In this episode, Osama Dorias goes into the different skillset requirements between a maker position and a leadership position. In addition, he shares different managerial styles to improve collaboration in a diverse game dev team setting. He also dives into how to deal with mistreatment in the workplace as an entry-level game development professional and thrive.

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Osama Dorias is the Senior Partner Relations Manager at Unity Technologies. In the past, he's worked as a senior and lead game designer at studios such as Warner Brothers, Gameloft, GEE Media, Ubisoft, and Minority Media.

Currently Osama teaches game design at Dawson College, where he loves to empower people in expressing themselves through game making. He has hosted game jams, workshops and other community activities to this end, which culminated in co-founding the Montreal Independent Games Awards.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
3:59 Osama initial intention coming into the industry
4:43 How Osama end up working with different games and genres
7:00 Advice for aspiring game design students to choose their sub-discipline
9:05 How to be passionate about work on a game genre you have no interest in
11:19 What is progression system in game design
17:34 Why game designer must be flexible
24:45 Why is leadership training needed
25:44 How to contextually adapt your managerial style
38:39 How to stand up for yourself in a junior game dev role when you face prejudice & ignorance
56:43 How to resolve mistreatment inside your team

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@gamedesignskills - Game Design Skills
@Xelnath - Alex
@ari_the_faery - Ari

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