Thank you for sharing your personal story! I relate so much!

I was a major contributor to the underlying technology and game systems that drove the world's first internet-enabled touch screen game network. We had crazy score comparison patents, all kinds of shit going man - we were hitting on all cylinders. Partnership with American Games, AMOA, Monolith, major PC distributors like Compaq, tie into in-house developed probability contest back-end ... we were exhibiting at the computer game developers conferences.

After three and a half years, it alllllllllll ended up in a puff of smoke. Although I developed some amazing technologies, not one of those things ended up seeing the light of day. Fuck. Me.

I worked on so many firsts in the gaming sector and the truth is, 90% of them at minimum were a complete waste of resources in terms of bringing a product to bear.

But through it all, it was the passion to find problems that needed solving, and then solving them that really drove me so at least I had that!