Author: Nate Hartmann

Epic Resources: A Notebook

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Epic Resources

Yup.  One of the the most basic things out there: a whole ton of paper. My team and I live on Google Drive and DropBox, and every now and then we hit up the ole’ Microsoft Office.  But sometimes you need to have things written down.  Like passwords.  Passwords are a bad thing to forget,… Read More

How I Did It: Yellow Box Studios

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Advice, How I Did It

In fifth grade, I tried making a movie.  It was a western.  It had a twelve person cast.  It required a desert.  It was ambitious and it never got made, though I did host a few table-reads. Four years later, I made my first film – The Ballad of Chuck Carlson: A Semi-True Story.  It… Read More

So You’ve Made an App

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Building Your Business, Next Steps

When I lived in the Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls my sophomore year at the University of Illinois, I got addicted to Fruit Ninja.  That’s right about the time that I started to get the idea that making a game would be great – time consuming – but great. During one of the floor dinners, I… Read More

Welcome to Student Business

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Epic Resources

So this is it – a semester’s worth of thought and work all brought to fruition. From day one, I’ve been a fan of experiments.  Not necessarily the scientific kind (I think the last science class I took was freshman physics), but the adventurous kind.  While I’m not trying to slam science here, there is… Read More