Texas Poker for Prizes was my first large-scale project that I had the opportunity to oversee from the very beginning. We set out to introduce new ways to play Texas Hold'em on a smart device — designing around social and living-room scenarios rather than solo play.
A key technical challenge was modifying the native iOS .mm layer of the Unity Engine to support Apple's new AirPlay feature. The vision was to let people play poker around their couch using a shared TV screen rather than huddling over a single phone. Although the concept didn't land with players the way we hoped, the engineering challenges it presented were genuinely interesting to solve.