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“In this episode Ben Curran and I talked with Caroline Fox, an independent game designer and the person behind Picture Points.  The episode was recorded on April 15th, 2021.” ----- Hosts:  Allen Higgins Ben Curran Guest:  Caroline Fox (Game designer, illustrator) ----- OPENING  ----- [Ben] Welcome to Game Chats on DesignTalk. We’re very pleased to have Caroline Fox in to chat w...

Show-notes “From Game-Play-Community to Game Development with Joe Neary”  Podcast 08-04-2021 – 10.00 am Title: 0086 – From Game-Play-Community to Game Development Subtitle: Talking with Joe Neary about "finding your niche in games" Link: Season: 5 Episode: 86 Preamble [Allen Higgins] “In this episode of The Game Chat we talked with Joe Neary, a Senior QA/Tester at, Romero Games on the journey...

Welcome to the Game Chats edition of Design Talk We are delighted to welcome Robin David today. Robin is a multi-published multi-award-winning game designer, with a portfolio of games across a number of genres; narrative, interactive fiction, puzzle solving, word games, and RPGs. Robin, could first tell us a little about yourself and your path to game design? [Hugh and Allen will chip in comments...

Welcome to the Game Chat series on Design Talk. Our guest today is Paul Conway from Spooky Doorway. Spooky Doorway is a team of Irish developers with a unique style of engaging, interactive storytelling. Their Darkside Detective series is a point-and-click puzzler with an occult-comedic feel. Paul, could tell us a little about yourself and your path to game design? How did you know you wanted to g...

Shownotes “Sara’s Game Art Book Wish” Podcast 4-3-2021 – 10.00am Title: 0083 – Sara’s Game Art Book Wish Subtitle: Talking about creating art for video games Link: Season: 4 Episode: 83 Hosts:  Kellie Donnelly [co-host] Allen Higgins [co-host] Guest:  Sara Mena (www.doodliostudio.com) The talk was recorded on March 4th 2021. [a note about the revised title: about half-way through th...

[Sergi]  Welcome to the Game Chat series on Design Talk. Our guest today is Sean O'Donohoe Sean is a Senior Level Designer at Black Shamrock - a Virtuos Studio. Among the titles he has worked on “The Outer Worlds”, an action RPG by Obsidian Studios, stands out perhaps as one of his most formative project experiences. First, Sean, does everyone want to be the designer?  Sean, we’ve been a...

Guest:  Aoife O'Friel (aoifeofriel.wixsite.com/portfolio) Hosts:  Jenine Lynch [co-host] Liana Schley [co-host] Allen Higgins [co-host] ----- Welcome to the Game Chat series on Design Talk. Aoife O’Friel is a writer and narrative designer, from Waterford, now based in Sweden and working for Ubisoft. We hope to cover a few areas. The role of the writer/designer, getting into the video gam...

Talking about Partners Operations Governance - Podcast 30-3-2021 – 10am Guest : John Sheahan, Strategic Global Vendor Director, Microsoft Operations – Global BPO Student Podcast Team: Angella Kizito [co-host] Jack Ridgway [team member] Karthik Ethirajulu [team member] Eunyoung Choi [team member] Huiqun Peng [team member] Notes:  Prahalad & Hamel “The core competence of the corporation”,&n...

----- Interview with Lizzy McComish, GSDM @ Microsoft  ----- Welcome to the Design Talk podcast. We are interested in exploring the practical challenges of learning and growing the "know who, know where, know why, know what, know how, know about" in organisations. Particularly the kinds of practices or behaviours we will need to interact with and manage global partners, and ultimately to...

Guests: Ciaran Treanor and Cormac Ó Foghlú  Hosts: Rujuta Sandeep Kulkarni and Allen Higgins  ----- OPENING  ----- [Rujuta] Welcome to the Design Talk podcast. We are joined today by Ciaran Treanor, Sonalake’s CTO and Cormac Ó Foghlú, VP Operations at Sonalake. First, could I ask you both, to tell us a little about yourselves, before we talk about Sonalake? Some general questions we...

