Cell Phone Games Built In At The Factory

 Total duration of project: renewed repeatedly for approx. 4 years

Contributions:

• My company was one of the first companies in the world to make games for cell phones after "Snake"
• We were given a check and a mandate: "Create a game that looks like an arcade video game, and create a game based on words." That was the sum total of the instructions.
• We created original games Cavern Crawl and Mystic I Ching.
• First generation screens were 89 x 57 pixels, binary (no shades of grey)
• We created complex, compelling, fun games even under those limitations
• Our company also produced Tetris, Doodler, and Race 21 exclusively for Kyocera for numerous black & white and color versions over a number of years
• We produced international versions of games with different languages
• Games were built in at the factory for Kyocera phones, not downloaded

Restrictions:

• Games had to be completely bullet-proof, close to mil-spec
• Games had to run in multi-threaded environment
• Games had to be developed to hard deadlines for marketing roll-out
• Results were sold to millions of people