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Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast

Creative director, game designer, and author of The Game Development Strategy Guide Cheryl Platz hosts this engaging look behind the scenes at what it takes to make video games that transcend the test of time. In-depth conversations with industry veterans cover deep topics intended to get listeners thinking about how to pull the video game industry out of the doldrums and into a more sustainable, more playful future.

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59:52

S1 E10: People, Process, and Players: Human-Centered...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/10/21

How do you navigate the incredibly high stakes of video game development (even AAA video game development) without losing the fun, and your humanity along the way? Senior Producer Yesenia Cisneros helps us close out Season 1 with her signature blend of world-class production, problem solving, and people focus. All listeners will walk away inspired by techniques for more human-centered video game production along with some of our top tips for building more successful thriving games from the ground

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59:51

S1 E9: Doing More with Less for Video Game Art and UI...

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2025/10/14

Tamara Knoss has played many roles in the video game industry: character animator, lead artist, UI artist, and now Senior Technical UI Designer - or, as she describes it, "UI/UX unicorn" thanks to the rarity of her combined skillsets navigating the "why" of user experiences and the "how" of executing high fidelity user interface art in game engines like Unity. She's seen the rise and fall of multiple console generations, and created game art for some of the world's most famous IP, including The

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59:39

S1 E8: The Methodical Magic of Systems Design with...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/10/07

In today's episode, we demystify another specialty within the game design discipline: systems design. Joe Magdalena is better known as "joemag" (lowercase j) to many of his followers, or "joemag3d" to the maker communities that follow his 3D printing hobby work. But during the day, joemag serves as a systems designer with experience on world-renowned titles like Hearthstone and Teamfight Tactics, designing unique game mechanics while wielding the powers of math and communication using a deep

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57:05

S1 E7: Engineering for Scalable, Sustainable Games...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/09/30

This week we speak with accomplished engineering leader Caerie Houchins, who played a critical role in the initial global launch of VALORANT, the global smash tactical shooter from Riot Games. Caerie has now expanded her career from triple-A gaming to become a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of an independent game studio, Wicked Fox Games, which just successfully funded their first Kickstarter. Caerie walks listeners through insights that are not just useful for game engineers, but for

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59:58

S1 E6: Growing and Shepherding Thriving Design...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/09/23

Some leaders speak with their actions, and video game design executive Eric Kabisch is one of those leaders. A seasoned gaming design executive with experience at companies like Scopely, Roblox, Google, and VRChat, Eric has spent most of his career with a laser focus on the teams and products he supports and his record speaks for itself. This rare, frank, and transparent conversation with a people-focused design executive like Eric brings actionable insight for any leader of creatives in the video

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59:12

S1 E5: Ludonarrative Harmony for Narrative Designers...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/09/16

Explore ludonarrative harmony and what it really takes to create nonlinear interactive narrative in modern videogames in this week's episode with Whitney Beltrán, a multiple award-winning Mexican-American Narrative Director with over 12 years of experience in narrative design and professional writing whose experience spans triple-A video games, mobile games, extended reality games, tabletop roleplaying games, and pretty much anything interactive. As a creative leader, she understands that visionary

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59:59

S1 E4: The Global Heartbeat of Music Games with David...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/09/09

David Guiseppe Ventura is one of those creative minds who knows exactly what part of the industry he's most excited to innovate in after two decades of shipping innovative video games: music games and cross-cultural storytelling. He lives in the liminal space between disciplines as a Creative Director of Ichigoichie Games, listening to the needs of his teams and creating spaces where creativity and unexpected experiences can thrive. In this conversation, we explore David's career from his start at

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59:17

S1 E3: Creative Strategy for Thriving Teams with Amy...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/09/02

Sometimes life is stranger than fiction: hear from two veteran video game producers about the nuances of navigating design for AAA games and the world's biggest IP, even when things get weird. In this episode, we welcome versatile game designer and producer Amy Kalson, who is currently working as an Executive Design Producer at Meta on one of her biggest passions: extended reality. Amy's experience has carried her all the way to the C-suite and she is an alumnus of companies like SYBO Games, Disney

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59:54

S1 E2: Safe and Thriving Gaming Communities with...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/08/26

Learn about prosocial gaming from a leader in player safety who has been innovating with moderation tools powered by technology and human ingenuity for over 16 years, Carlos Figueiredo. Carlos began his career in the company of hundreds of millions of penguins at Club Penguin, and went on to work on the widely used community moderation tool Community Sift at Two Hat Security before eventually ending up at Mojang Studios as the Director of Player Trust and Safety with the responsibility for ensuring

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59:47

S1 E1: Using UX Strategy to Put Players First with...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/08/19

From her work as UX Director at Epic Games on classics like Fortnite to her widely respected published books on the psychology of video games, UX Strategist and author Celia Hodent, PhD has helped a broad variety of games, gamers, and game developers wrangle the complexity of possibility using classic human-centered design and research psychology techniques. In this first episode of Enduring Play, Celia and Cheryl go far beyond wireframes to redefine your mental model of what the discipline of user

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03:25

Season 1 Teaser Trailer: Exploring Artificial...

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/07/26

If you're struggling to figure out where AI fits into your game development process, you're not alone. The theme that emerged across a variety of conversations about artificial intelligence in Season 1 of this series is nuanced: there is no right answer. The cat's out of the bag and most game development companies will be looking at some form of AI use, but there is a clear sense that the use of generative AI for player-facing content is problematic. Tune in this season to explore the nuance and

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03:25

Season 1 Teaser Trailer: Creating Games that Thrive

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast ·

2025/07/14

A new podcast quest has unlocked: join host Cheryl Platz, author of the upcoming book The Game Development Strategy Guide, as she takes you on a 10-episode journey behind the scenes with many of the veteran video game developers who are featured in the pages of her book starting August 19, 2025 and continuing weekly on Tuesdays. Get full stories in context from professionals with experience at companies like Mojang, Riot Games, Disney Interactive Studios, iNiS Corp, VRChat, Roblox,

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