{"id":415,"date":"2020-05-24T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T06:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:26:25","slug":"game-publishing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415","title":{"rendered":"Game Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This section provides an overview of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#experience\">Game Industry Experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><a name=\"experience\"><\/a>Summary<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#ea-xdi-sbi\">EA<\/a>, Strategy &#038; Business Innovation Director &#8211; External Development<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#ea-xdi-od\">EA<\/a>, Operations Director &#8211; External Development<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#ea-xdi-dd\">EA<\/a>, Development Director &#8211; External Development<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#paradoxinteractivelegacyportfoliobusinessowner\">Paradox Interactive<\/a>, Legacy Portfolio Business Owner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#soedescopublishingleadproducer\">SOEDESCO Publishing<\/a>, Lead Producer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#soedescopublishingproducer\">SOEDESCO Publishing<\/a>, Producer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a name=\"ea-xdi-sbi\"><\/a>EA, Strategy &#038; Business Innovation Director &#8211; External Development<\/h2>\n<h4>2025, August &#8211; Present <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#top\">^<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The External Development Intelligence team supports <a title=\"EA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/\">EA<\/a> teams &amp; partners worldwide with finding, signing and optimising external development engagements. My efforts focus on short- and long term strategic initiatives to create, streamline and catalyse quality &#038; secure cross-company and cross-departmental relationships, aligning vision, values and goals across cultures, geographies, time zones and team compositions. I thoroughly enjoy breaking silos &#038; building bridges, through inviting serendipity, genuine curiosity and the relentless pursuit of meaningful opportunities on the frontier.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Initiate and lead development &#038; continuous optimisation of critical EA-wide external development-focused strategic initiatives across 10+ member XDI team, central Legal, Security, IT, Tech, Localisation, QVS (QA++), R&#038;D, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, BD, Finance &#038; Audit teams, and external partners.<\/li>\n<li>Initiate and drive strategic initiatives with, and support through the advisory board for, a variety of international trade bodies, government representatives and conferences in emerging markets, in close collaboration with our Government Affairs &#038; Public Policy team.<\/li>\n<li>Represent EA at conferences worldwide, through knowledge &amp; experience sharing presentations, accelerating business relationships, and performing on-site partner reviews.<\/li>\n<li>Participate (and facilitate participation by under-represented voices) in a wide range of internal Leadership, Mentoring, &amp; ERG-events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a name=\"ea-xdi-od\"><\/a>EA, Operations Director &#8211; External Development<\/h2>\n<h4>2023, June &#8211; 2025, August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#top\">^<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The External Development Intelligence team supports <a title=\"EA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/\">EA<\/a> teams &amp; partners worldwide with finding, signing and optimising external development engagements. My efforts focus on short- and long term strategic initiatives to create, streamline and catalyse quality &#038; secure cross-company and cross-departmental relationships, aligning vision, values and goals across cultures, geographies, time zones and team compositions. I thoroughly enjoy breaking silos &#038; building bridges, through inviting serendipity, genuine curiosity and the relentless pursuit of meaningful opportunities on the frontier.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strategic studio- &#038; franchise-level consultancy, within &#038; beyond external development, to Heads of Studio, VPs &#038; Heads of Operation, DPDs &#038; EPs of game &#038; central teams.<\/li>\n<li>Initiate and lead development &#038; continuous optimisation of cross-departmental strategic initiatives and partner research-through-onboarding pipelines across 10+ member XDI team, central Legal, Security, IT, Tech, Localisation, QVS (QA++), R&#038;D, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, BD, Finance &#038; Audit teams, and external partners.<\/li>\n<li>Initiate and drive strategic initiatives with, and support through the advisory board for, a variety of international trade bodies, government representatives and conferences in emerging markets, in close collaboration with our Government Affairs &#038; Public Policy team.