AMA with Buddy Sola from Akupara Games

Hello everyone! We hosted an AMA with Buddy Sola, Community Manager at Akupara Games. Listen to him talk about topics ranging from company culture, interviewing tips, and their closed Marketing Strategist & Game Publishing Producer roles!

<aside> 💡 You can listen to the full audio recording above! We’ve broken down all the questions and topics below so you can get a nice feel for what was discussed, and also included some memorable quotes from Richard!

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0:00:00 A bit of an introduction from Buddy!
0:01:00 A little bit about the roles they had open, and why.
0:02:30 How Akupara works as a publishing company, and what kind of clients do they take on.
0:06:50 How did he go from Square Enix to Akupara Games.
0:10:10 Some key differences between Square Enix and Akupara, going from AAA to indie.
0:13:40 What kind of things they were looking for for both open roles.
0:17:00 Buddy describes Akupara and its culture in his own words.
0:19:00 How he went from a place that already had an established process (typically AAA) versus having less/none (typically Indie).
0:22:05 Problem solvers - what every job app is looking for.
0:26:00 How has the company changed since Buddy joined.
0:27:50 How big are the teams/company?
0:29:20 So this is a backfill for a role, not a new one? Why is that?

Hello everyone! We hosted an AMA with Buddy Sola****, Community Manager at Akupara Games. Listen to him talk about topics ranging from company culture, interviewing tips, and their closed Marketing Strategist & Game Publishing Producer roles!****

Hello everyone! We hosted an AMA with Buddy Sola, Community Manager at Akupara Games. Listen to him talk about topics ranging from company culture, interviewing tips, and their closed Marketing Strategist & Game Publishing Producer roles!