{"id":782,"date":"2022-04-21T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=782"},"modified":"2022-04-21T19:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:30:02","slug":"going-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2022\/04\/21\/going-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since I&#8217;m pretty much dedicated to being a game dev; I&#8217;ve realized that its a HUGE undertaking that can&#8217;t be done by one man alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/death2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-783\" width=\"192\" height=\"224\"\/><figcaption>you spin me right round<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Well. I *could* do it all myself, but my kids&#8217;d be graduating college and starting families of their own by the time I got anything finished. So I need ducats. Big time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dollar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dollar.png 512w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dollar-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I started to pursue funding &#8211; except to no one&#8217;s surprise; people just don&#8217;t hand out checks to random people saying, &#8216;Go make yer dream game kid!&#8217;  Which is quite disappointing. Thinking to myself about ways to make money, I did come to the realization that if I&#8217;m &#8216;going&#8217; to be a dev &#8211; how about sell your work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/sssat3.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-785\" width=\"193\" height=\"287\"\/><figcaption>early ideas on the mobile game<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I already have characters \/ assets \/ framework already in place for a game I <strong>want <\/strong>to make &#8211; how about bang out a mobile game that I can get out quick?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its something published; which funders want to see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s something using the same characters, so the start of a franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can tout it when I demo my game and people ask &#8216;how can I help?&#8217; I can point them towards the mobile game for a quick purchase and it&#8217;ll amuse the kids on the car ride home AND keep the game in people&#8217;s minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it avoids the failed KickStarter \/ Ko-fi \/ Patreon route that seems to doom a lot of indie devs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; may I present &#8216;Go, Booper, GO!&#8217; &#8211; the first iteration of my mobile game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Go, Booper, GO! Mobile Trailer\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9MTlIWaHX-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Buy it when I release it, k?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m pretty much dedicated to being a game dev; I&#8217;ve realized that its a HUGE undertaking that can&#8217;t be done by one man alone. Well. I *could* do it all myself, but my kids&#8217;d be graduating college and starting families of their own by the time I got anything finished. So I need ducats. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2022\/04\/21\/going-mobile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going Mobile<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}