Legend of Ace Launches its Kickstarter as the First-Ever Social Game App Built Socially via the Crowdfund Giant

Las Vegas, NV, February 24, 2015 (Newswire.com) - What if a small indie development team built the first 100 levels of a new puzzle game, used Kickstarter to rally Backers to become beta testers, then infused the game with Backer suggestions and built the levels they wanted to see next? Imagine a social game that was built based on what the people wanted rather than replicate other popular match-3 puzzle games in the market. Instead, a game that combines puzzle boards and casino classics of slots and poker to create the ultimate medieval saga with a worthy goal of saving the captured queen. Legend of Ace-Casino Quest. The first social game, made socially.

Kickstarter Backers join the movement and become beta testers with only a $20.00 or more pledge. Beta testers will collaborate on specific tasks set by the development team such as new levels, naming the characters, and the creation of new characters and special weapons to help the player on their quest. The developers plan to launch on Facebook in April with the first 100 levels and then on all mobile devices shortly after. The Kickstarter launches on Thursday, February 26th at 7pm PST.

"Social gaming is all about playing with friends, so we wanted to flip it on it's head and make the game socially with friends."

Damon Harman, Founder / CEO

With characters inspired by the times of kings and queens plus poker cards, social gamers get to travel the medieval saga map by becoming a worthy knight and free the captured Queen. Use, 3, 4, or 5 puzzle matches traveling your way through Casino Land and eventually arriving at Shadow Land where you must defeat the evil Sorcerer. If you run out of lives (Antes), you can play poker and slots to win more chips allowing you to buy more Antes and special boosters to help beat the harder levels. Getting 3 stars on a level matters in this game because for each star earned you draw a poker card. Trade cards with friends to help you make the poker hand you need to unlock a slot machine with free credits. Pull the slot and win chips that can be used to buy special weapons and perks to enhance your game experience.

With the first 100-levels nearly complete for the initial Facebook app, a crowd fund will enable the indie development team to complete the game in time for its April launch. Additional stretch goals will enable the team to build up to 800 levels or more and launch on iOS and Android mobile devices.

Casino and poker legend, Lyle Berman stepped in to provide capital for the first 100-levels, initial marketing, and consulting for the casino aspects of the game. Creator of the World Poker Tour and head of the company that built the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, he stated “I think it’s a fun idea to get the people involved in helping us make a better game. Kickstarter is a great platform to accomplish that goal. I wish Kickstarter was around years ago, I’ve been involved in many ventures that could have benefited from it.”

“Social gaming is all about playing with friends, so we wanted to flip it on it’s head and make the game socially with friends.” says founder Damon Harman. A producer of several shows, he assembled a team to hit every aspect he envisioned players would draw to. Lyle brought in the casino feel, Aaron Schumann came on as creative director, Pinaki Saha, a veteran in the social gaming world, joined the team to run development, and 2SenseDigitalPromotions took on the social media apparatus needed for social gaming engagement and interaction.

Damon continues, “The beauty is the social gamer has the power here, everything that got on your nerves with other puzzle and casino game apps gets fixed here. This is what makes us different. We are building a game for the players, by the players. Why not get the players involved before launching a game and allow them to put their thumb print on it?”  

Find out more by viewing the Legend of Ace Kickstarter page that has their video reenacting how the game premise came to be.... Poolside in Vegas: (http://youtu.be/TkmW5QOfafE)

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Please direct media inquiries to Victor Alsobrook of 2SenseDigitalPromotions at Victor@AceLabsMobile.com or 310-279-0613.  

About Ace Labs, LLC.

An indie game developer and publisher set to launch its first project, Legend of Ace - Casino Quest. The Company seeks to launch a successful Kickstarter to fund game growth and to improve the game along the way. The team is made up with members experienced in production, television, game development technology and brick-and-mortar gaming casinos. Its initial app set to launch in April on Facebook with plans to expand into mobile shortly thereafter. For more information about Ace Labs, LLC please visit:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1017850784/2120846495?token=8d1acfe0.

About Damon Harman, Founder / Creator

TV veteran who has produced and directed over 375-episodes of television, as well as hundreds of commercials for brands such as Coca-Cola, Emporio Armani, Calvin Klein and many others, all while keeping his finger on the technology pulse.  A visionary, always looking into the future, he founded Kontrol Mobile in 2004, a gaming and content channel on the 3G Sprint Network prior to the launch of Apple’s iPhone.

As an executive producer (showrunner), Harman worked closely with network executives to ensure the quality execution of an on-budget, on-schedule production. He utilized mobile technology in clever ways to market his television shows as well as accomplish creative storytelling with texting and video chatting. 

Seeing an opportunity in real estate Damon founded Real Estate Vidz to produce high-end video tours of homes nationwide in full interactive 360°. He took it a step further by utilizing GPS and QR codes that would play the video tour on your mobile device by simply taking a picture of the house.

Again blending TV with technology, Harman produced and directed “Making the Game” for the global fund (RED) presented by Coca-Cola for MTV Worldwide. Harman’s work inspired the power of collective contribution across 54 countries through in-app-purchases. A small team of developers led by Damon built the app game entitled THRED in 30-days.

Most recently Harman Founded Ace Labs and serves as the Chief Executive Officer creating social mobile games for Facebook, IOS and Android.

About Pinaki Saha, Chief Technology Officer

A Nuclear Physicist by training, Pinaki’s skills in high-end algorithms led him to tech when dot.com coming to life in 1998. He played a leadership role in designing auction sites for Priceline.com and building enterprise systems with Lockheed Martin and the federal government.

For nearly 8 years, Pinaki navigated inside JPMorgan Chase developing technologies and data systems for a variety of financial products.

Since leaving Chase, Pinaki co-founded 3 startups in consumer Internet space ranging from video streaming to games on mobile platforms.

He helped to raise more than $1 million in seed funding and created prototypes for Disney, Samsung, Kraft Foods and many more. Pinaki’s social game development ventures culminated when Facebook opened its platform for gamers and early adopters many years back. One of his early games on Facebook, Shooting with Pals, had more than 100K active monthly users.

Over the last 4 years, Pinaki’s team has deployed more than 30 social and card games under Gambling and Casino category in both iOS and Android platforms. One of his most recent Three Card Poker game has more than 600K mobile installs with 80,000 daily active users.

His work and thoughts have been published in highly coveted media such as TIME, Fox, NBC 5, Cassandra Daily (a CAA company publication) and TechCrunch.

About Lyle Berman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Berman

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