My Biggest Production Hack

01/07/2025 5 min
My Biggest Production Hack

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Episode Synopsis

As a game producer with over 15 years experience in the games industry, what’s my favourite production hack? When you hear what I say you’ll either thing I’m lazy or a genius, you decide!

Game production is often about a lot of grunt work without many hacks. My hack relies on the facts that there is no perfect way to make a game, game terminology is inconsistent, and plans always need to change when making games. I’ll talk in detail about what I do and I’ll even give you a bonus hack too.

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Jenn’s Generally Good Game Production Advice: My favourite production hack
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Question & The Hack
02:23 Why my hack works #1: No perfect way to make games
02:39 Why my hack works #2: Terminology is inconsistent
03:32 Why my hack works #3: Plans need to change
04:26 tl;dr Summary
05:00 Wrap

Jenn’s Generally Good Game Production Advice is an advice column for our modern ages and for game developers everywhere. Topics covered will help you ship your game on time, on budget, with a happy team no matter whether you are a producer or someone else on the game team.