{"id":117620,"date":"2020-09-04T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/369580"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:59:00","slug":"video-how-a-newbie-solo-dev-landed-their-game-on-xbox-game-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/04\/video-how-a-newbie-solo-dev-landed-their-game-on-xbox-game-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How a newbie solo dev landed their game on Xbox Game Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2020 GDC Summer talk&nbsp;Studio Zevere&#8217;s Davionne Gooden discusses his four-year journey taking <em>She Dreams Elsewhere<\/em> from a scrappy, solo developed project begun in high school to&nbsp;a fully-realized game.<\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting look at his journey, with practical examples of how Gooden positioned what had been his high school project&nbsp;to launch across multiple platforms, including Xbox Game Pass for PC and console.<\/p>\n<p>Gooden&#8217;s talk was both intriguing and relevant to a large swathe of game makers; now you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g4vT_xNsxvM\">watch it for&nbsp;free via&nbsp;the official GDC YouTube channel<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2020 GDC Summer talk&nbsp;Studio Zevere&#8217;s Davionne Gooden discusses his four-year journey taking She Dreams Elsewhere from a scrappy, solo developed project begun in high school to&nbsp;a fully-realized game. It was an interesting look at his journey, with practical examples of how Gooden positioned what had been his high school project&nbsp;to launch across multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}