplay games with his two daughters to keep them engaged and how esports is great for society.

In this Chilled Out Video-Game Industry Discussion, Sue Bohle Executive Director of Serious Play Conference discusses how serious games industry is providing tools and training games for frontline workers and making several of them for free, how a lot of companies volunteered her to quickly take her conference online and how VR is becoming an integral part of the training. On a lighter note, she mentions how she's reading books to her grandchildren and having virtual parties.

In this enlightening discussion, GDC Ambassador Award Winner Rami Ismail discusses how he always comes up with pathbreaking and positive ideas like Gamedev.world which opened up the knowledge to Non-English speaking developers and GDC relief fund right after GDC was suspended. Rami talks about his favorite games, some hidden indie game gems, and his amazing mom who's streaming her game sessions. He discusses how Animal Crossing is making him feel less lonely during this Ramadan time. The talk ends with an amazing lesson on why the spirit of Ramadan is even more relevant now and why one should embrace the fact that it's all about US, as a society.

My guest in episode 2 is Justin Berenbaum who is VP Strategic Planning at Xsolla & GM Xsolla Funding Club, Board member of Global Game Jam, Former Board of Director at IGDA, and worked with Activision, Capcom, Team 17, 505 games in various capacities. This is a fairly lighthearted discussion that starts with finding positives even in the worst examples (Watch out for yourself). In this discussion, Justin talks about game funding, game publishing, trends, future of events like Gamescom & E3, how non-gaming events like Formula 1, NASCAR, NBA are turning to esports to keep the buzz and eventually the discussion leads to boys and their toys (Cars). Others who feature (verbally) in this talk are Kate Edwards , Rami Ismail, Fedor van Herpen, Joe Kreiner, Kevin Flynn, Jay Powell and C8 Corvette Z06. Please Follow the series and feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions

In this discussion with Rajat Ojha, GDC Ambassador Award Winner Kate Edwards discusses things like how indies can make the most of this time, online events where gamedevs can showcase stuff, how gamedevs can host their own events and invite feedback, how she stays positive and others can do too and many other valuable information. If you have any questions for Kate, do write those in comments and I'll make sure that you get answers to those.