Building Better Games
Hosted by Ben and Ben Carcich · Benjamin Carcich
4.9from 66 ratings
- 189
- Episodes
- 35
- Transcribed
- 66
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 268K
- YouTube views
About Building Better Games
Leadership in game dev is hard. I can't make it easy, but I can make it a heck of a lot better. My name is Benjamin Carcich, and this podcast helps leaders in game dev who feel stuck, ignored, and out of options find their path to success. I've spent the last several decades studying and leading in environments ranging from the U.S. Army through to game development. I want to share what I've learned. Better leadership is a huge opportunity in the games industry. Let's make it better together. Better leaders build better games.
- Publisher
- Benjamin Carcich
- Category
- business · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Mar 2021
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
35 of 189 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
E150: Why AAA Experience Is Working Against Game Dev Leaders
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
E149: Why ONE of Your Game Teams Decides Your Ship Date
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
E148: Why AAA Game Studios Won't Save Themselves
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E150: Why AAA Experience Is Working Against Game Dev Leaders
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's like, well, they have internal reasons. They have stockholders and orgs to go through. You also, so two things, one, the idea of that maladaptive pressure, those people that were in the fan companies on the tech side and in the live service or franchise based games, on the game side of things, they all adapted to a world where product market fit was already established. And it was about the maintenance of that rather than the development of something new. Um, and so that, that is a, I'm not saying one person can't do both. They absolutely can. We, we both know people who have done both of those things successfully. […]
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- Leif Johansen
- Benjamin Carcich
- Richard Dansky
- Zach Letter
- Colan Neese
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- YouTube views
- 268,061
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 11 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 55 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 91 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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Ben and Ben Carcich host the show. Published by Benjamin Carcich.
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