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Controlled Chaos and Moonshark partnered to take our Lead Programmer's weekend project and turn it into a year long multi platform free-to-play release. The game is narrated by Stan Lee himself. Everyday magic: potions to order mac os.

The game is available for download on the app store.

Verticus started as an internal game prototype at Controlled Chaos Media, where I was Lead Designer and the first hire. Our lead programmer created the prototype in a few days, creating the seed of a new IP opportunity.

Our Studio Director Hunter Woodlee took the idea, originally dubbed 'Freefaller', and pitched it to Moonshark as a super-hero game. Moonshark, a company attached to CAA, had direct lines to Stan Lee.

As Lead Designer, my challange was to take Freefaller and design a top tier mobile title.

• I helped build the pitch and present the prototype to our partners to ensure that the Talent would attach to the project
• Lead development of our Monetization Strategy
• I guided development during production and post-launch.
• I created wireframes and flows for the entire game UI, as well as player states and AI behaviors
• Designed moment to moment gameplay, working with programmers and artists to realize our vision
• I created UI screens in Unity (NGUI), and developed an analytics strategy implemented using Flurry

• Free-flowing moment-to-moment gameplay that captured a real sense of speed
• An in-depth player ability system with multiple upgrade tiers
• A compelling skill-based boss battle
• Implementation of a great 'pinch' - the moment in a free-to-play game when engaged players decide to purchase
• Streamlined flow between the time a player inevitably 'died' and when they could start playing again
• High quality visual goals, such as interactive 3d diorama style menus
• A comprehensive event system to utilize analytics in a way our company had not yet achieved
• An interactive guide for the player with a friendly and familiar voice

Market and User Research

At the time, there were few 3rd or first person Endless Runner games, so inspiration was drawn from previous similar 2d side-scrolling titles.

Contrasting other 'lane-based' similar 3d action titles, we found that players really loved the ability to move gracefully across the screen in a very 1:1 fashion.

Through excellent gameplay programming from Jon Day, and character art and animation from Mike Penrod, we were able to craft a dynamic and delightful superhero flight model.

Defining Features

After carving out our problems to solve, I sketched and created wireframes in photoshop.

I created detailed Technical Design Documentation for the UI and game elements such as Artificial Intelligence, player abilities, weapons, and environments.

As a result of gameplay testing and iteration, new features sometimes start to 'appear'. I managed expectations with the publisher and team, yet kept my ears open for promising alternate directions.

Product Management

I engaged in daily briefs with our publishing partners, informing them of design changes and incorporating their feedback.

When we noticed our users revisiting certain screens in between gameplay sessions, we devised a plan to change the flow of the app slightly.

In order to facilitate faster replayability and less time between sessions, we gathered the most commonly visited functions and presented them to the player in a 'Ready Screen' before each game playthrough.

Part of our initial design was to give the player choices when starting a new run in the form of Suit Abilities. However this was not within our scope so they were put on hold. Late in development, I pitched the concept of Suit Abilities to the publishing team again, and we secured funding to extend development to add in the Suit Abilities and several other polish items.

Extending a budget is always both a blessing and a curse. It gave us the resources to deliver on the vision of the game, but requires careful management to ensure the new features dovetail in development with all of the existing work that was left to be done.

After carving out our problems to solve, I sketched and created wireframes in photoshop.

I created detailed Technical Design Documentation for the UI and game elements such as Artificial Intelligence, player abilities, weapons, and environments.

As a result of gameplay testing and iteration, new features sometimes start to 'appear'. I managed expectations with the publisher and team, yet kept my ears open for promising alternate directions.

Product Management

I engaged in daily briefs with our publishing partners, informing them of design changes and incorporating their feedback.

When we noticed our users revisiting certain screens in between gameplay sessions, we devised a plan to change the flow of the app slightly.

In order to facilitate faster replayability and less time between sessions, we gathered the most commonly visited functions and presented them to the player in a 'Ready Screen' before each game playthrough.

