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Game maker rides trends by going back to the board.
Byline: Virginia Baldwin Gilbert
ST. LOUIS _ Stuart Montaldo didn't set out to make the science version of Scrabble or anything like that.
Montaldo was working in marketing and publishing in Boston in the midst of the cyberspace explosion of the mid-to-late1990s. He specialized in developing new products, and was eager to put his experience to use in the dot-com world. He thought he'd develop an online game about space aliens, based on accurate science.
But nearly three years after his first idea, video and computer game companies are struggling. Few investors are putting their money into splashy rollouts of the latest battle-laden game or other computer-based entertainment.
Montaldo, 39, is back home in St. Louis getting ready to launch a board game, Cogno: The Alien Adventure Game.
He believes he's riding ...
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