Gamers on the go

By Danny Gallagher, McKinney Courier-GazetteSome of the biggest and most successful ideas in the video game industry started in the offices of independent developers.David and Paul Bettner, founders of a McKinney based game development company called NewToy, have created “Chess with Friends,” one of the first turn-based multiplayer games for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch that has over 400,000 downloads.And they don’t even have what could be called a conventional office yet, unless you count the McKinney Public Library or the various coffee shops and cafes on the downtown square that offer free Wi-Fi connections.”It’s amazing how productive we can be with these two laptops, an iPhone and that’s it,” David said as he and his brother sit in the Coffee ‘n Cream on West Louisiana Street.Full Story

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