Tech Talk

Steve Demeter was a software designer for a large bank, and in his spare time develop and created a game for the iPhone, which now is a popular game called “Trism.”

After pitching the game to Apple, the company made it available for download in July together with the launch of App Store, an online provider of application for its iPods and iPhones.

Demeter is said to have earned $250,000 in profits the first two months the game was on sale. The game was priced at $5.

Trism is a game like “Bejeweled” in which a player manipulates colorful grid of triangles. Points are scored by lining up three or more like-colored triangles in a row, with an ‘iPhone twist’ – the triangles rearrage themselves depending on which way the player rotates the phone.

Demeter did all of the game himself, although he said his friend was the one who came up with the name ‘Trism.’ He did pay him though.

Demeter has already quit his day job two months ago and now has his own company which is called Demiforce. He plans to develop more electronic games. He now has a staff, with five games in development, two of which will come out before Christmas. One is these two is a spin-off of the ‘Trism’ called “Trismology.”