Software house

Software worth building.
Built right.

Forgotten Mines is a software house that builds its own products, from Vizew digital menus for restaurants to the online strategy game War to the Core.

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Our products

Products we build and run

We primarily build first-party software: products and games we'd want to use ourselves.

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Vizew

A menu that opens in a second, even on a weak network.

Vizew lets venues create a digital menu in Arabic and English that guests open from a QR code on any phone, with no app to download. Owners can set it up themselves or let our team prepare items, prices, and translations.

  • Built to load fast on weak mobile networks
  • Arabic and English on every plan
  • Price changes go live for every guest instantly
  • Optional on-site photography, premium QR prints, and printed menus
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War to the Core key art: motherships battling above a planet's surface
Game · Windows PC

War to the Core

A tactical multiplayer MOBA-RTS hybrid. Command a colossal mothership, battle alongside your team for planetary domination, and fight over the dwindling resources that fuel your war machine.

Rain long-range missiles on enemies, lay orbital minefields, raise turrets, or rush aid to allies, then tailor your ship to the way you fight.

Genre
MOBA-RTS hybrid
Modes
Online PvP & co-op team battles
Platform
Windows PC
War to the Core gameplay: team fleets converging on an enemy base
Trading automation Private

Forgotten Crypt

Automation where it helps. Your hand where it matters.

A cryptocurrency trading automation platform that strikes a balance between automated trading and manual trading. Forgotten Crypt is not open to the public.

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Our mission

A small team of visionaries building the world's most enjoyable experiences

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Worth building

We specialize in sophisticated software that is worth building, and we build it right.

02

Masters of craft

Each of us is a master of their craft, uniquely creative and quality-driven.

03

Agile and united

Agility helps us weather challenging situations; unity keeps us focused on software of the highest quality.

04

Dream big

Our innovation knows no bounds. We dream big and have fun making our dreams come true.

Founder

Mokhtar Khorshid

Founder & lead architect, Forgotten Mines

An engineer who has spent his career at the frontier of what software can do, from the labs of the world’s largest technology companies to the hardest open problems in computer science. He founded Forgotten Mines to build the kind of software that outlasts trends and quietly changes how people live, work, and play.

  • Big tech Engineering at Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft Including AI for VR and XR at Meta Reality Labs, helping bring HoloLens to the world at Microsoft, and starting the original Alexa for PC project at Amazon.
  • Patents 5 US patents (inventor)
  • Research Inventor of the fastest multi-agent pathfinding algorithm in the world The tree-based agent swapping strategy (TASS), published at the Symposium on Combinatorial Search.
  • Author Two published books Game programming in C# (CPress) and multi-agent pathfinding in polynomial time (LAP LAMBERT).
  • Fiction Spectral Legends His first novel, about to be published.

FAQs

Questions we hear

Do you offer software development services?

Typically, not. We primarily work on first-party software.

You said "primarily." What are the exceptions?

We would consider projects that are unique enough to warrant our attention. It has to be innovative, novel, or have a very strong appeal to our team.

Are you hiring?

Sometimes. If you think you're a good fit for our team, reach us on our Facebook page.

Contact

Have something worth building?

For partnerships, press, or unusually interesting projects, connect with us on LinkedIn.

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