Gavin’s Blog

Stolen Notebook went to the second meeting of IGDA Madison on Tuesday. The guest speaker was Alex Seropian from Wideload Games. I had actually seen him before on the panel for the “How to Structure a Successful Independent Development or Publishing Enterprise” conference at E3 in 2005. I have found that a lot of what he had to say at E3 and on Tuesday is very relevant to Stolen Notebook.
Wideload is a relatively small company, Alex mentioned there are only 15 people working there full time. Their plan is to stay independent and Alex also mentioned that due to their small size controlling their IP is very important. This is true for Stolen Notebook as well, to paraphrase Alex with a small team the strength of the group lies in its ideas, whereas a lot of the strength of a large team may lie in its ability to execute the ideas of a third party that lacks the resources to follow through on those ideas.
All in all it was a good meeting, despite my coming up empty in the raffle, and I’m eager to see what the next meeting will hold.