Idaho: “Once Homeless, Boise Man Creates Video Game Outside Library, Resets Life”
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From The Idaho Statesman:
“Right there,” Ryan Zehm said, pointing to the ground next to a Dumpster pushed against the exterior wall of Boise’s Downtown library. “That’s where most of my first video game was built. [Our emphasis] When I was just a new kid looking for things to do in Boise Idaho, I found the library. The library had everything I needed: books on programming, free Internet and a place to warm up when I needed it.”
Today, Zehm is the award-winning founder of NurFACE Games, a video-game development studio that designs and creates games for mobile and PC platforms.
But just a few years back, he was a homeless former Hewlett-Packard employee who split his days between the The River of Life Men’s Shelter and the Boise Library.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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