SWTC5

I am so excited to be going to Startup Weekend in Minneapolis, MN starting tonight through Sunday. This event moves from city to city and is an opportunity for techies (and non-techies) to pitch and create a start up. I have decided to sit and observe my first time at SWTC, but I hope to find a fantastic team to help out while I am there.

This of course is how QONQR was started. Justin, aka GungHo, stood up and pitched the idea that is now the game taking the mobile gaming world by storm. I am very excited and honored to be a part of it and I will be tweeting pictures all weekend with #SWTC5 from my @gadgerson Twitter account. In addition to tweeting pictures I will be doing a follow up post on Monday about how SWTC5 went. Wish me luck!

Have a great weekend everyone and Happy QONQRing!!

xoxo,
Gadgerson

The Great American Road Trip...QONQR Style:

Since I started playing QONQR, family time has changed. Date night went from dinner and a movie to "hey lets drive across the bridge into Wisconsin and cause some havoc on people's zones." Time with the kids is now "Just give me one second sweetie, mommy needs to pwn some n00bs."

Back in June, my family and I decided to take a road trip to Louisville, Kentucky to visit my parents. That quickly turned into the "QONQR Land Grab of 2013"

We started the 12 hour drive on a Saturday morning. We made our usual immediate pit stop for gas and snacks. *Sidebar: I actually have a few things to say about snacks and playing QONQR. DO NOT eat Cheetos or Slim Jim's while you play. They both will make your touch screen gross for bot launches. Pick snacks that you can eat with one hand because you will be busy wreaking havoc with your other hand.*

When we started this adventure I had a whopping 38 zone captures (I play more defense than offense). We drove across the MN/WI State lines and I immediately began capturing zones and making bases with funny names.

We have two small children and driving 12 hours in one shot isn't really feasible, so we stopped in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois at a hotel for the night. That night my husband and I went on a missile/plasma beam bot killing spree (nothing brings a family together like the destruction of other player's zones). We had a great time.

The next day when we arrived at our destination I had captured more than 300 zones. In the week that followed I managed to change the color of Louisville's Clifton area from Purple to Green (don't judge..I was originally a misguided Tree Hugging Swarm Op) along with everything else that was within my blast radius.

 The "Family Road Trip" was forever changed in my brain, and I'm now planning our next one. I'm thinking Kentucky (and everything between here and there) could use a little more Red.

Who needs to fly anywhere when you can drive and take the world by storm at the same time.

~Gadgerson xoxo

Hello

     I didn't have aspirations to take over the world when I was a little girl. I played with my GI Joe's and read Comic books like normal little girls. I don't think I ever had a lust for power or control, and I especially never stayed awake at night plotting how to take out my enemies...that is until I discovered QONQR and everything changed.
     Back in January, I discovered this game and downloaded the app onto my iPhone. Ten days later I had spent almost $400 in cubes and had reached level 100. This isn't the recommended method of reaching level 100 (my husband now has me on a Cube allowance), but it was the way my ADHD brain decided it had to be.
     Shortly after I downloaded the game, I had the privilege to meet one of the co-founders of the game (Silver) and he offered me a part time job running QONQR's Facebook and Twitter accounts (which at the rate I was buying cubes was a great thing for me). I love this game and the company who made it so much that I would have worked for them for free (shhhhhh don't tell Silver) so of course I accepted.
     On October 1st, 2013 I became QONQR's first full time employee. I have never been more excited about a job. I think that's because it's less like a job and more like an obsession that I also get paid for. If I had a time machine, I would go back to my 13 year old (extremely awkward) self and say, "hang in there kid, one day you are going to get your dream job at a video game company!" I'm sure the 13 year old me would roll her eyes and say "get away from me old lady...I'm going to be doctor."