I have never been a part of a more effective team. I have never seen a team that has iterated faster, or gotten quality feedback from players faster. Working at OMG has been a validation of decades of lessons learned, and we're hiring if you'd like to be a part of it too.
We’ve been practicing what we call Alpha-Driven Development with real players and weekly playtests since last October. Here’s a bit about how it’s going and what we’ve learned: https://lnkd.in/eaS-FvaN #gamedev #gamesindustry
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Principal Designer at Second Dinner!
My time at One More Game has come to an end. While I'm incredibly proud of not only what we built but the way in which we built it, we ended up with an incredibly fun, polished game that players loved - but whose novelty and genre-bending nature made incredibly difficult to define and find an audience for. I'll be taking some time to figure out what my next opportunity will be. I've got a few promising leads already, but I'm happy to take a moment and a breath. Happy to hear about anything that folks might think is a fit - design, product, and organizational leadership for community-focused entertainment. But I'm approaching the whole experience with humility and gratitude - I am grateful for the opportunity I had, and will greet the next one with equal hope and passion.
Our current method of product development is exactly what I've always wanted to implement. It's flexible, promotes ownership at every level, and builds clarity that leads to ultra-rapid iteration. I've seen organizations resist this degree of team autonomy in favor of a more top-down command and control approach - the irony is that alpha-driven development leads to more predictable, better, player-focused outcomes precisely by giving teams the power to problem solve.
Alpha-driven development is a deeply experimentative and iterative approach to #gamedev - how do we figure out "when it's done" at One More Game? In today's blog post, we share a little about how we use milestones and outcomes to guide our development. https://lnkd.in/ghCgTH73
It's on now.
Today's a big day for One More Game! We're announcing our debut game, Spellcraft: a new type of strategy game where players collect and command incredible heroes from colliding worlds. Sign up at playspellcraft.com! We're also sharing that we raised $22 million in our Series A round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, joined by Griffin Gaming Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and others. We're grateful to have such a supportive team of investors giving us the fuel needed to bring Spellcraft to players around the world. (BTW, we're hiring!)
