Ichiro Lambe

Founder, Dejobaan Games
Ichiro is Founder and President of Dejobaan Games, LLC, an independent Boston-area game development studio. A 25-year industry veteran, he also advises VC-backed gaming startups, universities, and other industry organizations such as the Indie Megabooth.
His current favorite claim to fame is having a tiny cameo in Fallout 4 as an evil scientist.
Latest Cool Stuff

Dejobaan’s next project, Last Night on Planet Earth, is debuting at the 55th annual New York Film Festival. Scheduled for a 2018 launch, this is a full motion video (FMV) life simulator that focuses on modeling conversations.

MIT-based accelerator Play Labs brought me in to consult with their cohort of 13 startups throughout this past summer. The teams’ work focused on “playful technologies,” including AR/VR, eSports, and machine learning in video games.

Dejobaan sponsored a team for the MassDiGi Summer Innovation Program. Working with us over 12 weeks, a team of students prototyped a game that simulates rebuilding a post-apocalyptic Boston.
Advisory, Mentorship, Etc.

Advisor, Interactive Media & Game Design

Advisor, Indie MEGABOOTH

Mentor, Execution Labs

IGF Nuovo award juror. Artistic!

Industry Mentor, Becker Live Studio

Mentor, Execution Labs
Talks

United We Win: Lessons Learned from Collaborating and Coworking Around the World

- Keynote (FIG Talks)
- The Boston Indie Community (BFIG)

- Monster Loves You! Post Mortem
- Indie Game Development (Panel)

From AAA to Indie: Three Start-Up Stories

Keynote (IndieCamp @ Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)

I’ll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours! (Panel)

- Marketing and Branding Games in a Digital Age (Sloan Business in Gaming)
- State of Play: The Thriving Game Industry in MA (NE Games SIG)
- Iteration and Prototyping (Panel, MIT Gambit)
- Indies Will Shoot You in the Knees (Panel, MIT Gambit)

- This (Boston) Indie Life: From Breaking In to Making It
- Hope, Doubt, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Struggles of Indie Development
- Start Your Own Damned Company
- Just Because You Have an Idea…

- The 4096 secrets of the game development industry (Master Class)
- Iterating on a Portfolio (Master Class)
- Make the Most 🙂 Game in the Whole World!

- Hope, Doubt, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Struggles of Indie Development
- The Altar of Monetization

- Everything There Is to Know About Creating and Publishing a Game
- Digital Gaming & Digital Worlds: Not your father’s Commodore 64

Push Button, Generate Universe: Strategies in Procedural Content Generation

Running a Successful Indie Game Development Studio in Sunny, Delicious Boston

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! to ooo! ooO! oOO! OOO! — Dejobaan’s Next Project

First Steps: Starting as an Independent Game Developer

BiG Expo: Starting an Indie Studio
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