From the creator of the original live format Game Production course — rated ★4.9 with over 500 students and counting!

Andy Johnson has led Live Service teams and launches at top studios including:

Pokémon, Minecraft, Disney, King [Activision Blizzard], Digital Extremes [Tencent], WB Games, Eidos, Sega, THQ, The Banner Saga, Injustice, LOTRO, Red Faction, Darksiders, MX vs. ATV, Wayfinder, and many more.

🎮 What You’ll Learn

This course introduces the foundations of Live Service Production — and gives you real tools to manage your next LiveOps project in a safe, supportive, and practical environment.

🧠 Course Structure

- 26 lessons · 5+ hours of video content

- 3 live classes with Andy

- Interactive WarRoom simulator — your decisions matter

- 3 downloadable Live Service Cheat Sheets

- Private course cohort Discord

- Access to private Alumni Discord on graduation

└ Connect with a professional community & accelerate your network

✅ By the End of the Course, You’ll Be Able To:

- Understand the role of a Live Service Producer

- Build repeatable LiveOps release workflows

- Run a WarRoom and coordinate across teams

- Design your own release playbook

- Avoid common pitfalls of Live Service failure

- Apply these lessons to your studio or indie project immediately!

🗂️ Course Topics include:

🔹 Introduction to Live Service Production

-- What defines a Live Service game

-- The role of a Live Service Producer

-- How are Live Service games different

🔹 Release & Stabilization

-- Surviving release day

-- Patching

-- Stabilization best practices

-- Understanding the Release Management

🔹 LiveOps Communication & Coordination

-- Slack communication for LiveOps

-- The Release Playbook, with template

-- Running a WarRoom

-- WarRoom Simulator: Interactive, choices-matter scenario

-- Collaborating with Community & Customer Support

🔹 Managing a Live Service Product

-- 24/7 product support without team burnout

-- Versioning and release planning

-- Structuring Live Service teams

-- Building game analytics dashboards

-- Setting up Jira for LiveOps success

🚀 Why This Course?

Live Service games are here to stay — but most teams learn the hard way.

Learn from a battle-tested veteran who’s helped launch and sustain live titles at Pokémon, King, Digital Extremes, WB Games, Stoic, and Shrapnel.

Andy is a trusted consultant for studios building their Live Service, Agile/Scrum, Jira, and Production pipelines — and now he’s bringing that expertise to you.