#8 - Osama Dorias: How to Become a Lead Game Designer & Thrive

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Funsmith Fireside Chats - by Game Design Skills

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#8 - Osama Dorias: How to Become a Lead Game Designer & Thrive

Funsmith Fireside Chats - by Game Design Skills

1 hour 2 minutes 38 seconds

3 years ago

#8 - Osama Dorias: How to Become a Lead Game Designer & Thrive

In this episode, Osama Dorias shares different leadership and managerial styles to improve collaboration in a diverse game dev team setting. He also dives into how to deal with prejudice and ignorance in the workplace as a game development professional, especially if you’re still in an entry level position in an organization and thrive.

Osama Dorias is the Senior Partner Relations Manager at Unity Technologies. In the past, he's worked as a lead game designer at studios such as Warner Brothers, Gameloft, GEE Media, Ubisoft, and Minority Media.

Currently Osama teaches game design at Dawson College, where he loves to empower people in expressing themselves through game making. He has hosted game jams, workshops and other community activities to this end, which culminated in co-founding the Montreal Independent Games Awards.

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