Jeff Hangartner, the founder of the gaming start-up, Bulletproof Outlaws has been a professional developer of games over the last half a decade. Creator of Pixelation, the 1st Pixel Art Forum and also originator of the Pixel tutorials which have been published in the form of a book. Jeff has always been a pioneer of the gaming industry.
CG Today is proud to present Jeff’s exploration as he shares the whole process of creating a start-up right from day 1. With the belief that gaming development is coming back to its original “one programmer in the basement roots” idea, Bulletproof Outlaws is chronicling every step of its start-up process from strategies, to marketing, setting goals and outsourcing, successes and failures. The aim is to help other developers who have ideas but are intimidated by the whole start-up process and are not sure how to go about it.
You can visit his website Bulletproof Outlaws to know more about him or send an email to get connected.
Today we talked about something I didn’t actually think would be interesting… financial investing. Specifically what to do with your money when you DO have it. I’ve got a bit of a savings but it’s not doing much (it’s in a GIC earning like 0.5% interest). Our business coach has a decent amount of experience messing with the stock market and explained the jist of how it works. I think my favorite quote was something like “Being able to stretch a dollar isn’t impressive…being able to use that dollar to make ANOTHER dollar, THAT’S impressive.”
I’m not really a gambling man, but I’ve played with a stock market simulator before (where they track the real stock market and give you play money to use) and it doesn’t seem like something too impossible to get into. Our coach said his KIDS use it. He gives them X amount of money and let’s them choose which stocks to buy and when to sell, etc. with that money.