Unpacking Japan | Why this Rockstar developer left his job to make games in Japan @unpackingjapan | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Meet Liam, a British game developer, who shares his journey from working in the world's biggest game companies to starting his own studio in Kyoto, Japan.

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⏰Timestamps⏰
0:00 Intro
0:32 Meet Liam
1:42 Working at Rockstar Games
4:34 Escaping to Japan
6:01 Teaching English in Okayama
8:30 Moving to the Japanese games industry
12:45 Japanese vs. Western approach in development
16:27 Japanese game studio offices are super boring
19:01 Opening his own studio
25:56 How to get investment as an international studio in Japan
30:16 Going viral in Japan
33:23 Second wave of popularity through Covid
35:39 What he learned from going viral
41:23 Liam's creative process
45:56 Explaining Project Tanuki
49:42 Japanese games have a better creative vision
52:43 How to market your game
1:00:57 Biggest challenges for indie studios
1:06:16 Advice to aspiring game developers

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twitter.com/denkiworks
https://www.denkiworks.games/

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