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Episode 40 with Gordon Eckler, skateboarder and co-founder of the "Skate Trivia" games.
Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a board between the island of Guam and Maryland, getting sponsored and moving to California as a young adult, transitioning into graphic design and marketing, coming up with an idea for a « Skate Trivia » game born out of a game played between skaters during road trips while driving to skate spots, making it first as a card game, along with his friend and business partner Jack Spanbauer evolving it into two browser-based games which are about to be released, the inspiration they drew from similar initiatives like Skateboardle…
- Intro (00:13)
- Getting started (01:13)
- Riding for Creature flow (04:37)
- Ever turned pro? (14:59)
- Starting Plaid Again (18:40)
- Coming up with the idea for Skate Trivia (19:46)
- Mostly US skateboarding or worldwide? (29:24)
- Traveling to France, gathering questions for skate spot trivia game (31:04)
- Inspiration from other « similar » projects around skate trivia (35:20)
- Similarities with Skateboardle (38:25)
- Two games on one website (41:07)
- Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (43:40)
- Friends questions (44:45)
- Conclusion (01:11:40)
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