I Play, Therefore I Am medianet GAMES International - Transatlantic

Of Intuition, Creative Freedom and Finding Your Place


Fernando Ferero's life led him from Columbia to Poland, from Germany to the US and back to Germany. It also took him to renowned gaming companies such as CD Projekt Red, Goodgame Studios and Blizzard Entertainment. As a Senior UI Artist he worked on prestigious projects like The Witcher 3 and Diablo IV.

While talking about this incredible life path, we also go into the distinction of hope vs. reality in the games industry, how to generate trust and freedom for yourself, and enjoying what you have.



Where to find Fernando: https://fernandoforeroart.com/



Fernando’s recommendations: David Eagleman - The Brain, Sam Harris – Making Sense, Zygmunt Baumann – Liquid Modernity, Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus,
Journey, Diablo II, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid V, Bloodborne



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Of Leaving the Shire, Overthinking and Another Kind of Leadership - with Jasmin Ostreicher, CEO of Instinct3


What better way to decide things than ask oneself: What would Commander Shepard do? Like the main character in Mass Effect, Jasmin Oestreicher chose different paths along the way of her career, leading her from the Shire to Mordor and back, meeting different kinds of leaders and learning from them what counts: empathy, listening, and putting your team first. How she implements these traits in her role as CEO of the successful influencer marketing agency Instinct3 while overcoming her introvert and overthinking tendencies, she tells Simon and Florian in this episode.



Where to find Jasmin: LinkedIn, Instinct3



Jasmin's recommendations: The Expanse, Lord of the Rings, Fruits Basket, Mass Effect, Metal Gear, Baldur’s Gate 3



Mentioned people from the games industry: Hendrik Ruhe, Maximilian Knabe (HandOfBlood), Maxim, Johannes Gorzel, Christian Baltes


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Of Lightsabers, RPGs and Looking Through the Right Lens



Patrick "PJ" Esteves' long journey to Berlin took him from almost being a rockstar, over wanting to be a Jedi to asking himself how the hell he ended up in Villingen-Schwenningen. The CEO and Co-Founder of Fire and Forge Studios paints a vivid picture of his life in the games industry which is captivating and, most importantly, has a lot to do with the Roman Empire.



Where to find PJ: LinkedIn



Mentioned People: Raph Koster, Will Wright, Silver Saaremäel, Kaija Rudkiewicz



PJ's Recommendations: Raph Koster - A Theory of Fun for Game Design, Blake Snyder - Save the Cat, Rick Warren – Purpose Driven Life, 18 Wheels of Steel: Across America, X-COM, Minecraft

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Boris Johnson hasn’t played Suzerain, otherwise he would have been a better prime minister. This is only one thing you will learn from this podcast with Ata Sergey Nowak, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Torpor Games. Other things include: how the formation of Torpor Games depended on a lottery ticket, why Ata advises you not to take advice, and what advantages it has to be born “in the middle”. 


Where to find Ata and Suzerain: Twitter, LinkedIn, Torpor Games, Discord, Reddit 



Mentioned people from the games industry: Chris Wright, George Ziets 

Mentioned Media: Suzerain, Metropolis, Hidden Agenda, The Conformist, Sun Tzu - The Art of War, Total War, Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince, Bernard Cornwll - The Last Kingdom, Life is beautiful, Good Bye Lenin!, Il Conformista, Daodejing – Laozi, Project Reality (Squad mod), Crusader Kings III, Squad, The Witcher 3, Fallout, Disco Elysium

Mentioned Companies: Torpor Games, Factory Berlin, Games for Change, Cologne Game Lab, Fellow Traveller, Obsidian Entertainment


Find out more about Berlin's games industry at gamescapital.berlin. 

If you’re not hyped, something’s not right – Founder and Creative Director of Fableware Narrative Design, Arthur Protasio, knows that you need to be in the right vibe to get things done. But how do we establish a good vibe? And how do you go from studying Law to being the narrative designer and multiplatform director of Emmy-nominated
content? And what does that have to do with cheese? Listen to this #IPTIApodcast episode and follow the cheese crumbs into the world of storytelling and
– you guessed it – a real good vibe.

Where to find Arhur: Website, LinkedIn, Fableware, Instagram

Mentioned People from the games industry: Sebastian Bulas, Jordan Mechner, Lucas Pope, Daniel Mullins

Mentioned companies and institutions: Threaks GmbH, Goethe Institut, TV Globale, Archiact

Mentioned Media: Lazinho com Você, Sword Legacy, Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising, Papers, Please, A Match Made in Limbo, This War of Mine, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction, Kingdom Come Deliverance, The Sims, Black Mirror, Succession, Now Generation, Time And Narrative – Paul Ricoeur, Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey, The Storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall, Steal like an Artist – Austin Kleon

Find out more about Berlin's games industry at gamescapital.berlin. 

Of Relentlessness, Slow Disruption and Finding Confluence

From the moon landing to Age of Empires 4 in under two hours: with Kate Edwards everything seems possible. We welcome you to the first episode of our second season of our renamed podcast I Play, Therefore I Am. And what an episode it is!

Listen to Kate, an award-winning 30+ year veteran of the game industry, principal consultant of Geogrify and the former Executive Director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). With her, we talk about the geopolitical strategy at Microsoft, why we don’t have to fix everything now, and what all this has to do with Steve Buscemi and his skateboard.



Where to find Kate:LinkedIn, Twitter, SetJetters Twitter, SetJetters Instagram

Mentioned Companies: IGDA, Geogrify, SetJetters, GameOn, Encarta, Ensemble Studios, ENIAC, GDC, E3, Takethis.org

Mentioned People: Paul Maritz, Roberta Williams, Nolan Bushnell, Alexey Pajitnov, Shannon Loftis, Kiki Wolfkill

Mentioned Media: Age of Empires, Halo, Fable, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Dune – Frank Herbert, Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien, Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa, Foundation Trilogy – Isaac Asimov, Assassin’s Creed, The Elder Scrolls, Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV

 

How do you do, fellow kids?


Find out more about Berlin's games industry at gamescapital.berlin. 

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