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Molly Glover is a game developer for Fantasy Flight Games. I spoke to her at Escape Velocity 2018 about how she got into the business, her inspirations, the gaming business and what she does in the field.

1:15 – Molly Glover talks about how she first got into game development. She started in games sales. She then moved into development and production. She started as a geeky child who played a lot of games.

3:50 – She did LARPing when young and as an adult she got more into it including Arkham Horror.

5:30 – She read a lot of large novels when she was young. Stephen King was an influence.

7:20 – When she worked in sales, she dealt with some people who didn’t think girls understood games well enough and preferred dealing with men. But things have gotten better in the last few years.

9:05 – She’s a big Star Wars and Marvel fan. She also likes Asimov and Star Trek.

11:50 – She used to be on Citadel BBSs and played those games like Legends of the Red Dragon.

12:50 – There’s a lot of narrative in games now. There are a lot of young people in gaming too.

16:50 – The average person can find good educational games on Amazon or local game stores. There are a lot of brick and mortar game stores. People can also write to the game manufacturers to get games.

19:20 – Talking to people at conventions and just playing games are good ways to get inspired for new game development.

20:10 – She always wanted to be able to teleport.

21:50 – We discuss gamifying game production itself. Non gaming industries should try to gamify their workplaces.

 

Links of interest

Fantasy Flight Games – https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/index/

 

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Guests: Molly Glover

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, fantasy, board games, arkham horror, game development, educational games, Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, Fantasy Flight games, Cosmic Encounter