Game Industry Coffee Chat (GICC)
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Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮
It's that time again!
Every Friday, we have the Game Industry Weekly Winddown where game industry vets (and friends) get together to hash out the week.
Come join us, either to casually listen along or to vibrantly join in with us. discord.gg/nXfAb4zD
Every Friday, we have the Game Industry Weekly Winddown where game industry vets (and friends) get together to hash out the week.
Come join us, either to casually listen along or to vibrantly join in with us. discord.gg/nXfAb4zD
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 2242 members
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November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It's that time again!
Every Friday, we have the Game Industry Weekly Winddown where game industry vets (and friends) get together to hash out the week.
Come join us, either to casually listen along or to vibrantly join in with us. discord.gg/nXfAb4zD
Every Friday, we have the Game Industry Weekly Winddown where game industry vets (and friends) get together to hash out the week.
Come join us, either to casually listen along or to vibrantly join in with us. discord.gg/nXfAb4zD
This morning in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Silence!
- Accusations that recent Rockstar layoffs targeted unionizing workers
- TGA has apparently erased all mention of future class from its website.
- Stories from other devs about times they've been punished for speaking up.
gameindustry.cc
- Accusations that recent Rockstar layoffs targeted unionizing workers
- TGA has apparently erased all mention of future class from its website.
- Stories from other devs about times they've been punished for speaking up.
gameindustry.cc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 2209 members
gameindustry.cc
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This morning in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Silence!
- Accusations that recent Rockstar layoffs targeted unionizing workers
- TGA has apparently erased all mention of future class from its website.
- Stories from other devs about times they've been punished for speaking up.
gameindustry.cc
- Accusations that recent Rockstar layoffs targeted unionizing workers
- TGA has apparently erased all mention of future class from its website.
- Stories from other devs about times they've been punished for speaking up.
gameindustry.cc
This morning in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: the value in self-aware reflection
- Refusing to change how you build studios or games; successful auteurs who suddenly fail
- the value post-mortems and retros
- how constraints are good
discord.gg/GICC
- Refusing to change how you build studios or games; successful auteurs who suddenly fail
- the value post-mortems and retros
- how constraints are good
discord.gg/GICC
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 2151 members
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October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This morning in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: the value in self-aware reflection
- Refusing to change how you build studios or games; successful auteurs who suddenly fail
- the value post-mortems and retros
- how constraints are good
discord.gg/GICC
- Refusing to change how you build studios or games; successful auteurs who suddenly fail
- the value post-mortems and retros
- how constraints are good
discord.gg/GICC
This week in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: What We Actually Do
Veteran devs will be talking about working in the industry right now. The work that goes into building assets, tools, pipelines, estimates, scheduling, testing - all of it!
Start your day here: discord.gg/gicc
Veteran devs will be talking about working in the industry right now. The work that goes into building assets, tools, pipelines, estimates, scheduling, testing - all of it!
Start your day here: discord.gg/gicc
October 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This week in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: What We Actually Do
Veteran devs will be talking about working in the industry right now. The work that goes into building assets, tools, pipelines, estimates, scheduling, testing - all of it!
Start your day here: discord.gg/gicc
Veteran devs will be talking about working in the industry right now. The work that goes into building assets, tools, pipelines, estimates, scheduling, testing - all of it!
Start your day here: discord.gg/gicc
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One of the most rewarding aspects of making games?
Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart.
Making things that can do that?
Magical.
Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart.
Making things that can do that?
Magical.
September 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
One of the most rewarding aspects of making games?
Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart.
Making things that can do that?
Magical.
Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart.
Making things that can do that?
Magical.
Reposted by Game Industry Coffee Chat (GICC)
First game I've been credited on in like... a decade (due to working on Live Service titles) launched this morning at 6 AM Local. Around 7AM, we have almost 10k people watching on Twitch.
All this is so surreal to me. Voyagers of Nera is now live in Early Access.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qUE...
All this is so surreal to me. Voyagers of Nera is now live in Early Access.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qUE...
Voyagers of Nera | Official Early Access Trailer
YouTube video by Treehouse Games
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
First game I've been credited on in like... a decade (due to working on Live Service titles) launched this morning at 6 AM Local. Around 7AM, we have almost 10k people watching on Twitch.
All this is so surreal to me. Voyagers of Nera is now live in Early Access.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qUE...
All this is so surreal to me. Voyagers of Nera is now live in Early Access.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qUE...
