Like father, like son: A second-generation game developer launches Plight mobile game

James Castle didn’t fall too far from the tree. He just graduated from college and is launching a mobile game that he built from his friends. The novel thing about that is he’s the son of Louis Castle, the famous cofounder of Westwood Studios and the creator of games like Command & Conquer and Dune II.

The younger Castle’s startup is NewFort Studios, which just launched a mobile puzzle game called Plight. Louis Castle got the project going by funding it and offering the young team an interesting choice: They could work on one of Louis Castle’s ideas for a game, or they could create a game of their choosing with minimal direction from Louis. The team chose the latter, and that’s how they wound up with the sci-fi puzzle game Plight. The game is available now on iOS and Google Play.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.