{"id":14,"date":"2015-05-29T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofmymindgames.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-06-01T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:53:51","slug":"starting-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outofmymindgames.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/starting-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been an eventful couple of weeks for sure.<\/p>\n<p>I just registered my business and got my EIN and bank account. I&#8217;ve also been meeting regularly with other game devs and business people to get information about starting a company. I suspect that the information I&#8217;ve been gathering will make for another post soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick list of the tools and services that I am using:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unity3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unity<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the primary content tool that I am using. It&#8217;s a free game engine for companies that make less than $100K\/year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrealengine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreal Engine<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is another game engine, which is free to use and only requires royalties if you make any money with your project. I have this set up, but am focusing on Unity to start, since I have the most recent experience with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android SDK<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is necessary to build apps for Android devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oculus Rift SDK<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is necessary to build VR projects for the Oculus Rift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sublimetext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sublime Text 2<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast and lightweight text editor. Not very easy to configure, but the defaults work pretty well nonetheless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/git-scm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Git<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the source control system that I am using on my local machine. It&#8217;s a free distributed version control system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BitBucket<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a Git (and Mercurial) based online server for hosting repositories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/testfairy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Test Fairy<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a test build distribution and testing platform. It allows devs\/testers to download builds directly to their devices without going through the app stores. It also captures debug data whenever the app is run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GIMP 2<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is an image manipulation program, with more than enough features to create authentic programmer art.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blender<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a 3D modelling program, which has a range of tools and capabilities to rival any licensed programs. Now, if I can just learn to use it well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve written one post so far. 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I just registered my business and got my EIN and bank account. I&#8217;ve also been meeting regularly with other game devs and business people to get information about starting a company. I suspect that the information I&#8217;ve been gathering will make for another post soon. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/outofmymindgames.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/starting-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Starting up - Out Of My Mind Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/outofmymindgames.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/starting-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Starting up - Out Of My Mind Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, it&#8217;s been an eventful couple of weeks for sure. 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