“If a community doesn’t exist and I want it to exist, I will make it” with Gabriel Sanchewski

Today Gabriel Sanchewski tells us about his journey from avid gamer to community manager. Gabriel and I talk about how he even before he was officially a community manager, he would just roll up his sleeves and create the community resources he noticed were missing. And we hear about how Gabriel came to create and run The Break Room, a private Discord server for community managers. Games mentioned in this episode: RuneScape, Wizard Wars, Halo 3, Magicka: Wizard Wars, Questland, Squad Busters, Super Auto Pets, Marvel Snap, Silk Song Find Gabriel on: Discord tag: trance. (make sure to include the trailing period) Twitter: https://x.com/SoundOfTrance LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanchewski/ Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/soundoftrance.bsky.social The Discord servers we mentioned: The Break Room (for community management professionals) application form - https://forms.gle/ySGhYwyNxzA16GV67 SMCMG Discord (for aspiring community managers) application form - https://bit.ly/3xW5J0D  The Community Lounge is brought to you by Feature Upvote: Painlessly collect feedback from your players. More insights, less noise. Chapters (00:00:04) - Gabriel Sanchez on Becoming a Community Manager(00:01:16) - How I became a Community Manager(00:07:18) - How a community manager got the job at Paradox Interactive(00:15:02) - There's a private Discord Server for Community Managers(00:19:37) - How to become a Community Manager in Minecraft(00:22:00) - How to become a community manager(00:22:33) - How to become a Community Manager at Apple(00:26:12) - 5 Tips for Becoming a Community Manager(00:28:30) - Gabriel On The Community Lounge