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Heiko Kanzler 🇪🇺 • Edited

My very very very first commercial development, back in 1984, for a small mail order company. On a PC with three printers (labels, invoices, delivery notes) connected (challenging, as we had only one serial and one parallel port), written in GW Basic.
For me, it was very special as I had written only games for home computers before.

Another exciting development was a prototype of a game system running inside / aside commercial slot machines in land based casinos. Very fascinating to work within a strict regulated environment.
The main game engine and back-end was written in Grails - as most of my work in the past 15 years. The customer faced mobile application (cross platform) was written in Codename One, a Java cross-compiler and there was a Flash (later portet to Unity) client for the slot machine itself (either running inside the main slot window or in a separated display build into the slot cabinet)