OccaSoftware partners with Arcweave

In this interview, Elle Sillitoe, games writer & community manager at Arcweave, shares her thoughts on how Arcweave can enable interactive experiences for game developers.

Arcweave is a web-based application that enables creators to craft immersive stories & games.

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Michael Sacco

Could you tell me about yourself and your role at Arcweave?

Elle Sillitoe

I’m Elle, I’m the community manager of Arcweave and that basically means I direct our entire communications approach, including managing all of our social media, as well as helping out with marketing, advertising, customer support, and PR. So, essentially, my job is to connect with our users and focus on a community first approach. We really want to foster a community of writers, developers, and designers, of both Arcweave users and non-Arcweave users - and we do this through a bunch of different ways. So, I spearheaded our ambassador program and our education plan, where we work closely with educational institutions to help support students using Arcweave.

Also, I help to manage our blog and showcase page, and I generally just get to know our users through discord and other social media. As Arcweave is still a startup, that means I get to work on a bunch of different stuff outside of my department as well. So, I also help with Q/A, I helped design our Unreal Engine demo project and I work with our software development team on narrative design and writing content in general.

Michael Sacco

Interesting. It’s cool to hear that you guys are also pretty focused on community-oriented growth. That’s kind of also like what we were talking about before how we grew as well. So, it’s pretty cool to see that.

Elle Sillitoe

Yeah, I think that was one of the first things that really resonated with me about Arcweave when it came was that it was so community focused, and I just really liked that approach. I think it’s really healthy.

Michael Sacco

What was that like? How was the company before you joined?