SkyVu Entertainment co-founder Ben Vu found inspiration in iPhone

How did an animation studio specializing in mobile games land in the Omaha area? One might say it started with an iPhone. “I saw the possibility of telling stories through the device,” Ben Vu said. In 2008, Vu bought an iPhone and soon found that he spent more time using it than he did watching [...]

Game Development & Starting a Company

Nebraska Entrepreneur recently attended a talk at the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The speaker was Justin Hall and the topic focused on game development and the process of starting a company. Hall started a product called PMOG, later changed to The Nethernet, which focused on making [...]

Kid Command’s Virtual World Inspiring Kids to Save Real One

As much clout as baseball boasts within the American zeitgeist, it can be argued rather persuasively that video games have supplanted the national pastime in the minds of modern kids. With some 97 percent of kids playing video games, it’s no wonder Collin Caneva saw the medium’s potential for educating children about real world problems. [...]