<\/li>\n<li>Consult &#038; mentor team on partner research, due diligence, negotiation &#038; onboarding operational needs for select impactful co-dev engagements of cumulative double digit million USD value across 50+ worldwide EA teams for 25+ franchises like FC, Battlefield, Apex, Star Wars, The Sims, and many, many more.<\/li>\n<li>Represent EA at conferences worldwide, through knowledge &amp; experience sharing presentations, accelerating business relationships, and performing on-site partner reviews.<\/li>\n<li>Participate (and facilitate participation by under-represented voices) in a wide range of internal Leadership, Mentoring, &amp; ERG-events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a name=\"ea-xdi-dd\"><\/a>EA, Development Director &#8211; External Development<\/h2>\n<h4>2022, June &#8211; 2023, May <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#top\">^<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The External Development Intelligence team supports <a title=\"EA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/\">EA<\/a> teams &amp; partners worldwide with finding, signing and optimising external development engagements, with my particular specialty being large scale co-dev, porting, remastering, mixed discipline and engineering engagements.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibilities included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ongoing strategic studio- and department-level consultancy beyond external development to Heads of Studio, VPs &amp; Heads of Operation, DPDs &amp; Executive Producers of game &amp; central teams.<\/li>\n<li>Acting Head of XDI Engineering &amp; Tech pillar during 6 month maternity cover, including hiring, onboarding, steering and mentoring team of 3 and supporting XDI Leadership across department-wide strategic initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>Initiate and lead development &amp; continuous optimisation of all partner research-through-onboarding pipelines across 10+ member umbrella team, and catalyse team-wide initiatives through feedback and support.<\/li>\n<li>Drive research-through-onboarding operational needs for co-dev \/ mixed discipline \/ engineering engagements across 50+ teams for 25+ franchises like FC, Battlefield, Apex, Star Wars, The Sims, and many, many more.<\/li>\n<li>Single-handedly facilitated signing of 15+ new and renewed partnerships, cumulative double digit million USD value, across EA teams &amp; partners worldwide in first 9 months, in addition to supporting many more.<\/li>\n<li>Represented EA at conferences worldwide, through knowledge &amp; experience sharing presentations, accelerating business relationships, and performing on-site partner reviews.<\/li>\n<li>Participated in a wide range of internal Leadership, Mentoring, &amp; ERG-events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a name=\"paradoxinteractivelegacyportfoliobusinessowner\"><\/a>Paradox Interactive, Legacy Portfolio Business Owner<\/h2>\n<h4>2021, January &#8211; 2022, May <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#top\">^<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The Legacy Portfolio Business Owner role at <a title=\"Paradox Interactive\" href=\"https:\/\/paradoxplaza.com\/\">Paradox Interactive<\/a> entailed a wide variety of responsbilities, with freedom to explore continued development, business &amp; sales opportunities for a portfolio of 60+ titles no longer in active development.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibilities included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worldwide management of 60+ title digital &amp; retail portfolio across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Apple and Android platforms.<\/li>\n<li>Portfolio-wide P&#038;L forecasting &#038; reporting, development &#038; maintenance, including business development, sales, licensing, experimental initiatives, and contractual agreements.<\/li>\n<li>Development of VC-model inspired scalable, custom-tailored publishing label Paradox Arc for small scope &#038; continued development projects.<\/li>\n<li>Development and execution of IP acquisition procedure, including due diligence, risk assessment and negotiation, resulting in the acquisition of Academia: School Simulator.<\/li>\n<li>Managing worldwide digital &amp; retail Shadowrun Trilogy console development &amp; release.<\/li>\n<li>Investigating, driving and supporting portfolio-wide external development initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>Active presenter and participant in internal thought leadership knowledge sharing initiatives on topics such as Leadership, Production and QA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Portfolio includes IP such as Crusader Kings II, Battletech, Age of Wonders, Pillars of Eternity, Shadowrun, Tyranny, Victoria II, Magicka, and many more.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"soedescopublishingleadproducer\"><\/a>SOEDESCO Publishing, Lead Producer<\/h2>\n<h4>2017, January &#8211; 2020, October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#top\">^<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>As lead producer at SOEDESCO, I strove to assist business development with the decision making process for our prospective line-up, our rock star publishing and development teams with optimising development &amp; publishing processes, and with removing obstacles for our team and development partners.