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I was the lone coder and artist for all those games, btw. And the whole platform. As well as running the casino daily and doing all tech and customer support by myself for three years, 24/7 while rolling out updates and new games. And it's not easy to roll out bug fixes when you're dealing with real money and lots of online players arguing in your chat rooms!

My advice to anyone is not to get into that industry, even though you can make any game you want and people love the games and the business model sounds way better on paper than selling your games through an app store... the civilized world has ganged up to make sure you won't succeed, or that if you do you'll either kick all your money back through licensing schemes or else be arrested. It's basically too good to be true and too profitable. You can't make money at it unless you're in the club.



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