Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Career Resilience
- Reputation as currency in all its various forms (brand, cred, trust)
- Utilizing your network to stay insulated
- Avoiding burnout along the way
- Deciding where to go in the first place
Join in:
Started Pokopia a few days ago. Goodbye forever 😭😂
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Game Schools
- Who is teaching at the schools? Do they have exp?
- Which schools actually have a good rep or not?
- Do student games count as shipped titles?
- Schools' incentives?
- Alumni networking
- Certs? Degrees?
Getting into it: discord.gg/DdTmv7DUj
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:
How to have a "Reasonable Discussion"
Subjects like AI, loot boxes, live ops, gatekeeping, diversity...
Are some subjects just off limits?
If not, how can we talk about it?
Talking through how we talk, throughout the morning: discord.gg/kQetuDkxg
Happy Last Four Friday 🫶 Can’t complain about my last 4 watches!
With things looking not so great on TikTok and other places, I may bring some of my bookish and journaling content here. Still thinking about it but feels like a better community opportunity here
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Designing Your Playerbase
- How you decide your community feel through game design
- How mechanics impact player toxicity
- Why team diversity can determine who ends up playing your game
- Which games are great at this...or not so great
Join us here:
Just finished Dredge. I thought it was a fun twist on a standard fishing type game! Spooky elements will always pull me into a game!
Yet again been very inactive here! Here’s what I’ve been up to this year
- Tons of work travel for MSI and VALORANT champions
- Some concerts, weddings, and fun things
- Trying to get into a better routine
This morning in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Silence!
- Accusations that recent Rockstar layoffs targeted unionizing workers
- TGA has apparently erased all mention of future class from its website.
- Stories from other devs about times they've been punished for speaking up.
gameindustry.cc
This morning in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: the value in self-aware reflection
- Refusing to change how you build studios or games; successful auteurs who suddenly fail
- the value post-mortems and retros
- how constraints are good
discord.gg/GICC
Join us in the server! Lots of great discussions happening!
☎️ Calling all Game Industry Professionals
If you’re interested in hoppibg in some great voice chats or just mingling with game industry vets - join the Game Industry Coffee Chat on Discord!
We cover a variety of topics every morning!
discord.gg/gicc
Finally got around to playing It Takes Two with my husband and it’s incredible! We’re defeating one boss per night!
Forgot about this place for a little. Trying to do a better job of keeping up my personal socials this year 👏🏻
Reader friends: I finished Onyx Storm.....whew. 4/5.
Come hang out with us on Feb 7th! Lot's of great panelists who will be sharing insights and answering questions! Looking forward to it!
The TikTok ban is scary. Not just because I'm a marketer or because I like using the app personally, but because I'm a person living in the U.S.
This is MUCH bigger than just "banning an app", and we should all be considering the deeper implications of this.
I probably won't be upgrading at this moment. I love my current switch and don't see the benefits of getting the new one right away.
the reason gen z doesn’t care at all about “china having their data” is because gen z knows that the US government has collected their online activity data since they were born
GOOD LUCK
I’m SCREAMING at everyone I know to watch this show! I’m going a rewatch this week in prep for season 2!
The skull cavern is my biggest op.
Starting Alice in Borderland today. I've heard good things and that it has similar vibes to Squid Games. I included in my January Media Moodboard, so we're diving in!
Anyone that knows me knows that I'm a planner nerd, but I also love using Notion for digital planning and list keeping. Played around with the new Notion Faces tool and it's really cute.
HELP PC enthusiasts - if you have good pre-built pc recommendations please send them my way. I don't need the best of the best!
In 2025, I want people to learn the difference between "I personally didn't listen to/enjoy this artist" and "they had no bops".
In 2023 I thought my life had really peaked. Turns out I was just hitting my stride. In 2024:
- I got married
- Covered the biggest VALORANT and League events on social for work
- Traveled to London for Worlds and watched Faker lift his 4th trophy
- Made lots of memories
Cheers to 2025 ✨
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