Evolution Exchange Gaming

Today's episode is hosted by Paul Hackett and they are joined on the podcast by Adnaan Ebrahim, Game Director - New Games at Wooga. The conversation explores the visibility advantage in gaming and how clear thinking around game development, creative direction and player engagement can support the development of compelling experiences. The exchange highlights themes around mobile games, game de...

Today's episode is hosted by William Thompson and they are joined on the podcast by Kenny Shea Dinkin, Creative Consultant | Creative Leadership, Product And Game Design at CitizenKenny Consulting. The conversation explores vision in games and how creative direction, product thinking and game design principles influence the development of engaging interactive experiences. The exchange highligh...

Today's episode is hosted by Melanie Lindsey and they are joined on the podcast by Jimmy Tisell, Community Lead at Fatshark, Arnaud Jarry, Community Manager at Voodoo, Dale Emasiri, Community Strategist (Consultant) at Coffee Stain Publishing. The conversation explores the evolving role of community management in the video game industry, focusing on player engagement, communication strategies...

Today's episode is hosted by Harvey Anderson and they are joined on the podcast by Joaquin Ober, UI/UX Lead, Artemiy Nikitin, Lead Content Manager at Wargaming Group Ltd, Dave Wilson, Art Director. The conversation explores creative gap challenges within gaming, focusing on how design, user experience, content strategy and visual development connect to create engaging digital experiences. The...

Today's episode is hosted by Harvey Anderson and they are joined on the podcast by Veronika Fesenko, Senior Outsource Manager at 4A Games, Katarzyna Wiszniewska, Associate Art Director at Triple Espresso, Illia Goncharov, Producer at Wargaming Group Ltd, Matthew Zoern, Chief Executive Officer at WildFire Productions. The conversation explores managing teams in gaming, focusing on leadership, c...

Today's episode is hosted by Aarronn Campbell and they are joined on the podcast by Iki Ikram, Studio Art Director at Firesprite, Chris Hunter, Art Lead / Senior Artist at d3t Ltd, Ben Bauer, World Director at YAGER, Olena Krasavina, Producer at Bohemia Interactive, Julia Spinola, Producer at Fireshine Games. The conversation explores the human first approach in the games industry, focusing on cre...

Today's episode is hosted by Aarronn Campbell and they are joined on the podcast by Maurice Kroes, Lead Producer at Supercell, Daniel Mesonero, Development Director at Starbreeze, Ryan Cloono, Senior Producer at Avalanche and Jingna Zhu, Producer at Sharkmob. The conversation explores game production and the everyday challenges involved in coordinating modern game development. It considers the dem...

Today's episode is hosted by Aarronn Campbell and they are joined on the podcast by Fredrik Lantz Happ, Head Of Studio at ELK Studios, Konstantin Yolshin, Senior Technical Program Manager at Scopely and Bruno Esteves, Lead Project Engineer at Combat Waffle Studios Inc. The conversation explores team building within the gaming industry, looking broadly at what goes into developing strong, effective...

Today's episode is hosted by Elijah Jenkins and they are joined on the podcast by Jakub Gabryel, Release, IT & QA Manager at Paradox Interactive, Miquel Ripoll Fornes, Lead QA Engineer at Madbox and Gabby Llanillo, QA Lead at PUBG Corporation. The conversation explores team performance and the approaches engineering and QA leaders can take to support effective collaboration, communication and...

Today's episode is hosted by Aaron Reeves and they are joined on the podcast by Maria Steinson, Associate Creative Director at Wooga, Filipp Kuropiatnikov, Narrative Producer at Nexters and Frances Wakefield-Harrey, Lead Narrative Designer at Trailmix. The conversation explores narrative design across different disciplines in game development, looking broadly at how storytelling connects with crea...

Today's episode is hosted by William Thompson and they are joined on the podcast by Yurii Liapin, Head of Delivery at Plummy Games, Igor Kaliuzhnyi, Art Director at ThunderSpin and Vardis Vardinogiannis, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Couch Heroes. The conversation explores scaling teams in game development, focusing on growth strategies, team structures and the challenges of managing creative a...

Today's episode is hosted by Harvey Anderson and they are joined on the podcast by Kateryna Karmazina, Art Manager at Wargaming Group Ltd, Leslie Spink, Art Manager at Play'n GO, Igor Kotsarev Art Manager and Yasha Kruk, Art Manager at Meta. The conversation explores art management in game development, focusing on creative workflows, team coordination and the processes behind delivering engaging v...

Today's episode is hosted by Jamie Manton and they are joined on the podcast by Joen Bille, Art Director at ELK Studios, Oliver K/BIDI, Head of Art Development at Light & Wonder and Ricardo Viana, Creative Manager at Yggdrasil Gaming. The conversation explores game fidelity, examining how visual quality, artistic choices and technical capabilities influence modern game development. The exchang...

