What Keeps Studio Execs Up At Night?

The 'Game Changers' conference featured a panel of games industry executives comprising CEO Chris Wood, COO Viktorya Hollings and general counsel Daniel Goodall and Tim Marin, exploring the myriad of challenges involved in running a games business and navigating challenges from both a commercial and legal perspective.

Keeping teams utilised and operations resilient

One key and perennial pressure for a team like Chris Wood's Tanglewood Games studio is utilisation. Tanglewood is a service business, providing outsourced engineering and platform porting services to the games industry. The level of utilisation of its employees has a massive impact on their profitability, and is a major challenge given the ongoing uncertainty in the broader games industry. Tanglewood have been able to manage this through occupying a well-defined niche, being the best at what they do, and growing carefully. COO Viktorya Hollings of the studio Just add water reflected on the cyclical