Create meaningful connections in your industry by focusing on making friends, being genuinely interested in others, and being helpful. Lesson Overview: • Understand that networking is about building relationships, not just finding work. • Learn how to make a lasting impression by being social, helpful, and interested in others. • Explore the benefits of in-person networking and the impact of building genuine connections. Lesson Content: 1. Shift Your Networking Mindset: • Concept: The key to effective networking is to approach it with the mindset of making friends and being genuinely interested in others. While your goal might be to find work, your focus should be on building relationships. • Exercise: Reflect on past networking experiences. How can you shift your approach to focus more on building friendships and less on selling yourself? • Reflection: How does changing your mindset to making friends impact the way you approach networking opportunities? 2. The Power of Being Known: • Concept: A mentor once told me, “It’s not about who you know. It’s about who knows you.” The goal is to develop a network of people who think of you when opportunities arise. • Exercise: Consider how you can increase your visibility within your network. What steps can you take to ensure that people remember you and bring you up in conversations? • Reflection: How can being more social and engaged help others remember you when opportunities come up? 3. Being Social, Helpful, and Interested: • Concept: The best way to network is to be as social, helpful, and interested as possible. Engage with others by asking questions, providing thorough answers, and offering encouragement and feedback. • Exercise: Identify one online community or in-person event where you feel comfortable engaging with others. Commit to actively participating by asking questions, sharing your knowledge, and supporting others. • Reflection: How does being genuinely helpful and interested in others change the dynamics of your networking efforts?

🎮 HOW TO SKYROCKET your game’s visibility without spending a dime? 🚀 SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and ASO (App Store Optimization) are powerful tools that can help you attract more players and grow your community. Here’s how you can change the game (pun intended) by leveraging these strategies.For SEO, start with keyword research. Identify the popular terms your audience searches for and use these keywords in your game’s website content, blog posts, and social media. Create quality content that engages and provides value to your audience, like tutorials, behind-the-scenes looks, and updates about your game. Build backlinks from reputable websites to increase your site’s authority and improve your search ranking. ASO is honestly just as important. Use relevant keywords in your app’s title and description to improve its discoverability in app stores. Ensure your visuals are high-quality; attractive icons, screenshots, and videos can significantly impact download rates. Encourage satisfied players to leave positive reviews and ratings since high ratings and frequent updates boost your app’s ranking. By focusing on SEO and ASO, you can effectively increase your game’s traffic and downloads, building a loyal player base. Start optimizing today and watch your game grow! 🎯💥

If there’s anything I’ve learned in going through life and pursuing scary shit like building a business for yourself, it’s that gratitude is an absolute cheat code. Giving yourself a few minutes every morning to just express gratitude for what you do have in your life will absolutely change your day. Whether you talk to god, the universe, your muse, or just talk to yourself, give yourself a minute to pick out a couple things in your life that you’re truly grateful for. I promise after a few mornings you will feel a shift in your daily energy. I’m grateful for all of you that have joined our little community, and grateful to be learning for you all as we grow.

What’s up friends! On behalf of Mike and myself I want to thank you so much for joining us, and welcome you to the Reality Hacker family. This group is for the game dev that’s tired of: - Feeling alone in their journey - Feeling like making money from their craft is a pipe dream - Feeling overwhelmed with the idea of actually running a business. If you feel called to respect your art form and treat it like the career pursuit you dream of it being, you’ve found the right group! Mike and I built Reality Hacker Game Studios to be a resource for solo devs and indie teams, and give them access to business and entrepreneurship education that isn’t confusing or overwhelming. As we grow, this community is going to get flooded with content based around business, growing an audience, marketing, and sales all specifically tailored to the challenges you face as a game dev. Not only will we show you the theoretical knowledge we’ve picked up over years of building businesses and coaching entrepreneurs, but we are going to take the journey along with you as we build and launch our own games. As you accomplish goals with us, we encourage you to share your stories, lessons, and achievements so we can all learn together. The platform actually encourages it! By getting likes and comments from your fellow members, you’ll earn XP and level up, which will earn you access to more courses and resources. These courses can be found in the classroom section and will constantly be updated with new material! We’re so excited to have you and can’t wait to hear how you take your passions and turn them into a viable career for yourselves and your families. Get your points started by introducing yourself in the comments below!! Tell us what you do and what your goals are so we can help you get there! Let’s do this!!!!

A lot of times, as we work towards building our business, we can feel stuck and lost. (To be honest I had a bout with that feeling this morning. lol) What I find really helpful is taking a second to sit and really analyze what is making me feel stuck. What is the actual object that is keeping me from moving forward. Can I label it? Can I picture it? Can I easily describe it to someone else. 9/10 times, if you take a second to really give your obstacle some thought, You can see that it's really not that big of an obstacle. More often than not, its your anxiety around the obstacle that is actually causing the problem. Imagine you're walking around with your eyes closed. All you're doing to move forward is shuffling your feet to feel for anything that is in your way. Your feet kicks against something so you freeze. You have no idea what that thing is. It could be a guard rail keeping you from falling off a cliff. It could be a big scary hydraulic press that would crush you if you get too close. So, because you can't actually see it, you build up anxiety around what it could be. You rationalize all of the really scary things that could be in your path and your fear builds up to a crippling point. If you simply take a second to open your eyes and recognize what you've bumped up against, you see that it's literally just a stick. Nothing to fear, nothing to panic over, you simply step over it and keep moving. This happens for me so often. I build up my anxieties, my imposter syndromes, all of my doubts, and I start to get that analysis paralysis. As soon as I take 5 minutes to sit, and analyze what these fears are, I see that there is nothing more than a small fleeting thought standing in my way. So....What is your obstacle?