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#7 - Job Stability, Quality of Life, and the Mafia with Iron Galaxy's Dave Lang

58 min • 20 mars 2020

Dave Lang, the super snazzy founder of Iron Galaxy Studios, joins the GDC Podcast to talk about creating a studio that's built to last, quality of life in the game industry, and old rumors about Midway Games and the mafia.

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