The 8Hours Foundation and PlayTable is proud to announce that PlayTable has been selected as one of the blockchain startups to take part in the Spring 2019 Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator. The Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator is a joint venture between Berkeley Engineering Stutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Blockchain at Berkeley…

Learn more at 8HoursFoundation.org I remember it now… Packing up my desktop computer, monitor, mouse & keyboard, and a tangled mess of cords all up into a massive bin. I was going to my friend’s house to play World of Warcraft until 5 o’clock in the morning, and it was…

The day began like any other convention — setting up our little booth, testing our prototypes, and preparing for all the people who wanted to see just what PlayTable really was. And after an entire day of talking to random passersby, collecting emails, and demoing games, we were beat. As…

Industrial Design can be tricky. It’s an important decision-making process that has an enormous influence on the overall success of your product and a poor design can result in a poor user experience. If you have ever bought a poorly-designed device, you’ll know (have you ever had to plug in…

It can be daunting enough to try to take a new consumer electronic to market, trying to differentiate yourself from all the other hardware products out there. There are already plenty of generic-use case devices that can do almost anything, and this is what new devices have to compete against…

Any new product gets asked one key question in its development stages: What is your primary market? For PlayTable, we’ll refer back to what differentiates our games from other game consoles on the market — we are for social games. It’s the social aspect that makes gaming on our platform…

When translating board games to their digital PlayTable format, it’s always important to keep in mind the most important thing: fun. So, whenever we port games we have to carefully consider whether adding or removing an element increases the game’s fun factor. Now games are fun for different reasons. Some…

One key insight of PlayTable is the idea of a shared device. In a world of personalized smartphones and 1:1 user-to-device ratios, PlayTable is something that the entire family can enjoy, all at the same time. …

WOW, going to China was such a great experience. It was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun, which is what I think differentiates startup experiences from traditional work. …