Shawn Alexander Allen | Founder @ NuChallenger | Ep 35
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06/21/22 • 124 min
Episode 35 of Out of Play Area the game developer's podcast, we sit down with the creator of Treachery in Beatdown City and discuss founding his company NuChallenger, alongside his time working in the Game Devs of Color Expo, as well as his journey from NYC and the games industry.
Chapters:- (00:00) Who is Shawn Alexander Allen?
- (11:14) Sneakerhead Transformation
- (23:49) Hip-Hop
- (29:57) NuChallenger Full Time
- (37:29) Running Your Own Studio
- (43:29) Treachery in Beatdown City
- (58:52) Inspirations and Origins
- (01:09:58) Combat Mechanics
- (01:28:36) Game Devs of Color Expo
- (01:48:33) Game Dev Origin
- (02:00:38) John’s Outro
Shawn’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnalexanderallen/
Shawn’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShawnDoubleA
GDC Vault - Independent Games Summit: Indie SoapBox - https://gdcvault.com/play/1027343/Independent-Games-Summit-Indie
GDC Vault - Knights, Fist Fights, Lasers & Catacombs: Subversive Diversity to Improve Our Games - https://gdcvault.com/play/1023756/Knights-Fist-Fights-Lasers-Catacombs (Beyond Basic Represenation)
Treachery in Beatdown City: A Postmortem #GDoCExpo 2021 - https://youtu.be/4YKA_swJm5A
Game Devs of Color Expo's Shawn Alexander Allen on COVID-19, Allyship & Future Plans - https://youtu.be/MKRl1TeOlQA
Connect with the host: http://elkingpin.com
Come On The Show: https://outofplayarea.com
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/out-of-play-area/id1550421307
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Da0qLAOBi6rV6ccSzx1gX?si=043f4ec5a6034bf0
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Episode 35 of Out of Play Area the game developer's podcast, we sit down with the creator of Treachery in Beatdown City and discuss founding his company NuChallenger, alongside his time working in the Game Devs of Color Expo, as well as his journey from NYC and the games industry.
Chapters:- (00:00) Who is Shawn Alexander Allen?
- (11:14) Sneakerhead Transformation
- (23:49) Hip-Hop
- (29:57) NuChallenger Full Time
- (37:29) Running Your Own Studio
- (43:29) Treachery in Beatdown City
- (58:52) Inspirations and Origins
- (01:09:58) Combat Mechanics
- (01:28:36) Game Devs of Color Expo
- (01:48:33) Game Dev Origin
- (02:00:38) John’s Outro
Shawn’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnalexanderallen/
Shawn’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShawnDoubleA
GDC Vault - Independent Games Summit: Indie SoapBox - https://gdcvault.com/play/1027343/Independent-Games-Summit-Indie
GDC Vault - Knights, Fist Fights, Lasers & Catacombs: Subversive Diversity to Improve Our Games - https://gdcvault.com/play/1023756/Knights-Fist-Fights-Lasers-Catacombs (Beyond Basic Represenation)
Treachery in Beatdown City: A Postmortem #GDoCExpo 2021 - https://youtu.be/4YKA_swJm5A
Game Devs of Color Expo's Shawn Alexander Allen on COVID-19, Allyship & Future Plans - https://youtu.be/MKRl1TeOlQA
Connect with the host: http://elkingpin.com
Come On The Show: https://outofplayarea.com
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/out-of-play-area/id1550421307
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Da0qLAOBi6rV6ccSzx1gX?si=043f4ec5a6034bf0
Follow @outofplayarea & @elkingpin on Twitter
Check out Descript using my affiliate url: http://[email protected]
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Henry Golding is a Principal Software Engineering Lead at Xbox Game Studios currently spreading the significance of Test Driven Development and Automated Testing in Game Development. He's a native of the UK who has programmed for Sea of Thieves, Minecraft, Disney Universe, and Dead Space: Extraction for the Wii.
We talk about his latest endeavors as well as discuss his journey into the games industry.
Chapters:- (00:00) Who is Henry Golding?
- (11:21) Software Architecture In Games
- (25:13) Development Team Dynamics
- (37:30) Academics & University
- (51:02) Deadspace Extraction
- (01:05:44) Rare & Work Visas
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- (01:27:19) Final Round
- (01:37:43) John’s Outro
Henry’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hgolding/
Henry’s MobyGames:https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,451834/
The Games Automated Testing Resource Hub : https://trello.com/b/nGE5yqZk/game-automated-testing-resource-hub
Henry’s GDC Talk - Lessons Learned in Adapting the 'Sea of Thieves' Automated Testing Methodology to 'Minecraft' https://gdcvault.com/play/1027345/Lessons-Learned-in-Adapting-the
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Episode 36 features Leon Kuperman, who gets his gamedev cred from text based Zork style adventures, and is a Co-founder and CTO at CAST AI. Formerly Vice President of Security Products OCI at Oracle, Leon’s professional experience spans across tech companies such as IBM, Truition, and HostedPCI. He founded and served as the CTO of Zenedge, an enterprise security company protecting large enterprises with a cloud WAF. Leon has 20+ years of experience in product management, software design, and development, all the way through to production deployment. He is an authority on cloud computing, web application security and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), e-commerce, and web application architecture. And that's where we talk about his journey through development, his views on building a resilient team and product, and more.
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- (22:14) Cloud Computing
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Follow Cast. AI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cast_ai
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Come On The Show: https://outofplayarea.com
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/out-of-play-area/id1550421307
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Da0qLAOBi6rV6ccSzx1gX?si=043f4ec5a6034bf0
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Out of Play Area - Shawn Alexander Allen | Founder @ NuChallenger | Ep 35
Transcript
What's good devs. Happy father's day to all the fathers out there. This might be the last one, but also the realest one for me, as I can see here and anticipate what it will be like next year. And the long road of diaper changing feeding. Living and raising a little human being with everything I got while still working at epic. Being a great husband. And still pumping out this podcast. So father's day 2022 in the books. 2023, I will join you. Hopefull
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