Celine Rose Lafosse

My success so far has been my own determination to keep going even when things look grim or are going sideways, but also the community, making sure that I was in contact with the game community around me and having other game developers support you and understand you.

The best career advice came from Chef Lawson in my catering and kitchen work. She taught me how to work in the kitchen and how you shouldn't stop moving if you're working on something, how everything should be timed to be with each other or else something burns or gets cold. That's the best way to look at production and how I still organize my production work today.

Take care of yourself and put yourself first. It's important to stay strong, stand your ground, and especially in an industry that is predominantly a lot of men. But it's also important to take time for yourself, decompress, and make sure that you are okay and healthy because this industry can and will burn you out if you let it. Watch out for burnout and find time for something that makes you happy outside of games.

We are currently looking for funding for Studio T12. It's been rather difficult as we are low on our game's wishlist. We released our demo and need approximately 10,000 wish lists to go anywhere with this, and we are currently at about 230. We want to look into funding and pitching to funders.

Kindness and understanding more than anything. I've seen games go down because people care more about productivity than kindness. When you give kindness and understanding in a position of leadership, working with the person as a person, you're more likely to come out with a better product. I pushed back a game's release when team members had personal struggles to avoid burnout.