Today's episode is hosted by Jamie Manton and they are joined on the podcast by Alyona Potapenko, Senior Software Engineer at YOOZOO Games, Connor Ledwidge, CEO at Leadwitch Studios, Daniel Collado, Lead Gameplay Programmer at Ubisoft Barcelona and Douglas Barbara, Engineering Lead at Xroam. The conversation explores leadership in game development, examining how teams navigate technical challenges...

Today's episode is hosted by Jamie Manton and they are joined on the podcast by Stepan Melnyk, Unity Frontend Lead at Funrock, Muhammad Ali Mustafa, Lead Programmer at Kwalee, Bohdan Nevmerzhytskyi, Chief Technology Officer at Rocky Road Inc. and Stefano Gandolfo, Ex Lead Developer at Drest. The conversation explores code design in game development, focusing on the technical challenges, creative p...

Today's episode is hosted by William Thompson and they are joined on the podcast by Johan Sonestedt, Owner at Cinematic, Giorgia Arena, Art Director at Metacore and Anastasiya Kara, Lead Product Manager at Rovio. The conversation explores communication within the games industry and examines how clear collaboration, creative leadership and effective teamwork contribute to successful game developmen...

Today's episode is hosted by William Thompson and they are joined on the podcast by Robert Graff, Lead Game Designer at Toca Boca, Anna Gvadzabiia, Head Of Creatives at Homa and Risto D. Holmström, Studio Lead at Kuuasema. The conversation explores proactive teams and the practices that help game studios build stronger collaboration, encourage ownership and improve communication across creative an...

Today's episode is hosted by Elliot Tripp and they are joined on the podcast by Aleksandr Dadaev, Creative Producer at Rovio, George Tsomaev, Founder at GRIND Agency, Anton Neznamov, Marketing Creatives Director at Madbox. The conversation explores UA creative strategies, user acquisition and how AI in gaming is transforming the way teams approach creative development, testing and optimisation. Th...

Today's episode is hosted by Elijah Jenkins and they are joined on the podcast by Chris Hong, CEO at CosmoUniverse, Markus Hjort, Chief Technology Officer at Bitmagic, Arsham Soltani, Chief Technology Officer at Taru Tech. The conversation explores AI within gaming and how emerging technologies are influencing game development, player experiences and the wider digital entertainment landscape. The...

Today's episode is hosted by Aaron Reeves and they are joined on the podcast by Filip Cholewczynski, Producer, Guido Schmidt, Design Director at Rovio, Arkady Ragzin, Creative Director at G5 Entertainment and Carlos Guzman, Games Director at Goodgame Studios. The conversation explores the business of creativity within the gaming industry, examining how creative thinking, leadership and collaborati...

Today's episode is hosted by Nina Fallows and they are joined on the podcast by Valeria De Grazia, Product Director at King , Albert Custodio-Martinez, VP Product & Analytics at Kolibri Games , Dan Bergin-Holly, Founder & CEO at Biscuit Factory Games and Sahana Subraya, Director of Product at Socialpoint . The conversation explores product leadership in modern game development, examining h...

Today's episode is hosted by Jamie Manton and they are joined on the podcast by David Chester, Technical Director at Tripledot Studios , Oguz Konya, Technical Team Lead at DIGIT Game Studios and Robert Ilott, Technical Team Lead at Scopely Games . The conversation explores game development leadership and the skills required to guide technical teams through complex projects while balancing innovati...

Today's episode is hosted by Grace Moody and they are joined on the podcast by Çağlayan Karagözler, Senior Technical Artist at Tiny Wizard Games , Jeremias Meister, Lead Technical Artist at Klang Games GmbH , Patryk Kowalik, Lead Technical Artist at Fortis Games and Nikola Damjanov, Principal Technical Artist at Nordeus . The conversation explores mobile tech art and its growing importance in mode...

Today's episode is hosted by Harvey Anderson and they are joined on the podcast by Maria Iartseva, Art Director at Nexters, Alicja Słowacka, Senior Producer at Room 8 Studio and Daniel Perez, Studio Art Director at ELK Studios AB Slots. The conversation explores AI in gaming and the growing influence of artificial intelligence across creative, technical and production processes within the games in...

Today's episode is hosted by Grace Moody and they are joined on the podcast by Martin Severn, Art Director at Spectarium, Chris Bancroft, Marketing Art Director at Supercell, Mika Pollack, AI Art Production Lead at MAG Interactive and Maor Sabag, VP Creative at Mad Brain Games. The conversation explores AI in game art and how artificial intelligence is influencing creative workflows across the gam...