Archive - Game Production Alchemist

Production 101 - #8 Legal Documents Every Game Producer Should Know

The contracts you didn’t sign are still your problem

22 hrs ago

I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

Aug 3 • Rob Sandberg

July 2026

This Free Flow-Metrics Tool Was Too Technical For Me a Year Ago. Not Anymore.

An agent set up what I could not

Jul 27 • Rob Sandberg

The AI Deadline Nobody In Games Is Talking About Lands On 2 August With Real Fines Attached

Article 50 does not care what Steam thinks

Jul 22 • Rob Sandberg

Production 101 - #6 The Traits That Separate Good Producers From Everyone Else

What high-performing producers actually do differently, from day one

Jul 22 • Rob Sandberg

Reading Bruno Baketarić Fixed the One Kanban Problem I Never Solved in Decades

Why I stopped mapping activities and started naming states

Jul 15 • Rob Sandberg

Nobody Decided Godot Had an AI Problem for Months. Then Somebody Finally Did.

The line between a risk and a rule

Jul 8 • Rob Sandberg

The AI Question in Games Needs a Second Axis, and Then a Third

Josh English built a good ladder. Here is the map it belongs to.

Jul 6 • Rob Sandberg

Production 101 - #4 Role of an External Producer

An introduction to the role of external producer in game publishing.

Jul 3 • Rob Sandberg

North was perfect. South was a different room.

What 90 image generations taught me about AI concept art at production scale

Jul 1 • Rob Sandberg

June 2026

The Artefact Arrived Before Anyone Was Ready to Review It

AI didn’t create the evaluation problem. It made ignoring it impossible to justify.

Jun 29 • Rob Sandberg

Production 101 - #3 Role of an Internal Producer (Part 1)

The tools, relationships, and daily trade-offs that define the job

Jun 24 • Rob Sandberg

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