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Greetings from the Team GFB Bunker, where everything is fine and nothing is wrong at all in the world. This week, Dave talks to Mike Bilder of Jackbox Games.

2:00 Mike Bilder introduces himself and Jackbox Games

5:40 Mike and Dave talk about retro games and gaming with kids

11:05 Mike’s time at Purdue (College Years), his change from EE to CS

15:00 First job at Motorola, getting into Midway

19:00 Getting into Midway, Sports Station Cabinet

22:05 interviewing for Midway

25:05 Mike Bilder says you should always make a demo if you want to get into games (all caps with a clap in each space)

28:00 Tangent about Motorola internal competition that happens during 2 weeks notice (and that’s where he met his wife)

31:25 First day at Midway

35:25 “And that’s when all of coin op was shuttered”

41:10 The Money Matches Era

46:15 Crunching on Blitz 2002

50:00 Transitioning to leadership

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It’s an brief update on Quarantine status from the bois, then they get to answering some emails. The emails cover a wide range of topics, from parenting tips to the nitty-gritty details of how IG handles some of its port work, there’s truly something in here for everyone.

We’re also happy to say the GFB Discord is up and running, and some true CCGs have already filled its ranks. You may join them here.

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Hey all, first off, the GFB Discord is live and you can jump on it here.

If you sub to Dave on Twitch, permissions should be setup automatically for you over on Discord land, if you support this podcast via Patreon please head over to Patreon and DM the bois your Discord ID from there, and they will get you squared away shortly thereafter.

This week the bois are back together for the first time since everything got weird and scary. They talk about life when you don’t leave the house, and what games they’ve been playing.

00:02:00 – The bois start talking about transitioning to work from home, and how their families are adjusting.

00:26:40 – Dave is feeling the itch to build something, and it’s gonna be a wine rack. If you want to know exactly what he’s building, he’s using this video as a guide.

00:35:45 – Dave and Darryl talk about Shop Class in High School, and how it was Dave’s personal House of Horrors. But he learned a lot, so there’s that.

00:40:00 – The bois talk Animal Crossing, Battletech, and TFT. Holy crap they’ve played so many games.

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We’re back this week with two Game Dev Origin stories. While these fine people aren’t everyday names in Game Dev lore, they are two people that inspire me and keep my energy up for doing this crazy job day after day. On today’s cast:

Alicia Cano: Engineer, and life-long Floridian. She has been at Iron Galaxy long enough to remember Kiran falling down the stairs during the Holiday Party, so she’s seen some shit, listen up.

Tom Angus: I’ve worked with Tom on three (!) different occasions now. Once at Kodiak, once at Microsoft, and now (hopefully finally) at Iron Galaxy. You’ll never find a more positive person in all your days, so stop searching.

Next week Dave and Darryl will be back. Neither can leave the house, so I don’t know what they are going to speak on, but tune in regardless!

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We’ve got another Game Dev origin story this week, we’re back with Chris Tilton, composer and indie game dev. Turns out Chris has worked on a very impressive catalog of movies, television shows, and video games, more-so than I would have dared guess.

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Hey all, sorry this is a little late today, was trying to get the video for my YouTube that accompanies this together, and wanted to co-publish both things. Video is still not ready, but I’m going to throw the audio up regardless.

This was Live from PAX East 2020, the Let’s Rank It! panel. We laughed, we cried, we ranked many things. Please enjoy.

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No bespoke show notes this week because Dave is at PAX putting in the Lord’s Work. Some travel stories, Dave’s video game origin story, and many laughs in-between. Please enjoy.

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This week Dave and Andrea Renee of What’s Good Games chop it up, hot of the heels of a hectic DICE. The two chat a bit about Destiny and The Division before diving into Andrea’s origin story, it’s a doozy so buckle up.

00:03:20 – Andrea lets everyone know who she is, and what she’s been up to recently. Then Dave and Andrea chat about some games they’ve been playing.

00:11:00 – Andrea starts off with how she broke into the video game business.

00:20:40 – Andrea heads to LA as part of the National Student Exchange, enter Cal State LA.

00:51:00 – Andrea has her “LA Moment” thanks to Rock Band and gets on a reality TV show.

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Another road show this week, live from DICE 2020 Las Vegas. Illfonic’s Gio Corsi rides shotgun with Dave, wherein they talk in vague generalities about the industry, before diving into Gio’s video gaming origin story.

After that, Dave chat’s with Tara Bruno of Tara Bruno PR. They celebrate their friendship-versary, and then dive into Tara’s history in the industry.

00:06:00 – Gio gets into his origin story, starting with EA Vancouver.

00:16:00 – Gio gets into digital animation at Mainframe Entertainment.

00:18:50 – Time for a re-entry into video games, enter Propaganda Entertainment.

00:22:30 – Dave almost worked with Gio at Midway. Almost!

00:27:00 – Gio and family pull up stakes and heads to Singapore to work at Lucas Arts.

00:38:20 – Tara Bruno jumps on the pod, and starts by explaining who she is and what she does. Dave & Tara also celebrate their 4-year friendship-versary huzzah!

00:42:50 – Tara describes her start in the industry at GT Interactive.

00:47:50 – Tara jumps to Edelman, and quickly determined being at a large agency wasn’t for her.

00:48:30 – Tara jumps around and a few different PR jobs before opening her own company.

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Dave and John Vignocchi happened to be at the same place at the same time, and recorded an absolute BANGER of a podcast. JV details his game-dev origin story, and Dave learned how to love a woman and scold a child.

00:08:00 – JV begins his origin tale. First stop: president of Enigma Gaming. MYSTERIOUS.

00:18:00 – JV starts stalking Mark Turmell, and a career at Midway Games was born.

00:29:55 – JV finds fitting in at Midway Games was difficult. He got dunked on regularly. This is one of those stories.

00:46:20 – JV and Dave get into the details surrounding their departure from Midway.

00:55:00 – JV tells the story about how he almost ruined Rihanna’s career.