What It's Like To Start A Game Studio With No Bosses (RECAST)

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry, two members of the team that made Night In The Woods, are now part of a games studio without any bosses. It's a worker co-op called The Glory Society, and at GDC 2019, Scott and Bethany dropped by the podcast to explain why they prefer bylaws to bosses. In the second half of the episode, longtime Splitscreen guest Matthew Burns came by to talk about his new visual novel about artificial intelligence and also, how cool he thinks SpeedTree is.

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0:52.4	Hello again from the Game Developers Conference.
0:54.6	My name is Jason Schreier, and I am joined, as always, by Maddie Myers.
0:58.3	Hello, I'm here.
0:59.4	And right now we are joined by the co-founders, but not really co-founders, for reasons we
1:05.3	will get to, officially titled Worker Owners of Glory Society, a brand new studio.
1:11.9	But you may know them more from their previous game Night in the Woods,
1:16.8	Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry.
1:19.3	Hello, guys.
1:20.2	Hi.
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1:21.2	Thank you both for coming on the show.
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