Speaker – Julian Gosiengfiao
Julian is a new arrival to Christchurch, bringing 16 years of game design, product and leadership experience with him. He previously served as the product owner and design director for Subway Surfers City at SYBO, taking the game team from inception to soft launch, and levelling up SYBO’s new games pipeline. In his spare time, he likes surfskating, improv & theater, urban dance and solo gamedev projects.
6:15 PM – KICK OFF
Welcome to the Christchurch Game Developers Meetup, with news from around New Zealand!
6:30 PM – Preserving Judgement and Collaboration in Gamedev
In this session, Julian will run through “natural barriers” to everyday judgement and collaboration he’s encountered across multiple midsize teams (8~25) and studios, and the general solves he’s seen repeated from team to team. This is a talk for designers, producers, leaders or anyone finding themselves in a position to influence their team’s daily ways of working. (This is a preview/test-run of a talk for NZGDC 2025. Ask questions, give feedback or just pull faces from the back row, all feedback is good feedback!)
7:20 PM – PIZZA
Enjoy some refreshments (AKA pizza) and catch up with/meet other game dev enthusiasts.
