This week in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: What We Actually Do

Veteran devs will be talking about working in the industry right now. The work that goes into building assets, tools, pipelines, estimates, scheduling, testing - all of it!

Start your day here: discord.gg/gicc

One of the most rewarding aspects of making games?

Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart.

Making things that can do that?

Magical.

First game I've been credited on in like... a decade (due to working on Live Service titles) launched this morning at 6 AM Local. Around 7AM, we have almost 10k people watching on Twitch.

All this is so surreal to me. Voyagers of Nera is now live in Early Access.

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Today's theme: Telling your own story

- What trips up startup founders in pitch meetings
- How juniors can use their lack of experience as a competitive advantage
- "Tell me about yourself"
- Where the STAR method fails
- How failure is actually valued by hiring managers

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This morning in the Game Industry @Coffee Chat: Standing Out

Why you're not being looked at for roles
Why you aren't getting that promotion
Why your pitch isn't taken seriously
Why your game isn't selling
Why you got laid off

Hard topic with hard love today.

See you there: gameindustry.cc

In the Game Industry Coffee Chat this morning: Living the Dream

- Dream jobs vs Dream life
- What IS your dream and why?
- Pipe dreams vs reality
- What are you willing to sacrifice? - Why? Is it even worth it?
- How do you know you've made it?
- What else is there?

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Firing up the Game Industry Coffee Chat ☕

Today's theme: the power of "no"

- why saying no is more important than saying yes
- prioritizong s hat to work on
- time and money, the two constants
- scope perfection: when is good enough good enough

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Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:

When bucking trends can literally cost you support and money. How this leads to developers buying into technologies, features, strategies, and even political statements that they don't actually agree with for the sake of keeping an income.

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We've opened the Game Industry Coffee Chat this morning.

We've got some subjects to hit this week (future of the industry, hiring on the rise?, AI overhype, more on Krafton/UW), but for this morning we're diving in first on Stop Killing Games.

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Every Friday, game industry vets join us for our Weekly Wind Down. It's a casual virtual conversation where we talk through whatever and however. Grab a preferred beverage and let's get into it.

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Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:

- What to do after the layoff...when you were NOT impacted
- How to help people looking? Specifically, what can you do to help people who need it?
- What NOT to do
- If you need help, how can you make it easy on the folks you need help from?

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Working in the game industry? Trying to break in for that first role? Looking to get into real conversations from actual devs who've been there?

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: discord.gg/gicc

Today in the chat, we talked about about the odds and outliers (and how to plan for both).

- Increase your odds to get a callback for a role
- Improve your odds of not being laid off in the first place? How to prepare in case you are.
- Bad advice given based on outliers

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Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:

How do you move forward when everything is going wrong?
How do you know when it's time to quit?

We're talking resilience and discernment today in the GICC. Join us: discord.gg/gicc

Today's discussion centers around the theme of "ego".

The industry has a lot of big egos - some from earned success and history, most which are completely unearned.

How do you deal with ego: from your managers, your reports, applicants, yourself.

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We've begun today's Coffee Chat. Some of today's topics include:

- What's NOT on the job description
- Who's firing and who's hiring
- The challenge of innovation
- Industry news this week
- "Finding the Fun"

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How big IS the Game Industry?

We took on the task of finding out: www.linkedin.com/posts/kennwh...