Nick Earl

Nick Earl, Electronic Arts

Opportunities for Start-ups

Earl shares his thoughts about the plausibility of starting a game development company in the current environment. He explains that with the release of new ...

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Nick Earl, Electronic Arts

Challenges and Opportunities in Asia

Earl discusses the several challenges and mitigation strategies used when marketing to a variety of Asian countries. EA's strategy to overcome the IP protection problems ...

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Nick Earl, Electronic Arts

The Changing Economics in Mobile Gaming

Nick Earl, General Manager of Electronic Arts Redwood Shores Studio, shares his insights about moving into the mobile gaming market. He explains that the high ...

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Engineering Innovations in Gaming

Nick shows a video of a motion capture technique used in the latest video games. He stresses the need for such innovation in order to ...

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Gaming in China

Earl discusses the importance of understanding and developing games for local markets. EA started a studio in Shanghai to learn about China's gaming population. He ...

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Nick Earl, Electronic Arts

The New Frontier in Gaming

Nick Earl, Vice President and General Manager of Electronic Arts shares his thoughts on the future of the gaming market. He discusses the changing global ...

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Opportunity Assessment: Return of the King

he goal from the outset with Return of the King, says Kim, was to turn it into a perennial business. The "X" for Two Towers ...

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Organizational Structure: General Manager at EA

Nick Earl, General Manager of Electronic Arts Redwood Shores Studio, talks about how the General Manager's job is to run one of EA's six studios, ...

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The Entrepreneur in the Game Industry

According to Arcadia Kim, Chief Operating Officer for Electronic Arts Los Angeles, an entrepreneur is someone who sees an opportunity that other people cannot see, ...

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Game Development Process

Kim explains that EA's strategy is based on nailing down the "X," or organic fun concept for that product. EA shares knowledge across studios and ...

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Intellectual Property

Kim talks about how there is a large range in the projects at EA. Team sizes range from 30 people to 200. Development times take 10 months to 2...

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Market potential: GameBoy

Erin Turner, a producer at Electronic Arts specializing in action-hero titles, explains that the GameBoy has a pretty substantial market with 40 million sold worldwide. The ...

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Positioning: James Bond and GameBoy

There were a number of creative imperatives that were addressed in the development of James Bond, says Turner, primarily, retaining authenticity to the Bond character. ...

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Team Size and Product Development

Turner explains that while console teams can be upwards of 100 people, GameBoy games can be built with 10-15 people. This core group of people is ...

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Lessons Learned: Game Development

Turner talks about lessons learned in game development. The first lesson, she says, is that the product is only as good as the people that ...

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Organizational Structure: Directors vs. producers at EA

Kim talks about how producers have the creative vision for a product, while directors make sure the resources are properly allocated and the game ships ...

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Career Development: Going in circles until you come home

Kim describes her own path into game development at EA. She majored in film making as an undergraduate, started working in management consulting, and then ...

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Seeing Failure as Opportunity

Kim's first game experience was a hugely successful online parlor game that was launched on AOL. Majestic, her second game, tried to stretch the Internet ...

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Lessons Learned: Game Development

Kim talks about lessons learned in game development. The first lesson is to focus. You can't build a game unless you know what it is, ...

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Game Design: James Bond

Turner talks about how the James Bond character was done in the third person in the game and his style and control comes from the ...

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Competition

Earl and Kim respond to the question: How has the competition from Grand Theft Auto influenced EA? Vice City is brilliant in its open world ...

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Innovation and Growth Post-IPO

Earl and Kim respond to the question: How do you increase innovation when a lot of the game development relies on established brands and sequels? ...

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Making an Interactive Game Successful

Earl talks about how EA is good at figuring out early on if a game is not going to be successful and starting over before ...

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Flexibility: Recognizing Growth Sectors

Earl explains that EA was previously focused mainly on sports games, but they found that they could not grow fast enough without expanding into other ...

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