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In 2012, I decided that I wanted to start creating mobile games and blog about this journey. During the first year and a half, I set my eyes on developing a very complicated mobile MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), but realized that the process would take multiple years and thousands of dollars to complete. I turned to another idea that was less complicated, creating a multi-player turn based strategy game, but once again found out that this was too complicated and time consuming for a single person, who had no programming experience, to create.

I have put both of these game ideas on the back burner and am currently working on a much simpler mobile device game, which is currently called Pixel Jump. This game will allow me to gain experience in the game creation process, as well as experiment with different business models and marketing techniques. 

Check out the mobile device game: Pixel Jump
Check out the MMORPG : Legend of Aeon
Check out the turn based strategy game:  Aeon Strategy Frontier

A Little Bit About Myself- Entrepreneur 

My mom tells me that the first four words I ever said were Mama, Dada, Momo (the name of our cat), and money. As a child I loved money: to play with it, collect it, count it, organize it, and receive it. It is no surprise that I have become an entrepreneur.

From a young age I loved to draw. I produced a series of different types of shoes, a comic strip featuring life from the point of view of a number two pencil, and numerous drawings of realistic predators. When I was seven, my mom told me that she used to sell her handmade jewelry and that if I wanted to sell my art work, she would help me. This story sparked my first business creating greeting cards featuring my original drawing of cats. As a young entrepreneur, I priced materials and printing costs to and then sold my cards to family members, friends, and neighbors.

I continued with my art work, but my interests shifted toward technology. I started taking apart almost anything that I could get my hands on: remote controls, calculators, radios, tape players, and electronic handheld games. Because of my curiosity about electronics and my knowledge of new devices, my dad began to call me GadgetGirl.

During sixth grade, I broke my iPod Touch’s glass screen. Instead of paying the ridiculous Apple repair price, I decided to fix it myself. I bought the parts and watched a YouTube tutorial on iPod Touch disassembly. Finally, I mustered up enough courage and opened my iPod, and amazingly, I discovered that I could swap out the glass and other parts that required replacement. It was then that I realized that I could buy broken iPods, fix them, and then sell them for a profit. I studied how to fix iPods, iPhones, and other mobile devices by watching YouTube videos and reading disassembly guides online.

When I turned eleven, I opened an eBay account, and created the business I run today: GadgetGirl1334. I purchased parts and broken iPods from eBay, fixing many of them, and selling the repaired ones. The news that I could fix broken mobile devices spread through middle school and students began asking me to repair their gadgets. I created a website for people to read about what I was doing and to purchase repair service.

My latest business ventures are the creation of these mobile device games. I am building a team to accelerate the development process and am pursuing funding options. My GadgetGirl1334 repair business is still running, but my main focus is the construction of the games. 


I am currently working on the creation of mobile games while attending college Oberlin College

A lion I sketched in 2011 

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