The Valued Cultures Podcast
Dedicated to creating and maintaining vibrant game studio cultures.
Episodes
Today our co-Founder Daryl Ogden speaks with Turtle Rock Studios’ President, Steve Goldstein. Steve talks about what it was like to transition from serving studios as an attorney to working in-house and ultimately leading one. He also discusses his experience with leading a studio during an acquisition and the implications of what this means to the studio being acquired. You’ll hear about Turtle Rock's rising ambitions, and the ...
On this week’s pod, Rory McGuire, President of Blackbird Interactive (“Hardspace”, “Homeworld”, “Minecraft Legends”) speaks with Valued Cultures Co-Founder, Daryl Ogden. Rory and Daryl discuss how very concrete initiatives like skunks works and 4-day weeks can be animated by core studio values such as empowerment, autonomy, and respect. Daryl and Rory also dig into a finding from Valued Cultures’ recent report, “Winning Game Stud...
“Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.” Tattooed on the arm of today’s guest, Mitch Gitelman, most recently of Harebrained Schemes, this personal motto reflects the lessons he learned in his training and apprenticeship in theater and improvisation. Speaking with Valued Cultures Co-Founder Daryl Ogden, Mitch explores the stamp his early work in these disciplines has imprinted on his approach to making games.
Citing his Harebrained Co-Foun...
How do you create a vibrant workplace culture in a “remote only” studio? Very intentionally says our guest today, Jen Oneal Co-Founder and Head Chef of Magic Soup Games.
Jen explains to Valued Cultures Co-Founder Daryl Ogden that when Jen and her Co-Founders J. Allen Brack and John Donham set out to found a new studio in 2022, their first step was talking about the types of games they loved, the values that animated them, and t...
Valued Culture’s Senior Advisor Shannon Loftis joins Co-Founder Daryl Ogden to share her first impressions of our forthcoming report, “Winning Game Studio Culture in the Post-Pandemic Era.” Their focus falls on the “intentionality chasm”: How the leaders of game studios know that they should bring more attention to studio talent and studio culture, but in the pressure of the moment, find themselves time and time again falling bac...
In our inaugural podcast, Chris Chancey of Manavoid Entertainment and Indie Asylum joins Valued Cultures Daryl Ogden to discuss vibrant studio cultures. In briefly sketching the history of Manvoid, Chris and Daryl determine how a focus on ensuring market fit led Manavoid to pursue a strategy of hybridizing game genres. They go on to discuss how Chris and his partners evaluate candidates for Indie Asylum, an Montréal-based incubat...
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