From a faulty kidney to the iPhone 11 unveiling, one developer’s strange path to the top
Before he was showing off Pascal’s Wager on the iPhone 11, Yang Yang took the money he'd saved for a new kidney... and poured it into a new gaming studio, TipsWorks

When Yang Yang took the stage at the iPhone 11 event to show off his new game, few knew just how much he and his studio had gone through to get to this point.
Pascal’s Wager certainly justified its status as the first demo Apple used for the new iPhone. The game’s stunning visuals blew people away, showing detailed characters and a large world all running smoothly on a smartphone.
It was the culmination of a wild few years for TipsWorks and Yang, who may not have reached this point if his kidney didn’t fail.

Yang saved money for a kidney transplant. But when he and other former employees of Japanese gaming giant Konami decided to start TipsWorks, they poured their personal savings into the Shanghai-based studio -- including the money Yang had saved for a new kidney.