​[Experienced Game Devs on YouTube] [#dev_diary #interview #must #studio #worth_watching] In recent years there's been an influx of game devs with 20+ years of experience in AAA creating personal YouTube channels & talking about the games they've been involved with in the past, passing lessons on to the next generation of creatives, and just musing on how the industry is doing. Below is a list of some notable ones. Martin O'Donnell - ex-Bungie composer primarily known for making the Halo soundtrack. He left Bungie shortly before the release of Destiny. Lately, he's been doing interviews with various friends from the industry he's accumulated over the years. Mark Darrah - initially a Bioware developer, he became the executive producer on Dragon Age and left the studio after Anthem. He talks about his past experiences & gives advice to upcoming devs on different levels of game production. Timothy Cain - programmer, designer & producer - first at BlackIsle, then Troika Games and finally Obsidian (still does contract work for Outer Wilds 2). Original Fallout creator. Similar to Mark, he tells stories from the days past, comments on how the industry is doing & gives some good advice. Chet Faliszek - ex-Valve developer, known for being one of the writers on Portal 2 & a lead on Left 4 Dead 1/2. More recently, one of the founders of Stray Bombay / developer of Anacrusis. Gives great takes on fresh game dev news, discusses various aspects of game production & occasionally flashes back to Valve/L4D days. Laura Fryer - executive producer who had a chance to work at the biggest corporations in gaming, from Microsoft, producing Gears of War 1/2, to Epic Games (Infinity Blade 3) & Warner Brothers (Shadow of Mordor). More recently, in the 2020s, she was part of Meta's AR project. Reflects on her time in various companies, lessons learned, gives context to news & suggestions on how to do better. Dave Fried - former narrative / level designer from Blizzard, who worked on campaign missions for Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos / The Frozen Throne, and later on some of the original World of Warcraft quests. After leaving Blizzard in 2003, he worked on many other games in various studios including Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Wasteland 3 and Silent Hill: Homecoming. On his channel, Dave also has a mix of news coverage, career retrospective & opinions on what's broken in the industry. > Yeah... Consistency is still hard, too much actual development in my life still while posting here stopped being a habit for a while. But it's ok. Not rushing anywhere. And yeah, there's gonna be a bunch of updates on the projects I'm working on soon, so stay tuned.