Elbow Grease Games runs prototype mixer for its first accelerator class
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Summary
Elbow Grease Games (EGG) has completed its first EGG Prototype Mixer during the Game Developers Conference (GDC).
Ten game startups presented to a crowd of game investors and publishers during the event.
EGG is a Y Combinator-style accelerator for funding game prototypes with the belief that studio funding should be more like startup funding.
It invested in companies including Misfits Attic, Totally Human Media, and Free Fall Entertainment.
The event also included a surprise reveal from sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson and his partner Karen Laur of Whenere.
Onibi, which is also presenting at the event, is founded by Benjamin Devienne, a former head of data science at Gameloft, Facebook, and Twitch.
Tomo: Endless Blue is an ocean realm inhabited by mysterious creatures known as the Tomo.
Built on a networked voxel physics engine, it features AI-driven living worlds with maps, architecture, villages, NPCs, cultures, quests, and entire stories fully procedurally generated and offline.