096 - Producing Video Games with Trent Kusters - a podcast by The Jacky Winter Group
from 2019-10-25T04:08:50
This week, it’s all about Producing Video Games, and we're jazzed to say that we’re joined by the masterful Trent Kusters.
Trent is the co-founder and production director of Melbourne-based game developers League of Geeks, responsible for digital role-playing strategy board game and international success story, Armello. He is also on the board of Freeplay (Australia's largest and longest running independent games festival), the chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee, a former lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, and an industry advisor to DiGRA Australia. A frequent name on the numerous 30 Under 30 lists — by the likes of MCV, Develop, Triple J, the Melbourne Writers Festival, and (the big one) Forbes — Trent is heavily invested in the future of video games as a medium; fostering and mentoring young and under-represented developers, and contributing to the community wherever possible. To cap things off, he’s also currently gamerunner on the studio’s ambitious next game, which is set to be one of Australia's largest game productions ever.
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Intro
League of Geeks
Armello
Melbourne International Games Week
Interview with Trent Kusters
Taurus Games studio
Unity
Unreal
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/
Trello
MDA framework
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDA_framework
No Man’s Sky
Creativity Inc.
http://www.creativityincbook.com/about/
Criterion studios
Autonomy, mastery, purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvEbDzg6EhQ
Jira
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
Confluence
https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
Slack
Untitled Goose Game
The AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook podcast
https://www.interactive.org/Interviews/the_game_makers_notebook.asp
Tone Control podcast
https://www.idlethumbs.net/tonecontrol
Open Tabs
Youtube book reveals – Jeremy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqOrBHZrNI
Popsockets – Lara
How To Build A Healthy, Happy Video Game – Trent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DzdaN0JbU
Trent’s Socials
League of Geeks site
League of Geeks Twitter
https://twitter.com/leagueofgeeks
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