Games is a creative business, so for the change to be deep-rooted, we had to allow the creative leadership of Pocket Gems to take ownership of the new direction.
Our company is set up in an unusual way where everyone is a creative owner, so this was even more challenging. Creativity and candor go hand in hand , so we knew transitions like this could only work if we were able to have frank conversations. It also worked well to give team members time to find creative inspiration and to join the new direction only when they felt ready.
During this phase, radical transparency was also crucial. The plateauing stats of our casual games were available for anyone to see and helped provide support for the decision to shift strategy. Even with transparency and a "new company mindset," this phase was very difficult. Also, since we had such early success, preparing for lean years was something entirely foreign to us as a company. A few people chose to part ways with the company when we began the change.
We understood this and made sure we parted on good terms. Once we had sold the vision internally, we knew that making these new products would take significantly longer development cycles than we were accustomed to.
To maintain our business through the transition years, we had to bake in financial runway and flexibility. One way we did this was by going back to our roots as a bootstrapped startup. For our entire existence, especially the early days, we have worked steadily towards being able to fund future projects with existing projects.
Through good times and bad, we have never, ever lost focus on that as a primary goal. To enable this early on, we only had team members who could do more than one job.
For example Harlan Crystal, our CTO and co-founder, would often spend weekends answering player troubleshooting tickets. Even today, we are essentially a collection of small product development teams composed of members who can each do more than one function. Welcome to Paradise. Please note that Tap Paradise Cove is free to play, but you are able to purchase game items with real money.
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