Paul Tozour is saying exactly what the industry needs to hear right now. Backed with data from his 2015 study titled The Game Outcomes Project, he's fictionalised the data in his new book The Four Swords: A Parable of Leadership, Video Games, and Dead Dragons.
Tozour goes through his lessons for studios, publishers, managers, and creatives, able to definitively describe what leads to a successful studio and point to the data that proves it. In this moment of post-largesse layoffs, these lessons are even more important.
And there are plenty of wacky stories from his time in gamedev to boot!
The Game Outcomes Project Part 1: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-game-outcomes-project-part-1-the-best-and-the-rest
The Game Outcomes Project Part 2: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-game-outcomes-project-part-2-building-effective-teams
The Game Outcomes Project Part 3: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-game-outcomes-project-part-3-game-development-factors
The Game Outcomes Project Part 4: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-game-outcomes-project-part-4-crunch-makes-games-worse
The Game Outcomes Project Part 5: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-game-outcomes-project-part-5-what-great-teams-do
Paul's series on decision modeling:
https://intelligenceengine.blogspot.com/2013/07/decision-modeling-and-optimization-in.html
The Four Swords: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195019998-the-four-swords
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04/15/24 • 69 min
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