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MAD MIXED MEDIA is a creative technology and media studio building tools, worlds, platforms, and opportunities for the next generation of creators.

Different organizations. Complementary missions. One belief: creative talent should have somewhere to go.

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From comics and games to animation, interactive storytelling, music, virtual production, and creator technology, we connect ideas to the systems needed to bring them to life.

Alongside that work, founder MoJo Johnson created Press Start Gaming Inc., an independent nonprofit that brings creative technology education and workforce pathways into classrooms and communities.

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MoJo JohnsonFounder & Executive Creative Director, MADMIXEDMEDIAFounder, Press Start Gaming Inc.

Built from all the things that weren’t supposed to fit together.

MoJo JohnsonFounder & Executive Creative Director, MADMIXEDMEDIAFounder, Press Start Gaming Inc.

MoJo Johnson works at the intersection of creative technology, education, games, comics, music, storytelling, animation, and workforce development.

His career has moved between the classroom and the studio, teaching creative technology while simultaneously building the tools, stories, systems, and opportunities he wished more young creators had access to.

Games

Gaming wasn’t an add-on. It was the starting language.

Games taught MoJo that learning works differently when people can explore, fail, retry, build, and see progress.

That philosophy now runs through both his creative work and educational systems.

Music

Hip-hop taught another lesson: take influences. Flip them. Combine them. Make something new.

That philosophy is literally inside the name MADMIXEDMEDIA.

Different mediums aren’t supposed to stay in separate boxes.

Comics + storytelling

Original characters and worlds such as Spoomz, Ron Jambo, and Don’t Play Yourself are designed to move between formats rather than remain trapped in one.

A character can begin as a sketch, become a comic, move into animation, become interactive, enter a game, and eventually reach an audience.

The classroom

MoJo’s experience teaching creative technology shaped a simple rule: if a creative tool can’t survive real students using it, learning it, breaking it, remixing it, and making something unexpected with it, it isn’t finished.

The classroom isn’t separate from the creative process. It is one of the places the process gets tested.

Creative technology

Game engines, character creation, animation, AI-assisted workflows, interactive media, virtual production, and browser-based creative tools are not treated as isolated technologies.

They are pieces of one larger creator pipeline.

  1. Idea
  2. Create
  3. Build
  4. Publish
  5. Opportunity

Instead of separating those worlds, he connected them.

  • Games influence the learning.
  • Hip-hop influences the way ideas are sampled, remixed, and transformed.
  • Comics influence the storytelling.
  • Production influences the workflow.
  • Teaching keeps everything grounded in what real creators and students can actually use.
  • And technology connects it all.

See the two organizations

One vision.
Two organizations.
Clear lanes.

MoJo Johnson founded both MAD MIXED MEDIA LLC and Press Start Gaming Inc., but they serve different purposes.

They collaborate where their missions align while remaining separate organizations with separate responsibilities and finances.

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Player oneCreative Technology + Media Company

MAD MIXED MEDIA LLC

MADMIXEDMEDIA builds the technology, media, intellectual property, production infrastructure, and commercial opportunities surrounding the creator ecosystem.

MMM develops

  • Creative software and platforms
  • Original games, comics, characters, and media IP
  • Production and creative services
  • Creator technology
  • Interactive experiences
  • Commercial partnerships
  • Licensing opportunities
  • Professional production pipelines

MMM’s laneBuild the tools. Build the worlds. Build the market.

Commercial contracts, software revenue, licensing, commissioned production, and business partnerships belong to MAD MIXED MEDIA LLC.

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Player twoIndependent 501(c)(3) Nonprofit

Press Start Gaming Inc.

Press Start exists to expand access to creative technology education and turn creative interests into visible skills, portfolios, and pathways.

Press Start focuses on

  • Creative technology education
  • K–12 and community programming
  • Workforce development
  • Mentorship
  • Curriculum
  • Portfolio development
  • Project-based learning
  • Career exposure
  • Creator pathways
  • Community access

Press Start’s laneDevelop people. Expand access. Create pathways.

Press Start may receive grants, charitable contributions, sponsorship support, and mission-aligned program funding. Those resources support Press Start’s nonprofit purposes and are administered according to the applicable funding requirements.

How they connect

From learning to opportunity.

Press Start helps emerging creators develop skills, complete projects, and build portfolios.

MADMIXEDMEDIA develops technology, production environments, media opportunities, and commercial pathways where creative skills can continue growing.

Ready both players first

That creates a larger ecosystem:

  1. Learn
  2. Create
  3. Build
  4. Publish
  5. Work

Not every Press Start participant becomes part of MADMIXEDMEDIA. Not every MADMIXEDMEDIA project involves Press Start. But when education and industry can connect responsibly, creators get something traditional programs often struggle to provide:

a next step.

