S1E1 - Kay Purcell - Community Manager and Professional Dungeon Master!

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Make Games, Drink Coffee

Aaron Nemoyten

6 episodes

4 hours ago

A weekly caffeine-spiked dose of hot game industry brew, featuring interviews with game developers telling their best war stories, sharing their artistic inspirations, and showing what making games is all about. This isn't a how-to, an in-depth guide, or a marketing tie-in; It's all about entertaining conversations with interesting people! Make Games, Drink Coffee is hosted by veteran game designer and developer Aaron Nemoyten, who's worked on a few games you might have heard of an a lot more you definitely haven't. Subscribe now to stay up to date, and check out http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com/ for more information!

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S1E1 - Kay Purcell - Community Manager and Professional Dungeon Master!

Make Games, Drink Coffee

29 minutes 44 seconds

1 month ago

S1E1 - Kay Purcell - Community Manager and Professional Dungeon Master!

This week, Aaron interviews Kay Purcell.

Kay (she/they) is a community manager, marketing expert, project manager, and Jack-of-all-trades with experience at DeviantArt, Red Bull, Avalanche Studios Group, and games journalism. Kay is also a charity streamer, event organizer, and professional dungeon master!

This is Make Games, Drink Coffee, a podcast featuring conversations with game developers about their jobs, their hobbies, and whatever they're passionate about! No rambling two-hour interviews and no meandering monologues! It's short and sweet, thirty minutes or less, with bonus clips on the Make Games, Drink Coffee youtube channel, TikTok, etc.

Chapters:

00:00 Introductions and Texas Is Big

01:54 Community Management at DeviantArt and Red Bull

08:31 Games Journalism Is Hard (And Broken)

16:46 Being A Professional DM

20:07 The Fluidity of Game Lore

21:54 Understanding That Not All Media Is For Me (And That's Okay!)

25:47 Finding Your Audience

27:21 Kay's Favorite Game

28:53 Wrap-Up

29:10 Make Games Drink Coffee Outro Music.mp3

Links:

Shout out to Rogue (independent games journalism!): https://www.rogue.site/

You can find the podcast at:

http://www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

Questions? Comments?

makegamesdrinkcoffee@gmail.com