Streaming Colour Studios is finally getting off the ground!

Please allow me to introduce myself: my name is Owen Goss and I am the founder/owner of Streaming Colour Studios. After nearly five years of living in Vancouver, BC, working for large video game companies, I decided it was time to move home to Ontario and start my own company. While I gained a tremendous amount of valuable experience working on large games, I felt that it was time that I concentrate on making the kind of games that really excite me. This is why I have formed Streaming Colour Studios.

Streaming Colour is a small, independent video games company that I’ve formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Streaming Colour was founded with the idea of making the kinds of small, unique, interesting, and fun games that I love to play.

One of the things that I love about the video games development community is that developers are quite willing to share information with each other. With that in mind, I’ve decided to start this developer’s blog. I hope to update it as the studio develops. I will try to hold nothing back, sharing the successes and challenges with you, dear reader.

One of the challenges I faced when I first started thinking about forming my own company was a lack of information on how other small companies have done it. There’s information out there, but it’s not always easy to come by. My hope is that this blog might one day become a resource for some other game entrepreneur, so that they have some basic information to help them get started.

On that note, I’d like to link to a couple of sites that have provided me with extremely useful information and inspiration. I will try to post a link of note with each post, as long as I can find one.

• Metanet Software (www.metanetsoftware.com/blog) – Metanet Software is a Toronto-based games company, creators of the fantastic N and N+ video game. N is one of my favourite games. Period. It’s brilliant in its simplicity and execution. The developers at Metanet run a blog that’s full of great posts.
• Power of 2 Games (www.powerof2games.com) – Power of 2 Games is a small independent start-up who post fantastic technical blog posts. Their post on setting up Subversion was what helped me get my own server up and running. They haven’t released a game yet, but I love reading their blog.

I think I have rambled on long enough for my first post. Next time I’ll talk about the challenges I’ve been having in setting up the business side of things.

Owen

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