Our online store for 3d graphics game content is finally LIVE!!!! you can access the store HERE.With our store going live last night (Valentines Day), I sat back and reviewed what a trek it was to get going.
When Treboc and I decided to create 3d content packs and license them for use by game developers, we never dreamed it would take almost a year to manifest that concept. On the surface, it seemed like a very simple thing, we are both 3d artists, we create some content, find a vendor and sell it.
As with many things the concept is a lot easier than the reality. The packs took a lot longer to create than we anticipated, there was fine tuning that needed to be done, conversions to different formats/game engines took longer than we thought. Negotiations with various vendors did not pan out to our liking. We tried a few online shopping carts but never quite got a commercial cart working 100% before turning to a friend programmer for assistance. Even getting the SSL certificate took weeks as it was a back and forth process between the certificate issuer and the web host admin.
Once in place the store had some bugs, those took weeks to iron out and get everything running smooth. The final days before getting the store online, I reviewed and revised over 850 files, organized them, wrote docs for them, and got them to where they needed to be.
Now it's time to sit back, hold our breath and hope our efforts were not in vein!
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