Damir Slogar joins our host Scott Milley to talk about the mobile gaming industry, and shares his experience as the CEO and Founder of Big Blue Bubble.  

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:45 - Origins
00:06:45 - The Mobile Gaming Industry
00:15:10 - Self-publishing 
00:19:00 - Goodfellas
00:24:15 - My Singing Monsters
00:28:57 - Foregone
00:33:45 - Ontario
00:41:00 - Lessons Learned/Advice
00:52:55 - What Comes Next

Astrid Rosemarin from New World Interactive joins Scott to talk all things Comms in the video game industry. They touch on transferable skills, the importance of knowing your community, and much more

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:49 Favourite Holiday Tradition
00:02:32 Origin Story
00:10:05 Networking Into the industry
00:15:45 What do you get out of in-person conferences
00:20:00 Community Management lessons/Comms advice
00:31:15 Influencers vs Big Media
00:46:15 "The Discourse"
00:51:50 New challenges
00:56:35 Working in the FPS genre
01:02:41 Different disciplines working in video games
01:14:10 Transferable skills
01:20:28 Outro

Phantom Compass' Ericka Evans joins Scott to talk about producing video games, the importance of giving back, women in gaming industry and much more.

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:51 TVO/Linear Media
00:05:47 Silicon Knights
00:12:12 Falling Squirrel
00:17:04 Giving Back
00:21:50 Getting into Production
00:30:09 Production Interactive vs Linear
00:34:11 How to Unplug
00:37:05 Women in Gaming
00:57:45 Work Life Balance
01:03:33 Phantom Compass
01:06:47 Triversal
01:18:27 Rollers of the Realm
01:23:49 Rollers of the Realm: Reunion
01:29:44 Working in Ontario

On this week's episode, Scott welcomes EXAR Studios CEO Shishir S Pande for a talk on XR, his winding journey through the tech industry in London, Ontario, and working in your home town

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:47 The History of S
00:06:39 Why XR
00:09:36 S' podcast experience
00:10:50 The lessons learned
00:12:30 What is XR
00:15:50 VRcadia
00:19:47 EXAR's beginnings
00:22:50 What does EXAR do?
00:25:50 Telling cultural stories
00:27:42 The EXAR experience
00:29:30 The Bank Street BIA
00:32:36 Cultural impact through XR
00:38:51 EXAR's open ended business model
00:41:31 The future of XR and the metaverse
00:56:00 Working in Ontario
00:59:45 Outro

This week Danielle Sokolowski joins The Lodgge Podcast host Scott Milley to talk about her experience working  as a Community Manager at Digital Extremes. Their discussion includes Warframe, Tennocon, working in Ontario, and some do's and don'ts for working in the industry.

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:50 What brought Danielle to Digital Extremes
00:02:55 Working with Rebecca Ford
00:04:38 No Clip
00:07:07 Was London always the plan?
00:12:18 Tennocon
00:22:06 Relationship between Comms & Devs
00:32:05 Telling people we work in games
00:36:55 Playing Warframe as a community manager/Being a woman in gaming
00:46:15 Getting into the video game industry
00:48:50 Moving to remote work at Digital Extremes
00:57:30 The Quest to Conquer Cancer
01:07:00 D.E in the London ecosystem
01:10:16 Community Management Cont.
01:17:34 Tennocon Cont.
01:20:13 Onboarding new players
01:29:02 Local initiative partnerships
01:31:37 Outro