Our community-driven gameplay experience with Death’s Door led us to work with Madison Square Garden on developing games for their Knicks and Rangers games inside their MSG arena. We built several experiences, such as a simple trivia game, a Simon Says-style Emoji Match game, and a Space Invaders-esque Defend the Goal where players could play for a chance at winning $10,000. Each of these games presented their main content on the jumbotron “big screen” with additional content being served to guests’ phones via a webpage to input their answers or control their character. 

These projects proved challenging both technically—balancing seamless coordination between the “big screen” and each guest’s phone with providing enough admin control to reward winners safely and program the games during events— and creatively—designing games simple enough for thousands of players to pick up and play within seconds and with little instruction, yet complex enough to allow for fair winners. But the result of seeing thousands of players interact with our games at once was worth all the work.

I served as the Project Lead, leading the design and production aspects of development while working closely with our partners at Madison Square Garden to ensure their needs were met.