Game Knight · 2019–2025
Innovation Lab
50States, sweepstakes-compliant
4.8★App Store portfolio average
LiveGame show across social channels
I directed cross-functional teams across a portfolio of titles and experimental hardware, overseeing the studio budget, product roadmaps, and regulatory compliance while building a culture of creativity.
Challenges
The team developed titles on a third-party, proprietary real-money system that allowed players to legally wager and win real money in slot-like games. The back-end system actually wagered on live horse races (globally) and then presented the results as random outcomes. In practice, this created gaps between the expected experience and the reality of IRL horse races.
Actions
- Created middleware to simulate the third-party black-box results.
- Leveraged existing IP to fast-track development.
- Developed an Android-based slot machine to provide a casino-like experience for mobile apps
- Built a sweepstakes back-end to complement the real-money horse-racing system in disallowed states, including a completely dynamic rules and auditing system
- Built community with a live-reveal youTube/Facebook show.
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A closer look
