GAME - Law & Business

From one-man-band to rock star. The creator of Necesse, Mads Skovgaard, has taken the full journey, starting 12 years ago from scratch in every sense, even building his own game engine to support his vision of a fun and interesting game experience. Getting in touch with influencers, building updates, community management, and much more until at one day reaching the front page of Steam to discover that a vast number of players are willing to invest in spending time with their friends in the emergent worlds of Necesse.  We also talk about next steps after growing from indie to indie+ (or true independence), having a team to share your vision with, and how to develop your IP and stories in an emergent world sandbox game.  Thank you for listening. Please contact me to share your comments and ideas; LinkedIn: Robert Jønsson DAHL, Discord: video.game.lawyer, or email: roj@dahllaw.dk [https://dahllaw.dk] Special thanks to DAHL and Dennis from podcaster.dk [http://podcaster.dk/] who produced this episode. Produced in collaboration with Podcaster.dk Recorded by Dennis G. M. Jensen Editing and mix by Dennis G. M. Jensen/Podcaster.dk Music by Henrik Pahlke Møller

The Bjerregaard, Cindercats - First Person Boot-strapping  I have been looking forward to sharing this story; Producer at CinderCat Games, Thea Bjerregaard talks about life as an start-up indie studio and reveals the teams passion for dark humor that will be imminent in their upcoming First Person Booter misadventure - Glum. We also talk about being a pick of the Danish angel investor, Three Little Pigs, getting initial funding from and working with Danish investors, being part of a large founder team and about the future of Danish Games industry. After the recording of this episode, the Cindercats recently raised a pre-seed round. Congratulations! Also, the Danish games industry business association "Games Denmark" has been founded. Exciting times ahead! Thanks to Podcaster.dk [http://podcaster.dk/] for kind assistance. Also huge thanks to DAHL law firm for supporting the podcast series. I really appreciate feedback in any form, preferably via LinkedIn, Discord video.game.lawyer or via email to roj@dahllaw.dk [https://dahllaw.dk].  Produced in collaboration with Podcaster.dk Recorded by Dennis G. M. Jensen Editing and mix by Dennis G. M. Jensen/Podcaster.dk Music by Henrik Pahlke Møller

Quirky fun is on in this episode - but what else to expect from Niels Wetterberg, CEO of Invisible Walls. Niels recommends some games suitable for playing together with your kids; Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and It Takes Two. And he revels to have an eclectic taste in music! You may discover interesting facts about how Invisible Walls was ‘just getting acquired’ by Amplifier/Embracer Group, and what has followed since. Niels takes us through his background from the film industry, where he was brought up with the dogma never to take a “no” personally as there is always someone that wants to give you money. We talk about strategy and military focus on the goal; Building a business on a vision rather than just creating a game project. Invisible Walls founders’ investment vehicle called Three Little Pigs ApS has made its first investment in the Aalborg based studio, Cindercat. Main focus is about supporting and giving back to the industry. Finally, we discuss the current situation in Danish games Industry that is about to organize by itself. Please write to me with comments and ideas via LinkedIn or mail. Special thanks to DAHL Law firm and Podcaster.dk [http://podcaster.dk/].

In this episode, I have two guests in the studio; Tim Garbos from Triband and Jakob Sillesen from Multiverse/Adventure Box. They actually met each other at SYBO sharing an office space in the early days of Subway Surfer production. Triband provides a level editor in What The Car? and Multiverse has the game building platform KOGAMA. Both Tim and Jakob talk about the massive amounts of content that is being produced on their platforms - with most of it being of very little value to the public; Still, they see the beauty in the creativity and expressions of their users. We also talk about infringing content and abusive content created by users; most of this will never get much attention as Tim and Jakob both point out that it is actually difficult to create a good game (level) that gets attention, and the majority of undesired content will quickly sink into the vast abyss of poor attempts that are soon forgotten… Finally, Tim and Jakob share some thoughts on the future of user generated content; Maybe we will see some labels like “hand-crafted” or “artisan” on user generated content - in opposition to (AI) machine-produced content? I really enjoyed the company of both Jakob and Tim, and I think it is interesting to hear different perspectives on the topic. As always, I want to thank you for listening. You are also invited to contact me sharing your comments and ideas; LinkedIn, Discord, email or any other means… Thanks to DAHL law firm, in particular Rasmus and Marcus for their research Special thanks to Gorm, Henrik, Dennis and Casper from Podcaster.dk [http://podcaster.dk/] who produced this episode

In this episode Ulas Karademir is my guest. Ulas is CEO of TMRW Denmark ApS, working on RealityOS; and former VP of Core Engeneering at UNITY.Ulas recently played Mount & Blade and is listening to jazz from Mali. We learn about Ulas’ background, coming from Turkey to Denmark; playing basketball at a high level (pun intended!), learning C++ and ending up working in Danish Game studios. Ulas shares some deep insights on game engines and also on the three pillars of a successful game studio. We discuss the idea of an “Everything Engine” that Ulas refers to as the “feature soup”. When we talk about legal issues, Ulas is using the Danish word “boremaskine” - it simply means drilling machine (but you probably already guessed that…) Finally, we touch upon the future of (game) engines, where Ulas discloses some interesting information about his current project with RealityOS. If you want to work with Ulas on the Next Big Thing, you are hereby invited to contact him on LinkedIn. You are also invited to contact me sharing your comments and ideas; LinkedIn, Discord, email or any other means… Thank you for listening! Thanks to DAHL law firm, in particular Rasmus and Marcus for their research assistance. Thanks to Gorm, Henrik, Dennis and Casper from Podcaster.dk [http://podcaster.dk/] who produced this episode. Produced in collaboration with Podcaster.dk Recorded by Casper Christensen Editing and mix by Dennis G. M. Jensen/Podcaster.dk Music by Henrik Pahlke Møller