Even if a small studio has a number of titles\u00a0under their belt, it doesn’t always mean it’s doing well financially. At the cusp of bankruptcy, it was time to look at alternative ways of producing games. “Money is always available from somewhere,” notes former\u00a0Failbetter\u00a0Games staffer Alexis Kennedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In this GDC 2016 session, Kennedy\u00a0goes over\u00a0how the\u00a0company used open publishing techniques to steer themselves away from bankruptcy and toward being financially stable with their\u00a0game, Sunless Sea<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The\u00a0talk discusses\u00a0how Kennedy incorporated\u00a0a “bundle of techniques” (which he dubbed as “open production”) used by other\u00a0successful indie studios during the development of Sunless Sea,<\/em>\u00a0going over topics like Kickstarter\u00a0and interacting early with the community to establish a collaborative relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n Developers curious to see if open production is applicable to their projects can now\u00a0watch the talk completely free via the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0a 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\u00a0GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even if a small studio has a number of titles\u00a0under their belt, it doesn’t always mean it’s doing well financially. At the cusp of bankruptcy, it was time to look at alternative ways of producing games. “Money is always available from somewhere,” notes former\u00a0Failbetter\u00a0Games staffer Alexis Kennedy.\u00a0 In this GDC 2016 session, Kennedy\u00a0goes over\u00a0how the\u00a0company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9578","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\/9578","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=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}