The Washington Interactive Network is ushering in a brand new class of interactive startups. They’ve entered WIN’s REACTOR program, a 6 month fusion of steady development in stealth mode within the network’s electric walls.
Inside REACTOR, games and tech veterans teach & share best practices to accelerate start-ups, guide bootstrapped indies to grow and thrive, and even coach one another on new game mechanics, funding platforms (yes Kickstarter), and strategic challenges to the industry. Plus REACTOR’s guild is a great community for meeting other pros, talking through strategic issues finding great talent or maybe your next co-founder.
Let’s have a look at the REACTOR Beta Class:
8BITMMO
8BitMMO is a retro-style 2D massively multiplayer game! It’s a giant construction sandbox – you can build a home or a castle in a persistent streaming world. Found and manage your own city. Fight evil Lawyercats and engage in player vs player battle. Work in Progress!
ACCELERATED PICTURES
These film and game industry veterans are building the first rapid, collaborative, artistically expressive system for planning and pitching films, ads, and corporate videos
Because planning is filmmaking
Work out composition, camera movement and story decisions on screen before you go on location. FilmmakerLive is fully collaborative, artistically expressive, real time, and only available to a select group of filmmakers at present.
CASCADE GAME FOUNDRY
Simulating Experience.™
Cascade Game Foundry™ (CGF) enables people of all ages and ability levels to explore the world from home, so they can drive a train through the Swiss Alps, dive on the Great Barrier Reef, paddle down the Nile, fly a plane through the Grand Canyon, hike the ruins of Machu Picchu, and thrill to many other kinds of reality-based adventure.
EVO CONTROLLERS
We specialize in designing game controllers for Smart Devices. We designed a new controller from the ground up, every aspect every detail is discussed and tested so that nothing gets overlooked. Countless hours have been spent to ensure that all of the components and pieces of the controller complement each other and your Smart Devices. This Controller is the first of its kind unlike other controllers that are for ONE device. Evolution controllers are designed to be changed, adapted, and hacked to do whatever you can imagine.
LITESPRITE
LiteSprite is a company dedicated to finding innovative ways to help people learn, develop, and maintain healthy habits. By combining proven medical treatments with the joy of games, LiteSprite builds experiences that help people improve their health. Our first game helps people deal with anxiety and depression.
STUDIO PEPWUPER
Studio Pepwuper creates family-friendly games for parents who grew up gaming. The studio has a strict “No Guns” policy. There are enough games with guns, and we’d like to offer something different.
WIRE LABS
We’re making messaging fun.
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