Dale Strickler became fascinated with electronics and computers in the 1970s. He began by writing programs as ones and zeros on piles of graph paper while hand executing the code on 4-bit computer schematics in Popular Electronics magazine. Later, using TI then HP programmable calculators, he wrote many card games, dice games, robotic simulators and board game simulators, all designed to work with very limited displays. It was not long before he was directing software development at a large company as it was taken public.
Over the years, Dale has been designing Weather Zen in his downtime. Though certain characteristics of the game have maintained consistency many parts have changed radically. Now, as a graduate of the Darden Business School’s Global Executive MBA program, Dale is pursuing the dream of fully developing Weather Zen via Stone Soup Management.