The previous blog post was aimed at managers and executives who need to handle working with remote teams, but this post is all about how to be productive when working from home. On thing to note is that there’s no one solution here. Some things will work for some people

Many companies have been forced to switch employees to working from home or are strongly considering it during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Here at Tricky Fast, we’ve always been a virtual company with all employees working from home. As the president, I’ve been managing remote teams for the better part

Today I want to talk a little about our hiring process. Although Tricky Fast is a full-service studio (engineering, design, art, audio and production,) today I am going to focus on hiring engineers. Along the way, I will point out some of the qualities we look for to find that

If you haven’t already, please check out part one in this series. This time I’d like to talk about the problems that outsourcing can solve. People who have been in the game industry a while usually have a few common complaints. One of the missions of Tricky Fast is to

Having run a successful game development outsourcing firm for some time now, I’ve noticed that there’s a significant stigma associated with outsourcing work. To be fair, many people get burned by outsourcing to the lowest bidder, which is often offshore developers. However, that’s a post for another day. Let’s just

The Scenario Recently, I was put on a client’s project that was somewhat in jeopardy and, of course, had an exceedingly aggressive ship date. My job was to get the product out on time and to aid the management team in getting the team and project at large, back on

You can’t go very far on the internet or out in the real world without running into Pokemon GO. We at Tricky Fast have certainly spent our fair share of time discussing the game. A lot of that lately has been talking about our own Augmented Reality framework. We built

We had great time meeting tons of new people and seeing lots of friends at the Pre-PAX Made in MA party hosted by MassDiGI! We had Cheese Runner, Tricky Flyer, and a video of a game by Judd Cohen who is one of our engineers called Geoid. Special thanks to

Tricky Fast Studios has a booth at the pre-PAX Made in MA party on Thursday, April 21st, 2016. Stop by and be one of the first people to play our newest game, Tricky Flyer! There’s still some time to get tickets which are available here. We’ll be in the indie