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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Watching your product come to life through public support after pouring blood, sweat and tears into it is every entrepreneur's biggest dream. http://mashable.com/2012/06/09/kickstarter-campaign-tips/

5 Kickstarter Champs Share the Secrets of Their Success

Here we’re going to show you how to create one of the backgrounds from the Free Starfield Tileable Twitter Background series at Backgrounds ETC , specifically the one we are using on the BackgroundsETC Twitter page . You will need to download and install a couple free tileable patterns and textures from Filterforge which you will find below. Alternatively you can download the project source files which include these patterns at the end of this post.

Starfield Tileable Twitter Background Tutorial

http://tutorials.mysitemyway.com/starfield-tileable-twitter-background-tutorial/
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Business Plan Template

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Game creators are experimenting with shorter, episodic stories. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/05/the-future-of-video-games-could-look-a-lot-like-television/256838/

The Future of Video Games Could Look a Lot Like Television - Yannick LeJacq - Entertainment

How Important are Your People?

Leadership is action, not position. http://www.knealemann.com/2012/05/how-important-are-your-people.html
When designing a video game, there are multiple teams — a team of artists, a team of programmers and a team of producers. The artist designs the models, for example, characters or vehicles. All creations have to be drawn by the artist so they can see how they look before they are used in a game. http://www.theranger.org/nvc-offers-gaming-design-plan-1.2730380#.UVSuHtF-P0N

NVC offers gaming design plan - The Ranger - San Antonio College

The 6 Habits of True Strategic Thinkers

You're the boss, but you still spend too much time on the day-to-day. http://www.inc.com/paul-schoemaker/6-habits-of-strategic-thinkers.html
http://www.pammarketingnut.com/2012/03/ceo-social-mindset-25-tips-for-a-healthy-social-business-mindset/# Attitude and mindset are often the key to success in life. With the right mindset you can learn new things, take on mountains, lead teams to success and accomplish more than you ever dreamed possible.

CEO Social Mindset: 25 Tips for a Healthy Social Business Mindset

The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives (And How to Identify Them!)

A recent BusinessWeek article reported that, “According to a new survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM’s Institute for Business Value, CEOs identify ‘creativity’ as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future.”
At the end of 2011, seven game developers from six different studios sat together to record a podcast. The theme they were given was the top tips for game development, and over the course of the recording they pooled together their experience to come up with 26 pieces of advice that every developer should at least consider. I realised that there was a wealth of knowledge being shared, and that someone should write it down in an article.

The A-Z Of Game Development

Details Matter

The Lean Startup mantra tells entrepreneurs to get a basic version of your product out there to test the waters, and then build the real product afterwards with the knowledge you gain from this early customer feedback.

Pay with a Tweet - A social payment system

Just fill out the form and get your personal Pay with a Tweet download button and URL.

[Nieuws] De Nederlandse gamesindustrie in cijfers — deel 1 | Control

Control enquêteerde enkele tientallen Nederlandse studio’s – een zo representatief mogelijke steekproef.