Working furiously to make something out of nothing.- Idea, Concept, Design, Art, Code, QA, CS, Ops, Repeat.- Fundraising and a bit of Biz Dev too.

A crash course in online payments, combating fraud, email deliver-ability and keeping the servers online under aggressive load. A great, fun time.

Mafia Wars - more good lessons from the other side of the fence.XC & BS (you know who you are) - new IP in an adverse environment. Both solid efforts from two good teams.Poker & Casino - good people & high expectations.

Mafia Wars - a lot of great lessons about building and operating at scale.

Battle Punks - the first 3d social game for Facebook - ahead of its time by a few years.

Sing Hero - A very promising project that ended up lost in the implosion of the Hero franchise. A good effort by a lot of hard working folks to finish out a 12 year run @ Shaba.

Razor Freestyle Scooter - Just about the fastest PS1 game to market is just about ever. 7 weeks from concept to GM when the market was taking 10-12 months+. And it was surprisingly good for what it was."We have 2 engineers on staff - can we take on 2 PS1 projects and a PS2 game right after the console launched? Sure! Ok ... we have to hire some people fast".Matt Hoffman Pro BMX - started elsewhere, cleaned and shipped from Sausalito.Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 (ps1) - a game built for the PS2, scaled back down for the PS1. Art, design and Ruja - but still one of the most profitable games we made.Wakeboarding Unleashed - truly a beast of a project. Still the best wakeboarding game ever made though. We may have missed the market, but we shipped a damn fine game.Skillz - lost in translation during a sea change from games to boxed products. "The four corners of Hip Hop? Where is that exactly." The best game we never finished.Shrek Superslam - On Time, On Budget, On License. More fun than it deserved to be. Proud of the effort that went into it.The other Shrek project... a lost project. Studio reached the breaking point - we never had the passion to excel with licensed games. Taught us all some hard lessons.Spiderman Web of Shadows - a hail mary of a project with too many chefs in too many places. Upside is we made the completion - downside it was on the 5 yd line.

Slipgroove - the Hoverboard racing/fighting game that never quite made it. Grind Session - the ps1 Skateboarding game that Tony Hawk beat to market by 6 months. They saw more boost from our marketing spend than we did.

Where it all began - in a basement building a scanline renderer on the Playstation 1 Net Yaroze. "The C code isn't fast enough - we'll have to move this down to ASM".