Austin-based Gendai Games added $1M in funding from a variety of sources, including DFJ Mercury. The company makes an interesting cross-platform game development tool named Game Salad, and the iTunes app store contains many games built with their tool. Gendai has been around for a while, launching their beta back in March of 2009. In August of that year they were selected to be part of the Austin Technology Incubator. I chose them to be presenters at the Innotech Beta Summit in October of 2009, and they made a great impression on the crowd. This summer, the company is participating in another incubator program in Los Angeles, California.

If you’re attending the Innotech conference at the Austin Convention Center on Thursday, here’s a brief guide to some of the great things happening during the day. 9:30am Room 11 Developing in the Cloud with Josh Baer. Learn about cloud computing infrastructure, platforms and applications that you can leverage to reduce costs, increase reliability and improve productivity. Find out how to scale your application horizontally and be less dependent on monolithic SQL databases. 11:00am Room [...]