New Arc Line: How to Successfully Realize an Indie Dream
summary
A team from Dreamate (creative director, producer and HR director) describe building an indie RPG studio: how to recruit and structure the team, choose a project, and set up and launch a physical office. The talk covers practical steps and experiences in forming an indie studio from concept through early operations.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Indie dev mistakes
- 3:57Partner and project choice
- 5:22Game vision creation
- 7:10Finding mentors and team
- 9:00Business questions
- 10:03Project scale and strategy
- 11:51First game design
- 13:38Investor types and funding
- 16:51Investor document prep
- 18:36Securing first investments
- 20:48Competitions and early wins
- 21:52Next funding steps
- 22:35Networking importance
- 23:18Team challenges
- 25:04Organization as living system
- 26:51Working with people
- 28:40Conflict resolution
- 30:04Company culture and values
- 31:53Dream Made culture
- 33:19Transparency and values
- 34:46Team unity
- 35:10Q&A team growth
- 36:55Q&A plans and release
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