{"id":49306,"date":"2017-12-05T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=49306"},"modified":"2017-12-05T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T14:43:55","slug":"game-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/12\/05\/game-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Game knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wright State alumnus\u2019 lifelong dream is now a reality. Adam Wik, who has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/business.wright.edu\/marketing\">bachelor\u2019s degree in marketing<\/a>\u00a0and an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/business.wright.edu\/master-of-business-administration\">MBA<\/a>\u00a0from Wright State, created Galatune, a science fiction\/fantasy card game in which players battle their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Wik started developing the game when he was 10 years old. \u201cBack then my game was ugly stick figures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While completing his MBA, Wik pitched his game concept to a panel of five judges during the 2016 Wright Venture \u201cFace the Wolves\u201d business competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/03\/30\/card-game-business-wins-wright-venture-competition\/\">He won the competition<\/a>, helping him let the world enjoy his game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to Wright State University\u2019s Wright Venture student business competition, I was able to get that spark of mentorship and funding to actually take the game to market,\u201d said Wik.<\/p>\n<p>Galatune is now available online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galatune.com\/\">galatune.com<\/a> and at your local gaming store.<\/p>\n<p>The next Wright Venture competition will be held on March 27, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wright State alumnus\u2019 lifelong dream is now a reality. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/12\/05\/game-knights\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":49307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,729,748,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-around-campus","category-business","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49360,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions\/49360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}