Amanda White, Dean Takahashi and Jon Gibson at Play Days. Source: GamesBeat
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A conversation with iam8bit about Play Days and unlocking the joy of indie games | The DeanBeat

While I know a lot of people in the game industry, there are still lots of famous people that I have never met. And since I’ve been meeting people in games for more than 30 years, you get an idea of how big the game industry has become.

So it was a pleasure to hang out for a bit for the first time with Amanda White and Jon Gibson, the cofounders of iam8bit. You can think of them as friends of indies, sometimes helping unknown game devs sell millions of copies to gamers. We knew a lot of the same people, which made me think that the game industry is a small world after all.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.