Hey All! This week on Building Better Games we look into a blind spot I see across game dev: Using QA to hit numbers, not impact players.   Too many studios define “good QA” through the lens of bugs found, features/systems covered, and time spent testing. That’s the objective side of QA. It is ne...

Everyone runs two week sprints. It's the norm, the standard, the thing we're taught.  I also think it's incorrect A LOT in game dev. Sometimes, you shouldn't be running sprints at all. Sometimes, you should be running shorter - occasionally much shorter - sprints. How do you know what the right s...

Knowing What To Do Next.   Leaders have a serious problem: there is always more to be done than time available to do it. This isn’t new, I think it’s always been this way. The main reason is a leader doesn’t have a clearly defined role at the task level. They are there to lead, to “influence othe...