Meeting 01
Attendees: Mike Pickton (Supervisor)
Agenda
No agenda was made for this meeting.
Feedback
You have got good information down about indie companies but are they successful?
How is an indie company/game seen as successful, what does it need to do?
What about indie companies/games that aren't 'successful'
Why are you looking at these companies/games is it because you like them or because they make money? Model yourself on a company that makes money over one you like.
Look for meta critic scores (Steam spy)
Look into how much these games cost, this might be helpful later on
Go on LinkedIn to see if there are any people in indie companies
Look at kickstarted games for their updates (similar to dev blog)
Objectives for next week
Look at how the indie companies/games you have looked at are successful?
How is an company/game successful?
Look at some companies/games that aren't 'successful'
What indie games make the most money?
add critic scores on the games you are looking at
What was the price of these games?
Look at LinkedIn to find out job roles in indie companies
Start gathering a series of questions that you want to ask people in an indie company
Collect emails addresses (or twitter ect) of people you want to contact
Start post on research into job roles