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Riot's Valorant - The Origin Story
Season 5
Valorant's Game Director, Joseph Ziegler, and Lead Producer, Paul Belezza join the Deconstructor of Fun podcast to spill the beans on Valorant's orig…
5 years, 3 months ago
TWIG #108: Zynga, Glu, and EA Quarterly Financial Results
Season 5
Ok people, this episode is just me (JK) and Miska. We lost some of our co-hosts when we very last minute audibled a change in news coverage.
Anyway, …
5 years, 3 months ago
Recruiting During a Pandemic
Season 5
What are the key challenges and issues with respect to hiring during pandemic?
While hiring has actually not slowed down in these crazy times despi…
5 years, 3 months ago
Scaling a Games Company | How to Win Day 1? Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, Kristian Segerstrale
Season 5
Today we’re here to talk about the biggest challenges and mistakes early stage companies have in order to scale their companies and achieve success. …
5 years, 3 months ago
TWIG #107: WSJ: China May Be Spying On You, Scopely Raises $340M, Game Pass and Indies, and Activision Blizzard More Franchises to Mobile
Season 5
Welcome to TWIG #107!
This week we cover:
#1. If You Play Videogames, China May Be Spying on You
#2. Mobile Games Company Scopely Boasts Of ‘Signific…
5 years, 3 months ago
Love Bros: How to Stop Wasting Time! Improve Meetings, OKRs, and More!
Season 5
In many (perhaps most) companies, so many corporate processes, policies, and work flows WASTE TIME!
Meetings are a huge culprit but in this discus…
5 years, 4 months ago
Art Director for Video Games | Ron Ashtiani
Season 5
Ron Ashtiani has spent a career in art and as an art director. Ron's had an over 25 year career in art and has served as an art director in multiple …
5 years, 4 months ago
TWIG #106: Problem With Tech Monopolies, Stadia Creative Director OOPS!, and Facebook's Cloud Gaming
Season 5
Welcome to TWIG #106:
Today we cover:
#1. The Problem With Tech Monopolies, From Both Sides of the Political Aisle
#2. Stadia creative director says …
5 years, 4 months ago
Product Implications of IDFA Deprecation | Andre Cohen + Niklas Herriger
Season 5
Lot of talk about IDFA deprecation and impact to marketing/UA not so much on product and tools impact.
So for our discussion today we will focus on:
…5 years, 4 months ago
TWIG #105: Unity Publishing... WTF?, Playtika Files for IPO, Among Us Blowing Up!, How Discord Won!
Season 5
What up people? Welcome to TWIG #105!
Today we cover:
#1. Introducing the Game Growth program - Unity Technologies Blog
#2. China-owned gaming firm P…
5 years, 4 months ago