![]() One of them quit and I hired two fulltime developers. The year when Luke Skywalker started playing our game), in 2018 In 2017 I hired two students to work part-time (2017 was also ![]() I worked in a co-working space for a couple of years, programming more games and growing the site. I quit my dayjob because I was moving back to Iceland, and then I decided to see if I could actually do CardGames.io fulltime! I didn't trust this new source of income at all though, so I kept working at my day job for 2 more years. In 2012 the site really started making money, and by December 2012 the monthly revenue from CardGames.io was more than the salary I was makingĪt my day job as a programmer. That first check, but all of a sudden I was getting a check every month! That I could actually get a little money for these side projects! But it was encouraging, so I kept making games. For months I would get maybe 1-2 dollars per month.īut finally it added up to the payment threshold, which was around a 100 dollars, and I got paid for the first time! That felt incredibly weird, I had heard about Google AdSense somewhere, and decided to try putting ad tags on the Idiot game. I had always liked the built-in Hearts game that came with Windows, a simple Solitaire game, and I made a couple of others, Hearts because And I hadĭiscovered that I really liked making card games as side projects. I've always loved small, self-contained projects that I can obsess aboutįor a few days and then just move on and forget about them!Įven though the game was simple and ugly it still got a few users, mostly because there was no other version online. There'sĮnough rules and things to make it an interesting challenge, and there's the challenge of making an opponent who is at least halfway decent,īut they're not too big, so you can usually make them in a few days. ![]() Card games are kind of perfect little programming projects. There's no animation, it's very ugly, but I had a lot of fun making it. ![]() Version is still available at, and looks like this: Wanted to be able to put it directly on the web where people could play it, so I just made it with simple HTML and JavaScript. I wasn't really familiar with any real game engines or stuff like that, and I Good version of it online, so I started making one. One night while watching TV I decided to program my favorite card game, Shithead (or Idiot as it's also known). Little experiments, web pages and tools that I had fun making. I always had side projects at home as well, Little technical projects that weren't directly related to the business domain I was working in. I always ended up focusing too much on infrastructure, build servers, plugins for IDE's, all sorts of Loved (and still do, on some days) programming! But the work I was doing, typical business programming in. ![]() I studied Computer Science at University and started working as a programmer when I graduated. To work on more card games, so I thought I'd write a blog post about how it happened. The Accidental Business Owner! And right now I'm procrastinating because I don't want From a hobby to a company with 4 employees. My full time job for the last 7 years has been running a card game website. ![]()
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