Derin Halil’s games offer landed on the way to another job interview. Derin went anyway, got offered that job on the spot, and the interviewer’s advice? Take the other one.

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Heather Chandler can't stand in a busy fast food line without reshuffling the staff in her head. It's the same instinct she brings to game teams as a producer.

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Heather Chandler bet on herself: an escape room, built with her game designer husband. Rooms done, playtests great, expansion planned. The year was 2019…

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Heather Chandler stopped waiting for marketing to ask. She built their needs into the dev calendar and offered first. That one shift smoothed things over for everyone.

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Jamie Smith says teaching sharpened more than his public speaking — it taught him to find the one idea that has to click before anything else does. He calls it a threshold concept.

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Four judges tore Jamie Smith's Dragon's Den style pitch apart during the 2008 crash. Months later, one of them offered him an internship at Reflections.

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Jamie Smith's boss found out he was leaving Ubisoft — and sent him to Paris for two months anyway. Not to change his mind. So he'd leave loving the company.

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"It looks like a mess until the moment it doesn't." Animator Lana Bachynski on stop motion vs. fighting the computer for control, one layer at a time.

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Designers at Lana Bachynski's studio used to sit behind a literal wall. The team knocked it down once they had to compete with something as big as League of Legends.

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Animator Lana Bachynski says animation broke her sense of left and right for good — screen direction vs. character direction is a coin flip now.

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Jay Powell knew he'd crossed a line the morning he woke up at 3am throwing up blood - a decade into a job he loved, when 'mental health' wasn't even a phrase yet.

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Before digital distribution, launching one game worldwide meant 20-25 country-specific contracts. Jay Powell learned to write them as employee #3 - no law degree required.

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Jay Powell built his own consulting firm by copying someone else's playbook - a firm that made a business out of one narrow niche. That's how The Powell Group started.

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Steven Dwyer's first pro games job was Sonic Riders. After a year and a half of crunch, his manager woke him at his desk — game approved. Steven stood up and quit, half-asleep.

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Steven Dwyer burned out in his first year of a CS degree — 300 students, a 25-person queue for help, and no name yet for what he felt. So he just disengaged.

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