Dr Malcolm Sutherland's Page

I am one of the founders of TuDocs Ltd, alongside Martin Smith and Dr John Sutherland.  TuDocs Ltd has been re-invented: the e-portfolios website disappeared last summer, and the company is focussed on generating commercial games, and running The Computer Games Journal publication.

I firmly believe that every person must know his/her strengths and weaknesses, focus on the strengths, and avoid trying to take on a task, for which he or she is not suited.  I have learned this the hard way!  Secondly, if you're going to be a sole trader or run a company, you MUST be producing and selling products, and making more money than you spend.  Think about your pricing: if you sell a game for $1, then you need to be selling at least 1000 games a month, just to feed yourself.  If you have staff, you would have to be selling perhaps 100,000 games a month.  Is this realistic?  Every games developer must try and answer that question!