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibilities included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leading, managing &amp; supporting our production team of 8 &amp; development team of 6.<\/li>\n<li>Establishing the career development pipeline for our production &amp; development team.<\/li>\n<li>Researching, analysing &amp; reporting on (future) project planning, budgets &amp; risks.<\/li>\n<li>Preparing contracts for (future) projects, and initializing set-up once signed.<\/li>\n<li>Researching opportunities for future publishing &amp; development projects.<\/li>\n<li>Developing, implementing &amp; iterating a scalable publishing &amp; development framework.<\/li>\n<li>Analysing, structuring, optimising &amp; innovating our publishing &amp; development pipelines.<\/li>\n<li>Planning, tracking &amp; meeting internal and external project deadlines.<\/li>\n<li>Liaison between first &amp; third party development, platform holders &amp; service provider partners.<\/li>\n<li>Platform communication with &amp; concept-through-DLC submissions to Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Valve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&amp; Of course, jumping in for my previous responsibilities if necessary!<\/p>\n<p>Worked on\/was part of bringing 50+ products to market worldwide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Truck Driver (PS4, X1, Switch, PC; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>Kaze and the Wild Masks (PS4, X1, Switch, Stadia, PC; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>Monstrum (PS4, X1, Switch; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>Dollhouse (PS4, PC; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>Xenon Racer (PS4, X1, Switch, PC; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>8-Bit Armies \/ Hordes \/ Invaders! (PS4, X1; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>&amp; Others, such as Real Farm and AereA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Console &amp; PC digital releases for Monster Crown, Fantasy Farming, HammerHelm, Dog Duty, Elea, Wuppo (including China), Defunct, Fearful Symmetry &amp; The Cursed Prince, for several DLCs, and for several titles in Sony Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Console &amp; PC retail releases for Remothered, Omen of Sorrow, Air Missions: HIND, Owlboy, Armello, Shiny, BLACKHOLE: Complete Edition, Tricky Towers, The Girl and the Robot, Pharaonic, World to the West, Rogue Stormers, EARTHLOCK: Festival of Magic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a name=\"soedescopublishingproducer\"><\/a>SOEDESCO Publishing, Producer<\/h2>\n<h4>2015, March &#8211; 2016, December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneydijkstra.com\/?page_id=415\/#top\">^<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>As the first, and at the time only, producer at young video game publisher SOEDESCO, I strove to develop, structure, and optimise development &amp; publishing processes, and remove obstacles for our team and development partners.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibilities included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planning, tracking &amp; meeting internal and external project deadlines.<\/li>\n<li>Communication with &amp; concept-to-DLC submissions to Sony, Microsoft and Valve.<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining third party developer and service provider relations.<\/li>\n<li>Developing, analysing, structuring, optimising and innovating our publishing pipeline.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting the Managing Director, Executive Manager &amp; interdisciplinary team members with their various responsibilities.<\/li>\n<li>Researching opportunities for future publishing services.<\/li>\n<li>Setting up, selecting and managing localisation partnerships, as well as managing the localisation process for all relevant titles.<\/li>\n<li>Introducing and setting up testing services in the publishing pipeline, as well as managing localisation and compliance testing for all relevant titles.<\/li>\n<li>Obtaining age rating certificates (i.e. ESRB, PEGI, USK, COB) for all titles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Worked on\/was part of making the following products a tangible and\/or digital worldwide reality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reus (PS4, Xbox One; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure (PS4, PC; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>Adam&#8217;s Venture: Origins (PS4, Xbox One, PC; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<li>Adam&#8217;s Venture: Chronicles (PS3, PC; Digital &amp; Retail)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Console &amp; PC digital releases for Wuppo, Rising Islands, Ian&#8217;s Eyes, Save the Dodos!, Defunct, ENKI, Tic-Toc-Tower.<\/li>\n<li>Console &amp; PC retail releases for Theme Park Studio, Among the Sleep, Toki Tori 2+, Ziggurat, Ether One, Tower of Guns: Special Edition, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams &#8211; Director&#8217;s Cut, The Last Tinker: City of Colors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section provides an overview of my Game Industry Experience. 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