We are a small team of industry veterans. We have always been passionate about game programming and always will be, in fact, we are still working in the industry on a full-time basis and our duties lies towards our employees first. This slows down the growth of this side business a lot but we have mouths to feed and we are dedicated people: if you get a job, you must honor the contract, period.
Most developers dream of starting their own business venture and sell their games, we are no exception and we have tried to do just that many times before (while respecting our NDA’s obviously).
Every time we tried, our personal game projects where too ambitious or too niche, either way, this has led to multiple failures as we slowly learned the hard realities of entrepreneurship. We will never abandon this hope since it is as the measure of our passion. This is our most recent attempt of establishing a video game company. This time around we will not only keep the scope of our project to a strict minimum but we will try to do horizontal development.
Meaning that as we slowly build our new project, we will sell the tools and libraries that we had to build for ourselves while developing our games (or sometimes, out of personal needs). Any app/tool/lib goes.
One thing that we are keenly aware of is that financing, publishing and maybe even banking often implies a loss of sovereignty where you soon find yourself being told that “if you don’t do X, the money will be withdrawn”.
This is how big corporations grab a hold of culture - we want no part in this egregious form of social engineering.
We will produce games, libraries and utilities and if you don’t want them or don’t like them, then so be it, we will adapt and candidly try to answer your needs better the next time around.
Being that we have this principled stance, this implies that we will have to bootstrap this company from the ground up and completely independently. We’re fine with that, it’s already a long and slow moving endeavour anyways.
We do hope that you will like what we produce. If you have comments, requests or ideas, we are very happy to hear them out.
Cheers!
Just send an email at: support@dissidentgames.com
We will not distribute our names or phone numbers here because there is a culture war raging and independent minded people are often characterized as being bad or attacked under unjustified reasons. Although we are very respectable and ethical individuals, we can not risk being chosen wantonly as a target by some crazy ideologue. This is truly surreal but it is the state of affairs in western societies.