Jordan Weisman: ‘Warning: Startups may be dangerous to your health (and ego)’

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Jordan Weisman is a veteran game designer who made headlines this year for an epic Kickstarter campaign, raising $1.8 million for Shadowrun Returns, a revival of the franchise from his current company, Harebrained Schemes. The serial entrepreneur is known for startups including FASA, Virtual World Entertainment, Wizkids, 42 Entertainment, and Smith & Tinker. Weisman shared… Read More…

Meet the GoldieBlox: An engineering toy just for girls

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Well, this is interesting timing. I’m currently at the Harvey Nash CIO event in downtown Seattle where panelists are discussing the role of women in technology. All of the panelists — Darren Austin of Glympse; Kate Matsudaira of Decide; and Scott Sikora of WhitePages — agree that more needs to be done to get younger… Read More…

Sword of Fargoal 2 wants to add to retro dungeon-crawling with Kickstarter

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Jeff McCord is a well-known name within the retro gaming crowd. Over 25 years ago, he created one of the most challenging “Roguelike” dungeon-crawlers for the Commodore 64, called Sword of Fargoal. Since then, he’s managed to remake the original title for iOS-based devices, as well as obtain “Best Retro Game (iPad division)” within the 2010… Read More…

Game designer Monte Cook raises over $345k for tabletop game Numenera

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Seattle-based game designer Monte Cook is a familiar name to many fans of traditional roleplaying games, having worked on titles such as Dungeons & Dragons (3rd Edition) and the d20 edition of Call of Cthulhu. Cook’s latest project — Numenera — is a science fantasy tabletop roleplaying game currently on Kickstarter, where it has raised over $345,000. That… Read More…

Meet the Tinker Tablet: Old-fashioned wooden puzzle teaches kids tech (without Wi-Fi or CPUs)

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Are you a parent who wants to introduce your young kids to technology, but still feel a bit uncomfortable handing over your iPhone or iPad to their sticky little fingers? Check out the Tinker Tablet wooden puzzle game, developed by the Seattle geeks at Tinkermite. You won’t find any batteries or lights or Wi-Fi here…. Read More…

This new map tells you where the hottest Kickstarter projects are happening

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Kickstarter is an amazing fundraising platform, one that has launched dozens of cool film, technology and games projects. But what if you want to find out the comic book-oriented Kickstarter campaigns going on in Chicago or the film projects taking place in Portland? That’s the idea behind ThingsWeStart, a new online map mashup which shows… Read More…

Uber Entertainment closer to ‘Planetary Annihilation’ with $900,000 Kickstarter effort

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Do you sit around all day, wishing you could engage in some post-apocalyptic planet-destroying action, pitting your strategy against other wannabe planet-destroyers in real time? Well, ‘Planetary Annihilation’ is one step closer to becoming the reality to pin all your intergalactic planetary destruction hopes and energies on. Because that stuff really needs to get channeled… Read More…

Penny Arcade raises $528k on Kickstarter — no home page ads for a year

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Chalk up another big milestone for the crowdfunding phenomenon. Penny Arcade raised more than $528,000 from its fans in a Kickstarter campaign that ended yesterday, clearing the way for the Seattle-based webcomic and events company to remove all of the ads from its home page for a year. It’s a notable change in the company’s… Read More…

LadyCoders reach Kickstarter goal for ‘Women in Tech’ series

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Why aren’t there more women in tech? And what can we do to get and keep them there? These are the all-important questions posed by three senior web coders, Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack, Liz Dahlstrom and Lorraine Sawicki, who posted their Kickstarter campaign to fund a seminar that will help women navigate the ins and… Read More…

This simple touchscreen device might be grandpa’s next computer — or ours

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Do your parents or grandparents really need a full-blown computer? One startup thinks the answer might be no. Seattle-based Pure Devices has launched a Kickstarter campaign in support of a new tabletop touchscreen device that streams data and applications from the cloud to a simplified user interface. The company is hoping that the device, which… Read More…