Mark Kern is a video games industry veteran who had been making games all of his life. After graduating from law school he founded his first games company which worked with Blizzard Entertainment. Mark is perhaps best known for being team lead on the massively successful World of Warcraft game as well as working on other classic titles including Diablo and Starcraft. In 2012 he founded the League for Gamers as a response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and today its members include avid games who promote positive gaming, good sportsmanship, research, and advocacy for their hobby.
In this episode of The Creative Life Podcast, Mark talks about revisiting one of his old games which is World Of Warcraft. He tells us how the demographic of female gamers playing World of Warcraft has grown and shares with us his process on creating games and his bad experience working with firefall.
"Show don't tell."
- Mark Kern
Mark Kern Show Notes: The creative process of games design (6:15)` Building a minimum viable product (7:40) The importance of audience participation (8:18) Vegan Death Metal Chef and The Long Tail Effect (14:33) Niche games (15:35) Tabletop Gaming (17:24) Virtual Reality Gaming (19:59) The rising cost of games (21:59) The punk philosophy of gaming (24:05) Favorite Tools: Scrivener Unity (games design tool) Favorite Book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Favorite Record: Tommy by The WhoJoin James's Facebook fans: https://www.facebook.com/jamestaylordotme
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This is The Creative Life, James Taylor's weekly YouTube show.
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ABOUT JAMES
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As a creativity expert Taylor is a frequent guest speaker at universities and international conferences. He has given keynotes and talks at Apple, Subscription Site Summit in San Francisco, the British Music Show in the UK and at several universities across Europe including University of Dundee in Scotland and University of Macerata in Italy. He is often called upon by media outlets to give his views on trends in creativity and innovation. He has been quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Columbus Dispatch, STV, Business Insider and San Jose Mercury News as well as featured on BBC TV and being the subject of a 30minute program on his life for BBC Radio Scotland. As a host on shows about creativity and innovation he has interviewed legendary investor Maynard Webb (Yahoo.com, eBay.com & Salesforce.com board member) and New York Times best-selling writers Chris Guillebeau ($100 Startup), Rolf Potts (Vagabonding), Brand Cooper (The Lean Entrepreneur) and Ryan Holiday (Trust Me I’m Lying). James is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).
Meet James at http://www.JamesTaylor.me
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ABOUT THE CREATIVE LIFE
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The Creative Life is a weekly self-improvement show full of #motivation, #inspiration, and #creativity strategies with creativity speaker and author James Taylor.
The Creative Life blog can be read at: http://www.jamestaylor.me
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