Description - A basic poker game featuring modes such tournament, cash mode and heads-up. There is also a coach mode for players that are new to poker.



Platform - Mobile Phone
Developer - Gameloft Montreal
Genre - Poker
Release Date - Sometime in 2009
My Role - Technical Game Designer




WARNING: I did not make this game alone, for the full list of credits please check the credits in the game.

Being a tester at Gameloft was cool, but my dream was always to make games. So when I got promoted to be a Technical Game Designer, I was very excited to finally be part of the creation team.

Since I did not come at the start of the project, I had to learn new tools and new technology in a short among of time. This was a period where I had to adapt fast to new ways to work. I didn't really do a lot of level design at that time because my tasks were mainly about placing 2D assets into the game and making sure they animate well.

I could do days of copy/pasting and color adjustment on pixels, but it wasn't all that bad. People I worked with made it fun. The core team was only made of 6 people and we soon became good friends. In fact, the hardest thing for me in this first project was to leave the team for another project.

©2010 Salim Larochelle