Who runs this,
and why.

Player Driven is the learning network for the people who design, run, and rebuild live games. We make a podcast, a livestream, a long-form essay series, and (soon) a cohort-based Academy. Across all four, we're after the same thing: the actual craft of keeping games running.

We started because there was a gap. The conversations operators have with each other in Slack DMs and at conferences — about live ops cadence, sunsetting, economy design, trust & safety, community pressure — don't make it into public writing often enough. The trade press covers funding and launches. Industry blogs cover frameworks. Almost nobody covers the day-to-day reality of running a live service.

So we're building the publication we wanted to read.