Games created in Sahl’s lab have raked in untold amounts of money. Millions of dollars have made their way back to the lab. “We’ve got nearly thirty patents and counting. We’ve sold over thirty games to casinos around the world,” Sahl told me after we sat at a semicircular card table in the lab. “And that money all goes back to the center and students. It’s not often you can take a class, come up with an idea in it, and six months later get a check for an entire year’s tuition.” And the lab’s graduates don’t just end up working for the world’s biggest casinos, slot machine manufacturers, and
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