Month: February 2020

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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.

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This week the boys talk a little bit of work, before doing a DEEP dive on Darryl’s origin story. How did he break into the business? What’s the dirtiest thing he had to do? Why is he so handsome? Tune in and find out.

00:01:00 – A big update for all Patreon subs. At least we hope you’ll think it’s a big update.

00:04:20 – Work update! The company had an Ask-Me-Anything style meeting, and a UX consultant came to the studio to get us all learned up.

00:12:40 – Dave talks about his brain and how it relates to Larry David.

00:15:40 – Darryl starts is origin story off strong, with how he got into Real Sports, a video game developer based out of nowheres-ville, Illinois.

00:39:40 – After leaving Real Sports in ruins, Darryl made his way to Entertaining Games. Enter Skate Rat.

00:49:50 – Darryl does unit test software for tractors, while waiting to get in the door at Midway.