Q&a: Ex-Microsoft exec's startup to bring game figures to li
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Ed Fries has spent most of his life playing or creating computer games. Now, the 43-year-old former vice president of Microsoft Game Studios wants to bring the characters in computer games to life. Fries on Tuesday is launching FigurePrints, a 3-D printing startup that for $99 will transform game player's "World of Warcraft" characters into miniature plaster statues.
Fries, who left Microsoft after 18 years in 2004, admits that the idea is unique and may sound a little strange to those who have never entered the mythical realm of the online role playing game "World of Warcraft." So far, the four-person Redmond startup has raised less than $500,000.