Paananen: Most large game studios focus on control over creative teams
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Ilkka Paananen, co-founder and CEO of Supercell, reflects on traditional game industry culture prior to founding Supercell with an autonomous cell model.
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“The irony, I think, about many games companies, and, you know, ours at the time included, is that many companies are focused on actually everything else but the teams that create the actual games. So many of the, especially the bigger game companies are very top-down management exercises, creative control through different kinds of control mechanisms like processes and such.”
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