![]() But his hand stays on an object, an entertainment artifact that's very different from a deck of cards. He reaches for a deck of playing cards, considers how he's going to alchemize the arcane rules of the game into less than a hundred lines of code. In short, he's been around.ĭevine's desk is cluttered with all manner of game developer detritus like cables, iPads and sci-fi statues. Devine also worked alongside John Carmack on Quake 3, helped redefine real-time strategy design on Halo Wars and had a hand in shaping the mobile gaming revolution at Apple. Knocking out digital card games is a long way from Devine's career highs, which include co-founding developer Trilobyte and writing The 7th Guest, an era-defining puzzle game that was admired by both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Since he wrote the original suite of 16 games back in 2010, he has added dozens more, often at the request of the most devoted fans among his base of millions of Solitaire players. She wants him to make it part of Full Deck Solitaire, his evolving collection of Mac and iPad card games. ![]() The game survives in the memory of one of his fans, an elderly woman who has requested that he recreate her childhood pastime in modern, digital form.
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