Phil Liu

When I was a teen, I created a game portal.

Just with ads, I was able to pay myself student salary for many years.

I did my university study in business management.

Being able to play myself.

I wasn't a programmer whatsoever.

It was just like technology, right?

So I had that game portal.

And after university, I was like, I want to be a game developer, actually.

So I started kind of learning to code myself, still being able to play myself, live basically from the game portal I had created, the French game portal.

Understood.

And so I started that festival to meet other like-minded developers, right?

Because I wasn't in any community whatsoever.

So I created that festival, and it really worked, right?

It became like a music festival.

It was held outside, like, many thousand visitors, like...

you know, music.

And so the idea was like, people had 48 hours to create a game, right?

And there was like price.

And it was really successful, right?

But at the end of the day, I met no one because I was just organizing the thing.