#64: Tommy Palm - Co-Founder and CEO of Resolution Games - Entering the VR World
The Venture Brief - A podcast by Lukas Malmberg, Neal Swaelens
Topics:Developing the earliest types of games and turning a hobby into a job.VR is growing its share of the entertainment market and the future of it.The main mistake game founders make relating to marketingThe future of gaming platformsMain hurdles facing VR gaming.When to push the gas pedal in developing games for the VR market.How VCs help in the gaming marketTommy Palm is the co-founder, CEO, and guru of visual computing at Resolution Games, a company backed by Creandum, GV, and Initial capital, building a world-class catalog of titles that brings players into the richest VR and AR worlds possible.Tommy is a long-time Swedish games industry veteran. He is a five-time founder and his company, fabrication games, was acquired by King Digital Entertainment in 2012 to lead their mobile game development division. There, Tommy led the development of Candy Crush that has 2.7Bn downloads and it places fourth on the list of most downloaded apps on AppStore ever. Tommy also founded Stugan, Jadestone, The Game Trail and consulted on games development since he first started programming for Commodore 64 in 1986.Website: https://www.resolutiongames.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tommy_palm?lang=en Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypalm/?originalSubdomain=se Books:Sapiens Graphic NovelEndurance: Shackletocks Incredible Voyage