Today’s guest is Milissa Maxin, Senior Community Manager at Singularity 6, makers of Palia.

Milissa’s path into games is anything but conventional. She began her career studying tuba performance at Berklee College of Music before discovering her passion for community building through online roleplay servers and virtual worlds.

We chat about how growing up in early online communities like Toontown, Neopets, RuneScape, and Habbo Hotel shaped her instincts as a community leader, and how her experience organising roleplay servers in games like Grand Theft Auto V became an unexpected foundation for a career in community management. Milissa shares her journey from volunteer moderator to customer support at Linden Lab, and eventually into community leadership roles working on Second Life and Sansar.

Games mentioned in this episode:

- Palia: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707930/Palia/

- Toontown Rewritten: https://www.toontownrewritten.com/

- Neopets: https://www.neopets.com/

- RuneScape: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343400/RuneScape/

- Habbo Hotel: https://www.habbo.com/

- Minecraft: https://www.minecraft.net/

- Red Dead Redemption 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1174180/Red_Dead_Redemption_2/

- RedM (RDR2 Roleplay Mod): https://redm.gg/

- Grounded: https://store.steampowered.com/app/962130/Grounded/

- Parkitect: https://store.steampowered.com/app/453090/Parkitect/

- GoldenEye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye_007

Find Milissa on:

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milissamaxin/

- Palia Discord: https://discord.com/invite/playpalia

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