Polytechnicast Special - Growing Your Creative Business with Jerzy Drozd

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Earlier this summer I visited Columbus Ohio to visit my friends Anne and Jerzy Drozd. Part of the plan for our visit was to make some creative experiments together, one of them is this very recording with Jerzy.

For the first time I can think of both he and I are launching products at the same time. Both projects took years of development. Both we made solo. His project is the book The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue and mine is the action + cozy game Word Turtle Island.

In this episode, a special crossover of Thunder Punch Daily + Polytechnicast, Jerzy and I navigate stories of why we made these projects and how we're facing the significant task of marketing to reach the people we know will enjoy what we made. It's a lot like an episode of the Lean Into Art cast which was special to revisit for me, hope it will be for you too.

Related Links and Resources

• The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue - pre-order Jerzy's new book about a bear who catalogs and keeps safe powerful magic items, one day a wizard steals the most powerful artifact, now this academic homebody has to embark on a dangerous adventure and team up with allies to set things right
• Jerzy Drozd - Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
• Word Turtle Island - Details Plus Official Trailer - action + cozy game where you both battle with words as weapons and recover after by tending bookshelves.

• Word Turtle Island - Press Kit

• Word Turtle Island - Google Play

• Word Turtle Island - Steam

• Word Turtle Island - Itch.io

• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

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Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels.
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
• You can buy me a coffee with an option to send a note along.

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