Today's theme: Telling your own story
- What trips up startup founders in pitch meetings
- How juniors can use their lack of experience as a competitive advantage
- "Tell me about yourself"
- Where the STAR method fails
- How failure is actually valued by hiring managers
Join us: gameindustry.cc
- What trips up startup founders in pitch meetings
- How juniors can use their lack of experience as a competitive advantage
- "Tell me about yourself"
- Where the STAR method fails
- How failure is actually valued by hiring managers
Join us: gameindustry.cc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 2088 members
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September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today's theme: Telling your own story
- What trips up startup founders in pitch meetings
- How juniors can use their lack of experience as a competitive advantage
- "Tell me about yourself"
- Where the STAR method fails
- How failure is actually valued by hiring managers
Join us: gameindustry.cc
- What trips up startup founders in pitch meetings
- How juniors can use their lack of experience as a competitive advantage
- "Tell me about yourself"
- Where the STAR method fails
- How failure is actually valued by hiring managers
Join us: gameindustry.cc
This morning in the Game Industry @Coffee Chat: Standing Out
Why you're not being looked at for roles
Why you aren't getting that promotion
Why your pitch isn't taken seriously
Why your game isn't selling
Why you got laid off
Hard topic with hard love today.
See you there: gameindustry.cc
Why you're not being looked at for roles
Why you aren't getting that promotion
Why your pitch isn't taken seriously
Why your game isn't selling
Why you got laid off
Hard topic with hard love today.
See you there: gameindustry.cc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 2072 members
gameindustry.cc
September 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This morning in the Game Industry @Coffee Chat: Standing Out
Why you're not being looked at for roles
Why you aren't getting that promotion
Why your pitch isn't taken seriously
Why your game isn't selling
Why you got laid off
Hard topic with hard love today.
See you there: gameindustry.cc
Why you're not being looked at for roles
Why you aren't getting that promotion
Why your pitch isn't taken seriously
Why your game isn't selling
Why you got laid off
Hard topic with hard love today.
See you there: gameindustry.cc
In the Game Industry Coffee Chat this morning: Living the Dream
- Dream jobs vs Dream life
- What IS your dream and why?
- Pipe dreams vs reality
- What are you willing to sacrifice? - Why? Is it even worth it?
- How do you know you've made it?
- What else is there?
discord.gg/gicc
- Dream jobs vs Dream life
- What IS your dream and why?
- Pipe dreams vs reality
- What are you willing to sacrifice? - Why? Is it even worth it?
- How do you know you've made it?
- What else is there?
discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 2004 members
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August 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In the Game Industry Coffee Chat this morning: Living the Dream
- Dream jobs vs Dream life
- What IS your dream and why?
- Pipe dreams vs reality
- What are you willing to sacrifice? - Why? Is it even worth it?
- How do you know you've made it?
- What else is there?
discord.gg/gicc
- Dream jobs vs Dream life
- What IS your dream and why?
- Pipe dreams vs reality
- What are you willing to sacrifice? - Why? Is it even worth it?
- How do you know you've made it?
- What else is there?
discord.gg/gicc
Firing up the Game Industry Coffee Chat ☕
Today's theme: the power of "no"
- why saying no is more important than saying yes
- prioritizong s hat to work on
- time and money, the two constants
- scope perfection: when is good enough good enough
discord.gg/gicc
Today's theme: the power of "no"
- why saying no is more important than saying yes
- prioritizong s hat to work on
- time and money, the two constants
- scope perfection: when is good enough good enough
discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 1999 members
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August 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Firing up the Game Industry Coffee Chat ☕
Today's theme: the power of "no"
- why saying no is more important than saying yes
- prioritizong s hat to work on
- time and money, the two constants
- scope perfection: when is good enough good enough
discord.gg/gicc
Today's theme: the power of "no"
- why saying no is more important than saying yes
- prioritizong s hat to work on
- time and money, the two constants
- scope perfection: when is good enough good enough
discord.gg/gicc
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:
When bucking trends can literally cost you support and money. How this leads to developers buying into technologies, features, strategies, and even political statements that they don't actually agree with for the sake of keeping an income.
discord.gg/gicc
When bucking trends can literally cost you support and money. How this leads to developers buying into technologies, features, strategies, and even political statements that they don't actually agree with for the sake of keeping an income.
discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 1885 members
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August 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:
When bucking trends can literally cost you support and money. How this leads to developers buying into technologies, features, strategies, and even political statements that they don't actually agree with for the sake of keeping an income.
discord.gg/gicc
When bucking trends can literally cost you support and money. How this leads to developers buying into technologies, features, strategies, and even political statements that they don't actually agree with for the sake of keeping an income.
discord.gg/gicc
We've opened the Game Industry Coffee Chat this morning.
We've got some subjects to hit this week (future of the industry, hiring on the rise?, AI overhype, more on Krafton/UW), but for this morning we're diving in first on Stop Killing Games.
Join in with us at discord.gg/gicc
We've got some subjects to hit this week (future of the industry, hiring on the rise?, AI overhype, more on Krafton/UW), but for this morning we're diving in first on Stop Killing Games.
Join in with us at discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 1850 members
discord.gg
July 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We've opened the Game Industry Coffee Chat this morning.
We've got some subjects to hit this week (future of the industry, hiring on the rise?, AI overhype, more on Krafton/UW), but for this morning we're diving in first on Stop Killing Games.
Join in with us at discord.gg/gicc
We've got some subjects to hit this week (future of the industry, hiring on the rise?, AI overhype, more on Krafton/UW), but for this morning we're diving in first on Stop Killing Games.
