hey everybody my name is leo olabe and i
look after games partnerships here at
google play really excited to welcome
you to our very first google play coffee
break
it's going to be awesome
so i'm here today with nim
one of the founders of an exciting indie
game studio from tel aviv called jim
jump studios they're actually graduates
of our indie games accelerator program
and finalists of our indie games
festival as well so hello nim welcome
hey leo thank you very much for inviting
us to kick off the series why don't we
talk a little bit about your coffee how
do you take it my friend i'm a bit of a
late bloomer in terms of coffee but i'm
deep into an espresso phase at the
moment
so uh catching me
so why don't we uh get things started
off here after we enjoy our coffee and
just tell me just tell us a little bit
about yourself and jim jump we're a tiny
studio we're very young and we only
launched last year the last game that we
released and actually it's the first
game that we ever built together is a
frog like the frog roguelike
i played it a little bit i was i was
having i was like how do you stay on
these lily pads and go back and forth
like things get crazy congratulations on
becoming finalists for the indie games
festival in 2021. do you want to talk a
little bit about what that experience is
like i have a small confession when
itamar one of our lead game designers
first came up to me and he said anymore
just this google competition we have to
sign up like the first thing i told you
was like you know competitions are nice
but we're building something big here
and we need to be methodical
but you know like
we signed up and lo and behold he was
right it's a good thing i listened to
the team and yeah we were shocked to
discover like top 10 in europe we never
imagined that for our first game too
super super excited from that
and yeah that actually led us later into
getting accepted into the accelerator
which again was just an insane
experience for us that's cool the three
months of the accelerator probably saved
us and i'm not exaggerating like
probably two years worth of mistakes so
like that's really good in tears and
sweat and everything that comes with it
do you have any learnings that you want
to share with folks one thing i'd say is
launch early get that better version of
your game out as soon as you can get
that player feedback it's super super
important second thing launch your
community as early as you can there's no
shortage of channels online to do this
through and like really do it to day
zero if you're watching this now stop
the video go do it now and a third of
all no matter how confusing and rough
things gets remain focused on the heart
of what you're doing like the heart of
the project from my perspective i'm
really interested to know like you
who've seen so many indie games be
developed and launched and you've met so
many studios like i'm kind of wondering
what are some things you wish indie
studios would know when they begin their
journey so so i tell you all a couple a
couple of different things about like
what's important as you're going through
your journey um the first one is
you know
congratulations for even being on the
journey to begin with there's so many
people with gaming ideas and things that
they're passionate about that they don't
actually start to turn into reality
number two
i think that every indie game developer
should know that like none of this is
easy there's a lot of hard work there's
multiple iterations i think it's a
marathon it's not a sprint the third
thing that i would say is
learn as much as you can at every single
twist and turn go to every conference
you can think of talk to every game
developer you can think of you know you
never know where the next either great
idea is going to come from the next
fabulous piece of advice that i can
learn from that will help me like like
iterate more quickly and progress in my
journey even farther than i may have
been able to before at the same time
i would offer that it's extraordinarily
important for you to give back exactly
the same um you really guys are really
early on in your business journey i'm
really interested to know like what does
your idea of success look like something
that's really important for us as a
studio to do is uh kind of
expand our abilities to the point where
we can create games that encourage you
know kindness community building
introspection
and generosity like so many people are
playing video games on their phones and
it's really important to us to try and
make experiences that are genuinely
worthwhile and maybe make people think
of it and bring them closer together
always a pleasure to talk to you i can't
i can't wait to learn so much more from
you you know just watch you guys on your
journey right man so like like i'm
excited i'm excited i'm really excited
for something really fun
for me too we'll do you proud leo don't
you worry yes please do not worry a bit
it's going to be awesome for sure
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