Bejeweledâ€™s creators sponsored wedding of the hacker, cracked their game

16th September 2008

A programmer from Jersey City named Bernie Peng, proposed to his fiancÃ©e Tammy Li, thus, shocking the entire game world.
Peng and Li began dating about three years ago. When it was time to take important decisions, the programmer decided that his fiancÃ©e deserves more than the ordinary proposal, made orally.
The young man spent more than a month to modify the source code of Bejeweled, the favorite game of his girlfriend. In this extremely popular casual entertainment players should earn points, building a chain of crystals of the same color. By achieving a certain result, the girl saw missing in the original version of the game window showing a wedding ring and the proposal of marriage. Having obtained the consent of his bride, Peng published a story on the unusual proposal in his own blog. The post gathered more than 500 comments, and over the next few days, the story hit the pages of major game resources and spread across the Internet. Of course, rumors have reached the game developer, the company PopCap Games. Its employees were so very much impressed by the action of the romantic programmer that even did not make any claims for hacking the game, but instead offered to undertake the costs of organizing the wedding ceremony.
The company ordered a huge wedding cake in the form of a game console. And each of guests received a free copy of the game Bejeweled.