Jeff Hangartner – Revealing the Path Less Travelled in Video Game Industry
Jeff Hangartner, the founder of the gaming start-up, Bulletproof Outlaws has been a professional developer of games over the last half a decade. Creator of Pixelation, the 1st Pixel Art Forum and also originator of the Pixel tutorials which have been published in the form of a book. Jeff has always been a pioneer of the gaming industry.
CG Today is proud to present Jeff’s exploration as he shares the whole process of creating a start-up right from day 1. With the belief that gaming development is coming back to its original “one programmer in the basement roots” idea, Bulletproof Outlaws is chronicling every step of its start-up process from strategies, to marketing, setting goals and outsourcing, successes and failures. The aim is to help other developers who have ideas but are intimidated by the whole start-up process and are not sure how to go about it.
You can visit his website Bulletproof Outlaws to know more about him or send an email to get connected.
Today we talked about something I didn’t actually think would be interesting… financial investing. Specifically what to do with your money when you DO have it. I’ve got a bit of a savings but it’s not doing much (it’s in a GIC earning like 0.5% interest). Our business coach has a decent amount of experience messing with the stock market and explained the jist of how it works. I think my favorite quote was something like “Being able to stretch a dollar isn’t impressive…being able to use that dollar to make ANOTHER dollar, THAT’S impressive.”
I’m not really a gambling man, but I’ve played with a stock market simulator before (where they track the real stock market and give you play money to use) and it doesn’t seem like something too impossible to get into. Our coach said his KIDS use it. He gives them X amount of money and let’s them choose which stocks to buy and when to sell, etc. with that money. I think that’s a cool idea, and if kids can mess with it, I don’t see a reason I couldn’t learn to play the stock market haha Plus I used to play no-limit poker, so I understand about not getting emotionally attached or freaked out over highs and lows.
I plan to be pretty safe about it though. The idea is if you pick some boring “safe” stocks that generally go up over a long period of time (VS taking a chance on some crazy stock and hoping it cashes in huge), odds are you can make more like 2 – 5% of your money tax-free in dividends and such, instead of the slow 0.5%/yr a GIC gets.
If the money is just sitting there anyway, and you can access it instantly to pull it out, why not throw it in a place where it may earn a bit more than the bank guarantees? If it goes down, you can just pull it out. This class really cleared up the whole concept of investing and made it seem a lot less scary and random.
So I’m going to sign up for an account at Questrade and put some money into it to try it out. Fingers crossed haha
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Bulletproof Outlaws Diary
- I’m back, and with a new project in production!
- Indie Game Marketing: ARTICLE IV – Psychology
- 50% Off “Back-To-School-Boredom” Sale for Elusive Ninja!
- Indie Game Marketing: ARTICLE III – Game Related & Maintenance
- Quick break from Marketing Articles to make my Touch Arcade banners!
- Indie Game Marketing: ARTICLE II – Traditional Advertising
- Indie Game Marketing: ARTICLE I – Social Marketing
- The trials & tribulations of marketing as an indie gamedev!
- Back to kickin’ ass & making games!
- Days 116 to 117 – Elusive Ninja officially launched! Final update before E3!
- Day 115 – Elusive Ninja approved! Plus E3 promotional stuff!
- Day 114 – Elusive Ninja: The Shadowy Thief – official trailer!
- Days 109 to 113 – Elusive Ninja for the iPhone submitted to Apple!
- Days 106 to 108 – So close to submitting to Apple!
- Game1: Days 104 to 105 – Using basic human psychology to balance videogame difficulty curves!
- Game1, Day 103 – Stress management! I never expected to write this haha
- Game1, Days 100 to 102 – Big news! Elusive Ninja is in its final stages!
- Game1, Day 99 – All art/animations complete!
- Game1, Day 98 – Ahhh powers of two…you’re still around, eh?
- Game1, Day 97 – Just ’cause it’s bigger doesn’t mean it’s more powerful!
- Game1, Day 96 – Testing, testing, one two three!
- Game1, Day 95 – iPad art complete! Two versions down, one to go!
- Game1, Day 94 – My art is fat, time to put it on a .PNG reduction diet!
- Game1, Day 93 – Choppin’ and loadin’…sounds like the title of a bad NES game haha
- Game1, Days 72 – 92 – MegaUpdate Part 2, Music and SFX
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