Veteran developers’ new take on a 30-year-old wizard game comes together in the cloud

You’ve heard plenty about cloud gaming, but what about making a game in the cloud? That’s what a new studio is doing to adapt an old pen-and-paper Wizard-battling game for mobile.

A revolving roster of industry veterans make up developer Fixer Studios, which is producing Sinister Dexter for iOS and Android, which is a turn-based role-playing game based on the 30-year-old Spellbinder text game. The crew, led by former PopCap manager Avery Alix, are working together in what they call the “collaborative cloud.” This means that most of the studio don’t ever meet up in person. Instead, they build the game online in a development environment they can all access from their home computers. This method has enabled Fixer to keep costs down while letting talented creators work on the project when they have the time.