Maui childhood influences video game

Kalani Streicher aims to share Hawaiian culture with his puzzler "Tiki Gods"

By Gary C.W. Chun

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 20, 2012

~~<p>Kalani Streicher has fond small-kid memories of growing up in Wailuku, Maui. So much so that he's incorporated a portion of the island culture into his work as a video game developer.</p>
<p>His Kalani Games company, located in Austin, Texas, came out this summer with "Tiki Gods: Ancient Times," a colorful 3-D puzzle-action game for Apple iOS devices. Named after three of the major Hawaiian gods, the lil' tikis Kane, Ku and Lono zap gems on a playing board, moving up to increasingly difficult puzzle levels on land and sea, beaches and volcanoes.</p>
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Kalani Streicher has fond small-kid memories of growing up in Wailuku, Maui. So much so that he's incorporated a portion of the island culture into his work as a video game developer.

His Kalani Games company, located in Austin, Texas, came out this summer with "Tiki Gods: Ancient Times," a colorful 3-D puzzle-action game for Apple iOS devices. Named after three of the major Hawaiian gods, the lil' tikis Kane, Ku and Lono zap gems on a playing board, moving up to increasingly difficult puzzle levels on land and sea, beaches and volcanoes. Login for more...