Video games from the room
Six months. That was the time Abraham Cózar had to get his career as a video game designer off the ground. This 35 year-old Valencian from the town of Meliana came from a first failed attempt as an entrepreneur. His project to develop educational applications for schools had not been successful. Far from abandoning his dream of creating a method that would allow children to learn and have fun at the same time thanks to technology, Cózar decided to try a second time in 2015, this time on his own, because he could not afford to hire anyone. His savings only gave him half a year to live.
From his room, converted into a studio, he started designing small mobile games that he was testing on the market. "Speed was key. It's not easy to find a product that is successful," recalls the telecommunications engineer. In six months he developed six video games. And it was the last one, Deiland, that worked. This resource management game focused on children and inspired by the story of The Little Prince reaped millions of players in just a few months.
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