During the OOTP crew’s trip to PAX East for an indie game marketing panel, they held a meet-and-greet for fans at Boston Beerworks, which is across the street from Fenway Park. The event saw 25 people show up, including longtime OOTP players, members of the games media, and several OOTP marketing team members.
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With nearly 20 years of game marketing under its belt, the Out of the Park Developments team has learned a few tricks along the way. Rich Grisham, OOTP Dev’s CMO, shared them in the “So You Want to Market an Indie Game” panel during the recent PAX East video game expo in Boston.
Also participating were Kris Jardine, Associate Community Manager for OOTP, Genevieve St-Onge, co-founder of PopAgenda, and Mike Futter, author of “The Game Dev Biz Handbook.” Over 220 people were in attendance for a rousing 60-minute discussion, during which Rich presented OOTP’s nine principles of marketing and his fellow panelists shared their thoughts on the subject.
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Like any good network, the OOTP Developments Twitch channel has steadily expanded its programming options during the past few years. It currently offers this lineup of streaming hosts:
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Creating a deep baseball management game and releasing a new version of it annually for 19 years is a pretty impressive achievement. Doing so while living in Hamburg, Germany is even more impressive, considering the fact that Major League Baseball scouts aren’t typically scouring that country for talent.
Compared to fans raised in the United States, Out of the Park Baseball creator and head developer Markus Heinsohn became a baseball fan a bit late in life. He recalls: “I started playing baseball when I was 15 years old. It was just a random coincidence because a friend of mine brought a baseball bat and a couple of gloves back from a family trip to Florida. That’s how it all started. A couple of years later we started playing in organized baseball leagues and I really fell in love with the sport and its history.”
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The Out of the Park Developments games roster expanded in 2011 with the release of iOOTP Baseball, now known as MLB Manager for iOS and Android. Developer Sebastian Palkowski was responsible for that game, and he used that experience as the foundation for a more ambitious project, Franchise Hockey Manager, which simulates not just the NHL® but also more than 20 other leagues around the world.
FHM 4 was released this past fall, and Palkowski took some time out of his busy post-release schedule, which has seen him release multiple updates to the game, and talk to us about his background and his thoughts on the game franchise.
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Out of the Park Baseball is closing out its 18th year in 2017. OOTP has plenty of long-time players, as well as several long-running online leagues, but few have been around as long as SDMB. The online league was founded by Michael Weintraub and Zev Steinhardt 15 years ago and has embarked on its 30th season.
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The Florida Panthers® caused quite a stir during the 1996 Stanley Cup® Playoffs, when they took a third place Atlantic Division finish all the way to the Stanley Cup Final®, where they lost to the Colorado Avalanche® in a sweep. It was their third season in the league, but it proved the idea that there’s such a thing as peaking early, because they’ve only made the Stanley Cup® Playoffs four times since then, losing in the first round each time.
Of course, that makes them a great project for a Franchise Hockey Manager 4 sim, especially one that’s streamed on our Twitch channel. That endeavor proved another idea — great minds think alike — because our FHM 4 Twitch streamers, Adam and Jeff, had narrowed down the options for their next streaming project to the Panthers®, and the team won a Twitter poll too, which sealed the deal.
So how have they done so far?
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As Out of the Park Baseball continues to grow and reach new fans, we’ve needed to expand our team so we can handle the various ways we interact with you. As part of that expansion, we recently added Kris Jardine, Associate Community Manager for OOTP, to our roster. Here’s what he has to say.
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As the latest National Hockey League® season gets underway, we thought we’d see what might be in store by simulating the 2017-18 campaign, including the playoffs. Our friends at the NHL Network joined in the fun by mentioning our work on their flagship NHL Tonight show — you can see the entire clip on YouTube.
So what does the season have in store? Read on to find out.
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Major League Baseball’s playoff history is full of thrilling comebacks and crushing defeats. Unheralded players have risen to the occasion and become heroes and great players have stumbled and revealed that they, too, are mere mortals.
Out of the Park Baseball 18 lets you tell your own October stories, and this year we decided to set up a 2017 MLB game as the American and National Leagues stood at the end of the season. Then we let ‘er rip and saw what the playoffs might have had in store for us.
We even got MLB Network to kindly feature our forecast, as shown in this YouTube clip. Read on to find out what happened, and note that our sim deviated from what’s really happening, but that’s part of the fun, isn’t it?
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