As a Canadian, Kapalka had a work visa that said he was employed by an Internet company named Sexy Action Cool, which caused some misunderstandings from time to time.
The other thing they learned is that when you incorporate a company as Sexy Action Cool, the name will haunt you for a while. It didn’t do that well, which taught them the lesson that you can’t be half-sleazy. However, the team couldn’t bring themselves to depict full nudity, choosing instead to use Austin Powers-like obstructions to cover up naughty bits. The company’s first game was Foxy Poker, which Kapelka described as “our ill-fated venture into pornography.” The idea was to make a strip poker game and sell the engine to porn companies to fund the games they wanted to make. It also helped that the URL was available.
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Kapelka said the name was pulled from a tagline for the movie Desperado. He thought they were clever and kept in touch until 2000, when they all decided they were sick of their jobs and quit to form a new company: Sexy Action Cool. Kapalka had been working at Total Entertainment Network in the late ’90s, and it was his job to wine and dine the future cofounders of PopCap, John Vechey and Brian Fiete, to get their game ARC (Attack Retrieve Capture) onto TEN. In 2001, Kapalka said the typical response to his saying that he made Bejeweled was “So what?” Now he says the response is more along the lines of, “B******* you did.” The game has achieved an odd sort of ubiquity in our culture, but it started in a pretty humble way.
However, he did mention that at his local arcade, someone had spilled soda on the game’s trackball, making for a sub-optimal interface. “No offense to Mark Cerny or anything, but I hate Marble Madness,” Kapalka said. Before settling on gems, Kapalka considered making the game with fruit.
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