Alright My ultimate goal is to make my own indie company and make the games I want.

rubsnick · 2010-12-13T07:07:54

How realistic is this goal? Cmon shatter my dreams now...XDNo seriously I'm really curious and I hope to create my own company and hire some of my friends since most of them are in my field or are in animation. My plan is to start on PC then go to macs then mobile platforms. on pc I can just create a website and set up a paypal account and tada start selling stuff like world of goo(Drm free or minimal). Anyways does this plan sound realistic? Am I getting idealistic? foolish? Does anyone own thier own company or something to that effects? Most of my games will be quirky indie games and the like with some unique things that I've always wanted to see in a game anyway just advise this poor game developer to be.

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Started by rubsnick December 01, 2010 07:11 PM

13 comments, last by demonkoryu 13 years, 4 months ago

skytiger

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December 04, 2010 05:03 AM

Quote:Original post by shurcool
Make sure you're well familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect. Start by reading this paper.

Brilliant! I never knew it had a name.

But the ignorant can have brilliant ideas - unfettered by reality, which can lead to amazing software.
Whereas the smart degree-holding brains are often completely caged and incapable of thinking freely at all - because they are blinkered by knowledge.

OP: Enter Microsoft DBP 2011 and try and win $40,000 ... if you don't win you will have something for your portfolio ...

Remember the biggest selling XNA game on XBOX is a 2D clone of robotron with a good music track that would take me about 5 days to write ... if I could overcome the boredom of writing such a game.

[Edited by - skytiger on December 4, 2010 4:03:28 PM]

Machaira

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December 08, 2010 07:37 AM

Quote:Original post by skytiger
OP: Enter Microsoft DBP 2011 and try and win $40,000 ... if you don't win you will have something for your portfolio ...

And something you can put on XBLIG and make money even if you don't win DBP. It's a win-win.

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Assyranok

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December 13, 2010 06:29 AM

Quote:Original post by skytiger
OP: Enter Microsoft DBP 2011 and try and win $40,000 ... if you don't win you will have something for your portfolio ...

What's that? A google search brings up absolutely nothing for me.

demonkoryu

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December 13, 2010 07:05 AM

Quote:Original post by KhanstructWe've just launched a demo of our game on Facebook about a week after our investor told us that he was dropping us (again, rare, as normally they'd want something out of the quarter-million dollars they put into us).

If that isn't what you call an "angel investor", I don't know who is.

demonkoryu

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December 13, 2010 07:07 AM

Quote:Original post by Assyranok
Quote:Original post by skytiger
OP: Enter Microsoft DBP 2011 and try and win $40,000 ... if you don't win you will have something for your portfolio ...

What's that? A google search brings up absolutely nothing for me.

It's an (obviously not very common) akronym for Dream Build Play.

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