Diary Entry by Ryan Smith, Analyst for Higgy Ziggy LLC
July 19, 2014
Our team spent many of those initial nights, baffled as to how a mysterious lost tribe of children wound up in the Amazon without any toys. But after conducting further research and implementing the lean customer development principles evangelized by startup theorists Steve Blank and Eric Ries, we were able to use build-measure-learn feedback loops to quickly eliminate and invalidate a long series of hypotheses that attempted to explain this phenomenon. We were getting discouraged but with determination, passion, and resolve we continued to plow forward, figuring eventually the answer would come to us; yet, the answer continued to elude us.
Diary Entry by Luke Higginbotham, Founder and Visionary of Higgy Ziggy LLC
July 19, 2014
I arrived on site to find the team agitated, confused and concerned for the well being of the children. I immediately asked to see this lost tribe of children, half hoping the crew had seen “The Lost Boys of Peter Pan” in their dreams. However, there they were toyless and bored. I immediately had the CEO of our glorious operation, Suzie Higginbotham, schedule a meeting for the entire crew for that evening; I had a plan! You see, I made a vow to myself 13 years ago that I would NEVER EVER let a child be without a toy.
Diary Entry by Suzie Higginbotham, CEO of Higgy Ziggy LLC
July 19, 2014
So… tonight’s meeting was a confusing time for the entire crew. I often see my son and the true leader of this Company, impassioned and determined to succeed but rarely has he reached such a frenzied, brilliant, and almost prophetic state. Tonight, as he laid down his plan to the Crew, I saw two paths before our Company Greatness or disaster and a backlash to the plans that would put us under forever.
Diary Entry by Luke Higginbotham
July 19, 2014
The solution struck me as I thought back to the plight of the characters in my first game, The Lost Tribes, after the Evil Cowboys had come into the jungle with a pack of the most deranged, fierce, and deadly animals at their command. Higgy Ziggy’s technology at the time of that game gave the desolate and abandoned children of the lost tribes in that game the power to use social connections to build tribes that played together to combat the challenges they faced. By using Higgy Ziggy’s patented, real-time multiplayer communication framework, tribes from around the world were able to band together to build villages, protect themselves from the dangers of the wild and fellow man, and build prosperous communities and cultures.
The plot of those characters was eerily similar to the situation we now found ourselves in. Therefore, I sought to take the same guiding principles from back when I released my first game (play for play’s sake, gaming as a form of community building, and a desire to always invoke the imagination of a kid in my work with games) and apply them to a technological solution, the likes of which the world has never seen. I have included a model and prototype with this diary entry for your viewing pleasure; however, I will now attempt to describe it via my words.
Technology has progressed since the time I invented The Lost Tribes mobile app. Nowadays virtual reality, augmented gaming experiences, and even human-machine-biome simulacra have become commonplace. Therefore, I sought to use the latest technologies in virtual reality, simulated environments, and self-learning code algorithms to generate an extremely personalized and realistic virtual reality gaming experience in which we could immerse these lost Amazonian children to entertain their spirits, lift them out of boredom, and teach them the survival skills necessary to re-build their tribe into greatness. It is our responsibility to monitor this gaming experience through the use of avatars that won’t frighten the lost children and allow us to accompany them on their community’s journey. Therefore, using the same core principles that made the original The Lost Tribes App successful, I set out to build an interactive, virtual reality gaming environment in which to recreate The Lost Tribes App.
I placed three rods of energy in the perfect shape of an equilateral triangle covering a large surface area of the jungle that we had found this tribe of children in. When the machine powered on, these rods would emit an entire field of the most realistic simulation environments, engulfing the lost tribe of children in a semi-virtual, semi-realistic environment. Justice Gamers or Social Gamers, as they were thereafter called within the company, could then jack into the game by using the lab-grown clones of their brain as a human-computer interface for the Avatar program’s API (actually James Cameron was of some inspiration here). By collaborating with each other through a new and unique real-time multiplayer service mission, the Justice Gamers would each be represented by an Avatar that was non-threatening to the child of the lost tribe they were responsible for.
Diary Entry by Luke Higginbotham
September 19, 2014
This social, virtual gaming environment was a tremendous success. The world-famous organization, LASTPRZ, you could say gave me both a small and big gift that day. The small gift merely confirmed the success of our trials. The BIG gift helped me scale this new virtual gaming platform to the global market. LASTPRZ’s Founding Team assembled for us a group of investors, mentors, and experts in the field of business to build out new simulated environments for the platform including an Arctic, Desert, and Plains biome for use in helping the recently desolated tribes that were re-appearing in those areas due to natural disasters and the consistent state of war with the Evil Cowboys. These new virtual gaming environments both ensure that children will never go bored again, because the world around them will be one big toy but also make the world a better place by using this sophisticated toy to teach them lessons they will need to survive in the real world; this includes the most important lesson, to bond with your family and community to accomplish the most progress forward. It is only in this way that we can truly restore the greatness of our tribes.
