Although we made the change from being a distributed company (i.e. working out of our homes) to a company with an actual office a good while ago, I didn't quite feel like we were a "real" company until now...
Now we have company health insurance! Does it get any realer than that?
Some of my friends might take umbrage to the idea that being a distributed studio is somehow not "real" - I am just kidding, we were always real. But there is a stigma attached to being distributed - we have lost deals because of it.
There's probably no stigma attached to not having health insurance, though, so I'm not sure why I bring it up.
Jamie's Bragging Rights
The best superhero games of all time Game Informer
Top five games of all time Yahtzee Croshaw
Top five superhero games of all time MSNBC
Top 100 PS2 games of all time Official Playstation 2 Magazine
1001 Games You Must Play Before You Die Nomination for Excellence in Gameplay Engineering Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
Penny Arcade PAX 10 Award
Nominated for XBLA Best Original Game
Nominated for XBLA Best Co-Op Game
Categories
- Armchair Marketing
- Dungeon Life
- Energy Hook
- Free Game
- GameDevDad
- Happiness
- Happion Labs News
- I heart Unity
- Indie Tabletop RPGs
- Kickstarter
- Manager In A Strange Land
- N00b Data Science
- Native Client
- Notes On...
- numbergun!
- Playstation Mobile Studio
- Programmer Art
- Random Stuff
- Roblox
- Schizoid
- Shoestring Gamedev
- sixty second shooter
- Spider-Man 2
- Story
- Stupid Programming Tricks
- That's Drama
- Torpex News
Recent Comments
- Nick on Message from Perforce Visual Client - client 'yourclient' has no root usable from host 'yourhost'
- Kermond on When to assert
- Jay K. on One of the Best Management Books I’ve Read Isn’t A Management Book
- Jay K on Rage Against The State Machine: the bashable FSM antipattern
- Jan on One of the Best Management Books I’ve Read Isn’t A Management Book
- JasonTheOwner1 on Best Practices for Roblox Development
- Tipa on Adventures in Test First Development with Roblox
- Eddy on How To Be Positive - In Performance Reviews And Life
- Nathan Frost on How To Be Positive - In Performance Reviews And Life
- Nathan Frost on My Year In Positive Psychology 3: Notes on Creativity, Inc and Feedback
Kudos man kudos.. It's great to see Torpex growing and continuing to succeed. My hat's off to you sir!
Posted by: Ryan Wiancko | May 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM
I'm curious to gain insight into the decision to abandon the distributed model. Having dabbled in distributed company models recently, I've found them to be very appealing. I would guess there's a size cap of around 25 developers before it becomes too challenging to manage...
Anyway, can you share a bit more on the process that led to this change at Torpex?
Posted by: Brian D. Krueger | June 28, 2010 at 08:27 AM
Congrats! I can't help but think that as the average age of developers creeps up the relative important of health benefits increases as well.
Posted by: jvalenzu | June 30, 2010 at 06:01 PM