Nigel Franks | Studio Director of Production | Snowed In Studios - A Keywords Studio

Since 2018, Snowed In Studios grew from 25 engineers to 170 developers in a global organization that scaled from 6,000 employees to 10,000. As they grew, they encountered pitfalls, a global pandemic, surprises in studio culture, rapid growth, change in management and ways of operating – lots of things broke. Nigel discusses how textbook MBA lessons don’t always work, real-world scaling, strategic planning, and why innovation fails or succeeds in a high-growth environment.


About XDS:
External Development Summit (XDS) is the only annual, international games industry event held in Canada, with a primary focus on external development for art, animation, audio, co-development, QA and localization.