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New app Tower of Saviors is at the top of its game

Struggling young entrepreneur tastes success with his winning mobile game Tower of Saviors

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Terry Tsang Kin-chung's company Mad Head has become the city's hottest mobile game developer. Photo: Dickson Lee

Eighteen months after quitting his job to start his own business, Terry Tsang Kin-chung had just HK$9.96 in his bank account.

But now, another 3½ years later, Tsang's company Mad Head has become the city's hottest mobile game developer.

One of the firm's games has been Hong Kong and Taiwan's highest-grossing Android app in the past two months.

Released in January, smartphone game Tower of Saviors has attracted more than five million downloads worldwide - with three million from Chinese-speaking users - making it one of the most popular games on both Android and iPhone systems in the two places.

Tsang said a sixth of the downloaders paid to play the game, and its daily average revenue per paid user was US$40. "Starting my own business had always been my dream," said Tsang, 31. "I thought of giving up … but I really wanted to keep doing what I liked."

Tsang, who has a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Science and Technology, quit his HK$40,000-a-month fund-selling job in June 2008 to start a creative business company with his brother.

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