17 Facts About Zach Gage

Zach Gage was born on 1985 and is an independent video game programmer and designer based in New York City.

Zach Gage is known for his iOS games, including SpellTower.

Zach Gage created multiple games based on playing card and board games, including Really Bad Chess.

Zach Gage's mother allowed few game purchases in their house, and coming from a family of artists, encouraged Gage to make his own games.

Zach Gage would retain this do it yourself mentality to learn new creative skills and escape later creative slumps.

Zach Gage attended Skidmore College and upon finding its computer science program lackluster, graduated with a degree in art in 2007.

Zach Gage's new media thesis project was an interactive installation involving viewer tracking and video projection.

Zach Gage returned to New York City after college and worked with Eyebeam.

Zach Gage was later hired to program an installation piece similar to his thesis for an exhibition at the Venice Biennale, which encouraged him to attempt new projects headlong.

Outside of his art work, Zach Gage began programming for Apple's App Store upon its 2008 opening for submissions.

Zach Gage created a visual music sequencer and a horizontal Tetris-style game.

Zach Gage had been inspired to design SpellTower by a conversation with Asher Vollmer who described his design for what would become Puzzlejuice, a word game which combined Tetris and Boggle; with Vollmer's permission, Zach Gage developed his own version of the idea, and beat Vollmer to market by two months.

Zach Gage later worked as the iOS developer for Vlambeer's 2013 Ridiculous Fishing, in which players use motion and touch controls to catch fish and subsequently shoot them out of the sky for cash.

Zach Gage created digital games based on playing card and board games: Sage Solitaire, Really Bad Chess, and Flipflop Solitaire.

Zach Gage assisted in the iOS port of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.

Zach Gage created a card game, Guts of Glory, which he crowdfunded via Kickstarter.

Zach Gage participated in the 2016 Game Developers Conference game design challenge panel and his work was previously featured in the NYU Game Center's No Quarter exhibition.