Keynote: Embracing Change & Innovation in Game Development: A new era of Flexibility & Creativity.
summary
Argues that the industry is shifting and prescribes direct to Market prototyping where a minimal core loop ships to real users for validation rather than building a full vertical slice, cites Supercell as an example of that approach working, warns against overengineering backend capacity and hiring narrow specialists, recommends multi-skilled team members and rapid iteration with user feedback, notes AI tools like MidJourney are changing content pipelines, and reports an in‑house project using these methods showing early positive signals.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:11Speaker background
- 3:39Industry shifts
- 5:48Rethinking pipelines
- 7:54Direct to market prototyping
- 10:46Budget and creativity
- 11:51Hiring generalists
- 13:15Iterative development
- 14:39Jack of all trades versus master of one
- 15:222024 predictions
- 16:47Q&A
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