It started to look like that there’d be enough revenue that at least for this month the company might be able to pay me.
Maybe, just maybe, this was the game that turned my little one-man company into a viable business.įor a few weeks I saw the number of players rising, with reviews varying from solitaire haters wondering why their beloved games’ site was being polluted with such software to the surprise acclaim of players saying they were glad they’d given it chance. Despite the game being more casual than the popular online games of the time, it had started to bring in advertising revenue. I distributed the original Tri Towers Solitaire as far and wide as I could in a desperate scramble for revenue to finally start making Glowing Eye Games profitable and stop the impending doom of the company. Despite respectfully managing several licensed and trademarked games in my previous job, my naivety and lack of forethought trampled on the toes of a trademark held by a multimillion-dollar entertainment company! That was not a happy place to be, especially when you’re struggling to pay rent. In internet time that feels like ancient history, back in a time when mobile games on tiny screens had only just started to begin their rise to completely dominate the casual games industry. It was released back in the days of online games created using Adobe Flash. Originally, I named the game Tri Towers Solitaire. Freshly moving on from being a producer at Glu mobile, I made a mistake that almost sank the game and the company in its tortuous beginning. The early history of Magic Towers Solitaire included one of the biggest mistakes I made in the early days of Glowing Eye Games. With our recent, beautiful update to Magic Towers Solitaire I got to thinking about the history of our longest running game!īefore you continue and learn how to be careful with trademarks you might want to play it! The Trademark Mistake that Almost Doomed Us
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