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The Next Thing Part 4: The Announcement

September 10, 2012 by Christopher Wilson

Lord Esmaya and her dark minions.
Lord Esmaya and her dark minions.

So, you know from Part 1 of this series that I’ve been dying to start a new creative project, but haven’t wanted to start anything new that would take me away from my daughter at this juncture in her life. Probably you can all see where this is going, but if you don’t, I’d love to help you out with an official announcement:

I’m helping my daughter start her own game company.

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The Next Thing Part 3: Its All Just Fun-n-Games

August 23, 2012 by Christopher Wilson

My collection of dice from way-back-when
My collection of dice from way-back-when

My first job as an artist was as an animator was for Funnybone Interactive in 1997. There we made children’s edutainment software. We created lots of digital games based on popular kids properties such as Barbie, Fisher-Price, Jump Start, Blaster as well as many others. So, right away gaming became part of my design repertoire.

In September of 2009, Mashable ran an article discussing On Demand production services. One of those services is The Game Crafter, a company that allows would-be game creators the ability to upload artwork and specs into their system which handles everything involved in game production and sales by taking orders, creating and shipping your physical board or card games on demand, and sending you your profits. I thought, “What a cool idea”, and filed the idea away for some possible future use.

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