I've never tried anything entrepreneurial before this. He now lives in Point Roberts, WA, a little chunk of the United States jutting out from Canada. Van Buskirk says he and Pickering decided to create a board game. This is an alternative to violent games. You can give it to kids and they won't be beating each other up after they play it.
Kids can play with grandparents.
Pickering came up with the basic idea while he was meditating. Our first game was played with six chop sticks forming the board, four yellow earplugs and four white earplugs. We played all night. Through the Web site and a local shop in Point Roberts called the Blue Heron Gallery, more than 1,000 copies of DAO have been sold. They have given away as many as they have sold, he says, in order to get copies of the game out.