5 • 7 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 94 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the On Labs podcast. |
0:10.0 | This is Bill Kennedy and our special guest for round two is Steve Hoffman. |
0:16.0 | Steve, thanks for coming back. |
0:18.0 | My pleasure. |
0:19.0 | All right. |
0:20.0 | So Steve, remember now, we've got an hour to cover the next 30 years of your life, which I think |
0:26.6 | is going to be quite impossible. |
0:28.1 | But we're going to try to make that happen today. |
0:31.6 | When we were last talking to you on the last show, I think we ended around 1994 when we were talking about how you sold. |
0:40.3 | You started, you built, you went back to that game from high school, you rebuilt it in Visual Basic. |
0:45.3 | You started selling it again on those bulletin boards. That led to a gaming company needing that game, which your game ended up outperforming theirs at the end of the day. |
0:56.0 | And you now have, I guess, an official gaming company at this point in 94, which you always |
1:02.0 | wanted from the beginning, right? |
1:04.0 | So I achieved my dream. I had my gaming company. It was called Lava Mind. |
1:10.0 | And we had launched our first title, |
1:12.1 | gazillionaire, and we are on our way to becoming gazillionaires. But still, |
1:17.5 | we still had a long way to go. After that, we decided to launch a game called |
1:23.6 | Zapitalism, which is capitalism with a Z. And it's another business simulation game, |
1:30.3 | all about how you manage a retail store. And then that game we launched. We got another |
1:37.6 | publisher, a big publisher at the time called Accolade. We got, again, an amazing deal where we kept |
1:43.2 | all the rights. And we put that game out there and it also did extremely well. |
1:49.3 | So we had two games under our belt and then we went to complete the trilogy. So I had this vision that we would have a trilogy of games, |
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