Dave Rohrl's guest appearances

Dave Rohrl

Playmakers - The Game Industry Podcast

The Art of LiveOps

Steve Meretzky

Tommy Tallarico

Kim Swift

Jay Powell

Raph Koster

Robin Hunicke

Mike Mika

Ben Jones

Adrian Crook

Austin Walker

Chris Campbell

Lorne Lanning

Amy Jo Kim

Tim Nixon

Jason Coleman

OwlTail

Today we are joined by Dave Rohrl, who has over 25 years of experience in the games industry and currently runs a small mobile game consultancy called Mobile Game Doctor. Fun fact: Dave was the inspiration for “Crazy Dave” in Plants Vs. Zombies!In today’s episode we will learn about the rise in the adoption of a LiveOps mindset in game studios as well hear his thoughts on the biggest challenges and most common mistakes developers make when adopting this mindset.MGD is currently taking on new clients for consulting on game design, live ops, marketing, and UA. Learn more at aka.ms/mobilegamedoctor. Support the show

Today we are joined by Dave Rohrl, who has over 25 years of experience in the games industry and currently runs a small mobile game consultancy called Mobile Game Doctor. Fun fact: Dave was the inspiration for “Crazy Dave” in Plants Vs. Zombies! In today’s episode we will learn about the rise in the adoption of a LiveOps mindset in game studios as well hear his thoughts on the biggest challenges and most common mistakes developers make when adopting this mindset. MGD is currently taking on new clients for consulting on game design, live ops, marketing, and UA. Learn more at <a href="http://aka.ms/mobilegamedoctor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aka.ms/mobilegamedoctor</a>. <a href="http://microsoftgamestack.com" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>

Mobile Game Doctor: Dave Rohrl

Dave Rohrl has more than 22 years experience designing and producing online games for a mass audience.  Over the course of his career, he has led design or production on more than 50 games and overseen or consulted on dozens more and held senior positions at Pogo, PopCap, Zynga, and Playdom. In this episode, we discuss the design process, especially as it pertains to preproduction on casual games. Listen to learn why he encourages bad code and art early in the process and many of the tactics he brings to bear in order to achieve "fun" fast.   Visit www.playmakerspodcast.com to get access to the full blog post for this episode and much more!

Dave Rohrl has more than 22 years experience designing and producing online games for a mass audience.  Over the course of his career, he has led design or production on more than 50 games and overseen or consulted on dozens more and held senior positions at Pogo, PopCap, Zynga, and Playdom. In this episode, we discuss the design process, especially as it pertains to preproduction on casual games. Listen to learn why he encourages bad code and art early in the process and many of the tactics he brings to bear in order to achieve "fun" fast. Visit <a href="http://www.playmakerspodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.playmakerspodcast.com</a> to get access to the full blog post for this episode and much more!

010: Casual Gaming Design Process with Dave Rohrl