Pick a side.

Same universe, two doors. You can flip any time from the bar up top.

MMM side

More than a studio.

MADMIXEDMEDIA is building a creative technology company around the full life of an idea.

  • Create it.
  • Develop it.
  • Produce it.
  • Publish it.
  • Expand it.
  • License it.
  • Put it in front of people.

The company works across software, games, comics, animation, interactive media, creator platforms, original IP, and production.

Instead of treating those as separate businesses, MADMIXEDMEDIA builds infrastructure that allows them to connect.

  1. Create
  2. Enhance
  3. Publish

Dig the crate.

Five things the company is making. Tap the top card to flip to the next one.

SoftwareLive

Press Start Creative Ecosystem

Connected creation tools for comics, games, animation and interactive stories. MADMIXEDMEDIA develops creative technology within the broader ecosystem.

GameIn development

Spoomz Adventure

A noir ink-and-ivory action game in a rain-soaked night market. Cut the noodles. Eat them to heal.

Game and bookIn development

Don’t Play Yourself

A metroidvania where the lessons open the doors.

TransmediaOriginal IP

Ron Jambo

An original world built to live across comics, games and screen.

MusicArtist

Duece X

Music by MoJo, released as Duece X.

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Bring the studio in.

Software, production, licensing, creative services, and commercial partnerships. Talk to MAD MIXED MEDIA LLC.

Email MoJoCall (213) 809-5269

Sculpt it. Send it.
Play it.

Everything in the ecosystem connects. This is the small version: paint on Spoomz, send him across, and he is the playable hero.

Forge16 x 16
Game ModeNo hero

No hero yetSend your character over and it becomes playable.

Arrows move   Space jumps

In the real app it is a 3D voxel model, and it lands in Game Mode with all 17 animations already wired. A house, a prop, an enemy, a boss, a tile or a weapon goes the same way. The weapon becomes a real inventory item with your art as its icon.

Your work lives on your disk.

Pick a folder on your own computer. Press Start files everything into it, organized, as you make it.

  • Every character gets its own folder, with a folder per animation.
  • Put it inside iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs everywhere.
  • It is yours. Nothing is locked in our cloud.
  • PS
    • Library
      • Characters
        • Spoomz
          • idle
          • run
          • jump
          • and 14 more
    • Projects
    • Exports
    • Shared
    • Backups

Every tool.
One universe.

15+ free browser tools. What you make in one can be sent into another. Six to know:

Comic Maker. Pages, panels, speech bubbles, effects and covers.

Also inside: Draw, Vector, Card Forge, Music, Streaming and an LMS.

More than a class.

Press Start is building a creative technology pathway where learning leads to finished work. Students and emerging creators don’t simply watch tutorials.

  • They make.
  • They experiment.
  • They collaborate.
  • They build portfolios.
  • They encounter professional tools and workflows.

And they begin understanding how creative interests connect to real industries.

  1. Learn
  2. Create
  3. Build
  4. Publish
  5. Grow

Classrooms, K–12

Aligned to California CTE standards. Teachers get classroom codes and a built-in LMS. Students get real tools and leave with real work.

Independent creators

Making comics and games on your own? Same tools. Start in the browser. Move to the desktop app when you want the full thing.

Press Start Gaming Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Schools, funders and program partners: (909) 908-9482.

Skills need somewhere to go.

Press Start helps creators move beyond completing assignments.

  • Projects become portfolios.
  • Portfolios become evidence of skill.
  • Skill becomes opportunity.

Through project-based learning, mentorship, publishing, showcases, industry exposure, and workforce partnerships, participants can begin building a visible record of what they can actually do.

Qualified creators may eventually pursue internships, apprenticeships, freelance work, employment, entrepreneurship, further education, or independent creative careers.

Where appropriate, MADMIXEDMEDIA may be one of many potential professional pathways, but participation in Press Start does not guarantee or require employment with MADMIXEDMEDIA.

That was the PS side.

Different roles.
Shared possibility.

  • Press Startdevelops access, skills, creators, and pathways.
  • MADMIXEDMEDIAdevelops technology, media, intellectual property, production, and commercial opportunities.

Together, where appropriate, they demonstrate what can happen when education doesn’t end at the classroom door and creative technology isn’t reserved for people who already have access.

Good ideas can come from anywhere.
The opportunity to build them should too.

Try it free in your browser Get the desktop app

Desktop runs on macOS, Windows and Linux. The Mac build is code-signed and notarized by MAD MIXED MEDIA LLC. Core tools are free. Paid plans and a one-time Founders purchase are inside the app.

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