ArenaEngine

ArenaEngine – can I do it alone?

Posted by Bartosz Ptaszynski on Jul 18, 2011 in about me, ArenaEngine | 0 comments

Last year an idea was born – ArenaEngine. It came to being after a pivotal change in my plans to develop yet unnamed Sci-Fi MMO. After going through some scenarios with Alexander Casassovici he suggested to focus on what I do best and have most experience in – servers/middleware.

It took several months of bashing out ideas, prototypes, demos to iron out a plan and architecture for ArenaEngine. I’ve stopped freelancing and downsized my company in January ’11 to concentrate on ArenaEngine only. One thing was certain –  this project needs sales and someone with overall experience in structuring company for scalability and I’m not fitting this requirements as I’m a techie.
Fortunately there are organizations in Ireland that are made especially for people like myself. That’s how I’ve got onto the Genesis which is a startup accelerator programme run and funded by Cork Institute of Technology and Enterprise Ireland.

After two months so far (out of twelve) this course is proving to be exactly what I need. That said driving a concept for a company such as this sucking a lot of energy from me. I don’t mind developing the software and whole platform for the product – it comes easy to me, but the marketing, financial analysis and predictions, structuring company etc. are not something I may say I am most proficient at. Never less Genesis works like school sometime – you have no choice but to comply.

So, can I do it alone? I must for now, unfortunately I had to let go one developer who worked with me on the prototyping stage as simply I’m running out of savings from last contracts. ArenaEngine is completely self funded so far and until either version 1.0 hits the online shelf or I manage to secure investment I can’t afford to hire anyone.

In future posts, which will be a mixture of technical heavy posts and business related posts I’ll leave a trail of progress being made. As mentioned above a lot had been done so far and the next few posts will summarize that.