Let’s Build Awesome Studio Cultures #GDoCExpo 2022
11Studio culture will make or break teams; therefore, we all play a role in creating and sustaining healthy studio cultures.
As team members who lack the power and authority to enact systemic change, what can we do to make our workplaces better? What power might we exercise? What must we learn from the hardship and trauma of what has come before to make our futures better?
Crucially, studio leaders are critical enablers for how culture might influence an awesome vs. toxic environment. Given the recent controversy around indie studio leads who purported to—but ultimately failed in—creating safe harbours from the abuses endemic to the industry, there is a clear disconnect between the espoused values of leadership and subsequent reality.
The research is clear: toxic workplace cultures destroy teams, result in worse products, and harm the industry as a whole. It is clear that we need to level up our culture so that the next generation of game developers can be inducted into a healthy and happy industry.
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