Ask HN: Review a startup - Grafighters

Re:Ask HN: Review a startup - Grafighters by tansey on Thursday August 26, 2010 @12:47AM (#1635097)

I really like the idea. I have a very similar idea on my to-do stack, but with one major difference: the characters would be controlled with neural networks. Then the game becomes about not just drawing your character, but also designing sparring arenas that they can train on, etc. It's more of a you-draw-it real-time pokemon'ish game.

> it is not cheap, so we are looking to raise 20,000

Why not just submit to YC then? You'll get $20K and much better publicity and VC connections.

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Re:Ask HN: Review a startup - Grafighters by dave_chenell on Thursday August 26, 2010 @12:52AM (#1635107)

We are part of a new incubator in Syracuse at the moment (http://www.syracusestudentsandbox.com). The older VC crowds we have pitched to really cant understand what we are doing and why it could be huge. We opted to experiment with crowdsourcing from people who "get it". We will let you know how it goes.

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Re:Ask HN: Review a startup - Grafighters by UmbrellaExile on Thursday August 26, 2010 @07:20PM (#1637476)

In the future, we'd love to let people draw their own moves, stages, weapons, etc. For the initial launch though, it's going to be just your own characters for the time being.

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