Laser Dog - Enough to go full time?

Presented at Hey! #18 on 21st July, 2015.

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2. Enough To Go Full Time?
3. What is Laser Dog? Two man indie game development studio Based in Leeds Active since 2012 Released two games for iOS and Android
4. Who Are We? Rob Allison Programming Music Social Simon Renshaw Visual Design Sound Marketing < Game Design >
5. How We Started Twitter Yates Full fat coke Talked about games Decided to work together
6. Our Plan? Make Good Games Fun Skill Fast Simple pricing
7. Part Time Full Time
8. What We’ve Made
9. PUK
10. ALONE…
11. Prototype! Is it fun? Is it hard enough? Can we actually make it? “Be prepared to chop your babies’ heads off!”
12. Prototype!
13. ‘2X4B’ (ALONE Prototype)
14. ALONE… Prototype
15. Inspiration 3 Hours ‘2X4B’ Bugs Fun
16. Can we make it into a real game? Make it feel like a game Indiana Jones Juice Score Death Ready for style / name / branding
17. Visual Style
18. Name ALONE ALONE
19. Mockup & Artwork 300m 18,649m
20. 1 Day Teaser Trailer Stuff to Deliver:
 Name, Concept & Launch Date No gameplay footage! 2 day animation 3 hour music 20 minute voice over (Simon) Pitch shift
22. Build and Development
23. Build Refine
24. Build Refine Rebuilt 3 times Procedural generation Rules Scripts Web based editor
25. Build Refine
26. Build Refine
27. Build Refine
28. Build Refine 8,743
29. Build Refine
31. Music
32. Music 8 in-game tracks Electronic/Orchestral Depth 12 track version available to purchase on band camp *cough* iTunes/Spotify
33. Pre Launch Fun
34. Pre Launch Fun
35. Launch Trailer Stuff to Deliver:
 Gameplay, Style, World, Concept More time to produce Real gameplay footage Lots of assets to work with More voice overs (Simon) More pitch shift
37. Launch Campaign All this about 10 days before launch Launch email Send to reviewers Send to Apple Send to Google Twitter countdown Pester friends
38. Launch Day
40. Results
41. …and for us?
42. …and for us? ?
43. Results
44. Results
45. Results
46. Enough To Go Full Time?
48. What Next?
50. Ultra Fast platformer Mobile/PC/MAC Touch/Mouse based Time based scores Retro Authentic chip music
52. Thank you Any questions? @laserdoggames @si_renshaw @roballison