Otto Biography: Resilient Broomfield resident Megan Fox has got game
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One of the perks of writing a column is getting interesting people to talk to you. Take, for example, the local Broomfield game-maker Megan Fox. At the age of 6, Megan Fox bet her grandfather she would make video games for a living. He lost. But her journey wasn't the straightest of routes.
She grew up writing programs starting with a Commodore 64, and at age 18 she was a computer science major at the University of Colorado-Boulder with an internship at a dot-com during the dot-com revolution. When that internship turned into a job offer, she did what any college student in her situation would do: She stopped showing up for class. She didn't drop them. She just decided not to go any more.
Which worked out awesome, until the bubble burst and she found herself unable to get another job because she didn't have a degree. So she went back to school, only to find her GPA was now a sub-1.0, which meant she had to reapply to the program after maintaining a C average for a year someplace else. So she did the only thing a returning college student would do in that situation: She switched to math.
After she graduated in 2007, she got her first job making games at Idyllon, and then moved to NetDevil, the Louisville company that would be contracted to build the painfully short-lived massively multiplayer online game LEGO Universe. Which left a lot of gifted people in Broomfield seeking other work.
She's living with her sister now, killing time until her sibling gets her engineering degree and the two of them can move to Seattle. In the meantime, she's been living off her savings and making games almost entirely solo.
She started her own company Glass Bottom Games, (http://glassbottomgames.com/) and coded an entire Facebook social media game that she scrapped after feedback that the art wasn't quite up to snuff.
"I'm not going to put out a game if it's not good enough," she said.
Then she started working on an app-based game, Jones on Fire, which is how I found out about her — another LEGO U alum, Mike Starks, told me it was "going to be amazing."
The game is a sideview game with cute characters, somewhat akin to the look and feel to SuperMario Bros. The germ of the idea began at the BlazeJam, a 48-hour charity game-design competition to raise money for those affected by the Colorado wildfires.
Emma Jones is a cubist firefighter who runs, jumps and slides through 10 levels to save kitties. According to the website, Jones has one purpose, to save the kitties. "Through saving kitties, you'll gradually unlock the true potential of Jones, which will allow you to save even more kitties." Which means Jones on Fire has all the makings of an Internet sensation.
The app will be free, with the option to buy more goodies, which is how she hopes to make a little coin. Not including living expenses, she's sunk about $4,500 into the game, and seven months of development, so she's hoping to make at least that. The trick to success is getting "featured" in the App Store, and having a big opening week, which is in the coming week or so.
How is one person able to develop a game in months, when it takes companies with a staff of programmers years to produce a product? Fox said it's the super-duper glossy details, voice actors and cut-screens, which cute, cubist kittens don't require.
She contracted out some work to people like Nathan Madsen (http://madsenstudios.com/), who I knew primarily as "one of the people I argue with on Facebook," but also is apparently a musician of some sort who has scored for the animation company FUNimation Entertainment, among others.
For the moment, the App world is relatively new and friendly to indie-developers, so she wanted to take advantage of it while she could. Next up?
"Steam," she said, referring to the Netflix-ization of console gaming.
In the fast-moving, high-tech world, one always has to be looking out for the next big thing.
Dylan Otto Krider is a former staff writer and regular contributor to the Enterprise. He also is the coordinator of the Ones and Zeros Pixelshow. Every other Sunday he will share his stories and observations about life and Broomfield's people and places. Reach him at dkrider@comcast.net or dylanottokrider.com.
Source : http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/home-life/ci_22599531/otto-biography-resilient-broomfield-resident-megan-fox-has
One of the perks of writing a column is getting interesting people to talk to you. Take, for example, the local Broomfield game-maker Megan Fox. At the age of 6, Megan Fox bet her grandfather she would make video games for a living. He lost. But her journey wasn't the straightest of routes.
She grew up writing programs starting with a Commodore 64, and at age 18 she was a computer science major at the University of Colorado-Boulder with an internship at a dot-com during the dot-com revolution. When that internship turned into a job offer, she did what any college student in her situation would do: She stopped showing up for class. She didn't drop them. She just decided not to go any more.
Which worked out awesome, until the bubble burst and she found herself unable to get another job because she didn't have a degree. So she went back to school, only to find her GPA was now a sub-1.0, which meant she had to reapply to the program after maintaining a C average for a year someplace else. So she did the only thing a returning college student would do in that situation: She switched to math.
After she graduated in 2007, she got her first job making games at Idyllon, and then moved to NetDevil, the Louisville company that would be contracted to build the painfully short-lived massively multiplayer online game LEGO Universe. Which left a lot of gifted people in Broomfield seeking other work.
She's living with her sister now, killing time until her sibling gets her engineering degree and the two of them can move to Seattle. In the meantime, she's been living off her savings and making games almost entirely solo.
She started her own company Glass Bottom Games, (http://glassbottomgames.com/) and coded an entire Facebook social media game that she scrapped after feedback that the art wasn't quite up to snuff.
"I'm not going to put out a game if it's not good enough," she said.
Then she started working on an app-based game, Jones on Fire, which is how I found out about her — another LEGO U alum, Mike Starks, told me it was "going to be amazing."
The game is a sideview game with cute characters, somewhat akin to the look and feel to SuperMario Bros. The germ of the idea began at the BlazeJam, a 48-hour charity game-design competition to raise money for those affected by the Colorado wildfires.
Emma Jones is a cubist firefighter who runs, jumps and slides through 10 levels to save kitties. According to the website, Jones has one purpose, to save the kitties. "Through saving kitties, you'll gradually unlock the true potential of Jones, which will allow you to save even more kitties." Which means Jones on Fire has all the makings of an Internet sensation.
The app will be free, with the option to buy more goodies, which is how she hopes to make a little coin. Not including living expenses, she's sunk about $4,500 into the game, and seven months of development, so she's hoping to make at least that. The trick to success is getting "featured" in the App Store, and having a big opening week, which is in the coming week or so.
How is one person able to develop a game in months, when it takes companies with a staff of programmers years to produce a product? Fox said it's the super-duper glossy details, voice actors and cut-screens, which cute, cubist kittens don't require.
She contracted out some work to people like Nathan Madsen (http://madsenstudios.com/), who I knew primarily as "one of the people I argue with on Facebook," but also is apparently a musician of some sort who has scored for the animation company FUNimation Entertainment, among others.
For the moment, the App world is relatively new and friendly to indie-developers, so she wanted to take advantage of it while she could. Next up?
"Steam," she said, referring to the Netflix-ization of console gaming.
In the fast-moving, high-tech world, one always has to be looking out for the next big thing.
Dylan Otto Krider is a former staff writer and regular contributor to the Enterprise. He also is the coordinator of the Ones and Zeros Pixelshow. Every other Sunday he will share his stories and observations about life and Broomfield's people and places. Reach him at dkrider@comcast.net or dylanottokrider.com.
Source : http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/home-life/ci_22599531/otto-biography-resilient-broomfield-resident-megan-fox-has
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