Waking up the Future of Entertainment

As an experienced game director, futurist, and strategic design consultant, Derrick Fields employs his signature approach, blending game design principles, industry analysis, consumer research, and prototyping to help studios gain a competitive edge. He provides bespoke insights into emergent innovations, technologies, and audience trends. His consultations unlock a deeper understanding of shifting consumer values, behaviors, and expectations. Derrick enables partners to cost-effectively ideate bold new IP and emergent interactivity that resonates with tomorrow's fans. His creative foresight protocols combine data, design, and imagination to explore plausible futures, disruptive opportunities, and inclusive experiences worth bringing to life.


 
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Trends

Identify and articulate emerging innovations, consumer sentiment, and motivations.

Derrick utilizes cutting-edge research and immersive workshops to uncover the technological, cultural, and behavioral shifts poised to reshape entertainment. He illuminates emerging innovations and changing audience motivations to provide actionable, visually engaging insights your team can leverage. The result? You gain forewarning of impending disruption and clarity into new opportunities.

 
 
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Foresight

Provide actionable visions and recommendations aligned with the entertainment world of tomorrow.

Leveraging rigorous scenario planning, Derrick provides customized visions of your industry's plausible futures and tailored strategic advice to ready your organization. He navigates you toward your preferred future while preparing you to harness new opportunities and pioneering frontiers ahead of competitors.

 
 
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Strategy

Plan design sprints and advise in prototyping to craft engaging future-oriented media.

Derrick facilitates design sprints, future-casting sessions, and hands-on prototyping workshops, equipping teams to immerse in speculative worlds and pressure-test bold ideas. His strategic guidance enables you to efficiently conceive, build and refine the IP, tech platforms, and business models that will win tomorrow's audiences.