"You're young - can you do The Facebook?" with James Croucher

Today my guest is James Croucher, currently working at tinyBuild on games such as DUCKSIDE, Sand, and the Hello Neighbor series. James talks about running a community where everyone is a subject matter expert, what he looks for when hiring a community manager, and why he prefers serving the community on games that he actually plays. Games mentioned in this episode: DUCKSIDE, Sand, Hello Neighbor, Train Simulator, Flight Simulator, Dune: Spice Wars, Northgard, Wartales, Deep Rock Galactic, V Rising. Find James on LinkedIn. The Community Lounge is brought to you by Feature Upvote: Painlessly collect feedback from your players. More insights, less noise. Chapters (00:00:04) - How to Manage a Community(00:04:07) - How I became a Community Manager(00:10:40) - What does it look like being the community developer for Microsoft Flight Simulator(00:12:11) - How I transitioned from Bordeaux to TinyBuild(00:17:23) - Train Simulator Community Lounge(00:22:43) - What Type of Community Manager Should You Pick?(00:25:58) - How to Do Your Job Better as a Community Manager(00:30:23) - Steve McAfee on Community Lounge