Cloud Imperium Games: Spotlight - Austin, TX

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1. 00:00:05

   [Music] Austin is by far the best studio everyone's really relaxed and honestly this has become my family everyone cares for everyone else we respect each other's discipline will you display the differences we're a very tight knit group I think that's what makes it really worth it to be here trying to think of something that's not cheesy or cliche the first thing you notice when you come into this studio we've definitely got that keep Austin weird vibe going lights are low those those kind of change depending on people's moods for instance the QA team may have it on yellow if they're testing a build sometimes some of the engineers don't like specific colors my least favorite is is I think probably yellow stretched looked like a super buffet we just changed it when they're out at lunch you can come to Austin there's really smart

2. 00:00:56

   people doing really cool stuff and then you know in the evening you can go have a margarita down by the river and you know watch the bats come out and do whatever you know we're responsible for live operations in Austin so everything that's live to our fans online like the players traffic gets run through the servers that we run it's like as if you are have your hand in the bulbs of the community you can see the concurrency going up and down people turn it into the habit to play in the game getting excited about it you never know what you're gonna do in a given day okay we got this problem or this thing's going on we need help with this what our players do about this what are they saying about that you just never know what you're gonna do you no longer feel like you're you know in it

3. 00:01:44

   you know by yourself as developers it's like you know now you feel the full weight of this vast community over two million people that are right there with you every step of the way you