Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"(breakintochat.com)

27 points by bananaboy 7 days ago | 3 comments

a11r 55 minutes ago |

Amit Patel was employee #7 at Google and built many things including the little geo display in the lobby that would show live search queries as dots color coded by language.

lll-o-lll 4 minutes ago | |

And writing “Don’t be evil” everywhere. I suspect being the “originator” is contested; but this wonderful nerd, who made Red Blob Games, is the spirit.

Barren Realms Elite and Falcons Eye were my favourite doors games as a teen (written by his brother). Inter-BBS - playing against people in other countries - was just amazing at the time.

exogeny 46 minutes ago |

Ah, nostalgia. I was a LORD man myself. One of my good friends from the BBS scene in my hometown (412/724) had a Telnet/SSH instance of LORD that ran for a good decade plus.

schoen 2 hours ago |

(2013)