Skybound Games: From comics to games… and a wheel of awesome!
summary
Skybound positions creators at the center of a multi‑platform publishing engine: a 100‑person LA hub, 40 monthly comic titles, 50 license partners, a Simon & Schuster book deal and a Universal first‑look film pipeline with five projects in development. The Skybound Games arm (set up 2017, operational 2018) self‑publishes and released Slime Rancher and The Long Dark in September; monthly wheel of Awesome cross‑department meetings, AR/VR work and a Skybound Insiders community of 2.5 million growing ~15–20k/week support transmedia expansion.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction by Mark Stanger
- 3:04Skybound's creator-driven vision
- 8:34Skybound's multi-platform empire
- 13:19Emerging platforms and divisions
- 15:57Games publishing division launch
- 19:16Skybound's publishing strategy
- 21:07The wheel of awesome explained
- 22:30Skybound's unique market perspective
- 24:56Q&A session
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