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Peter Adkison — Building Gen Con, Empowering Game Designers, and the Thrill of Gathering the Gaming Tribe (#30)

Think Like A Game Designer

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The Importance of Crowdsourcing in the Game Industry

I love what crowdfunding has done to the game industry. You can have interest in the line. Crowdsourcing has been a great overall net net, huge benefit to our community. It is absolutely the case that you have an ethical requirement to your shareholders and you have ethical requirements to your community, to your employees, to your business relationships. All these things have to be balanced together. And there's no easy answer. Sometimes you make a decision that you're going to regret later or wish you didn't have to make. The other thing about protecting your company's value is it allows you to be an employer longer and ultimately employ more people. So if it seems on the surface of compromising your

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