Develop sister site CasualGaming.biz continues its search for new game studios
This is truly the second age of independent developers. From college students to hobbyists and bedroom coders, there are plenty of ways to get started these days.
Established developers and creative organisations have even begun setting up dedicated services to help independent developers, such as Blitz 1UP.
Lab Rats Studio was formed by four college students with the help of development incubator Joystick Labs - who also aided Gale Force Logic. Based in North Carolina, Lab Rats intended to create cutting edge interactive entertainment for multiple platforms.
Lab Rats’ co-founder and CEO Rion Holland told CasualGaming.biz how they plan to nab their cheese.
How did you start your company?
Lab Rats Studio began as four students from Wake Technical Community College banding together to create a game for a final project class in our Simulation and Game Design Program.
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After the completion of our first game project, AfterShock: Escape from Bloomfield, we learned about the Joystick Labs Accelerator Program and were lucky to be chosen as one of the five inaugural companies to participate.
With the help of Joystick, we were able to incorporate and get a boost to start the development of our first marketable game which is currently in development for iOS platforms and eventually Android. Special thanks to Walter Rotenberry for all of his help with setting up meetings and sending emails for us.
Its great to see articles like this appearing.
I wish that a 'start-up' focus column was more of a regular feature in some of the industry rags like Develop. I'm not knocking the coverage of big industry players: at the end of the day people want interesting, relevant and dare I say inspiring stories but at the same time when your small/new is when you need a bit of coverage the most.
There seem to be features on companies that go under, so if we had some more on ones that are starting & their aspirations, as well as everything in-between it would paint a really full picture of the industry today.
Apologies if I'm being a bit presumptuous here and this is already happening.
