Well It’s official!
Glitch Crab Studios Pty Ltd is incorporated and registered. We’ve officially formed a company to develop Level Squared into a full release.
The last couple of months have involved a pretty steep learning curve as we worked out how to go about incorporating, what it involved, and what it meant for each of us in the team.
There was a fair bit of discussion required to work out who was going to act as a Director for the company, and be held responsible for day-to-day decision making and record keeping and so on. Then we also had to decide who wanted to be a shareholder in the company – effectively who wanted to be the owners of the company – and who was happy to not join the company, and to just be part of the team for the development of Level Squared.
On the bright side, no-one was totally opposed to forming a company or continuing to work on Level Squared, everyone was keen to keep going with development.
In the end we have probably ended up with too many of us joining the company, and that’s going to make it difficult for us to be sustainable over the long term.
But that’s something that we are going to have to address as it crops up. I didn’t feel comfortable making a company if it involved jettisoning the people who had worked on Level Squared up to this point. I guess that probably makes me a not too good business guy. And I think I’m OK with that.
So now it’s done. We’re small business owners, we’ve signed up for Liberal Party memberships and started lobbying for tax cuts to help the economy is some unclear but still very important way…
ahem.
So now we’ll be moving forward with the development, in a bit more of an established position, and a bit more secure in our ability to engage with other companies and funding bodies on a more equal footing. And also start to transition away from referring to ourselves as student developers and instead as game developers.
On a more personal note, Given the establishment of our company and my pending trip to New Zealand for the Play be Play conference, I thought it was time to update the ol’ business cards.
Got a bit more info to put on them nowadays, and a bit of a more official sounding title too.
I’ll have these with me for Play by Play next week (holy shit next week!) and I’ll be handing them out pretty liberally!