Part of our initial design was to give the player choices when starting a new run in the form of Suit Abilities. However this was not within our scope so they were put on hold. Late in development, I pitched the concept of Suit Abilities to the publishing team again, and we secured funding to extend development to add in the Suit Abilities and several other polish items.

Extending a budget is always both a blessing and a curse. It gave us the resources to deliver on the vision of the game, but requires careful management to ensure the new features dovetail in development with all of the existing work that was left to be done.

By this point, the team was able to move very quickly. Fully mocking up some screens was done to keep everyone on the same page, as features piled in.

Many features went directly into Unity at this point rather than through a number of flows and planning docs. Our pipeline was hammered into shape, and we were firing on all cylinders.

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However, a number of key elements were not given priority, and we overestimated our ability to deliver polished gameplay in our first release.

Final Takeaways:

• Set yourself up for success by actively maintaining multiple new game prototypes you can turn to when an opportunity presents itself.
• When dealing with signed talent, design for multiple versions of the product, in case there is a twist in the deal-making proces that you don't have control over.
• When entering an established market, too many innovations can confuse the product for the average user. Familiarity is a good thing.
• Don't wait for permission to test anything with a potential user. Pair fearless testing with quick iteration to mold the project as you go.

By the day in 1939 that Stanley graduated from DeWitt Clinton High, the Depression had finally bottomed out, and times in America were gradually getting better — though you'd have had a tough time convincing many a jobless family breadwinner of that. The severe economic downturn of 1937-38 was receding into the past, but the unemployment rate remained higher than it had been two years earlier. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was looking pretty old.

And Stanley Lieber, all nearly 18 years' worth of him, needed a full-time job after stints as a movie usher and office boy. It was in late 1940 that, as Stan writes in his autobiography: 'My uncle, Robbie Solomon, told me they might be able to use someone at a publishing company where he worked. The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me.' He recalls getting in touch with the man who, his uncle told him, did the hiring: editor Joe Simon. '[Simon] took me on, and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week at this small company located in the McGraw-Hill Building.'

At another time, Stan had a slightly varying remembrance of his hiring:

The two remembrances are not, of course, mutually exclusive.

Stanley might well have seen such an ad in the newspaper — and known that his uncle had recently gone to work for that very outfit. As it turns out, Simon was less than fond of Stanley's uncle. From Simon's point of view, Solomon's only duties were to 'take messages' and 'to make certain [that] cushions were on all the chairs, fluffed up and ready for Martin's behind.' The middle-aged Solomon was, he felt, 'a big mouth with lots of opinions on subjects about which he knew nothing.'

Then, one day at the office, 'Uncle Robbie' — even staffers called him that, according to Simon — introduced the 26-year-old Timely editor to his real-life nephew, who was the son of his sister Celia and also just happened to be the cousin of Martin Goodman's wife, Jean. The lad's name was Stanley, and he was looking for a job. Robotfindskitten mac os. Any job.

Exactly who hired Stanley Lieber depends on whom you ask. Stan Lee remembers applying directly to Simon for the job. Simon, however, felt that, by the time he met the teenager, Solomon had already done an end-run around him by going straight to the publisher. 'Martin wants you to just keep him out of the way. Put him to work,' Simon recalled Uncle Robbie telling him. Which Simon duly did. What was one more Goodman kinsman on the payroll?

For his part, Simon's new assistant threw himself into his work with gusto. 'I didn't realize it at the time,' Stan Lee has said, 'but I had embarked on my life's career.'

Thank you!

At first, it hardly seemed like a career at all. Besides the cigar-smoking Simon and his partner, Jack Kirby, who seemed to be forever hunched over his drawing board with his own stogie clenched between his teeth, Timely's comics staff was a real skeleton crew, even counting a few people who had broader magazine duties. As Stan Lee recalled in 2013: 'Working in the office were Robbie Solomon, who was a minor exec, a woman bookkeeper (don't remember her name)… a male bookkeeper named Milton Schiffman… Moe Siegel, a relative of Martin's who did something in the business dep't, and Frank Torpey, who was Martin's ‘lucky charm,' as Martin put it.' According to Simon, Torpey was the circulation director, whose job it was to decide the print runs of the various publications — with Goodman's advice and consent, naturally.

None of the above-named folks besides Simon and Kirby, it should be noted, were writers or artists. The art and scripts for most of Timely's comics were provided either by freelancers or by the Funnies, Inc., comic shop, which rented its own space elsewhere; both groups would simply deliver their finished work to the McGraw-Hill Building. 'As far as I remember,' Stan says, the writers and artists (excluding Simon and Kirby) 'all worked at home, except for some times when they'd finish up a job in the office.'

Stan has recalled Timely as publishing only 'about three or four magazines a month' when he went to work there. That's a spot-on recollection. Besides the monthly Marvel Mystery Comics and Captain America Comics — the latter a very recent addition when Stanley walked in the door, and probably not yet on sale at newsstands — there were Daring Mystery Comics (already demoted from bimonthly to quarterly status) and Mystic Comics (more or less bimonthly). In addition, the new quarterly Human Torch title had just debuted, having replaced a one-issue flop titled Red Raven Comics… and the first quarterly issue of Sub-Mariner was in the pipeline. The Torch and Sub-Mariner comics were packaged by Jacquet's Funnies, Inc. Of course, Goodman's Timely Publications also put out several pulp magazines, but there was little connection between the pulps and the comics.

According to Stan, as Simon's assistant he 'did a little of everything. I went down and got people their lunches and I filled the inkwells and I did some proofreading and I did some copywriting.' Joe Simon's take on Stanley's gofer days: 'Mostly we had Stan erasing the pencils off the inked artwork and going out for coffee. He followed us around, we took him to lunch, and he tried to be friends with us. When he didn't have anything to do, he would sit in a corner of the art department and play his little flute or piccolo, whatever it was, driving Kirby nuts. Jack would yell at him to shut up.' Simon and Kirby let him hang out with them when they played billiards or went bowling. Oh, and just for the record: The musical instrument in question was technically an ocarina.

Simon said that, after just one week on the job, Stanley came to him and asked for a promotion. The first editor of Timely Comics quotes his young assistant's reasoning: He said he deserved the promotion because 'I know everything.'

This may well have been the occasion on which, as Simon described it decades later: 'One day I made his life.' He invited the teenager to try his hand at writing one of the two-page 'text stories' that were a fixture in virtually all comicbooks in those days. (They had to be. The U.S. Postal Service, in its infinite wisdom, had decreed that any magazine mailed out second class, as comicbook subscription copies were, had to contain at least two pages of text… actual typeset prose. Words hand-lettered in dialogue balloons didn't count.) All the pros knew that no one actually read those stories. But that didn't stop Stanley from giving those text pages his all. 'To Stan,' Simon wrote, 'they were the Great American Novel.'

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Stanley quickly produced a short prose tale with the ungainly title 'Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge.' It featured a byline: 'by Stan Lee.' As Simon recalled the ensuing exchange:

The above exchange may be apocryphal, but that text story was printed in Captain America Comics No. 3 (cover-dated May 1941, but on sale no later than March). It marked the official writing debut of 'Stan Lee,' a pseudonym that would one day become Stanley Lieber's legal name and would eventually be known to many people who wouldn't have recognized the names of other prominent comics creators, not even 'Siegel and Shuster' or Bob Kane — or 'Simon and Kirby.' 'I changed it,' Stan has said, 'because I felt someday I'd be writing the Great American Novel and I didn't want to use my real name on these silly little comics.'

Excerpted from The Stan Lee Storyby Roy Thomas, available now for pre-order from Taschen. © 2018 Roy Thomas. All rights reserved. Courtesy TASCHEN