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Leveling Up: A Career in Video Games with Katie Stone Perez
Leveling Up: A Career in Video Games with Katie Stone Perez
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Oct 18, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Katie Stone Perez is a Senior Program Manager at the Independent Developer Xbox Team. Katie comes from a background in Psychology and we talked about the interesting perspective that this brings to building a team and how to approach product development in the gaming industry. We also talked about independent game developers and how these are changing the gaming industry by creating very unique games that have contributed to engaging a more diverse community. One interesting example is a video game called “I hope” where you are battling cancer. We also explored topics around career development and initiatives to bring more diversity to the gaming industry.
Released:
Oct 18, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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