Grow a Garden: the Roblox game that beat Steam

Episode
18
Duration
13m 54s

Pietro Faccio

Instructor

With over twenty years of international work experience in 3 continents and a total of 7 countries, the ability to speak, write and read in 6 languages, Pietro has extensive background in QA Operations and process design, team and project management, staff hiring/training/development, sales and business development.

Quality oriented he is a QA quality evangelist

His biggest achievement is leading a Polish site from 2 to 400 employees. He’s very proud of that and despite being a business development executive, he eats and drinks QA and can entertain you with several team building stories.

About This Episode

Today on Buona la Prima we're talking about a phenomenon that caught everyone by surprise:
Grow a Garden, the new game on Roblox, hit a peak of 8.9 million concurrent players, even surpassing Steam in numbers.

A virtual garden worth more than a thousand AAA titles.

In this episode, we dive into:

  • What makes Grow a Garden so viral

  • Why its success is a lesson for the entire industry

  • What it tells us about the future of gaming and low-stress productions

We’re sharing stats, insights… and even a few provocations.

Drop us a comment: would you play a game like this?

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