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How did the meeting with Chris go? How did Turbulent and CIG get connected?

TL;DRTurbulent was referred to help fix serious problems with the crowdfunding website at launch, starting as a small "fix the website" job that grew into building the platform and later the Hangar module.

Benoit BeausejourChief Technology Officer, Turbulent

In the initial crowdfunding, there was already a desire to fund a bigger game. Chris has always had this vision that he has now. And so he needed to be able to build up a team and the people around it. So there was already a need to build bigger. There was already a web platform at the time. And there were major issues with it during the launch, so that it could have put the project in danger. And so through contacts, we got referred as a team that could come in and help sort out the situation. And so the entire relationship started with a really small project that I've dubbed literally "fix the website". And so we started this, I think it was end of November 2012, initially. And then we fixed the issues and then we moved on to, okay, how can we keep this going, keep the project going and start delivering? The hangar module was right around the corner, right? So November, December, we fix, we start building, we launch the first platform, I think in June 2013. So it's not even five months later. And then two months after that, the Hangar module. And all of this needed infrastructure work and new stuff with a new team that we never met before. And the Hangar module back then partnered with Behaviour.

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Published on this date.10 Mar 2023