Love-struck hacker proposes using 'Bejeweled'

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Story Highlights:

* Ring and marriage proposal show up when girlfriend reaches certain score

* Tammy Li says, "I do"; marriage set for Labor Day weekend

* "I thought it was pretty cool, in a nerdy way," says programmer Bernie Peng

* "Bejeweled' players score by swapping gems to form vertical, horizontal chains

 

Love-struck hacker proposes using 'Bejeweled'

 

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (AP) -- Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn't enough when a

computer programmer decided to pop the question.

 

Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so a ring

and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.

 

Li reached the needed score -- and said yes.

 

Word of the romantic feat in December filtered out after Peng, a financial software

programmer, posted details on his blog. The reprogramming was a tricky task and took

him a month.

 

"I thought it was pretty cool, in a nerdy way," Peng told The Star-Ledger of Newark.

 

The couple plan to marry over Labor Day weekend, and PopCap, the Seattle company

that makes "Bejeweled," will fly the couple to Seattle as part of their honeymoon.

 

"Most video game companies would frown on people manipulating their games,"

said Garth Chouteau, a spokesman for PopCap.

 

"But it won him a woman. As a bunch of geeks, we have to say, 'Bernie, hats off to you.' "

 

The company is also supplying copies of "Bejeweled" to hand out as favors to the wedding guests.

In the hugely popular game, players score points by swapping gems to form vertical and horizontal

chains

 

[dlinclimo]

That's cool. Hows that for original.

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FIRTS OF IM ASSUMING ITS SOM E SORT OF DORKY DUNGEON AND DRAGONS THING.......IF SO WHAT A COUPLE OF LOSERS

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