This is not a blog post, but more of a Quora like question thrown at the Rodinhoods. Am not sure how many of the interesting, smart, techy, awesome people in this community would see and care to contribute/answer, but I am a great believer of ‘Curated Crowd Wisdom’…..let’s see
So, I have an idea for a Social Game and i wish to build a company around it, in India.
Few specific answers I am seeking: The idea is to build a Social Game, that’s more meaningful than the Farming/Fishing and Drawing (no offence to any fans)
- What kind of tech platform should the game be built on? (It’s a game to be built for Facebook) – flash, html5 are the options but, what all do I need to know before I choose one of them, in terms of scalability, features and shipping.
- How to build the team and what should the team comprise of?
- How big the team should be (rather, how lean the team can be), If I were to give myself just 3 to 6 months of time to get the prototype/MVP done and get into beta.
- If I were to think that, we can build a billion dollar company on a simple idea of social games, like Zynga, out of India, with the kind of engineering talent we have, am I thinking crazy?
- Anyone interested to join this enterprise?
~ Phil S
[Who am I? A Computer Science Engineer and an IIM Calcutta Graduate and currently heading Sales & Operations for the state ot Tamilnadu for Dabur India Ltd. ]