Mobile Game Development 101

The Search Part III

There is no better scenario then working with people you can trust.  A team that you hand-picked, comprised of your closest friends that had the skill set to pull off even your wildest imagination.  After failing once again to find phone game developers in the regular community, not unless we wanted to pay as much as a Porsche (read previous blog), we decided to start approaching our own network.

But even this approach, as we found out, gets messy.  The problem with friends and “your network” is most already have “full time jobs” (imagine me doing air quotes right now) and your dream is competing with their other personal “priorities”.  It’s hard to justifying to someone that wedding planning should be secondary to a mobile game development project (but we sure as hell tried).  And the other difficulty when dealing with friends is how do you compensate them and keep them motivated?

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The Search Part II

Have you ever felt special?  Like truly special that whoever you were talking to was hanging on every word you said?  And know I am not narcissistic and talking about this blog but I appreciate the thought.

What I am talking about is our experience when we reached out to some larger development studios about our mobile game idea.  This was the second part of our search for mobile game developers after striking out (for the most part) with Craigslist and Kijiji.  We had also made a halfhearted effort posting to University and College job boards in our area and received a grand total of 0 responses.  Apparently having a company name with no website or reputation even makes job hungry students suspect.

So we thought the next best options was once again turn to the almighty Google for help and what popped up was variety of different mobile game development studios in our region.  Turns out our decision to approach them would end up being a big waste of time, with a few lessons learned along the way.

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