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This week, Saul, Thomas and I (Paul) discuss pipelines, and a new development cycle that we’re devising to ensure that we can produce 6 high-quality Flatland episodes in 6-8 months.

While we’ve gotten a very basic list of deliverables (see the first image below), there’s still a lot that haven’t been worked out, particularly in the art and audio department. What deliverables would you advise we have at different points of this process?

The pipeline and deliverables we’re looking to use for Flatland episodes, with variable lengths for some of the stages.
In constructing the final 11 week pipeline, we opted for a 2 week concepting phase, a 4 week concept development phase, a 2 week content creation phase and a 2 week polish phase.

A look at how the pipelines might overlap, with both 3 week (below) and 4 week (above) intervals. We opted for 4 week intervals.

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What is a company? Who is a company? How is a company? Am I a company?

Sometimes, like in a very good tv shows, companies are actual people, but most of the time they are groups of people striving towards one goal together. Companies are interesting things, and making companies, and importantly making the esprit de corps of companies is a particuarly interesting thing. Today, I’m going to discuss the various milestones that make our company feel like a company. This morning, Paul and I were able to get down to 3 types of goals that you’re always chasing towards when making a company. They are: symbolic; practical; and perpetuating. I’m going to do a bit of a discussion on each one and talk about how we’re trying to make ourselves transition from been a garage indie start-up to being a fully fledged company.

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