A Huge thank you to @bobby_greaney for his marathon talk tonight at #Duug taking us from the top to bottom of game development.

Your involvement in marketting needs to be continious. If your launch fails, launch again.

Check out Marketing on 'Zero Budget', what it means is spending a butload of time. youtu.be/l3QnovWYvwo

Almost 50% percent of budget is spent on marketing, that's Money and Time.

If you want to know Irish buisness information then enterprise Ireland are usually better to meet in person, they have offices in every county. Most importantly Hire an accountant. €100 to €150 a month.

DoContract.com makes life nice and simple for spelling out agreements with team members.

Word of mouth tends to be the most reliable and as important as the portfolio your presented.

Get into version controll. Clear levels help if your project takes an unproductive detour for a month.

Management tools. Don't just know what your doing, know where you are.

The leading methodologies in game development. Waterfall and Agile. You estimate Waterfall in time, you estimate Agile in complexity.

Part two of tonight's talk from @bobby_greaney is about project management. It's about guiding from the back not leading from the front. Not tracking people but tracking the jobs.

"If you can't explain a mechanic on a single sheet of paper it's probably not clear enough to program" @bobby_greaney Take a look at various design docs online.

We are now hearing stories from the audience, @bobby_greaney is dispensing wisdom on client relations.

You should be able to break up your production in terms of what you need to make and how long it should take you to make it. Now add 50% to that. No matter how tight your scope is, if it's a 3 month project make it 4 and a half for time.

For every project at least make page design document, the back of the box information. Then go on to a 10 page document as recommended in #LevelUp by @mightybedbug, also... buy this book.

Setting up milestones. "We need to do this in an order, otherwise it will never get done" Stick to them if you can, but moving around isn't a terrible idea.