What is up everybody? Welcome to another episode of limited resources. This is actually a special limited resources. I've got a special

guest all the way from Renton, Washington. That's right. Wizards of the Coast headquarters. I've got Chris Keo and Chris

you work on the arena team. What is your what is your title over there I know the

titles thing is is weird but what is your title there I'm the executive

producer but hopefully I'm just the guy who gets to watch everybody else do great

work and play the results.

Oh, I like that.

That's a good viewpoint on that.

So what does an executive producer do on a project like Arena?

Yeah, it's different depending on if you're building the game or running the game since we've been

running in life for a while now.

I do a lot of the product and business management stuff.

But I also am player one in a lot of cases.

We have a game director who's great Jay Parker, but a lot of times I'll play as maybe the more

middle casual magic player and ask the dumb questions and sometimes that makes the difference. So like I said, luckily we have lots of folks who are really good at what they do and they do magic and I just try to get them the resources they need and sort of transmit the direction they're going.

And you've been, you've actually been on the arena team for a while now, right?

Like you were part of the team that implemented it originally?

Yeah, I started in late 2016, the game had been going for a little while then.

But through that and through our various open betas, we were in beta a long time with, I'm sure lots of the folks who listen.

And yeah, we climbed all of those hills got released

and launched this last year and now we feel like we're finally bringing the last

pieces together with the player draft that we just put in. Yeah, and that's really what we're here to talk about with Chris for this special interview.

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