On Thursday, well-known video game developer Donald Rumsfeld, who also twice served as secretary of defense, released a mobile game called Churchill Solitaire. Itâs out for iOS now, with an Android version to come.
The Wall Street Journalâs got a great storyon the 83-year-old Rumsfeldâs design techniquesââWe need to do a better job on these later versions. They just get new glitches⊠[W]e ought to find some way we can achieve steady improvement instead of simply making new glitches.ââand itâs full of incredible nuggets like this:
Mr. Rumsfeld canât code. He doesnât much even use a computer. But he guided his young digitally minded associates who assembled the videogame with the same method he used to rule the Pentagonâa flurry of memos called snowflakes.
As a result, âChurchill Solitaireâ is likely the only videogame developed by an 83-year-old man using a Dictaphone to record memos for the programmers.
Wonderful. Read the full WSJ article for more on the game, whose creators describe it as âthe most diabolical version of Solitaire ever devised.â
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