It’s called Photo Finish Horse Racing, and Cummings, the former creative director of the Madden NFL franchise, makes it.
Cummings admits he wasn’t much of a horse racing fan before getting started on Photo Finish Horse Racing, which originally published late last summer under another name, Derby King, which he built from scratch himself before his last employer, the daily fantasy site FanDuel, closed an Orlando office also filled with EA Sports expatriates.
Ian Cummings’ big bet is that a bunch of people will wonder, “Hey, isn’t there a video game for this?”
From that basic structure Cummings built the rest of Photo Finish Horse Racing’s first iteration by himself, in the Unity engine.