{"id":1861,"date":"2013-01-17T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2013-01-17T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:20:43","slug":"theyre-happily-married-they-created-the-smash-hit-game-temple-run-how-perfect-is-this-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/01\/17\/theyre-happily-married-they-created-the-smash-hit-game-temple-run-how-perfect-is-this-union\/","title":{"rendered":"They’re Happily Married. They Created The Smash-Hit Game “Temple Run.” How Perfect Is This Union?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Imangi Studios’ Keith Shepherd and his wife\/business partner Natalia Luckyanova, love is talking mobile-gaming apps. Their sequel to “Temple Run” is out today. They say none of it would have happened without marriage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very polarizing when we say that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re married and work together,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Keith Shepherd of his partnership with his wife Natalia Luckyanova. The couple founded Imangi Studios<\/a>, a mobile gaming company, back in 2008; their app Temple Run<\/em><\/a> is iconic, having garnered over 170 million downloads, with a sequel out today<\/a>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always either, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAwesome, that sounds great,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122” says Shepherd of reactions to their working arrangement, “or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOh my God, that sounds like the worst thing ever.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

For Shepherd, 33, and Luckyanova, 31, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mostly been awesome. Indeed, without having their life partner also be their business partner, Shepherd and Luckyanova wonder whether this journey would have even been possible. The two met as software engineers in Washington, DC; when they married a little over five years ago, they found themselves continually scheming about how they could work for themselves. When news came out about Apple<\/a> opening up its app store to independent developers, they decided to take the plunge.

“We knew that if one of us could support the other while we got something going, it was less risky than going it by yourself.”<\/q><\/p>\n

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via Fast Company http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3004832\/theyre-happily-married-they-created-smash-hit-game-temple-run-how-perfect-union?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Imangi Studios’ Keith Shepherd and his wife\/business partner Natalia Luckyanova, love is talking mobile-gaming apps. Their sequel to “Temple Run” is out today. They say none of it would have happened without marriage. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very polarizing when we say that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re married and work together,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Keith Shepherd of his partnership with his wife … <\/p>\n

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