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Start of with a nice, fairly innovative game and grow the studio…
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Go for it ! :wink:
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Perhaps I will!
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Go then!!
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http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/features/viewfeature.php?article=121
I was just re-reading the Funcom Dublin article, damn…we need a Dublin Studio!
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"Start of with a nice, fairly innovative game and grow the studio… "
Screw "nice fairly innovative ideas" :), theyre not easy to come by, dont always sell well and are hard to schedule
If ye want have any chance of getting something started get a small bunch of decent people together working on outsourced content\conversions\porting and build up from there. Leave the "fairly innovattive games" to the Edge magazine readers.
As for funcom twas a real shame it went down, after flapping about for a few years we had just reached the point where we could make a decent console game and it was all over, probably just as well tho as it looked like it was gonna implode :(…
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I’m still very much of the plan. Work on as many games as possible in varying roles and hopefully build up the experience and skill to return in the future (4-5 years) and get some investors to back me to start something up back home.
Hopefully with the contacts and experience I’ll have gained, will aid me in retaining investment as I wont be your typical case of giving some chancer with no track record a bunch of cash and watching it going up in smoke. So far I think I’m on track with the experience and definately the contacts. what this space..lol
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I agree with peter_b, it will only be those who have experience of AAA or top tier tooling & technology who get the lions share of any available VC. Ireland Inc. has a great reputation for shipping innovative, big ticket, Software. That business is familiar with the relatively long sales cycles needed to sell such software. Games are a different ball-game than Software – mainly because of the investment needed to convince people to buy your game pre-post release and, as a result, fund future development. You probably have about max 3 months, post release, to recoup costs and make a profit. So its not just about finding the cash to create the game – its also about obtaining the resources needed to buy the gamer eyes, ears, thumbs and limbs.
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Yu probably have about max 3 months, post release, to recoup costs and make a profit.[/quote:c4d4474586]
If you are lucky.
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> I was just re-reading the Funcom Dublin article
I met a few people who worked there, and they told me that the manageress used to dock peoples wages for working outside 9 to 5 – so if you worked a late one, say right through to 11 or 12pm, you got no extra wages, but if you then landed in at 11am the next morning, you got docked 2 hours pay!!!
Not a great way to run a creative company.
I remember hearing other nightmare stories about Funcom Dublin, can’t remember them at the mo though.
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If you are lucky.[/quote:9e971f620f]
agreed
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I’m still very much of the plan. Work on as many games as possible in varying roles and hopefully build up the experience and skill to return in the future (4-5 years) and get some investors to back me to start something up back home.
Hopefully with the contacts and experience I’ll have gained, will aid me in retaining investment as I wont be your typical case of giving some chancer with no track record a bunch of cash and watching it going up in smoke. So far I think I’m on track with the experience and definately the contacts. what this space..lol[/quote:c6c4c1e735]
You have my contact details Peter, give me a bell in a few years…
Don’t get married and settled overseas though ;) -
I shall hopefuly be job hunting in two years….. :lol:
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I’m still very much of the plan. Work on as many games as possible in varying roles and hopefully build up the experience and skill to return in the future (4-5 years) and get some investors to back me to start something up back home.
Hopefully with the contacts and experience I’ll have gained, will aid me in retaining investment as I wont be your typical case of giving some chancer with no track record a bunch of cash and watching it going up in smoke. So far I think I’m on track with the experience and definately the contacts. what this space..lol[/quote:382fbb06e1]
You have my contact details Peter, give me a bell in a few years…
Don’t get married and settled overseas though ;)[/quote:382fbb06e1]haha, most likely i’ll marry within the industry (seems to be the norm). So i’ll make sure she’s a good artist with plenty of AAA titles. Can always do with them :)
I’ll call ya ivan in 3 years. ;)
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News flash….GD.ie the new dating site for programmers, artists, …..etc.Its other services include social networking and recruitment. Now all we need are some compatabilty surveys!
So programmers, what are the characteristics of your perfect partner?!
aside: talk about a discussion going off track!
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I’ve got an animator…seems to work alright ;)
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omen is alive !
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*wave*
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