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History of Duels

The City of Phyrra


During the last Great War between the empires of Machan and Aseti, the southern continent of Phyrras became a point of fierce contention. Claimed by both sides, Phyrras became a vast battleground. As word of these Duels reached across time and space, the city of Phyrra became the center of grand martial competition.
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About Us


Challenge Games was founded in 2006 with the mission of creating online, short-form games that are challenging, fun and easy to play whether you're a serious or casual gamer. The big idea was to create cool games that can be played in 3-10 minute time increments anytime, from anywhere.

While many of today's popular online games, like World of Warcraft and Everquest, allow players to explore vast fantasy worlds, they require huge time commitments and are considered "monogamous" in nature, because they take hours to play. The games created by Challenge Games provide "quick-fix" entertainment for both the hardcore and casual gamer alike. As an added benefit, although the games are multiplayer in nature, players can participate in the action when it's convenient for them.

The first title released by Challenge Games was Duels, a free online multiplayer fantasy game that combines the head-to-head play, collectibility and trading associated with collectible card games (CCGs) - like Magic: The Gathering and Yug-i-oh - and the level advancement and character development of massively multi-player games (MMORPGs) with the ease of access and community aspects of Web 2.0 applications. Duels is also available as a Facebook application. Duels and other games developed by Challenge Games are free. Players have the option to trade or sell items to other players for real money and they can even sign up for VIP memberships for a small subscription fee.

Challenge Games is the brainchild of Andrew Busey, creator of web-based chat and author of one of the first online gaming books - Secrets of the MUD Wizards. An avid gamer himself, Andrew has led, developed and contributed to numerous "Multi-User Dungeon" or "Multi-User Domain" (MUDs) games, which were the early predecessors to games like World of Warcraft and Everquest.

Andrew Busey


Andrew Busey is the founder and CEO of Challenge Games, a new online gaming company creating exciting and challenging short-form games that don't require huge time commitments to play and enjoy.

Over the past 15 years, Andrew has pioneered some of the industry's most important web technologies - including work on Mosaic, the first web browser (now part of Microsoft Internet Explorer); creating iChat, one of the first instant messaging applications; and building WebCenter, the first major web-based customer service technology (now part of Avaya). He most recently co-founded Pluck which enables social media on major sites such as TheStreet.com, USA Today, and Reuters. But his passion has always been gaming. In 2006 Andrew decided the time was right to pursue his dream and Challenge Games was born.

In the past, Andrew led, developed, and contributed to numerous "Multi-User Dungeon" or "Multi-User Domain" (MUDs) games, which were the early predecessors to games like World of Warcraft and Everquest. In 1994, he wrote Secrets of the MUD Wizards, the first major published book on the topic.

Andrew holds six technology patents and has several others pending. He is a graduate in computer science and marketing from Duke University and holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

In Duels, Andrew is known as Loki.

Christian Primozich


Christian Primozich leads software development for Challenge Games and also collaborates closely with Andrew on game design and product planning.

Chris developed his first game for the TRS-80 back when a lot more time was spent in basements and bookstores playing Dungeons & Dragons than logged into MMORPG's. He slaved away in the mines of the gaming world during a two and a half year stay at Origin Systems but managed to escape with a rich set of tools and a great deal of knowledge gleaned from the pioneers of the industry, Richard Garriott and Chris Roberts.

From Origin, Chris entered the start-up world where he worked for Andrew's first company, ichat. Over the last eleven years, they've worked together on several endeavors and their shared passion for games made for a natural partnership when Andrew started Challenge Games.

Chris is a graduate in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

In Duels, Chris is known as Blerg.