Sophie Vo | Rise and Play

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·Jun 20

Leading Teams As A Stoic (2/2)

In a previous post, I wrote about what you can and cannot control as the Team Lead. So, what exactly do you need to focus on? Your biggest area of impact is the Team As a team lead, it’s tempting to want to control everything but the most impactful area is the team. Team Structure and Evolution I…

Games

8 min read

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·Jun 15

Leading Teams As A Stoic (1/2)

I often ask other leaders in my podcast interviews: “What keeps you up at night?” When I ask myself this question, I cannot think of anything but “How do I keep my team together on our mission to create something bigger than ourselves?” This question keeps me busy all the…

Leadership

6 min read

Aug 1, 2021

How I found my Calling in games

This article is the text transcript of the episode#07 of Rise and Play podcast. You can listen to the episode here. Today is a special episode as I decided to self-record a reflective episode about my Calling — My Why — behind Rise and Play. …

Leadership

13 min read

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·Mar 19, 2021

What I wish I knew when building a new games studio

Sophie Vo, Studio & Game Lead at Voodoo, shares her key lessons from building up Voodoo’s new studio in Berlin — It goes without saying that building up a brand new games studio is a complex task. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing in the last year or so — building a new studio at Voodoo in Berlin. What went well according to the plan? What didn’t go well? What would…

Games

10 min read