Key Tech Learnings from 5 Years of Apex Legends condenses half a decade’s worth of insights into just under an hour. Delivered by industry titan Fred Gill, it covers the evolution and launch of Apex Legends, including architecture, live service complexities, stability, resilience, and long‑term team health. Key themes include accurate forecasting challenges, minimising dependencies, automation, security threats, and evaluating build‑versus‑buy decisions. He touches upon real‑world examples from Apex’s lifecycle illustrate both technical and organisational lessons, aimed at those working in or looking to join the live-service games industry.
Fred has worked in the video games industry for over 40 years working for his own start ups through to delivering some of the biggest global games IP for the industry biggest studios.
In 2004, Fred joined Electronic Arts' North West Studio in Warrington as Technical Director, helping to ship Battlefield: Modern Combat. Fred then moved to EA Partners where he worked with independent studios to bring their game to market with EA as the publisher. Such releases included Crysis, Syndicate, A Way Out, Unravel, Unravel 2, Titanfall and Titanfall 2. EA acquired Titanfall developers, Respawn Entertainment and Fred joined as Studio Technical Director in 2018, becoming Head of Technology in 2020, and VP in 2022. Fred helped to ship Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor, and was Franchise TD for Apex Legends through to Season #18. He now creates games for himself by himself.
This event is a webinar on Zoom and includes ample opportunity for Q&A. You will be sent the Zoom registration code when you register.
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