San Antonio Startup Week kicks off with first Gaming Summit

SAN ANTONIO – This yr, San Antonio Startup Week partnered with the Greater Gaming Society of San Antonio to host a Gaming Summit.

The new occasion featured sport builders, programmers, artists, and entrepreneurs working collectively to broaden the trade presence in San Antonio.

“It’s the 10th anniversary of Startup Week, and they have a big emphasis on creative innovation,” stated Ansley Partosa Guerra, the pinnacle of the Greater Gaming Society. “What’s more creatively innovative than video games?”

The day at Geekdom was crammed with a number of talking panels, discussions, free play video games, and alternatives for the neighborhood to play new video games from native unbiased builders.

“I love these games,” artist and developer Stephanie Ramierez stated. “I could spend hours in them and seeing little girls light up the way that I did, oh man, there’s nothing like it.”

“If you want to get into the game development industry, or if you wanna get into esports, we have a lot of people who have similar ideas and goals,” Partosa Guerra stated. “And we just want to see the gaming community grow.”

The day-long occasion culminated in a pitching contest the place sport creators might pitch their concepts to a crowd, within the type of the ABC present Shark Tank, for a whole lot of {dollars} in prizes.

“It’s a good practice for me to see how to pitch stuff to the business people, you know?” stated Zachary Helms, co-founder of Two Brain Games.

The full schedule for San Antonio Startup Week is out there on our web site.

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