Patti: I feel like my job is to connect these things. GamesBeat: Is that a recurring thing that you’ve run into? Creative people and business people clashing? It’s a question of whether you dare to hold your vision over commercial choices. But you can also see a game from a company like Guerrilla.

Probably at some point, when you get too big, it becomes too commercial. You lose the vision if it becomes too commercial.

GamesBeat: Does this also have a lot to do with small teams? You’ve been at companies that are more indie. Any Ubisoft game, you know what you’re getting. I’m less interested in these games where the visions aren’t so strong. These games that come with a vision are the most interesting games to me.

His games are a bit strange, but there’s a consistent vision about what he wanted to do with these things. Hideo Kojima, for example, Metal Gear Solid. But the games with strong visions, I can see this in the games I really enjoy. Patti: Sadly, sometimes the most popular games aren’t the best ones. GamesBeat: Do you see these results in the games themselves? You filter things out and your product becomes the vision. It all came directly back to the start with that vision. The vision has been what defined who was hired, who we partnered with, and in the end what came out of it. The companies I’ve created always had strong visions. They see money somewhere and they go for it. Patti: They don’t have it, or they don’t stick to it. GamesBeat: Have you found a lot of companies don’t have this? How to align your vision with people, how to use it in your everyday life. My talk tried to get people focused on how important a vision is. That’s become the common denominator in everything I do. Creating a strong vision and getting everyone aligned with that. A lot of it feeds back into how to drive the company through a vision. The last two companies, I’ve really fine-tuned that. I found out that what I do is between design, technology, and business. Patti: Before Playdead, I was more technical, doing a bit of game design. GamesBeat: In what capacity? Is this more of a consulting role? Register Here Dino Patti is CEO of Coherence.ĭino Patti: I talked about how to create a visionary game company and a strong culture.

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