How a Cafeteria Dinner Became Indie's Global Discovery Engine
re:Play with Greg Off by Gregory Off
Episode notes
Justin Woodward has spent 14 years helping independent game developers find the audiences, press, platform partners, and publishing relationships that can change a project’s trajectory.
In this episode of re:Play, Greg Off sits down with the founder of The MIX, co-founder of Interabang Entertainment, and founder of XPerience Studios to trace the journey from an art-school kid in San Diego making his own comic-book characters and action figures, to a $30-an-hour contractor at THQ’s Incinerator studio, to one of the people who has helped create real visibility for independent games.
From Super Comboman and an early video game Kickstarter to the GDC 2012 dinner in IGN’s cafeteria that became The Media Indie Exchange, Justin shares the lessons, mistakes, mentors, and persistence behind a career built around giving great games a chance to ...