Mystical Truth & Story Behind Never Ending Game: Mindivision! Are you ready?
Beach, palms, sea and wonderful weather… 2 handsome and really creative men lying on the beach with mojitos… 5 million dollars on their bank accounts.
No… Just kidding, let’s start over again :D
Imagine 2 students who just came back from a one year studies in Spain. Both of them (Piotr and Wojciech) were simply broke… but they wanted to make something much bigger than they were. So they started to look for the chance to make it happen…
They used to spent so much time at their favorite cafe in hometown. ;) They spent countless hours analyzing and testing games to find one idea that would rise above all the rest!
Those two young man had several ideas for new apps and games. But instead of executing them, they had to earn money for living… This is one of the reasons why Mindivision development looked like never ending story.
Why Mindivision?
We were inspired by the flash game called Multitask 2. There are many games available out there but each of them is very similar to another. One tap games are simplistic and quite popular. But what if… A game could be a real challenge for you? What if you could be playing 6 games at once! Could you handle it? :D
Development process: how it got 32573945493 iterations…
Problems we were faced with
Production took over 2,5 years. We were faced with so many problems during the last months… Lack of money was one of them. Indie developers know the pain (it happens quite often). We had been working with many people all around the world: almost whole team worked remotely. You can imagine this indomitable chaos ;).
As young entrepreneurs we really wanted to make incredible things. We thought we needed a company. So we opened one in Berlin. We thought that was our first huge step towards fulfilling our dreams. But instead: we lost the time, money, energy and actually belief that our game will see daylight in the near future… And yes, it was one our painful lessons.
The worst thing about whole story was the feeling of the emptiness… We finished the game over a year ago, and we could not release it because of the company mess.
Everything around Mindivision seemed to be like a nightmare. Totally, EVERYTHING.
We wanted to launch it on our own, then through our German company, then with a our friend Kyle (with whom we had chance to work on Goldieblox).
In the meantime one of our teammates: Sebastian who also worked with us on Mindivision had to unexpectedly move out to a different city. So after 4 people and a cat in the team, there were only 3 (Piotr, Wojtek, Angie) & no cat. Pretty comforting, isn’t it?
But there is always the rainbow after the rain… So after those and much more unexpected situations we tried all over again. Another approach and another believe that this time is going to be the last to launch this game.
So, who we are?
2 the best developers on this planet — Piotr (left), and Wojciech (right). Creators of Pimp Tycoon & developers that worked on Goldieblox — Best iPad App of 2014!
Publisher: Kyle founder of Monocle Society who lives in Seattle Washington. (in the middle)
One marketing girl: Angie is a marketing wizard! We started our cooperation when she was only 16! She helped us with the promotion of many games we made a few years ago. Currently: Co-founder of @UseProud.
Best Friends,
Privately we are not only the team, we are also best friends who are going to move together to Valencia in Spain!
Summary
Success does not (and should not) come to you overnight. One thing is to always remember that you can fall down seven times but get up eight.
Difficulties that happen to you are lessons to reinvent yourself, gain new experience and new points of view. :) So don’t be afraid of it, just try to understand it. :)
Finally: we are more than happy to show Mindivision to the whole WORLD!
Go & take a challenge! Will you be able to focus enough and play 6 games at once? Show us how great you are!
Download MINDIVISION now! — Available on iOS!
From that point we want to thank each of you who helped us go through this quite complicated journey. What would we do without you?
Special thanks for:
Sebastian Kościelny, Mariusz Szulc, Przemysław Matyjaszek, Tomasz Kwiatkowski, Ajay Khara, Maciej Piotrowski, Monika Wasiuk, Justyna Halenka, Lukasz Ciapała, Piotr Granat, Dominik Kobiera, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Magdalena Materkowska, Tomasz Modelski, Lukasz Kokosiński, Tomohiko Okada, Grzegorz Flor with kids, Mariola Konarska, Jordan Konarski, Kara Roszkowiak, Bartosz Wlazło, Łukasz Falkowski, Robert Hanulewicz, Karolina Paluch, Michał Klimczyk, Robert Pastuszenko, Paweł Hreczuch, Marcin Damian, Dawid Wojtaszewski, Przemysław Berezowski, Joanna Berezowska, Anna Leśkow, Joanna Roszkowiak, Krzysztof Roszkowiak, Barbara Szwach, Józef Szwach, Paweł Szwach, Agnieszka Szwach, Stanisław Szwach, Emilia Szwach, William Kinkade, Nathan Kinkade, Reid Kinkade, Wojciech Fedunik, Łukasz Jasikowski, Michał Laboch, Piotr Sobolewski, Andrzej Koloska, Michał Pyrka, Maciej Woźniak, Łukasz Kuś, Staś Żyrek, Victor Perez, Anna Wołcyrz, Magdalena Krywalska, Szymon Nowak, Magdalena Jagintowicz, Joanna Michałek, Grzegorz Michałek, Marcin Maciński, Monika Wycisk, Andrzej Wycisk, Weronika Michowicz.
