Making the Most of the Codev Model

Making the Most of the Codev Model

From The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast by The GI.Biz Team

June 13, 2025 · 45 min

About this episode

This episode explores the creative and commercial benefits of co-development for game developers, particularly focusing on mid-sized teams in emerging markets.

Welcome to the weekly GI Podcast. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Podcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. For this special episode, sponsored by Virtuos, we look at what co-development can offer game developers creatively and commercially, with a particular focus on mid-sized teams, and those in emerging markets across regions such as Southeast Asian, MENA, Brazil, and Australia and New Zealand. Long-time GamesIndustry.biz contributor Will Freeman returns to hosting duties, and is joined by expert guests Morgan Jafitt, freelance advisor at Wētā Workshop, James Chan, vice president of technology at Rocket Games, and Ryan Thornton, game design director at Virtuos Shanghai. As always, you can get more news, insight and analysis at www.gamesindustry.biz, and you can get all the biggest news delivered straight to your inbox by signing up to the GI Daily at www.gamesindustry.biz/newsletters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Will Freeman

Guests: Morgan Jafitt, James Chan, Ryan Thornton

Topics covered

  • co-development
  • game development
  • mid-sized teams
  • emerging markets
  • Southeast Asia
  • MENA
  • Brazil

Keywords

  • co-development
  • game developers
  • mid-sized teams
  • emerging markets
  • Southeast Asia
  • MENA
  • Brazil
  • Virtuos
  • GamesIndustry.biz

Sponsors

Virtuos

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wētā Workshop, Rocket Games, GamesIndustry.biz

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