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Simon Read was ready to give up. He'd tried for years to make a living from New Star Soccer, and he'd been through thick and thin and out the other side. But this time something was different. Normally he'd proclaim to his wife that the next version of the game would be the one, but not this time. This mobile version of New Star Soccer was nothing more than an experiment. Even worse, he realised that this time it was a last hurrah."I'd lost faith myself," he recounts. "If that would have failed I would have given up believing and gone back to doing it as a hobby. I don't know if I could have persuaded my wife that was the way to go any longer."
We chat over a sandwich having walked 10 minutes from his old flat, the place he created New Star Soccer on the dining room table more than 10 years ago. "All I ever wanted was a nice house for my wife and family," he tells me in between chews. Today he has that, because not only did New Star Soccer on mobile not fail, it succeeded in a way Simon Read never imagined, touching 3 million downloads and making more than $1 million.
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