Multinational Monster: Collaboration Across Countries
summary
Studio story of building Cult of the Lamb: an international team across Singapore, UK and Melbourne cobbles together work via Slack, monthly show-and-tell and contractor hires found on Twitter and fan sites, lands Devolver by cold-emailing and ships a game that sold 1M copies in week one. Lessons are concrete: Adventure Pals crowdfunds AU$45k and later earns ~US$1.2M, Never Give Up flops, so design pivots to a clear player fantasy (start a cult), use contractors to scale, handle payroll, tax and time‑zone headaches, and keep rhythm with monthly kickoff and demos.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 2:04Meet the team
- 5:05Founding Massive Monster
- 8:32Learning from early titles
- 14:14Partnering with Devolver
- 19:19Managing global growth
- 24:18Remote team culture
- 29:49Logistics of remote work
- 33:35Supporting team well-being
- 40:35Advice and closing
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