{"id":8535,"date":"2017-12-22T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/312254"},"modified":"2017-12-22T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:11:00","slug":"even-if-a-game-makes-it-frugality-is-the-best-strategy-says-ultimate-chicken-horse-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/22\/even-if-a-game-makes-it-frugality-is-the-best-strategy-says-ultimate-chicken-horse-dev\/","title":{"rendered":"Even if a game ‘makes it’, frugality is the best strategy, says Ultimate Chicken Horse dev"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“<\/em>We didn’t immediately spend our cash on a fancy new penthouse office or immediately hire 15 people to start pumping out titles. We continued working the way we did before we had money.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– Clever Endeavour’s Alex Attar explains why the studio kept its course steady despite releasing a successful game<\/em><\/p>\n

Successfully launching a hit game shouldn’t necessarily change the way you move through game development, argues a member of the development team behind party platformer Ultimate Chicken Horse<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a recent Reddit AMA<\/a> lead programmer and Clever Endeavour\u00a0CTO Alex Attar said that, despite the game becoming a successful title for the studio, the team maintained a frugal approach to development and ongoing studio operations.<\/p>\n

For the Clever Endeavour team, this meant avoiding the “we can afford it” mindset and keeping its workflow largely the same both before and after obtaining some financial security.<\/p>\n

“While I obviously can’t go around divulging sensitive financial information, I can say that once we realized we were successful, our biggest strategy has been frugality. We didn’t immediately spend our cash on a fancy new penthouse office or immediately hire 15 people to start pumping out titles. We continued working the way we did before we had money,” explains Attar.<\/p>\n

“The only difference is that our conversations are now about whether or not something is worth the cost rather than simply if we can afford it.”<\/p>\n

The rest of the AMA is well worth checking out as well<\/a>, both for the occasional bit of game development insight and fun trivia factoids about the origin of the name Ultimate Chicken Horse.\u00a0<\/em>
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