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Join industry trailblazers Karrie Shao and Teddy Dief, as they share their incredible careers in the gaming Indutsry.
Karrie Shirou Shao is the lead narrative designer and lead writer on Pacific Drive, a 2024 Top 10 Best Selling & Top 30 Most Wishlisted Upcoming Game on Steam. Her writing was praised as ""funny and compelling"" by GamesRadar, ""exquisite"" by ScreenRant, and ""heartful"" by DreadCentral. She started her career as one of the first women to write and produce at Riot Games on League of Legends, contributing to champions including Lux, Sona, Talon, and Trundle. She went on to launch over 50 titles in a collection of roles: narrative designer, writer, editor (Per Aspera, Not Tonight 2, Totemic), producer (Hello Neighbor, Streets of Rogue), marketing & communications director (Space Channel 5 VR, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Terra Battle 2), and event producer (Psychonauts 2, Sayonara Wild Hearts), and more.
Teddy Dief is an award-winning independent game designer & director based in Los Angeles & Tokyo. Teddy co-designed bestselling RPG Hyper Light Drifter, and directed the Peabody-winning videogame + pop music project OFK. Teddy was Formerly Creative Director at Square Enix Montréal, game designer at Disney & Xbox, and game narrative researcher at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Co-founder of interactive artist collective Glitch City. Teddy’s independent games work has garnered honors from The Peabody Awards, The Game Awards, Independent Games Festival, Game Developers Choice Awards, BAFTA & more. They speak about games & storytelling around the world at events including the Game Developers Conference, PAX, GDC China, Gamescom Brasil, IndieCade, Pixelatl, & Melbourne International Games Week, and perform in concert as lead vocalist for the OFK pop group. They have been featured in publications such as NME, The Verge, Engadget, Polygon, SPIN, Forbes, Vice, Polygon & Rolling Stone. Teddy hosts and produces events such as the Chocobowl charity livestream, IndieCade Innovation Awards, and Idle Thumbs Playscape podcast, and promotes the healthy development of games as an artform for human expression and shared experience.
Recorded on Sunday, 13th October 2024 at 3:00pm in the Quokka Theatre
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Join industry trailblazers Karrie Shao and Teddy Dief, as they share their incredible careers in the gaming Indutsry.
Karrie Shirou Shao is the lead narrative designer and lead writer on Pacific Drive, a 2024 Top 10 Best Selling & Top 30 Most Wishlisted Upcoming Game on Steam. Her writing was praised as ""funny and compelling"" by GamesRadar, ""exquisite"" by ScreenRant, and ""heartful"" by DreadCentral. She started her career as one of the first women to write and produce at Riot Games on League of Legends, contributing to champions including Lux, Sona, Talon, and Trundle. She went on to launch over 50 titles in a collection of roles: narrative designer, writer, editor (Per Aspera, Not Tonight 2, Totemic), producer (Hello Neighbor, Streets of Rogue), marketing & communications director (Space Channel 5 VR, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Terra Battle 2), and event producer (Psychonauts 2, Sayonara Wild Hearts), and more.
Teddy Dief is an award-winning independent game designer & director based in Los Angeles & Tokyo. Teddy co-designed bestselling RPG Hyper Light Drifter, and directed the Peabody-winning videogame + pop music project OFK. Teddy was Formerly Creative Director at Square Enix Montréal, game designer at Disney & Xbox, and game narrative researcher at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Co-founder of interactive artist collective Glitch City. Teddy’s independent games work has garnered honors from The Peabody Awards, The Game Awards, Independent Games Festival, Game Developers Choice Awards, BAFTA & more. They speak about games & storytelling around the world at events including the Game Developers Conference, PAX, GDC China, Gamescom Brasil, IndieCade, Pixelatl, & Melbourne International Games Week, and perform in concert as lead vocalist for the OFK pop group. They have been featured in publications such as NME, The Verge, Engadget, Polygon, SPIN, Forbes, Vice, Polygon & Rolling Stone. Teddy hosts and produces events such as the Chocobowl charity livestream, IndieCade Innovation Awards, and Idle Thumbs Playscape podcast, and promotes the healthy development of games as an artform for human expression and shared experience.
Recorded on Sunday, 13th October 2024 at 3:00pm in the Quokka Theatre
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