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The Mindset of Personal Success in the Game Industry, with Tommy Tallarico

The Mindset of Personal Success in the Game Industry, with Tommy Tallarico

Tommy Tallarico is a veritable video game industry icon. As one of the most successful video game composers in history, he has helped revolutionize the gaming world, creating unique audio landscapes that enhance the video gaming experience. Now CEO of
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Tommy Tallarico is a veritable video game industry icon. As one of the most successful video game composers in history, he has helped revolutionize the gaming world, creating unique audio landscapes that enhance the video gaming experience. Now CEO of Intellivision, Tommy has worked as a designer, product manager, producer, writer, hardware executive, games tester, and heads of both music and video departments over the span of his 32-year long career in the gaming industry.
Listen in to this inspiring rollercoaster of an episode as we discuss:
- Tommy’s incredible journey from homelessness to launching a brand new gaming console
- How Tommy approached the music in Prince of Persia.
- How to get to climb any “mountain” you want in your career.
- Tommy’s strategy to return to the golden age of co-op gaming with the Intellivision Amico
- How Intellivision is helping small developers succeed.
- The pitfalls of distributed game production
Are you a developer with a fun, family-friendly game that’s easy to pick up and play? Intellivision wants to hear from you! Email developers@intellivision.com.
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Episode ID: 1000535368884
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Release Date: 9/14/2021, 11:45:00 PM

Description

Jordan Blackman interviews the leaders and legends of the video game industry so that you can succeed with your game project, career, or venture. Discover how you can produce, market, and operate games more successfully so that your career can be more satisfying and impactful, whether you're a game designer, engineer, or entrepreneur and whether you work at a studio, publisher, brand or startup. Jordan is an industry insider, who has worked as a Senior Producer at Ubisoft and a Lead Designer at Zynga. Since 2012, Jordan has been helping clients like EA Sports, AMC Networks, The Pokemon Company, Ellen Degeneres, and Capcom create and grow hit games. In each episode of Playmakers, he goes to work uncovering valuable insights, tactics, and know-how from a wide range of entertaining personalities including designers, writers, product managers, technologists, studio founders, executives, and more. Why? So that you get practical perspectives and insights week after week. No matter your experience or discipline, this is the show that can level you up on everything from raising funds to live operations, and everything in-between. Oh, and you'll have fun every step of the way, because there's a magic sprinkle of goofiness in each episode. So thwack that subscribe button and buckle your safety belt, 'cus this here is the wildest ride in the metaverse.

Apple Podcasts: Customer Reviews

Super interesting!!

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Young_WZL
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2017-06-23
I'm not even a gamer, but I'm interested in topics that involve UX, venture cap, and the psychology behind successful games. Awesome job Jordan!

Valuable and rare insight

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ion_pulse
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2017-05-11
This podcast is full of game industry lessons and knowledge that is surprisingly hard to find... thanks very much for putting this together!

Great insight!

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Lazerh4wk
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2017-05-08
Jordan has so much to share about his experience in the games industry, love listening to him!