Business and Production: A GameDev.net Collection

Part 1: Business1. Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals; 2. Pitch Your Game: Pitching Tips from a Game Industry Catcher; 3. Open Source and the Gaming Industry; 4. The Four Ps of Marketing; 5. Advertising Your Games; 6. Submitting Your Game to Retailers; 7. How to Ship a Commercial Game Without Quitting Your Day Job; 8. Legal Issues in Game Development; 9. Basic Team Building and Management; Part 2: Production10. Lone Wolf Killers; 11. How to Build a Game in a Week from Scratch with No Budget; 12. Critical Path Analysis and Scheduling for Game Development 13. Incremental Development; 14. How to Do Stuff Quickly and Cheaply; 15. What A Portal Wants; 16. Blind Man's Bluff: Moving Toward Fact-Based Metrics for Measuring Project Progress; 17. Game Unified Process (GUP); 18. Managing Digital Assets in Game Development; 19. Introduction to Modding": Lessons Learned and Best Practices; 20. MMOG Considerations; Index"

Hattan, John
John Hattan has been working steadily in the casual game-space since the TRS-80 days and professionally since 1990. After seeing his small-format games turned down for what turned out to be Tandy's last PC release, he took them independent, eventually releasing them as several discount game-packs through a couple of publishers. The packs are actually still available on store-shelves, although you'll need a keen eye to find them nowadays.He continues to work in the casual game-space as an independent developer, largely working on games in Flash for his website, The Code Zone (www.thecodezone.com). His current scheme is to distribute his games virally on various web-portals and widget platforms. In addition, John writes weekly product reviews and blogs (over ten years old) for www.gamedev.net from his home office where he lives with his wife and daughter in their home in the woods near Lake Grapevine in Texas.he site's long legacy of community and information sharing. At the same time, he advises the local IGDA chapter he founded back in 2001, speaks at local events, judges the student challenges over at GameInstitute, lurks and moderates on numerous development forums, experiments on small personal game projects under the guise of Blade Edge Software, and coaches gymnastics.