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How One Big Game Studio Avoids Crunch

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4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

E3 2019: Jason Schreier talks to Dave Lang, founder and C3PO of Iron Galaxy, about what it's like to run a large game studio that avoids excessive overtime, how to create a culture of healthy work-life balance, and why his title is C3PO.

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0:00.0

Hello, Kentucky's a meeting from the J.W. Maria right next to the E3 show for her. This is Jason Schreier, and I am sitting here with the one and only Dave Lang.

0:12.0

Hello, Dave. Hello, Jason. So we were just talking about your title. You are the founder and co-C3PO. No, just exclusive C3PO. What does that mean? I mean, it means you're a robot.

0:21.5

I was the CEO.

0:23.0

Then we brought in Adam to do my job because I didn't want to do that job anymore.

0:26.6

Adam Boy is formerly a PlayStation.

0:29.1

And I need to do title because he's the CEO.

0:31.2

And we thought about doing like co-CEO things, but I'm like, I don't really care about

0:34.8

that. So people that do business with us, they expect to deal like, oh, I should be talking to the C level people.

0:41.1

So I had to give myself some title in the C suite.

0:44.3

And I think it's stupid.

0:46.1

I hate it.

0:46.7

And so I came up with the most ridiculous thing I possibly could, which was C3PO. you meet like an executive like bobicadic when you hang out with bobby ccotic which i assume you do all the time every sunday yeah you say hey i'm the c3 p o of iron galaxy so i don't ever say it okay i just

1:00.3

generally what i'll say is founder okay and then but my business card doesn't actually say c3PO

1:05.1

and when i slide it across the table to whoever it is uh-huh know, it's one of two reactions. It's either they don't bat

1:10.8

an eye because they didn't actually read it. Or they're like, ha ha, ha, ha, protocol, droid.

1:17.2

Okay, got it. So for those people out there who have not heard of you guys, who have not

1:23.3

followed your many appearances in the giant Bama sphere. What is Iron Galaxy exactly?

1:28.2

So we are a developer based out of Chicago and Orlando.

1:31.6

We have been around for a little over 10 years.

1:33.7

Yep.

1:34.0

Since the midway implosion, correct?

1:35.5

The midway implosion, yeah.

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