85: Keep your passion going with Laxmi Khanolkar
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“I never forgot my basics; what was taught to me.” -Laxmi Khanolkar
Laxmi Khanolkar, CEO and Co-Founder, Apar Games, acted as catalyst in successfully building Apar Games as India’s leading game development company. With over 100 published titles, Apar Games has a vast range of clients cutting across world geographies from China to Europe and even USA.
With more than a decade of work experience, Laxmi is an accomplished professional in the gaming industry and has worked with some of the renowned clients. Prior to starting Apar Games in May 2007, Laxmi served as producer at Rediff.com for a couple of years. Prior to her stint as an Associate Producer at Jump Games formerly known as Paradox Studios, Laxmi also worked on mobile games at Grey Matter India. She started her career with LumenPhon Multimedia Pvt. Ltd. as a graphic designer.
During her career, Laxmi worked across various platforms including 3D games, online games, mobile games and has also directed corporate films.
A graduate from Sir J.J.College Of Fine Arts in 1999, games as a career just happened to Laxmi. With a master’s degree in Information Management from Welingkar’s Institute of Management, enjoys dabbling in paints and photography when not working.
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Timestamps
0:00 Podcast Intro
0:27 Laxmi Intro
0:48 How did you get into game development?
4:42 The state of game development in India
5:12 Game development and business
6:40 The Plan vs Reality
8:16 Programming languages she used in the beginning
9:05 Graduated College
9:15 The idea of Apar Games come about
9:50 Challenges you had to overcome
12:00 Training India game developers
14:08 How did you feel confident to start your own studio?
18:34 Experience at Paradox Studios
25:00 Leadership strategy
32:00 Experience at rediff.com
38:00 Apar games creation
42:00 COVID-19
50:00 Passion in games
53:00 Dealing with Failure
57:00 Being CEO
60:00 Funny story
1:00:10 Challenge
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