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What is Carro? – The best Secret on Shopify.

July 13, 2022 — Leave a comment

After over 30 years in the video game industry, I’ve somehow become a games industry investor and am now waiting for some returns!

In the meantime, I’ve moved my focus over to eCommerce. (A $5.5 Trillion industry in 2022.)

We love the idea that brands get very excited when they get their products into more and more retail locations. So we decided to create technology to do the same thing for brands online.

If brands want to get their products into lots of online stores (free awareness forever), or if they want complimentary products to sell in their store from other cool brands, that’s what we provide.

A simple example? “You sell bicycles online, but not helmets?” You can add helmets today from your favorite helmet companies on Carro, increasing your average order value. Do you need gloves? Bike locks? etc.

Both companies win on Carro, the helmet company gets additional sales (zero marketing cost), and the bicycle company improves its margins.

Over 31,000 Shopify brands have installed so far! They have over a million products. 😊

eCommerce is fun!

Our Website: https://www.getcarro.com/

Our Shopify App: https://apps.shopify.com/carro

Email: hello@getcarro.com

In Carro Carro, dave perry, david perry, eCommerce

Andrew Wilson – EA CEO Interview

June 15, 2017 — Leave a comment

Saw a really interesting interview with Andy Wilson the CEO at Electronic Arts, he’s someone who I have a lot of respect for.

As you can imagine this part brought a smile to my face…

“If you think about every form of entertainment media that we have, the one thing that’s been most disruptive is streaming. Books to your Kindle, TV through Netflix, music through Spotify. It’s changed everything. Ownership, engagement, and it’s absolutely changed the enjoyment model. There are lots of things that are going to change. Scale, in a networked world, is extremely important. You are going to have to have the core digital platform, the engine, the talent. At the core, you’re going to have to have to be able to get experiences to players at any time, anywhere, on any device they own. Streaming tech is going to play a really big part in that.“

Andrew Wilson – Full Interview on Glixel.com

Updated: July 29, 2017

Another interview:

“For many of those things, we actually think the time horizon is about five years-plus, but things like cloud and streaming we believe is in the 2-5 year time frame. When we think about subscription, we’re already seeing return from that and the combination of that with streaming in that 2-5 year time horizon could be very meaningful in terms of revenue addition for us.”

Andrew Wilson – Full Interview on GamesIndustry.biz

In COMPANIES, Electronic Arts, Expert Interviews, VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY

MDK 20 Years Old!

May 2, 2017 — Leave a comment

Wow 20 years passed already. Nice detailed look at humor in games and our old MDK game done by George Ayres Mousinho from The Reactive Code. I think the theme of the Shiny games were that we always had a new hook (Sniper Mode in MDK, Possession in Messiah, etc.), and we tried to make it hard to predict what was coming next. What was the next level of Earthworm Jim going to be?

The art that Nick Bruty and Bob Stevenson did for MDK was incredible for it’s time and the 3D coding lead was Andy Astor, who sadly passed away from Cancer. He was a great loss to the video game industry.

So 20 years ago this was Shiny Entertainment’s first attempt at 3D…

Shockingly (according to Good Old Games) MDK still works in Windows 10!

In DP Game History, Nick Bruty, Shiny Entertainment Andy Astor, Bob Stevenson, Kurt Hectic, mdk, Nick Bruty

PlayStation VR

October 13, 2016 — Leave a comment

Exciting day. Get to bring home this…

Caught in an Eve space battle!

In PlayStation 4, Video Games, VR (Project Morpheus) PlayStation VR

Arduboy Arrived

February 22, 2016 — 2 Comments

Super excited to get my new Arduboy from Kickstarter. Besides being incredibly cool I think it will be amazing for education (future game coders and Arduino fans.)

I’m stoked to have #1 hot off the presses!

In COMPANIES, Education, Electronics, HARDWARE, Kickstarter & Indiegogo, News, Uncategorized, Video Games, Video Games

Jozef will shave his head for Charity!

February 1, 2016 — 2 Comments

This post is in support of Josef Juricek (team member’s son), who has volunteered to shave his head for The American Cancer Society (to aid Hope Lodge in Kansas City.)

That WAS a nice head of hair!

He’s back again this year to do it again!

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=39508027&fr_id=70533&pg=personal

https://creativephotoslideshows.smugmug.com/Tributes/i-7336P3k/A

In Charity, Gaikai american cancer society, jozef juricek, save, shave

Kojima-san

December 16, 2015 — 2 Comments

At the launch of Video Games Live at the Hollywood bowl I was asked to join a group of people to sign autographs. Beside me was Hideo Kojima and Stan Lee (Spiderman/Marvel etc.) After some time the line ran out for Stan Lee (a legend in the comic industry) but Kojima-san still had a LONG LINE of people wanting him to autograph everything they had on them.

Stan leaned back and said to me “WHO IS THIS GUY?”

He’s Kojima and he’s one of the most respected video game directors of all time. I have to congratulate Andy House for signing his next project exclusively on consoles for PlayStation.

Enjoy the video…

In Game Design, Sony Computer Entertainment, VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY Andrew House, david perry, Hideo Kojima, playstation, Stan Lee, Video Games

Electric Playground Interview

November 17, 2015 — 2 Comments

I remember when Victor first started Electric Playground… 25 years later they are turning up some of the old interviews. (As you can tell we had a lot of fun doing this kind of stuff.)

This interview with Tommy Tallarcio was for a game called Wild 9 that we were developing at the time.