What was I doing before getting involved in the game industry?
Webdot Studio, LLC was the web development firm I owned and operated for almost seven years. Located in Hopkinsville Kentucky, the firm served the greater tri-state region.
Click on the image to the right to see a full screen-capture of the firm’s old website.
How it Started
The company was founded in 2010 when Cornerstone Information Systems. Inc., the IT firm where I worked half a decade as lead web developer, decided to transition their business model to focus on government IT contracts—mostly hardware and networks.
However, their customer base for their web services was not insubstantial (roughly 120 clients), an none of us wanted to leave anyone in a tight spot…
After months of attempts to find workable solutions to provide ongoing support for the existing clients, and several frustrating rounds of unsuccessful negotiating with other firms, ultimately I decided to found my own development firm to provide the solution. With blessing from the CIS owners, I took ownership of the entire service and all accounts. That was the birth of Webdot Studio.
I set up an office at 104 Forbes Drive in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and since I was already the senior developer for CIS, was familiar with the clients, and had developed nearly all their websites, web applications, and intranet applications anyway, the transition was seamless.
I continued support, and grew my client base to a peak of 250 active clients. The firm continued to operate until I started to wind down operations in 2016, when I made the decision that I wanted to pursue my passion for game design and development full time.
How it Ended
About closing Webdot Studio… It was a stressful decision, but not a particularly difficult one to make. An ongoing joke in my social circles was that I wanted to “retire” before I turned 35 years old. So, I did!
I spent six months carefully transitioning every client to appropriate third party services, with the exception of a handful of clients with services based in charity, community service, and public assistance. Several of those I still maintain free of charge to this day.
In early 2017, I officially went “full time” as a game designer, and shifted any future web design and development projects to be gaming-centric or for game publishing companies.
Domain Redirection
Since I spent so many years utilizing the domain name as an identity, it continues to be a point of contact for many who communicate with me over the internet. My webdostudio.com associated e-mail address will remain active indefinitely.
Also, more than a few of those old websites are still live out there after all these years (with a footer notation linked to the domain). So, I maintain this stopgap page here on my game design blog and website as a redirect for the webdotstudio.com domain.
Websites I Designed & Developed as Webdot Studio…
