Well I moved home to Texas to try starting a company again after a nearly 10 year hiatus. Turned out most of these people were still amazing and helpful and willing to give me shot again... this time with a full beard.

Patrick Curry

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It's getting late... I'm awake. Tonight's chat theme: mentoring! Go!

4/13/2018, 11:08:44 PM

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Patrick Curry

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I'll start. I was super lucky to have mentors that graciously gave their time and expertise when I was starting out.

4/13/2018, 11:12:37 PM

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Patrick Curry

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Looking back I think I was pretty naive and I'd just ask anyone I met how they did what they did, and often times people would tell me, show me, teach me.

4/13/2018, 11:13:50 PM

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Patrick Curry

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Early on it was people like Dewey Winburne, @Hugh_W_Forrest, Rick Ligas, @sevcoursen, @yonstertx, @markrolstonargo, @colincole, Mike Curtis, and @doreenl. @chrisheatherly and I were busy mimicking Steve Jobs keynotes.

4/13/2018, 11:23:51 PM

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Patrick Curry

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We rode the dot-com wave pretty hard and I got to work with crazy talented people who taught me so much -- Mike Rosenfelt, Judy Bitterli, Bill Goins, Mark Gonzales, and @adamdell.

4/13/2018, 11:32:01 PM

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Patrick Curry

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I'd been making games and mods for fun for years, and when I decided to go pro my friends like @mariochampion, @MPHadwin, @GoneOffDeeper, @harrymiller, Rick Stultz, and @steakbacon took risks on me and let me learn and grow!

4/13/2018, 11:37:28 PM

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Patrick Curry

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I was still mostly too naive to not ask questions. When I was making console games I probably drove @bjheinley, Brian Eddy, @NeillGlancy, @SteveEllmore, @SteveEllmore, @jonnykae, and Tom Kang crazy.

4/13/2018, 11:42:33 PM

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Patrick Curry

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Whoops, the second "Steve" in that tweet should be @solid_angle. And of course I have to shout out to the third Steve at Midway, @gameism! I learned a ton about mocap and animation from him too! #ellmoreslaw

4/13/2018, 11:45:26 PM

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Patrick Curry

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When Disney bought Wideload it was a time of big change and emotional upheaval. The silver lining was getting to work with and learn from the absolute wizard Luigi Priore. When Disney bought Marvel we locked eyes and had a mission.

4/13/2018, 11:48:06 PM

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Patrick Curry

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Seriously one of my all time career highlights was being locked in a conference room at Marvel HQ with Luigi @fredvanlente @gregpak @alexirvine @christosgage TQ and a bunch of gamedevs arguing about how to make all our games tell one big story.

4/13/2018, 11:51:26 PM

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Having @TheRealStanLee come give an inspirational talk and seeing @Warren_Spector fanboy out like a 12 year old nerd as we all did was pretty damn special too. I mean... where do you go from there?

4/13/2018, 11:53:26 PM

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Patrick Curry

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Well I moved home to Texas to try starting a company again after a nearly 10 year hiatus. Turned out most of these people were still amazing and helpful and willing to give me shot again... this time with a full beard.

4/13/2018, 11:54:20 PM

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Patrick Curry

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We made a bunch of mobile games and got hooked up with Unity. Meeting @davidhelgason @JoachimAnte @toddhooper and crew convinced me it would be a good home for our team and tech. (Of course Joachim has never tweeted because he's too busy inventing shit.)

4/13/2018, 11:57:02 PM

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Patrick Curry

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Joining Unity was like opening the floodgates of inspiration. The team, the community, and the mad scientist levels of technology was inspiring and invigorating. It was literally our job to help people make and ship their games!

4/13/2018, 11:58:37 PM

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Patrick Curry

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It was time to ask more dumb questions and learn from @suhaildutta @jcturiya @reina_shah @CarlUnity @krobulous @UnityQAThomas @alexlian @aras_p and frankly too many people to list here!

4/14/2018, 12:04:54 AM

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Patrick Curry

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When I wasn't trying to business I was trying to code, learning from our team Stephen Palmer, Phil McJunkins, Danny Dyer, and Nathan Hanners. These guys are the quite genius type, and smart enough to avoid Twitter.

4/14/2018, 12:09:31 AM

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Patrick Curry

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Now that I'm doing a startup again there's pretty much an infinite amount to learn again. Starting a company in 2017 is really different than starting in 2011. The stakes feel higher. Every decision, every hire feels like it matters more.

4/14/2018, 12:12:50 AM

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Patrick Curry

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I'm insanely grateful to friends Charlie Wood, @TheWzrd, @steakbacon, @DavidBettner, @crose, Catherine Littell, @tipatat, @gtjuggler, @DevinReimer, Eric Beyhl, @Harvey1966, @TallGamer for their advice as we venture forth.

4/14/2018, 12:23:32 AM

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Patrick Curry

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I've found that asking questions is an easier way to learn than pretending to have all the answers. Huge thanks to everyone I've mentioned on this thread for your love, support, encouragement, and willingness to share knowledge.

4/14/2018, 12:25:03 AM

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Patrick Curry

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My path into the game industry was only possible because of these people's support. No one got here on their own. I hope to pay it forward by mentoring people naive/brave enough to ask for help. I hope you will too.

4/14/2018, 12:27:34 AM

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