5 Tips for Succeeding in the Games Industry, with Steve Meretzky

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How do you succeed in the highly competitive games industry? Steve Meretzky has been designing games for almost forty years, and he's seen it all. Here are Steve's top 5 tips for surviving and thriving as a game designer, including the #1 mistake that game studios make.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:50 TIP 1: The right amount of innovation
1:58 TIP 2: Be sure to please your golden cohort
2:24 TIP 3: During rapid change, everyone's clueless
3:41 TIP 4: Copying top games will only get you so far
4:47 TIP 5: The #1 mistake game studios make
5:16 CONCLUSIONS

STEVE MERETZKY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-meretzky-a950164/

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