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This week, it’s all about Producing Video Games, and we're jazzed to say that we’re joined by the masterful Trent Kusters.Trent is the co-founder and production director of Melbourne-based game developers League of Geeks, responsible for digital role-playing strategy board game and international success story, Armello. He is also on the board of Freeplay (Australia's largest and longest running independent games festival), the chair of RMIT's Program Advisory Committee, a former lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, and an industry advisor to DiGRA Australia. A frequent name on the numerous 30 Under 30 lists — by the likes of MCV, Develop, Triple J, the Melbourne Writers Festival, and (the big one) Forbes — Trent is heavily invested in the future of video games as a medium; fostering and mentoring young and under-represented developers, and contributing to the community wherever possible. To cap things off, he’s also currently gamerunner on the studio’s ambitious next game, which is set to be one of Australia's largest game productions ever.Remember! We are now an ENHANCED podcast. That's right - If you listen to our podcast in Overcast or Pocket Casts, or Castro, you can get super special images, links, and chapter breaks in your player while you listen.Featured links from our discussion - Want to get these in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for our text-only tinyletter at tinyletter.com/jackywinterIntroLeague of Geekshttps://leagueofgeeks.com/Armellohttps://armello.com/Melbourne International Games Week http://gamesweek.melbourne/Interview with Trent KustersTaurus Games studio http://www.torus.com.au/Unity https://unity.com/Unreal https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/Trellohttps://trello.com/en-AUMDA frameworkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDA_frameworkNo Man’s Sky https://www.nomanssky.com/Creativity Inc. http://www.creativityincbook.com/about/Criterion studioshttp://criteriongames.com/Autonomy, mastery, purpose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvEbDzg6EhQJirahttps://www.atlassian.com/software/jiraConfluence https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluenceSlackhttps://slack.com/intl/en-au/Untitled Goose Gamehttps://goose.game/The AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook podcasthttps://www.interactive.org/Interviews/the_game_makers_notebook.aspTone Control podcast https://www.idlethumbs.net/tonecontrolOpen TabsYoutube book reveals – Jeremyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqOrBHZrNIPopsockets – Larahttps://popsockets.com.au/How To Build A Healthy, Happy Video Game – Trent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DzdaN0JbUTrent’s SocialsLeague of Geeks sitehttps://leagueofgeeks.com/League of Geeks Twitter https://twitter.com/leagueofgeeksIf you like the show or these links or think we sound like nice people, please go and leave us a rating or review on iTunes. It helps other people find the show and boosts our downloads which in turn lets us know that what we're doing is worth doing more of!To subscribe, view show notes or previous episodes head on over to our podcast page at http://jackywinter.givesyouthe.biz/Special thanks to Jacky Winter (the band, with much better shirts than us) for the music.Listen to them over at Soundcloud.Everything else Jacky Winter (us) can be found at http://www.jackywinter.com/