Mike Nuell
Mike Nuell (CGS’90, CAS’94) of Potomac, Md., writes that he graduated with a degree in classical studies and went on to a successful tech career with a small Boston start-up that eventually became part of Veritas Software. In 2002, he left the corporate world to “walk the earth,” traveling around the United States, playing music, writing, and making art. In 2005, Mike set out to create a multiplayer game based on Sudoku, finally cracking the mechanics in 2013. After several years of testing, Mike launched a start-up, MClass Games, to produce electronic versions of the game for players worldwide. The game has STEM application for ages 10 and up, and extends and bridges the fields of game theory and combinatorial game theory by providing a new, compact model, suitable for mathematical analysis. Mike is pursuing a basic game patent for the method known as Multiplayer Partisan Sudoku, which produces an infinite set of games. Learn more at www.mbranegame.com, and email Mike at mikenuell@gmail.com.
From the Summer 2018 issue.