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.
Bulletproof Outlaws - Game 1 - A Diary of a video game studio!
Okay it looks like my site is finally fully moved over. It’s been a gongshow month+ of 404s, 500s, 504s, you name it, ugh!! But now everything should be stable…I hope! Let me know if you have any problems accessing this site! The host I’ve moved to is site5.com and they’ve been awesome at helping me move and get set up, I’m super impressed so far. My Touch Arcade banners just went live on Monday and they’ll be up for the next 2 weeks, so I’ll let you all know what the results are after that period is over! For now, I present you with Article IV – Psychology, where we take an in-depth look at the ups and downs an indie dev goes through when they’re focusing on marketing and building up a reputation:
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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