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WIKY S2E24 | Humble Bundle, The Sims, Indie Dev - Rodrigo Aguilar Interview
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"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Two, Episode Twenty Four - Nick Rounds chats with Rodrigo Aguilar, a game developer he used to work with at Zynga. These days, Rodrigo is working at Netflix Games as an Executive Producer, but has charted an unconventional course through working at Electronic Arts, Zynga, Kixeye, Humble Bundle, and being an indie dev. Nick and Rodrigo also chat about classic games, classic toys, and how Rodrigo broke into the games industry.
(00:00) Cold Open
(01:28) Intro
(02:29) Making time to play games
(04:00) Video Game Origin Story
(13:13) Breaking into the Games Industry
(25:44) Working for EA / Maxis
(35:06) Working for Zynga
(45:57) Prisma Wave Indie Dev
(55:41) Kixeye / Humble Bundle
(1:07:08) Outro
Links:
Rodrigo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/spryrobot WIKY
Links:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnKlbmlpWh5KX-P5Dl0yJg
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2eN2tLoDhthO3oonA9I9So
Instagram: https://instagram.com/waitiknowyoupodcast/
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@waitiknowyoupod
Twitter https://twitter.com/WaitIKnow
Website https://waitiknowyoupodcast.com/
Everything else: https://linktr.ee/wikypodcast
Intro/Outro Bump - Alizeh Winter "Sister Cities" https://youtu.be/66sR1vPtL2k
#humblebundle #thesims #zynga #ea #netflixgames
42 episodes
Manage episode 332438888 series 3303956
"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Two, Episode Twenty Four - Nick Rounds chats with Rodrigo Aguilar, a game developer he used to work with at Zynga. These days, Rodrigo is working at Netflix Games as an Executive Producer, but has charted an unconventional course through working at Electronic Arts, Zynga, Kixeye, Humble Bundle, and being an indie dev. Nick and Rodrigo also chat about classic games, classic toys, and how Rodrigo broke into the games industry.
(00:00) Cold Open
(01:28) Intro
(02:29) Making time to play games
(04:00) Video Game Origin Story
(13:13) Breaking into the Games Industry
(25:44) Working for EA / Maxis
(35:06) Working for Zynga
(45:57) Prisma Wave Indie Dev
(55:41) Kixeye / Humble Bundle
(1:07:08) Outro
Links:
Rodrigo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/spryrobot WIKY
Links:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnKlbmlpWh5KX-P5Dl0yJg
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2eN2tLoDhthO3oonA9I9So
Instagram: https://instagram.com/waitiknowyoupodcast/
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@waitiknowyoupod
Twitter https://twitter.com/WaitIKnow
Website https://waitiknowyoupodcast.com/
Everything else: https://linktr.ee/wikypodcast
Intro/Outro Bump - Alizeh Winter "Sister Cities" https://youtu.be/66sR1vPtL2k
#humblebundle #thesims #zynga #ea #netflixgames
42 episodes
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