Emily Sondering

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543 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 6d ago

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Video Gamers Podcast · The Solo Dev Diary [Remastered] - Gaming Podcast · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

So in that way, I definitely got a lot of mentorship, but I've never taken a course.

I've never paid to learn anything.

If I don't know how to do something, I Google how to do this.

On YouTube, right?

Yeah.

Oh the

So I started just doing writing and games because that's all I knew as an English major.

And then slowly I got to designing them.

And I actually worked briefly for a mobile game, doing some community management, writing, and design.

And that's actually how I got I actually so before I became a full-time indie game developer, I actually also worked at Meta for a while.

And I actually got that job at Meta because they saw me design for a mobile game.

And they thought, Oh, maybe you could design a mobile app for us too.

So I just got into that more naturally.

And then in terms of other aspects.

UI design, which is a huge aspect of my game.

I just taught myself how to use Figma in terms of Unity.

I also just taught myself, I mean, coding, I had one friend.

I I was like, you know, about eight months ago, I was like, I need to learn how to code for this game.

And I have a lot of friends who code, so I asked one of my friends to just come over and give me like a few coding lessons, and I just go, great, I'm gonna figure the rest of it out myself.

And I just googled a lot.

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