Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat:

Disagreement

- Many people entering the industry seem to be surprised at how much disagreement exists.
- taking/making it personal! (And how to avoid it)
- How people have issues often separating the argument from the one making it

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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.

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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!

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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

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It's my favorite part of the day, it's Game Industry Coffee Chat time!
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Todays topic: The arrogance of ignorance and the disdain for expertise.

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Today in the GICC: but what did YOU do?

- I vs We?
- How you discuss what you did when you did it?
- How do you report on your own work? On the work of others?
- How does this come up in interviews? Reviews?
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Game Development:

Cycles of Immersion in Games

From ultra realistic and gritty, to stylized and silly.

Hop in, have a cup of your favorite ☕ and participate in the discussion!

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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?

Firing up the Game Industry Coffee Chat ☕

Today's theme: the power of "no"

- why saying no is more important than saying yes
- prioritizing what to work on
- time and money, the two constants
- scope perfection: when is good enough good enough

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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

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It's time for my favorite part of the day! Time for discord.gg/gicc
When is your perspective holding you back?

It is my favorite part of the day! It's time for the Game Industry Coffee Chat. discord.gg/gicc

Words have power: how we internalize our own words and create our own self-fulfilling prophecies and confirmation biases.

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.

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Today in Game Industry @Coffee Chat:

What's in a name? Everything from studio names, game titles, to terminology we use.,

Is GDC really inaccessible and dangerous as Rami Ismail is claiming? How so?

How to help your friends out of work?

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Game Industry Coffee Chat
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- What actually is AI?
- Historically, what have we meant by it in the game industry?
- Is 3% a lot?
- Pitch vs Product:
- Where are all the AI games?
- AI pitfalls and why isn't the industry embracing it.
AI skepticism in Today's GICC.