Welcome to the Design Talk podcast. Today's team is: Fooz Alsubaie, Aoife Cooper, Viet Ho, Ivan Spiek and Maurice Farnan Our guest for today is Henric Malm. And our theme is Sourcing Models and Decision Making - making your mind up, how vendors make decisions to help clients to outsource? Questions  -How do client/vendor relationships differ across different engagements? What works, what does...

Why Ireland for inbound tech investment? Guest :  Rory Mullen, IDA UCD Host team: Allen Higgins [host interview] Jeroen van der Hoeven [host interview] Saga Bengtsson Min Yang Gautam Venkataraman John Toribio Background music:  Music by HoobeZa (no Copyright/License):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nMNPQ4Vf0 .  Cover Art created by John Toribio, Copyright image clip art via...

This talk was recorded on November 4th 2020. In this episode I talk with Dermot Casey about the growth of digital start-ups in Ireland and supporting that crucial period of early stage business development. At the time of recording Dermot had been working for the previous five years as a venture leader at the NDRC, Ireland’s National Digital Research Centre’s accelerator programme for digital star...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -15/Mar/2022 (publish sequence Jan 23 2021) Title: 0055- 14 - Student Perspective and Access to Diagnosis Subtitle: With Catriona Nicholls Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0055  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes.  https:...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -14/Mar/2022 (publish sequence Jan 22 2021) Title: 0054- 13 - Assistance Dogs for Neurodiverse Children and Teenagers Subtitle: With Eimear Kenneally Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0054  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes.&n...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -14/Mar/2022 (publish sequence Jan 21 2021) Title: 0053- 12 - Actor and Autism Activist Subtitle: With Eleanor Walsh Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0053  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes.  https://podcasters.spotify.c...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -31/Jan/2022 (publish sequence Jan 20 2021) Title: 0052- 11 - Behind the Scenes of Creating The Blind Spot Subtitle: With Conor Reid, Jessica Viola & Allen Higgins Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0052  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descripti...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -24/Jan/2022 (publish sequence Jan 19 2021) Title: 0051- 10 - University Life Subtitle: With Ruairí Power, Aoife Bracken & Molly Greenough Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0051  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes.  ht...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -13/Dec/2021 (publish sequence Jan 18 2021) Title: 0050- 09 - Accessible Technology Subtitle: With Sean Doran & Kyran O’Mahoney Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0050  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes.  https://podca...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -13/Dec/2021 (publish sequence Jan 17 2021) Title: 0049- 08 - Irish Guide Dogs Subtitle: With Zita O’Brien, Lean Kennedy & Tim O’Mahony Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0049  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes.  https...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -29/Nov/2021 (publish sequence Jan 16 2021) Title: 0048- 07 - The Built Environment Subtitle: With Orla Hegarty & Lorraine Gallagher Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0048  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes.  https://...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -22/Nov/2021 (publish sequence Jan 15 2021) Title: 0047- 06 - Access in Sport Subtitle: With Nicole Turner, Patrick Flanagan & Jacqui Hurley Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0047  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes. ...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -8/Nov/2021 (publish sequence Jan 14 2021) Title: 0046- 05 - Access to Higher Education Subtitle: With Dara Ryder & Ailbhe Conneely Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0046  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes.  https://p...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -1/Nov/2021 (publish sequence Jan 13 2021) Title: 0045- 04 - Universal Access to Transport Subtitle: With Roger Flood, Dolores Henchin & Fiona Kelty Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0045  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes...

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina Lowe Podcast -27/Oct/2021 (publish sequence Jan 12 2021) Title: 0044- 03 - Neurodiversity and Invisible Disabilities Subtitle: With Blánaid Gavin & Deirdre O’Connor Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ie Season: 2 Episode: 0044  For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episo...