Join in with us at discord.gg/gicc
Every Friday, game industry vets join us for our Weekly Wind Down. It's a casual virtual conversation where we talk through whatever and however. Grab a preferred beverage and let's get into it.
discord.gg/gicc
discord.gg/gicc
July 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Every Friday, game industry vets join us for our Weekly Wind Down. It's a casual virtual conversation where we talk through whatever and however. Grab a preferred beverage and let's get into it.
discord.gg/gicc
discord.gg/gicc
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:
- What to do after the layoff...when you were NOT impacted
- How to help people looking? Specifically, what can you do to help people who need it?
- What NOT to do
- If you need help, how can you make it easy on the folks you need help from?
discord.gg/gicc
- What to do after the layoff...when you were NOT impacted
- How to help people looking? Specifically, what can you do to help people who need it?
- What NOT to do
- If you need help, how can you make it easy on the folks you need help from?
discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 1821 members
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July 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:
- What to do after the layoff...when you were NOT impacted
- How to help people looking? Specifically, what can you do to help people who need it?
- What NOT to do
- If you need help, how can you make it easy on the folks you need help from?
discord.gg/gicc
- What to do after the layoff...when you were NOT impacted
- How to help people looking? Specifically, what can you do to help people who need it?
- What NOT to do
- If you need help, how can you make it easy on the folks you need help from?
discord.gg/gicc
Working in the game industry? Trying to break in for that first role? Looking to get into real conversations from actual devs who've been there?
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: discord.gg/gicc
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: discord.gg/gicc
June 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Working in the game industry? Trying to break in for that first role? Looking to get into real conversations from actual devs who've been there?
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: discord.gg/gicc
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: discord.gg/gicc
Today in the chat, we talked about about the odds and outliers (and how to plan for both).
- Increase your odds to get a callback for a role
- Improve your odds of not being laid off in the first place? How to prepare in case you are.
- Bad advice given based on outliers
discord.gg/gicc
- Increase your odds to get a callback for a role
- Improve your odds of not being laid off in the first place? How to prepare in case you are.
- Bad advice given based on outliers
discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 1628 members
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June 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today in the chat, we talked about about the odds and outliers (and how to plan for both).
- Increase your odds to get a callback for a role
- Improve your odds of not being laid off in the first place? How to prepare in case you are.
- Bad advice given based on outliers
discord.gg/gicc
- Increase your odds to get a callback for a role
- Improve your odds of not being laid off in the first place? How to prepare in case you are.
- Bad advice given based on outliers
discord.gg/gicc
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:
How do you move forward when everything is going wrong?
How do you know when it's time to quit?
We're talking resilience and discernment today in the GICC. Join us: discord.gg/gicc
How do you move forward when everything is going wrong?
How do you know when it's time to quit?
We're talking resilience and discernment today in the GICC. Join us: discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 1625 members
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June 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:
How do you move forward when everything is going wrong?
How do you know when it's time to quit?
We're talking resilience and discernment today in the GICC. Join us: discord.gg/gicc
How do you move forward when everything is going wrong?
How do you know when it's time to quit?
We're talking resilience and discernment today in the GICC. Join us: discord.gg/gicc
Today's discussion centers around the theme of "ego".
The industry has a lot of big egos - some from earned success and history, most which are completely unearned.
How do you deal with ego: from your managers, your reports, applicants, yourself.
Join in here: discord.gg/gicc
The industry has a lot of big egos - some from earned success and history, most which are completely unearned.
How do you deal with ego: from your managers, your reports, applicants, yourself.
Join in here: discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 1612 members
discord.gg
June 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today's discussion centers around the theme of "ego".
The industry has a lot of big egos - some from earned success and history, most which are completely unearned.
How do you deal with ego: from your managers, your reports, applicants, yourself.
Join in here: discord.gg/gicc
The industry has a lot of big egos - some from earned success and history, most which are completely unearned.
How do you deal with ego: from your managers, your reports, applicants, yourself.
Join in here: discord.gg/gicc
We've begun today's Coffee Chat. Some of today's topics include:
- What's NOT on the job description
- Who's firing and who's hiring
- The challenge of innovation
- Industry news this week
- "Finding the Fun"
Join in: discord.gg/gicc
- What's NOT on the job description
- Who's firing and who's hiring
- The challenge of innovation
- Industry news this week
- "Finding the Fun"
Join in: discord.gg/gicc
Join the Game Industry Coffee Chat Discord Server!
Share industry news, job listings, general questions, and more, with industry vets and aspiring game professionals. 🎮 | 1596 members
discord.gg
June 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We've begun today's Coffee Chat. Some of today's topics include:
- What's NOT on the job description
- Who's firing and who's hiring
- The challenge of innovation
- Industry news this week
- "Finding the Fun"
Join in: discord.gg/gicc
- What's NOT on the job description
- Who's firing and who's hiring
- The challenge of innovation
- Industry news this week
- "Finding the Fun"
Join in: discord.gg/gicc
April 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM