>> Technical boss with game and watch games as hobby

:: nostalgic games like chef available on your iphone
game and what games in iphone a huge success in Japan

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When Aaron Ardiri was young he and his friends had a game and 
watch. today, all his friends have an iphone instead. Aaron 
jumped on this opportunity and created a mobile success.

In normal days, Aaron Ardiri is the CTO of appear networks in 
Kista; but in his free time he has hobbies collecting many 
nostalgic technical items. He has converted the old game and 
watch games to the iphone.

"when the iphone was released; it was a perfect platform with 
touch screen and acceerometer" he says.

Just a month after releasing his first game "Chef" on the app 
store; it has definitely been a success. The largest purchase 
group is Japan, with over 80 percent of the sales. in one day; 
where selling was at its peak Aaron Ardiri made 10,000 sek.

In his collection; Aaron Ardiri has 50 games; and his favourite 
was "Donkey Kong". It is one of the games he cannot create an 
iPhone version for due to copyright. "Donkey Kong" and "Super 
Mario" are protected character trademarks. The remainder game 
and what games are just simple characters and there is no 
trademark/copyright on them in the same manner.

The conversion process has two stages. First; the graphics must 
be created and Aaron Ardiri photographs the game and watch game 
and then fixes the graphics on his computer. This is the most 
time consuming process. The lighting and angle when you 
photograph must be perfect; a small error and it cannot be used.

Afterwards; the game logic is quite simple to copy. The games 
are relatively simple state machines. In some cases; the iPhone 
version has been improved.

"in Chef, you can typically move to a position where there is 
no food; this has no purpose; so it is removed from the iphone 
version" he says.
 
It is possible to make money and survive on; but exactly how 
much Aaron Ardiri brings in he wont disclose and he doesn't 
intend to leave his day job.

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Aaron Ardiri originally from australia but moved to sweden 10 
years ago; now his game idea is a success.