In Third Person Exclusive Interview with Video Game Production Manager Liza Wood

In general, we as gamers aren’t that familiar with the process of video game creation. It’s easy to assume that there are people writing code, designing graphics, and generating sound, but there’s a lot more to it than that.Liza Wood is a Senior Production Manager in the video game industry. By chance, we struck up an interesting conversation in the comments of my Dreams of Working in the Game-Making Industry post, and thought it’d be worthwhile to formalize this conversation into an interview. Without further ado, here’s my interview with Liza, where we discuss her role as a project manager in video game development.

Dreams of Working in the Game-Making Industry

Do you have dreams of making video games? If so, are you actively honing your skills? Or are your dreams simmering in the back of your mind till the time comes?

There was a brief moment in time as a kid when I listed “video game maker” as one of my dream jobs. Though I had no idea what the process of making a video game entailed, it seemed like a logical occupation to aim for because of my love for the medium. I sort of wish I could tell you that my story ends happily ever after with the dream game-making job (whatever that means), but my story may at least be blog post worthy.

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