It was a game that you played on your cell phone.

It was a game that you played on your cell phone.

Now I'll tell you, the premise was a little bit dark

but straightforward. You see there's

like a grumpy looking person in the foreground on the left and then the happy couple

on the right. So the grumpy person in the foreground is supposed to be you in this game and your goal as a

grumpy little troll is that you're supposed to break up the happy looking

couple behind you. Now you play against an opponent and over the course of seven rounds you basically have to choose between two scenarios that might cause a rift between this otherwise happy couple.

And at the end of the game, the player that

causes the most heartbreak is declared to be the winner.

Now, this game does not exist, but these are real screenshots from it.

Congratulations, you just plunged to the next rank, you awful person.

It was a little twisted, and it was very, very irreverent, but it was also kind of addicting.

The creator of that game said the app was profitable pretty much right from jump,

pretty much right from the start.

She actually compared it to the mother of all video games.

She compared it to Pong.

She said, quote, I'll tell you, it's as simple as Pong. This is the dating equivalent. It's not complicated. It's simple. But it's fun.

Now, damn love, despite its profitability, was more of like a side hustle for the scrappy early video game developer who made it.

She did that video game thing.

She did some other tech stuff, but her full-time gig was as a writer, a journalist.

In the late 1970s, at the age of 36, that woman who developed that game,

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