{"id":62573,"date":"2014-03-15T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T09:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62573"},"modified":"2014-03-15T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T09:41:30","slug":"sa-indie-dev-talks-humble-beginnings-to-r1-million-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62573-sa-indie-dev-talks-humble-beginnings-to-r1-million-success","title":{"rendered":"SA indie dev talks humble beginnings to R1 million success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-owner of the 3D architectural design agency Burn, and head honcho of\u00a0Indie-adventure STASIS, speaks about what it takes to make a success of yourself during an interview with Finweek.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Find something that you do very well, do it very well, and charge money for it&#8230; and don&#8217;t avoid the tax man,&#8221; was Bischof&#8217;s advice to prospective\u00a0entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>In February we wrote about how <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60692-sa-made-stasis-wants-one-last-kickstarter-push.html\">Bischof\u00a0raised over a million rand through Kickstarter<\/a>\u00a0for STASIS, and in the interview he talks about the draining but euphoric experience it was.<\/p>\n<p>STASIS is a 2D isometric, point-and-click adventure game for PC Windows, set in the distant future on a desolate spacecraft. Protagonist John Maracheck must solve puzzles to save his family, while uncovering horrific experimentation, illicit research, and an ever deepening mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below to hear\u00a0Bischof talk about starting his company in a kitchen, making his first million, and the Kickstarter campaign.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/--yLNf1fKEs?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62536-need-for-speed-movie-reviews-hit-the-road.html\">Need for Speed movie reviews hit the road<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62554-sa-call-of-duty-team-verus-the-world.html\">SA Call of Duty team versus the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/62561-afrihost-cuts-pre-paid-adsl-pricing.html\">Afrihost cuts pre-paid ADSL pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STASIS game developer talks about starting up his project and making his first million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":60341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11658,10878,3864,21,2366,11656,183],"class_list":["post-62573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-christopher-bischoff","tag-finweek","tag-gaming-news","tag-headline","tag-kickstarter","tag-stasis","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62586,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573\/revisions\/62586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}