Contract Work As A Means of Inspiration

A lot of people who try to start their own businesses, especially in game development, talk about the dangers of doing contract work. It can be dangerous because, as a wise man, Adrian Sannier, once told me, “Contract work can become an IV needle stuck in your arm pumping cash right into your veins. [...]

Progress Update

Our apologies for the lack of posting over the last two weeks. Here’s a rundown of what we’ve been up to.
After working on the press kit a little, we did some more business stuff to make sure we’re going to be ok with Uncle Sam and protected from the “unknown unknowns,” as it is [...]

Putting Fun Into a Press Kit

In preperation for the future, and as an unfortunate necessity, we got together on Wednesday to go over business stuff and set up some things for a press kit. Part of the press kit was a group photo, so we tried to have as much fun as possible having a photo shoot. Here [...]

Kongregate Now the Best Opportunity for Bootstrapping a Game Company

Gamasutra recently interviewed Jim Greer about the news of Kongregate getting $5 million in funding. Kongregate plans to spend most of that on Funding the Flash Renaissance, as Gamasutra put it. The games Kongregate will be funding will be “premium games” - those that are a step above most of the current games [...]

Iowa Indie Game Jam 2007

This weekend was the first Iowa Indie Game Jam, and it was a great success. Its beginnings were humble and spontaneous. Andres came down to Des Moines to see the coolness that is going on here - this weekend it was The Grey Market. While visiting, he proposed having a game development [...]

The Struggles of Entrepreneurship

Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, recently made a guest post on Guy Kawasaki’s blog entitled On The Other Hand: The Flip Side of Entrepreneurship, which presents “a top-ten list of the ways a startup can feel deeply screwed up without really being that screwed up at all.” As I kept reading, I kept thinking [...]

UNIQLOCK - Viral Marketing At Its Best

This is a fantastic example of viral marketing for a polo shirt company. It’s a clock with spliced clips of well-choreographed dancing and incredibly catchy lounge/bebop music all timed to match the ticking.
I’d love to come up with such a good example myself. Hmm…