Ep 13: GAME-SHIP with Lisy Kane - a podcast by ALTS Projects
from 2020-08-26T11:59:37
Lisy Kane is a videogames producer currently making waves in the industry. In 2017, Lisy was recognised by Forbes in its prestigious top 30 list: Forbes 30 Under 30 2017: Games. Ranked alongside the world’s best game makers, Lisy was the only Australian to make the who’s who of the global gaming industry.
In 2014, Lisy joined forces with four other digital professionals to co-found Girl Geek Academy with a mission to teach 1 million women to get into tech and launch their own startups by 2025. Girl Geek Academy is behind Australia's first all-women hackathon, #SheHacks, and the world’s first hackathon for girls aged five to eight, #MissMakesCode.
Lisy’s gaming industry insights have seen her curate and produce sell-out events for the academy, including #SheMakesGames 2015 – Australia’s first all-women game-making day – which was such a hit it has been made an annual event.
The global spotlight is never far away from Lisy, whose work at Melbourne game development studio, League of Geeks, includes internationally-released title Armello (2015). A role model for women working in the gaming industry, Lisy is in high demand on the speaker circuit for gaming, tech and STEM education forums.
A few points in the chit-chat:
- ‘A day in the life’
- Creating a safe space for women & girls to gather
- Moving cities after stumbling on a career path (to love)
- Establishing a career in video game development
- The role of mentors in Lisy’s life
- The state of the video game industry in Australia
- The concept of T-shaped people to earn a career in the games industry
- Eliminating negative influence
- On the precipice of next generation consoles
- Reminiscing on the good times (and not so good) in making music
Notes and Links:
- League of Geeks
- Girl Geek Academy
- Girl Geek Academy - Career Incubator with Film Victoria on building a career
- Girl Geek Academy - Drones
- Girl Geek Academy - Forum
- Girl Geek Academy - SheHacks
- Girl Geek Academy - SheMakes
- Girl Geek Academy - SheMakes Games
- Girl Geek Academy book series
- Activision
- Age of Empires
- Armello
- Creative Industries Advisory Group
- Creative Victoria
- Defiant Development - Hand of Fate
- Donut County
- Forbes 30 under 30 in Games 2017 for Lisy Kane
- Gamasutra
- Games as a Service
- GDC Vault- The Games Outcome Project
- GDC Youtube Channel
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
- Global Game Jam
- House House panel discussion in Animal Crossing
- Kumobius
- Melbourne International Games Week
- Multipotentialite
- PAX
- QUT
- RMIT
- RPI
- Sledgehammer Games
- Spirit Level
- The Arcade
- The Voxel Agents
- To The North
- Unreal
- Untitled Goose Game
- Valve
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Music by Gareth Leach Music by way of Bateman
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