Today's guest is Jeremy Fielding, currently working at Stunlock Studios on V Rising, a vampire survival action RPG.

Jeremy and I chat about how community management took him from Florida to a small city in Sweden, how you learn to be a community manager, and what the upward career path for community managers can look like.

Games mentioned in this episode: V Rising, Battlerite, Shogun Showdown

Find Jeremy on:

• Discord: bearemy
• Email: jeremyf@stunlockstudios.com
• Twitter: https://x.com/JeremyBearson

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Today my guest is James Croucher, currently working at tinyBuild on games such as DUCKSIDE, Sand, and the Hello Neighbor series.

James talks about running a community where everyone is a subject matter expert, what he looks for when hiring a community manager, and why he prefers serving the community on games that he actually plays.

Games mentioned in this episode: DUCKSIDE, Sand, Hello Neighbor, Train Simulator, Flight Simulator, Dune: Spice Wars, Northgard, Wartales, Deep Rock Galactic, V Rising.

Find James on LinkedIn.

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The trailer for season 1 of The Community Lounge.

The Community Lounge is a podcast where community managers from video games studios and publishers tell their story of how they got into the role, talk about the challenges they face, and share tips to help other community managers.