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- ▶ 3:35:21 David Rosenthal GameCraft Season Three, GameCraft podcast.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 2:31 Ben Gilbert Incredible podcast called GameCraft that chronicles the history of the gaming industry from the business perspective.
- ▶ 4:05 David Rosenthal Well, I think an appropriate place to start might be what inspired the two of you to go talk about this and create GameCraft and create this podcast.
- ▶ 7:08 David Rosenthal I think one of the super cool things for me, and the reason why Gamecraft, I think, has been listened to by far more people than just in the games industry, is that this dynamic applies to a lot of industries.
- ▶ 8:50 Mitch Lasky I wrote about a 200 page manuscript, um, and I, the idea, and those of you who haven't listened to GameCraft, who are, who are listening to this podcast, uh, it's basically eight episodes, but they're topical episodes, and so we, we…
- ▶ 14:22 Ben Gilbert So, I mean, I think one of my big takeaways from Gamecraft is, uh, gaming is not for teenage boys.
- ▶ 16:46 Ben Gilbert So we were going back and forth before recording here on sort of big takeaways from GameCraft, and this is one of
- ▶ 18:31 Ben Gilbert Going into listening to GameCraft, I sort of had this high-level idea that there's more durability in the video game industry now than there used to be.
- ▶ 26:37 Blake Robbins Which is really the essence, and we talked about this in episode two of GameCraft, where it's actually releasing the game, like we're talking about with Half-Life, and it's like this sneaky route of,
- ▶ 37:25 David Rosenthal Yeah, you mentioned that a little bit on the series, on the Gamecraft series of Nintendo siding with Microsoft.
- ▶ 38:03 Mitch Lasky I'm interested in revolutionary business models and Gamecraft is really about that, right?
- ▶ 52:55 Ben Gilbert Also, Blizzard, as you pointed out on Gamecraft, only an independent company that had to figure out its funding for three years.
- ▶ 1:05:57 David Rosenthal If you had made Gamecraft two years ago, that would not be the case.
- ▶ 1:23:46 David Rosenthal You end Gamecraft, to my mind, kind of on a hopeful note about that.
- ▶ 1:33:33 Mitch Lasky And like Twitch and like YouTube gaming and other things where there was this incredible feedback loop, and we talk about this a bit in our user-generated content episode in GameCraft, you know, Minecraft, for example, where they're, they…
- ▶ 1:57:11 Ben Gilbert Well, a way that we wanted to kind of bring this episode home is you guys recorded GameCraft in full before getting any input from the outside world.
- ▶ 2:12:14 David Rosenthal Which I've texted you about, but I want to now make it, you know, live in public, which is I really think you should continue the GameCraft podcast.
- ▶ 2:13:35 Ben Gilbert Well, everyone should definitely check out the GameCraft podcast.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:23:02 David Senra I'm like, oh, cause the thing is, um, going back to like, um, did you guys listen to Gamecraft, Blake Robbins?
- ▶ 1:24:52 David Senra And you realize that you can, the business model matters, which is why I brought up Gamecraft.
- ▶ 3:16:54 David Senra Blake and Mitch, Blake Robbins and Mitch Lasky made the point in, uh, one of their Gamecraft episodes that I never even thought of.