Show notes
Episode 40 with Gordon Eckler, skateboarder and co-founder of the "Skate Trivia" games. Together we discussed him growing up and picking up a board between the island of Guam and Maryland, getting sponsored and moving to California as a young adult, transitioning into graphic design and marketing, coming up with an idea for a « Skate Trivia » game born out of a game played between skaters during road trips while driving to skate spots, making it first as a card game, along with his friend and business partner Jack Spanbauer evolving it into two browser-based games which are about to be released, the inspiration they drew from similar initiatives like Skateboardle… Intro (00:13) Getting started (01:13) Riding for Creature flow (04:37) Ever turned pro? (14:59) Starting Plaid Again (18:40) Coming up with the idea for Skate Trivia (19:46) Mostly US skateboarding or worldwide? (29:24) Traveling to France, gathering questions for skate spot trivia game (31:04) Inspiration from other « similar » projects around skate trivia (35:20) Similarities with Skateboardle (38:25) Two games on one website (41:07) Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (43:40) Friends questions (44:45) Conclusion (01:11:40) For more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboards
