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This next episode of Dev to Dev was such a good one! Gonza do Campo grew up in Patagonia playing Atari clones, then spent a decade managing factory logistics, and is now a Principal Producer at 2K in Valencia. The journey between those two points is genuinely worth hearing.

What strikes me most about Gonza's story is how every part of his background that looked like a disadvantage turned out to be exactly what he needed. The Agile and Kanban frameworks that run game production? They came out of Japanese manufacturing, the exact world Gonza spent his first career embedded in. The younger producers who came to him for advice weren't looking for someone with more game credits. They were looking for someone who'd been through harder things. He'd spent years feeling behind. He was actually ahead.

There's also a really honest thread in here about imposter syndrome, ego, and what it actually takes to lead well. Gonza talks about it with wonderful maturity, and it connects directly to how he thinks about production. Worth the listen for that alone.

Highlights:

Grew up in Patagonia where games were rare, expensive, and mostly clones — his first original game was Metal Gear Solid 4
Pivoted to games at 30, studied at night while working full-time with a family
Worked his way in through a non-games role, then knocked on the studio door until they let him through
Spent years across outsourcing, indie studios, and Netflix game projects before landing at 2K
Candid about imposter syndrome, therapy, and the ongoing work of leaving ego out of leadership
Recently relocated from Argentina to Valencia with his family

Go give it a listen — Gonza tells it better than I can summarise it.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/gonzalodoc/