Founding Monocle Studios.

Waiting to hear if I would be hired by Yahoo! in 2008, Luke Hatcher and I founded Monocle Studios. Between June 14th and November 7th, we designed and released our iOS game touchDefense. Unlike the story of Digg V4, this story has no industry relevance.

However, it's a period I personally look back on rather fondly.

The opening menu included animated towers and creeps that would periodically spawn and be vanquished. This was my favorite feature.

In 2008, I had just completed my year-long contract teaching English in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. W...