We had the pleasure of hosting Mafalda Duarte in this episode. Mafalda is the Studio director and producer at Nerd Monkeys. Mafalda helped launch titles like Out of Line and Short Games Collection into the world. In addition to being an ambassador for Women in Games, she works for the organisation as Ambassador Coordinator and teaches project management classes at Lusófona and ETIC´s video game courses. She´s a founder of the Game Dev Lisbon collective and has been organising events such as Game Dev Camp since 2020, among other community projects.

What is this episode about?

1. Minute 06:41 - Mafalda shared with us how she entered the games industry and what she likes most about it: the community.

2. Minute 12:41 - Indie Studios can have difficulty gathering player feedback, but Mafalda shared with us a story on how Nerd Monkeys asked the public which character they connect with the most, and because of the players, they changed the way their main character looked in their game.

3. Minute 17:20 - Mafalda discusses how at Indie Studios you need to be more creative to gather feedback and sometimes it is a matter of going with your gut because you don't have enough data from the communities.

4. Minute 22:06 - we asked Mafalda what insight brings the most impact to her and her team and she shared how engagement is critical for her to understand how much players enjoy the game.