GDC 2018: NeoBards is Giving a Speech on Producer Bootcamp at Tutorials

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Al Yang, Design Director of NeoBards is going to give a speech at this year’s GDC Producer Bootcamp: Trust and Tribulations: A Crash Course in Team Leadership.

Al has been working on Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition and Shards of War in a director capacity and as a designer on Fallen Legion, PlayStation All- Stars, and several THQ franchises. Before that, he has spent his game development career across multiple platforms and monetization structures throughout Asia, Europe, and the USA. He is particularly interested in how culture and perception shapes creativity and development ethos.

Good team leadership is one of the most highly discussed topics on paper, but experiencing it firsthand is often an entirely different beast. His talk will explore 3 key lessons learned the hard way from being suddenly thrust into a first-time leadership position, using failure and success stories from Shards of War and Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition.

Al joined NeoBards in 2017 as Design Director, leading a new AAA game project, aiming to be released in 2019. His past leadership experiences continue to drive him towards his goal: become an excellent game developer.


Tutorials Speech @ GDC

About NeoBards Entertainment
Created in February 2017 by a team of industry veterans, NeoBards regroups some of the excellent talents in Taiwan and overseas. Located in Taiwan, NeoBards now has 85 employees dedicating to Console, PC and Mobile platforms. The core founding partners spent more than 20 years in the game industry, worked on AAA titles for Sony, Activisions, Square Enix, Capcom, EA, Ubisoft, and more.

JIRA Solution from Atlassian: NeoBards Takes Project Management and Business Optimization to Whole New Level

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NeoBards Entertainment brought in comprehensive JIRA solutions from Atlassian, including JIRA Core, JIRA Software and JIRA Service Desk. This helps the Bards to work in a convenient and efficient development environment, by creating a systematic workflow, from task tracking, project management to business management.

 

Here at NeoBards, we strive to develop AAA games, which means our employees are often working on large-scale productions, under time pressure, heavy workloads, and large amounts of communication. With Jira’s support to track problems in task assignment, the Bards are able to have a clear grip on potential risks that may be brought on by multifaceted communication.

In addition, having Confluence as a complementing software for project team, accumulation of messages is built on a more knowledge-based style of operation management. Besides production environment, NeoBards also utilizes Jira for business management and administrative operations, in order to establish internal organizational communications and customize workflows pertaining to different business aspects.

The process of game development is filled with changes and challenges. NeoBards work smart by using software to help our production team identify problems early, effectively track work progress, and implement better risk management. This allows the teams to have more time for game development, and achieve AAA quality. NeoBards also collaborates with Atlassian for professional consultancy and training courses, to ensure top quality is evidential throughout all details.

NeoBards is Officially a Nintendo Switch Developer

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Nintendo Switch made its grand launch in March 2017. Since then, more than 13 million units were sold, as of October 2017. During the 7 months of sales period in USA, Switch reigned TOP 1 of the console sales ranking. Nintendo estimates 16 million units to be sold by March 2018.
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NeoBards Grand Opening

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Founded in February 2017, NeoBards Entertainment was established by a group of game veterans from all over the world, who enjoys telling stories, while carrying legendary tales.
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