 For our first ever GameCentral Ask Me Anything feature, we've put your questions to a genuine mobile gaming legend. David Darabian first hit the big-time with Planeto Quiz, 'the world's first massively multiplayer online quiz', mixing RPG elements with a love of classic trivia. After that he hopped casually to work on one of the most iconic games ever to hit mobiles: Candy Crush. Not only did David design and tweak levels for the OG incarnation of the game, he also worked on Candy Crush Jelly and brought Candy Crush Soda all the way from early concept to release. His work since then has been no less illustrious. David worked with a small indie company to develop Blastlands, an action packed indie multiplayer. Then it was time for a move to Matchington Mansion, another puzzle led adventure for the ages. He takes us through his illustrious career, and answers questions from GameCentral readers. Were you interested in gaming as a child? Yeah I was. I did play a lot of Nintendo – that was my console. It inspired my love of mobile games because they did so much within the limitations that they had. I liked games like Super Mario Kart, like most people did. I liked the simplicity of it. Yeah! I drew maps and even made some early game designs, if they could be called that. Imagining games and how they should be played. Like most kids I wrote comics, as well. I drew a lot, and liked to use my imagination. So how did you go from childhood drawings to working in the industry? I always knew I wanted to work in games, but there wasn't much available education on it. There weren't any courses in game design, as far as I knew at least. So I started off trying to become a programmer, but that wasn't really for me. I finally did find a game design course and got accepted onto it. I found out really fast that this is what I was looking for. David thinks that small teams work best (Picture: David Darabian){kind=link}
For our first ever GameCentral Ask Me Anything feature, we’ve put your questions to a genuine mobile gaming legend.
David Darabian first hit the big-time with Planeto Quiz, ‘the world’s first massively multiplayer online quiz’, mixing RPG elements with a love of classic trivia.
After that he hopped casually to work on one of the most iconic games ever to hit mobiles: Candy Crush. Not only did David design and tweak levels for the OG incarnation of the game, he also worked on Candy Crush Jelly and brought Candy Crush Soda all the way from early concept to release.
His work since then has been no less illustrious. David worked with a small indie company to develop Blastlands, an action packed indie multiplayer. Then it was time for a move to Matchington Mansion, another puzzle led adventure for the ages.
He takes us through his illustrious career, and answers questions from GameCentral readers.