uci outline
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IS THIS
YOU?!!!
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Is this how you felt
when you wrote your fist
line of
code???!
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Then maybe you will enjoy
this!!!?
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Then maybe you’ll enjoy
this!!!?
By Cameron Madani
November 20, 2014
With special guest star and
award-winning game designer Adam Bryant
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Outline (Blah, Blah, Blah)
1. My Background
2. State of the Industry
3. How to get a Cool Job in Video Games
4. Rules From the Road
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But before I start…
What do you want to get out
of this???!
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My Background
Previous life
B-School and business plan in 2005
• Second job at Collision Studios in 2007 (Met Adam)
• Hired to raise money, stayed to make video games
Started World Domination Industries in 2009
K2/Reloaded in 2011
Co-Founded SimGeneral in 2013
Co-Founded TumblePlay in 2014
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My Background
Notable events and stuff…
World Domination http://www.wdindustries.net/
• DREAMS + BEER + DREAMS = DRUNK DREAMERS x Demo to nowhere!!!
• Torchlight XBLA= Cool
• Picked a bad partner = Not Cool (Covered later)
• Bad management (ME), had to shut the doors in 2011
K2/Reloaded Games – Classic case of Making $25MM and Spending $40MM
TumblePlay
• Working with DreamWorks
• iOS App out in December, hopefully:/
SimGeneral
• How it came to be (Adam and I)
• Show an tell…
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State of Video Game Ind.
From ESA:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vj9xu
tmdlgsk5be/ESA_EF_2014.pdf?dl=0
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State of Video Game Ind.
Where the jobs are: http://www.gamedevmap.com
(SF (208), Seattle (94), LA/OC (161), San Diego (27)
*Kickstarter: //List_of_video_game_crowdfunding_projects
Total Projects: Approx. 330
Fail: 49
Ongoing: 3
Success: 85%
Mean: $193K
Median:$75K
More of an art than science!!!?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_crowdfunding_projects
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How to get a Cool Job in Video Games
1. Programmers
2. Designers
a.No entry level:/
b.Technical designers are the coolest!
3. Producers
a. Usually through QA-> QA Manager
4. Artist
a. Technical artists are also cool!
5. QA
6. Other (like Adam and I)
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Rules From the Road
1. Manage up
2. Develop attitude not just aptitude
3. Under Promise/Over deliver
4. Pace yourself
5. L/2T = $
6. Pay your dues
7. Learn from bad bosses
8. Believe in YOU!
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Rules From the Road
For future Entrepreneurs
1. Pick good partners
a. At least one of you has to be good at business:/
b. Build for a market
2. Self Publishing
a. Kickstarter
b. No more Platformers, or whatever
the Platformers are this year
c. Don’t forget marketing
3. Finding a publisher
a. What they can/can’t they offer
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Q&A
Thank You!!!?