For nearly two decades, Scott Campbell, the CEO of Salt Lake City video game studio Eat Sleep Play, had been designing games for consoles, from the original PlayStation in 1994 to the PlayStation 3 last year. But of late, the industry was clearly in transition — it was moving from the living-room boxes such as Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360, to tiny screens on mobile phones and computer tablets.
Gaming-on-the-go is now king.
Campbell’s company is not the only Utah game studio to change over to mobile game development. Local companies such as Chair Entertainment, Wahoo Studios and EA Salt Lake have all gone from designing games for consoles to creating titles for handhelds. And it’s proving to be a profitable move. Salt Lake Tribune
