Elite Game Developers podcast
This is the ultimate game development podcast, where your host Joakim Achrén, the co-founder of Next Games, talks to founders of games companies, and together they explore the aspects of creating successful games companies.
You don’t want to miss out on these, as you’ll uncover the timeless ideas, game development processes, stories, and life lessons that will help you master the best of what other people have already figured out.
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Cyril Barrow — Interoperability of assets between games
Cyril Barrow is the co-founder and COO of Village Studio, a new kind of games company, that is building cross-game avatars that act as portable avatars dressed in NFT wearables unique attributes that can be utilized across multiple games.
Kelly Wallick — 1Up Venture’s Community of Founders
Kelly Wallick has worked in the tech and video game industry for over ten years. She’s the founder of the Indie MEGABOOTH and is now a Partner at the 1Up Ventures. She has also been the longest sitting Chair of the Independent Games Festival and the first woman to hold the title. In addition, Kelly is proud to serve on the GLAAD Media Award Advisory Board. Kelly is a passionate believer in the strength and impact of community and implementing long term change to support creative, unique and diverse voices.
Maor Sadra — Measuring your marketing and entrepreneurship lessons
Today I’m talking with Maor Sadra, the co-founder and CEO of INCRMNTAL, which is a company that evolves digital marketing from the measurement of traffic to measuring value.
Tom Hammond — On entrepreneurship and doing a startup
Tom Hammond is the co-founder and CEO of Userwise, a company that is shaping up live-ops in gaming, and they call themselves the world’s first player experience management platform trusted by teams to power their liveops all-in-one place. Tom is an entrepreneur who shares a lot about his founder journey on social media and also on his podcasts.
Jenny Xu — Fitness games and entrepreneurship
Jenny is a first-time founder with an impressive background from working on games as a teenager, getting millions of downloads, then spending time at Google, EA, and N3TWORK, and then starting her own venture-backed gaming startup.
Touko Tahkokallio — On game creation and founding a new studio
In today’s episode, I’m interviewing a friend of mine, my ex-colleague Touko Tahkokallio, who was the designer on games like Hay Day, and Boom Beach and led the Brawl Stars team at Supercell. And he’s now doing his own studio in Helsinki with a group of experienced game developers.
David Amor — Two decades of gaming entrepreneurship
Benjamin Carcich and Aaron Smith — Building Better Leaders
After visiting the Building Better Games podcast, I invited the hosts of that podcast, Aaron Smith and Ben Carcich on my podcast.
Sophie Vo — How to share feedback
I invited Sophie Vo on my podcast. Sophie has an extensive background in gaming and she’s most recently been managing the Voodoo Berlin studio. You might have also been listening to her podcast Rise & Play, where she talks with guests about leadership in gaming.
Ask Me Anything #9 — Investing questions
This is the ninth Ask Me Anything episode, where I answer questions on how I look at investing. I had a session with a team from one VC firm and they were asking me questions. And then I also picked up another interesting question about angel investing.
Cyril Barrow — Interoperability of assets between games
Cyril Barrow is the co-founder and COO of Village Studio, a new kind of games company, that is building cross-game avatars that act as portable avatars dressed in NFT wearables unique attributes that can be utilized across multiple games.
Kelly Wallick — 1Up Venture’s Community of Founders
Kelly Wallick has worked in the tech and video game industry for over ten years. She’s the founder of the Indie MEGABOOTH and is now a Partner at the 1Up Ventures. She has also been the longest sitting Chair of the Independent Games Festival and the first woman to hold the title. In addition, Kelly is proud to serve on the GLAAD Media Award Advisory Board. Kelly is a passionate believer in the strength and impact of community and implementing long term change to support creative, unique and diverse voices.
Maor Sadra — Measuring your marketing and entrepreneurship lessons
Today I’m talking with Maor Sadra, the co-founder and CEO of INCRMNTAL, which is a company that evolves digital marketing from the measurement of traffic to measuring value.
Tom Hammond — On entrepreneurship and doing a startup
Tom Hammond is the co-founder and CEO of Userwise, a company that is shaping up live-ops in gaming, and they call themselves the world’s first player experience management platform trusted by teams to power their liveops all-in-one place. Tom is an entrepreneur who shares a lot about his founder journey on social media and also on his podcasts.
Jenny Xu — Fitness games and entrepreneurship
Jenny is a first-time founder with an impressive background from working on games as a teenager, getting millions of downloads, then spending time at Google, EA, and N3TWORK, and then starting her own venture-backed gaming startup.
Touko Tahkokallio — On game creation and founding a new studio
In today’s episode, I’m interviewing a friend of mine, my ex-colleague Touko Tahkokallio, who was the designer on games like Hay Day, and Boom Beach and led the Brawl Stars team at Supercell. And he’s now doing his own studio in Helsinki with a group of experienced game developers.
David Amor — Two decades of gaming entrepreneurship
David Amor is the co-founder and CEO of...
Benjamin Carcich and Aaron Smith — Building Better Leaders
After visiting the Building Better Games podcast, I invited the hosts of that podcast, Aaron Smith and Ben Carcich on my podcast.
Sophie Vo — How to share feedback
I invited Sophie Vo on my podcast. Sophie has an extensive background in gaming and she’s most recently been managing the Voodoo Berlin studio. You might have also been listening to her podcast Rise & Play, where she talks with guests about leadership in gaming.
Ask Me Anything #9 — Investing questions
This is the ninth Ask Me Anything episode, where I answer questions on how I look at investing. I had a session with a team from one VC firm and they were asking me questions. And then I also picked up another interesting question about angel investing.