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LATEST NEWS |
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LATEST NEWS |
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August 2008
We are delighted to announce that we now are shifting operations each month between Los Angeles in Santa Monica and Oakland, California.
We are also
pleased to announce that our Founder and Creative Director, Gini
She has been hired as a consultant on the game and toy industry by the Network of Advisors, which provides financial clients with insights into the latest industry developments through private and phone consultations, on-line surveys, and lecture forums. She was a panelist and moderator on a licensing program, Pitching to the Pros, at the 2006 American International Toy Fair sponsored by the Toy Industry Association in New York and presented this program again at the 2007 Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) show in Las Vegas April 22-24.
We are also pleased to announce that this service is now almost 3 years old, since we launched the site in November 2005. It is the latest of our growing connection services. Our first service, PublishersAndAgents.net, was started over 5 years ago in January 2003 and has expanded to the film industry FilmConnection), music industry (SongWritingConnection), media (NewsMediaConnection), speaking industry (SpeakersConnection), venture capitalists (VentureCapitalConnection), gifts and stationery industry (GiftsandStationeryConnection), and any type of business connection (MakingConnections).
We have used the service to find two agents for a half-dozen games, arrange manufacturing for games, and find a game publisher with a booth to share at the GAMA show in Las Vegas. Beside signing two games to Briarpatch and one to Rumba to be introduced in 2007, other sales to major manufacturers are pending. One client used the service to license a series of games and stuffed toy characters based on a new book and video. Another used it to set up presentations to dozens of game manufacturers. And representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce used the service on behalf of two delegations of senior executive from Hong Kong to help them contact game manufacturers about licensing popular characters in an animation series. You can see their comments in our kudos section.
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Graham Scott,
had two new games by Briarpatch introduced at
the American Toy Fair in February - Do You Look Like Your Dog?
and Jackpot. She met
with over two dozen companies to show new games and some of these
games are under consideration for introduction in 2009.