What I ACTUALLY do as a Game Dev | LiveOps PM (salary, day to day)

Here's an overview of what I do as a Live Ops Product Manager within Game Development! It's important to note that a role like this can look different depending on the game, team, and individual person in the role. Let me know what other types of roles within Game Dev you're interested in :)

🎓 TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS
1:31 - Responsibilities & who I work with
5:12 - 1 min TED talk about how games should make $
6:36 - What a typical day looks like
9:30 - What it takes to be a PM & salary ranges

🌺 ABOUT ME
Hi there! My name is Morgan and I'm a game developer (previously Riot Games and currently @ Amazon Games) based in LA! Some of the games I've worked on include Ruined King, Hextech Mayhem, and Convrgence. Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoy :)

📷 SOCIAL MEDIA
⇢ instagram: @morganling
⇢ tiktok: @themorganling_
⇢ twitter: @themorganling
⇢ twitch: themorganling

🕸️ PERSONAL WEBSITE

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[morganling]

Hi everyone! Here are timestamps in case you're only interested in certain parts or want to skip around :)
1:31 - Responsibilities & who I work with
5:12 - 1 min TED talk about how games should make $
6:36 - What a typical day looks like
9:30 - What it takes to be a PM & salary ranges

[joelconroy]

Incredibly informative, concise and came across unbiased. Great insight into what I should expect after/during uni. I look forward to future vids, cheers stay blessed 🙌

[technoala-eh]

For me a game developer is in the part of coding or 3d modeling, animation, VFX.

[jacobm]

Really interesting video! I especially liked when you explained a day in the life of a PM. Not many people explain what a normal day is actually like working in the game industry. I would be really interested in a video about designer roles because I'm always hearing conflicting answers about what game designers actually do. This is an area of the industry I'm really interested in, but never know for sure if I have what it takes for the job. Just subscribed to your channel, and looking forward to your next videos whatever they may be!

[sangwookim]

Informative as always. excited to see the number of subscribers are skyrocketing!

[CreativeSteve]

Thanks for sharing these tips with us Morgan. They were really helpful and learned a lot from them.

[Kenshu]

Thanks for these videos! As someone who’s interested in the industry, they’re really helpful. As for people I would be interested to be brought onto your channel for a video, I think one with a game economy designer would be really cool :)

[jennslee_]

very very informative, felt like there was a lot to takeaway with so thank you so much for sharing!!

[tn]

Keep the videos coming! These are very interesting topics that I enjoyed. I'm trying to get into the game industry and been applying to become a QA tester.

[sajounoir]

cool video, a series would be great !! (i don't even intend to ever work in the field, i just find it super interesting to learn more about AAA games from the inside)

[GROGGYSTUDENT]

Earned yourself a subscriber. Thanks for the insight.

[ThrivingNotDying]

Yes I would love for you to bring other people on. And yes to voice actors as well. How cool!

[XRCADIA]

Eye, this is the perfect follow-up video! Nice to see a game dev content creator out of the typical art, design, and coding wheelhouse! Thanks for sharing your journey; The PM role has slingshotted in value in this industry; it's wonderful you are shedding some more light on it!

[nne]

you're not a game developer quit lying to yourself xd

[exnfzfm]

Hey! I'm A New Subscriber :). I love how you edit your videos and Thank you for this information.

[yazar]

Great video! What was your bachelor’s in? And your master’s if you did it.

[east-wjxq]

Dude I love these videos! I was wandering if you know of somewhere that talks about all game development jobs that gives their descriptions tasks and responsibilities? I've been wanting to get into game development but don't know what my current skill sets would fit in. I saw your last vid and would like to make a graph like the one you showed to help me out :)

[YJapan]

Do you have any videos talking about setting up your computer for game development?🤔🖥️⌨️🖲️Including processor, amount of RAM, video card, etc...

[antonellomenchise]

Hi, big fan of your content! I aspire to get in the game industry as game dev/designer (I'm still figuring out what I want to do 😊) . I was wondering ... there is a realistic chance to get in this industry as a self-taught?

[vadymvitrenko]

Hello, Morgan
I have one question for you, I want to apply as a QA Game Tester but don't know how I can do this, can you help me please?