Survive to ’25 (and beyond)
If you’ve been to any games industry events this year (and even if you haven’t), you’ve heard the tag line: “Survive to ’25” But what does that mean, exactly, and…
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Paint Me A Picture: Setting Medium Term Goals To Guide Your Studio
Like all founders, you want your game company to be successful. You might even have some idea of what that looks like. And while that gives you some guidance, you…
The Triforce of Business Management
The Triforce plays a big role in the Zelda series. It represents the unity of Power, Courage and Wisdom, all of which are necessary for the forces of good to…
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Perfect Quarterly Offsite
As we’re nearing the end of the quarter, many of you will soon be gathering for your first quarterly offsite of the year. Reviewing the months behind you and planning…
How To Find Your Hedgehog Concept
All companies, even the most diversified ones, have a core business. Sometimes it’s called a mission, or a cause, or a purpose. They all boil down to the same thing:…
How to “Survive To ’25”
2024 is going to be a tough year for the games industry. Thanks in large part to a cocktail of macroeconomic forces and underperforming investments made during the COVID boom,…
Mastering the Three Arenas
Being a founder means fighting for the success of your company every day. You have to figure everything out from scratch, while your team looks to you for answers you…
The Best Links of 2023
Happy New Year, and greetings from Utrecht. In each (ok, most) edition of this newsletter, I share a handful of links to the things that caught my attention. These can…
Annual Review 2023
This year was supposed to be all about consistency and accountability. Instead, I was humbled by the absolute truth in of my favorite quotes: “You don’t rise to the level…
My Favorite Things of 2023
Songs I loved Minutes of Spotify listened: 26,573 Hi Ren — Ren I came across this video in early January and promptly watched it at least 5 times in a…