I Play, Therefore I Am

I Play, Therefore I Am


Latest Episodes

Episode 32: Celia Hodent
December 09, 2024

Of Building Bridges, Games Ethics and Psychology How does a gamer’s brain work? There is no better person to answer this question than Celia Hodent. Not only is she the author of multiple books, one with that exact title (The Gamer’s Brain), but she also

Episode 31: The Games Ground Team
November 06, 2024

Of Friendship, Connecting the Industry and Mental Health What do you get when three creative, passionate gamers meet through Berlin nightlife and become close friends? Well, in the case of Games Ground founders Fernanda Pagani (CEO & Head of B2B), Jor

Episode 30: Benedikt Oehmen
September 04, 2024

Of Saving the World, Finding Your Passion and the Future Version of Yourself Imagine you know that you will be laid off in one year’s time. Do you panic? Do you despair? Do you scream in frustration? Or do you see it as an opportunity to reinvent and ask

Episode 29: Mark 'Garvey' Candella
June 04, 2024

Of Doing Well, Doing Good, and Lifting As You Climb Meet Garvey, the Paladin, and learn his ways. How he turned his life around from being a troll to living in the service of others. How he breaks down game mechanics to apply them to life and consequentl

Episode 28: Fernando Forero Pinilla
March 31, 2024

Of Intuition, Creative Freedom and Finding Your Place Fernando Ferero's life led him from Columbia to Poland, from Germany to the US and back to Germany. It also took him to renowned gaming companies such as CD Projekt Red, Goodgame Studios and Blizz

Episode 27: Jasmin Oestreicher
February 04, 2024

Of Leaving the Shire, Overthinking and Another Kind of Leadership - with Jasmin Ostreicher, CEO of Instinct3 What better way to decide things than ask oneself: What would Commander Shepard do? Like the main character in Mass Effect, Jasmin Oestreicher ch

Episode 26: Patrick "PJ" Esteves
November 14, 2023

Of Lightsabers, RPGs and Looking Through the Right Lens Patrick "PJ" Esteves' long journey to Berlin took him from almost being a rockstar, over wanting to be a Jedi to asking himself how the hell he ended up in Villingen-Schwenningen. The

Episode 25 - Ata Sergey Nowak
October 09, 2023

Boris Johnson hasn’t played Suzerain, otherwise he would have been a better prime minister. This is only one thing you will learn from this podcast with Ata Sergey Nowak, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Torpor Games. Other things include: how the form

Episode 24 - Arthur Protasio
August 14, 2023

If youre not hyped, somethings not right Founder and Creative Director of Fableware Narrative Design, Arthur Protasio, knows that you need to be in the right vibe to get things done. But how do we establish a good vibe? And how do you go from studying

Episode 23 - Kate Edwards
July 03, 2023

Of Relentlessness, Slow Disruption and Finding ConfluenceFrom the moon landing to Age of Empires 4 in under two hours: with Kate Edwards everything seems possible. We welcome you to the first episode of our second season of our renamed podcast I Play, Th