Everybody who has played a significant role in iDGi has experienced near-total creative authority over big sections of our productions. The most effective members of iDGi have been those who did not "work for us" but instead "collaborated with us". Many will regularly knock things out of the park, while others struggle at times but work hard with us to learn, grow, and sometimes persevere. We believe that always learning and growing is a core part of the creative experience. Making an iDGi game can be very fun and exploratory, but it also requires a lot of consistent hard work towards a common goal and vision.
Throughout all the years, we've learned and grown with each other, with trust and mutual respect being key to longevity and making the biggest possible creative impact.
iDGi's first 3D production, Consortium (2014), entered production in 2011, with daily video conference "scrum" meetings being mandatory. Half of our core team was in a different country for the entire production, and while we learned a lot through some early failures and false starts, we did make it work in the end.
Many dev teams, post-Covid-19, are beginning to experiment with some form of remote working from home virtual dev teams - did you know that we've been doing that since 2011? While we have sometimes gotten together in dev caves to work closely on certain things, our development philosophy is a very straightforward one that allows for a ton of flexibility for individual developers.
It is all about the project. It is all about what people commit to the project or what they don't commit. We always take things day by day and are very nimble - we may change direction instantly if it leads to a better result. No ideas are bad ideas. Everybody always has a voice that will be listened to, and every single day everyone is invited to speak up with concerns and share ideas.
We have always staffed up team members to suit individual projects best, and don’t maintain a large staff. Our model is quite similar to how Hollywood productions work - each production has its own budget, schedule, timeframe, etc, and team configurations are designed to suit each project individually. With our independence comes frugality and we’ve had no choice but to be very particular about who we choose to work with for our various projects.
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