In episode 6, Susan talks with Terry Redfield, a veteran game developer, creative director, and three‑time founder with more than 25 years in console, PC, mobile, and live ops experience. From building worlds at Double Fine on Psychonauts, to leading live ops and skins teams on League of Legends, Terry’s career is a jungle gym of studios, startups, and platforms that she has navigated while parenting, caregiving, and insisting that games make room for grown‑up players with full, complicated lives.

Terry discusses developing Rise of Elements over a decade as a competitive match-three hybrid described as “Puzzle Quest meets League of Legends,” her early love of games from LED football to Atari and arcades, and breaking into the industry at 3DO before joining Double Fine to help ship Psychonauts, where internal jams helped the game in development. She recounts bootstrapping startups, fundraising challenges for women founders, raising millions, and pausing a launch to prioritize her family. Terry reflects on leading large Live Ops and skins teams at Riot, the stress and health impacts that led her to resign, learning to set boundaries, prioritize, and use her voice, and focusing her future work on building platforms and opportunities for others, particularly in her home: Hawaii.

• (00:00) - GGJPodTerryRedfield
• (00:00) - Intro
• (01:22) - Meet Terry Redfield
• (03:44) - Wicked Fox Gamess & Rise of Elements
• (12:32) - From 3DO to Double Find
• (14:10) - Jamming in the Office
• (17:48) - Terry the Founder
• (21:16) - Build your Network & Find your Tribe
• (25:38) - Navigating the "Unpolished" Side of the Industry
• (26:51) - Live Ops
• (29:44) - Learning to Balance it All
• (31:58) - Choose your Battles
• (34:19) - The Journey
• (41:01) - Wrap-up
• (41:55) - Outro

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