ELSM Bar

02/15/2016

In the anticipation of the Indie Game Bash that will happen next Saturday, we offer you an interesting story of developer/customer relations of the team behind Firewatch. It's about how developers, that truly care can change opinions and re-shape the community into something better. Trust me, this article is worth your time.

Last weekend, one Firewatch player was having a monetary dilemma. They’d beaten the game. They liked the game. But they also felt that spending $18 for a 2-3 hour experience might be asking for too much.

02/12/2016

Share distribution process, new appointment and, thankfully, no loses. Moreover, work on re-designing the logo and our appearance at Smash Logic event the coming Saturday. All here:
http://elsm-inc.tumblr.com/post/139161572617/all-the-way-corporate

We decided not to make a post yesterday because we had the whole share distribution discussion and did not want to publish about some unfinished business. Sadly, Dan decided to reject his share in the...

02/12/2016

Our edition of Throw back Thursday is obviously going to be related to video games. We will remember the great games of the past, that we enjoyed and spent a lot of time with. to Lost Vikings released by Blizzard in 1992. One of those games that will always have a warm place in our hearts.

02/11/2016

Hello friends! We are inviting you to participate in our focus groups research, the second and final step of the market research that we are doing. To put it simply, we would like you to come to a group discussion about our bar. There you will be able to share you experience, knowledge, ideas and worries about our project. There will be snacks and drinks for the groups + you'll have an amazing opportunity to make some new friends.

For the focus groups we need people ages 18-35. If you are older than 35 don't worry, your opinion is of great importance to us, send us an email like other participants and we will create a special group for you. Groups are:
1) 18-24 (8ppl)
2) 24-35 (8ppl)
3)18 -35 (8ppl)
4) 35+ (custom)
When sending us an email please put"research" as subject. In the email you should mention your age, your sex(optional), and the number of the group you'd like to be in (1, 2 or 3). Note: People from group 1 or 2 should be different than those in group 3 for research purposes. You can also include any other information you wish about yourself as well as ask us any questions.
Email: [email protected]

If you haven't yet done our survey, here's the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ELSM

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02/10/2016

Meeting people, running around the city, being a part of a prank call and unicorns - all in the blog about our yesterday (which comes out today because, well, because it does) Enjoy.
http://elsm-inc.tumblr.com/post/139052802782/future-starts-slow

Future might start slow, but the pace in which you have to move to make it to 4 different meetings a day+ classes at University, that pace is really crazy. That’s the main reason this blog is coming...

02/09/2016

Today's talk is all about community building, reddit haters (we enjoyed the Constructive Criticism though, it is helpful and it enables us to make this project better, and motivates us to work harder.) Moreover, the ways in which stigma against gaming still exists and, well, about perseverance. Many seem to not see, that this project is about people first. For without people it can not exist at all. More in the blog:
http://elsm-inc.tumblr.com/post/138972995172/wrong-animal-right-trap

I don’t even know where to start. Well, on the plus side, we’ve focused on additional revenue streams and marketing today. On the negative side, we’ve expected people to have a certain stigma against...

02/08/2016

Sunday was sort of a weird day for us. We worked on the moderator's manual for the focus groups research, launched survey monkey and surprisingly had to dream a lot to make our 20 year financial projections required by investors and landlords. What we have imagined might happen in 20 years with the video game industry and technology in general we have described in our daily blog.
http://elsm-inc.tumblr.com/post/138909374937/days-gone-by

The Sunday has passed in the blink of eye. Most of the day we spent on finishing the Moderator Manual for our focus groups research as well as we have launched the survey monkey, as promised...

02/07/2016

The work in progress. Finalizing research and profit projection spreadsheets today.

02/06/2016

We are very happy to say "Hey there, guys!" We are the crew of Elysium and we are working day and night to make Calgary's first videogame bar. Until we launch, this page together with our tumblr is going to work as a blog for us to share our progress,feelings, thoughts and worries (hopefully not too many). You can read on our "story so far" in this tumblr post, be sure to follow us on those social media thingies so that u can be a part of our journey (links below). Have a great day, ask us questions (via tumblr pls) if u have any and get pumped!
http://elsm-inc.tumblr.com/post/138812065537/the-story-so-far

(Socilals:
Tumblr: http://elsm-inc.tumblr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ELSM_Inc
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/elsm_inc)

Our story has started months back, when we first sat to put everything on paper, write up the business plan, do the business canvas, basic secondary market research, costs etc. etc. Since then we all...