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russell wilson || rwDiversions
Back in the early 1980's I, Russell Wilson, walked into the computer room of the junior college here in my hometown of Fayette, Alabama. On each person's monitor, via a TI-990 mainframe computer, was the same computer game. It was very gratifying because that game was written by me. |
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Then at the University of Alabama my roommate, Neal Champion, and I wrote games on our first personal computers, the VIC-20. We sent our games to magazines to have them published, but with no luck. Some of you will remember typing in programs from listings in a magazine, they didn't come with disks and there was no World Wide Web to download them! |
| The Amiga 500 was my next computer. A very nice solitaire game for it introduced me to the ancient Chinese tiles of Mah Jongg. After playing it a lot, I began to think of things that would add more mystery, strategy, and challenge. |
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The result was Mah Jongg Wall, my first game for Windows desktop PC's. Mah Jongg Wall was reviewed in GAMES magazine ( June/1998 ) and was published and sold by COSMI/Swift in retail stores as Mah Jongg Magic. |
| I now have a Mac for iPhone development. I redesigned Mah Jongg Wall for shorter periods of cell phone play, and renamed it Mahjong Wall for the iPhone and iPod touch. The home screen icon is one of the Dragon's Eye wind discs from the game. It is now available on the App Store. |
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