
Game Production Community Podcast
Level up together with our inclusive, growth minded community as we share game production knowledge & experiences, advocate team health & happiness and lead the way to diverse, high quality, sustainable game development.
Episodes
20 episodes
Production Professionals Interview Series - Marchi Loen, Freelance Consultant
This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra & Angela Dachowski interviewing guest Marchi Loen.The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sha...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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1:23:59

Production Professionals Interview Series - Anya Zielińska, Production Director at Paradox Development Studio
This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra, XDI Operations Director at EA, and Angela Dachowski, Producer at Flippfly interviewing guest Anya Zielińska, Production Director at Paradox Development Studio.The Production Professio...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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1:09:51

Production Professionals Interview Series - Kimberly Rodatos, Lead Producer at OtherSide Entertainment
This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra, XDI Operations Director at EA, and Angela Dachowski, Producer at Flippfly interviewing guest Kimberly Rodatos.The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production ...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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57:23

Production Professionals Interview Series - Linda Tiger, Studio Manager at Paradox Black
This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra and Jess Avelsgaard interviewing guest Linda Tiger, Paradox Development Studio Black’s Studio Manager.The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production pr...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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1:02:44

How to Break the Burnout Culture
This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guest Katie Rössler, LPC. Burnout is on the rise and though we are talking about it, we’re not discussing how to prevent or recover from it. During this talk, we discussed what burnout sympto...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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1:12:25

Lifting a tip of the veil: The Production Interview Process
This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guest Mae Mierop, Recruiting Operations Program Manager at Striking Distance.Mae lifted a tip of the veil on the production interview process: How to decode a job description's qualifications...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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1:06:25

Production Professionals Interview Series - Claire Bromley, Producer at Criterion Games
This session featured hosts Juney Dijkstra & Angela Dachowski interviewing guest Claire Bromley.The Production Professionals Interview Series features exemplary production professionals in a series of focused knowledge sharing...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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58:21

Mentorship - Level up the leaders of tomorrow: Igniting growth in the games industry
This session featured host Juney Dijkstra and guests Shams Jorjani, Maria Cornelius and Alex Bolle.Our latest panel looked uniquely at a chain of three mentors/mentees as mentorship knowledge is passed down and refined across three gene...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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1:39:17

Cultural Inclusion with Tina Merry
This session featured host Juney and guest Tina Merry, exploring what's meant by cultural diversity plus how our cultural values impact the way we navigate life, including how we communicate, plan and get work done.A game development in...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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1:01:10

Transitioning into the Game Industry: How a Nurse, Make Up Artist, and Private Investigator got into Game Production
This session featured host Juney interviewing a panel of three game production professionals who successfully transitioned into the game industry: Michelle Velez of Electronic Arts, Giulia Carlotta Zamboni of Gamera Interactive, and Ariana Marc...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:00:36

Imposter Syndrome: Even Tom Hanks thinks he's a Loser sometimes
In this episode, Juney hosted a session featuring PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions Art Director Scott Davidson. Scott talked to us about his experience with imposter syndrome throughout his career in the games industry. He will discuss the lows, the h...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:19:49

The Importance of Networking with Demi Mark
In this episode, Juney hosted freelance producer Demi Mark! Demi talks to us about the importance of networking in the industry, sharing her story and other success stories, and giving a 101 on why, how and where to find and connect with peers ...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:00:07

Playtesting Masterclass with Steve Bromley
In this episode, Juney hosted game industry veteran, games user research consultant, author of the “How to be a Games User Researcher” book and most recently creator of “The Playtest Kit”, Steve Bromley!During this session, Steve offere...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:10:46

Accessibility as Success Criteria: Building accessibility from the ground up
In this panel, host Juney invites four experienced accessibility professionals to guide us through the process of planning, budgeting, implementing and testing accessibility features from the ground up in both new and ongoing projects to make b...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:01:30

Fireside Chat with Maria Cornelius, Operations Manager at Spotify
During this Fireside Chat, Juney invited her guest Maria Cornelius, Operations Manager at Spotify, to talk about supporting and scaling large teams & organizations in ever-changing industries.𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥: Operations Manager ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:14:43

A Day in the Life of... Community Managers! Panel
Featuring 3 community managers with varying backgrounds, we explored a community manager's goals, how they achieve these, how this benefits a game production and how we as producers can help facilitate their work.With community managers...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:14:08

A Day in the Life of... Producers! Panel
A panel featuring 4 wonderful Producers working in the games industry, with highly varying backgrounds: From years of experience to education & culture, and from studio size & composition to role & responsibilities! Topics ranged fr...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:08:21

Games Industry Recruitment panel - Game Production Discord
This session featured three industry recruitment experts from vastly different backgrounds to talk about the do’s and don’ts when looking for a job in the games industry. Throughout the panel, our host Raven asked the panellists to tackle topic...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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56:41

ID@Xbox Game Dev Q&A - Game Production Discord
The ID@Xbox team gave our community the chance to ask questions that will help them and their teams develop and deliver great player experiences for everyone, and now we're sharing in the hopes it'll help you, too!Topics range from being...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:02:15
