UK-based YoYo Games lets you create computer games to earn a little extra cash, even if you don’t already have programming experience, reports trendspotter Springwise. Users of YoYo’s site begin by downloading its Game Maker software for free. That lets them create professional-looking games without having to write a single line of code. Rather, using […]
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Simple games based on Adobe’s Flash technology have multiplied like weeds in recent years, with an estimated 100,000 of them available on the web, mostly for free. But a significant number of Flash game developers have moved from amateurs to pros; a survey shows that one in five Flash developers make more than $1,000 a
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If you wanted to rent a game for your playstation or xbox, you never had to look much further than your local rental store. However, if you wanted to rent a game for your child’s v.smile, you were out of luck. That is, until now. Thanks to Jenny Scheidle and Christy Baker, the mom entrepreneurs
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Company founders and creators of FriiBoard, Gail and Tom Stewart wanted to create products that make the gaming experience more real and more fun for players of all ages. “We wanted to go beyond the simply aesthetic Wii accessories on the market. What was lacking was realistic sport-specific ‘movement’ off the screen to go with
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The art of the deal isn’t something students usually study in elementary school, and neither are the principles of real estate, the rough and tumble rules of the stock market or best practices for starting a business, writes WalletPop. However, there are games for kids that do exactly that. The best part? The learning is
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Bakersfield.com: Christy Baker, a stay-at-home mom, liked the idea of buying educational games for her children, but found they were expensive and the children lost interest in them after a while. She did some research to see if there was anyone who rented games for systems such as Leapster and Vtech, but found none. She
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In business, as in poker, sometimes you have to know when to fold ’em. So says serial entrepreneur and blogger Eric Ries on GigaOM. Ries takes the lessons he’s learned from watching the World Series of Poker and explains how entrepreneurs and poker players share many of the same qualities. Namely, “Both rely on acting
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So much of life has to do with making connections. A meeting in the summer of 2008 between Westport’s Kevin Carroll, his daughter, Claire, and Norwalk game inventor Mary Ellroy has resulted in a fast-paced game called “Pickles to Penguins,” where participants shout similarities between objects as dissimilar as a sea conch and a cupcake
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People are paying real money for digital goods in all sorts of online applications ranging from Facebook apps to massively multiplayer online games reports GamesBeat. The No. 1 thing they buy is virtual money. Other top items include virtual weapons and gifts for social networking friends, according to a survey. Free-to-play games, where you can
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New Jersey Business: Leslie Scott was fiddling with her kid brother’s wooden toy blocks one day when she began stacking one on top of another. With no purpose in mind, the 17-year-old, who was living in Ghana at the time, continued stacking. And stacking. Nearly four decades later, the game she invented that day –
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