I posted this on my LinkedIn, but it bears repeating to all the hiring decision-makers who don't bother looking at my LinkedIn:
Let me make something perfectly clear about mobile games: the work I've done *counts*.
Shipping and supporting live multiplayer games enjoyed by *millions* of players counts.
Crunching under the pressure of insane deadlines and *multimillion-dollar budgets* counts.
Telling expansive stories across *hundreds of hours of gameplay* counts.
Collaborating across multidisciplinary internal and external teams...
...working in-engine and with git workflows...
...pitching concepts to and negotiating resources with C-suite...
...building narrative tools and content pipelines...
...hiring and leading writers and narrative designers...
...championing story and driving creative direction...
...interfacing with players and iterating on their feedback...
...counts, counts, counts, counts, counts, counts, counts.
It all counts. So stop discounting games that happen to come in the mobile form factor.
Stop discounting me.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk 😤