Steven Yau
🕹️ Game Maker Geek and UK Games Angel investor
👔 @gather_town (prev @playcanvas / @snap, @King_Games, @Playfish and @EA)
☕️ ko-fi.com/yaustar
- Slowly making progress through my book backlog 📚 "Thinking in Bets" by Annie Duke covers how often we wrongly link results with the quality of decisions made to get there and the need to separate decision making quality from outcomes.
- Know when you are getting old: when you realise you need glasses to play video games from the sofa 🤓
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- Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including: 🧑🏫 pitch decks 📢 marketing 🎨 art assets 🖥️ programming tools 🗣️ conference talks 🔎 job searching/careers 💰funds and more! 👾
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- People’s memories and judgement are unreliable, especially under pressure The Checklist Manifest covers the research to add checklists in hospital surgeries that significantly reduced complications when used 📖
- This looks like a better version of my #gamedev toolkit megadoc and it's community funded! Check it and help contribute 👀
- Finished Boss Fight Books Shovel Knight! 📖 Really great insight on their creative process and collaboration as a team. But this page hit pretty hard on how close they were money wise and wondered if there was an alternative. Eg funding, grant or even an advance #gamedev
- Looking for a games job?👾🔍 Many game companies host their job openings directly on platforms like Workday and Greenhouse I made a tool to search for jobs on these platforms with Google X-ray and shows roles posted directly from the companies themselves! labsofaweso.me/find-a-job/ #gamedev
- 🕹️ Going to be busy for a while 😅
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