So What Sort of Projects Do I Want To Work On?

So being an aspiring entrepreneur, the question that comes to mind is, what sort of businesses and projects am I and want to be involved in. The short answer, is that I am currently involved with community relations and event management within gaming and interactive media. As for what I want to do in the future, I hope that the work that I am doing now will eventually lead into larger projects within the interactive media, entertainment and information technology fields. I don't know what I will specifically do, but I hope that work is dynamic and full of problems to solve as well as very people focused.

As for the long answer, the type of projects that I have been involved in the last 3 or so years have been surrounding video game communities. My main focus during this time was a university student club that I founded at Bond University, called the Bond Casual Gaming Society. Terrible name, I know. We started out being a small student club that would together once a week every Sunday afternoon.

Ahhh... Nostalgia

The club expanded, grew a following and became a well known club amongst the student population. Unilan, a larger scale lan event that the club held once a semester grew from 26 people to over 70 attendees in 2011. The club also implemented a fortnightly poker event late within it's first year, this was extremely successful and even built a strong following of it's own. We also tried to establish regular board game meet ups, but this failed pretty quickly and was scrapped.

One of my best friends, Gary Lee dealing at Poker Night

With the club overall succeeding and with only about a year left to my degree, I started dreaming of a final event that would celebrate all that I had accomplished with the BCGS and push it into the future. So during February 2011 came the idea of Gamer's Life Convention. Based loosely on Adelaide's Avcon, GLC was intended to be a gaming and anime related event to be held at Bond University. The journey with Gamer's Life Convention is a long one and one that I will save for later, the background picture of this blog is actually a picture of me and friends at the end of the convention. The event was held in January 21st and 22nd 2012 and ran quite well, there were certainly many areas which it could have improved. Whether another event was to be run in future was questionable. The event received little local sponsorship and commercial support, it was also a financial loss. But we had nailed the community and social atmosphere perfectly from what attendees said. Ultimately it was the encouraging words of the fans that have spurred me to want to run another event.

So as I finished my studies in April, I began setting my sights on organizing the next Gamer's Life Convention and so this is my main project at the moment. Another project that I am also thinking about is a way to bring the Australian gaming community together. This other project will be drawing heavily upon my time and experiences as the president of the Bond Casual Gaming Society and is intended to rectify common problems with gaming communities and encourage positive social behavior. I'm keeping tabs on how I would start this project, but Gamer's Life Convention 2013 is my main project for the next 7 or so months.

Again, although I've tried to answer questions, It seems like I've only opened up more stories and questions. I've also yet to begin documenting down this thousand day journey as well. But everything on my entrepreneurial journal will be recorded here, so hopefully if you bear with me I will have the opportunity to share more of my life with you. Thank you for reading and until next time.