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California Gold Rush

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Here at Digital Chocolate, we recently released California Gold Rush for both iPhone (get it from AppStore) and Mobile and here’s some design insights into the development of the game that has already garnered some critical reviews.

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Team Leadership in the Game Industry

picture-1The one and currently only book about team leadership in the game industry, all the other books of the same vein will follow what Seth Spaulding did first. So how is it?

Seth definitely has the credentials to write a book about leadership. His credits date back to 1995 and he’s worked his share of Command & Conquer, Mechwarrior, Civilization etc. to name a few. Currently an Art Director at Firaxis, Seth visited Finland couple of years ago and I briefly met the guy while working at Bugbear. Unexpectedly, part of his experiences with finnish game studios has been recorded in the book, in a positive light.

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