Making a game is hard enough, but how do you take your idea for a game and successfully take it from concept art to finished product?

Every developer's path is different, and each holds valuable learnings for the industry. At GDC Next 2014, Three One Zero founders Adam Orth, Omar Aziz and independent artist Hogarth de la Plante went in-depth on the unorthodox development process that took Three One Zero's current game project ADR1FT from a concept on paper to a unique game/VR prototype to a publishing deal with 505 Games in the span of five months.

It's a good talk that clearly details how they set goals at the beginning of the process, how they achieved them, and everything they learned in-between.

We've taken the liberty of embedding the video of "Ten Weeks, Three Guys, One Shot: Taking ADR1FT from Concept to Publishing Deal" above, but you can also watch it here for free on the GDC Vault.

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