Not surprisingly, he has left to pursue a career in iOS game development -- a job that brings all the money and none of the confinements of corporate life.
Devine, who began his game-design career at age 16 with Atari, was working within Apple's iPhone division to improve the multitouch, mobile gaming experience. His job involved ensuring that all hardware and software components played nicely together to make the iPhone the best game-playing device it could possibly be.
The thing is, he wasn't making games; he was just optimizing a gaming platform. And like any builder in his position would, Devine wanted to get back into building.
"While I loved my time, the people, and the platform I worked on at Apple," he told Kotaku, "I am ultimately a game designer that wants to make games."
And we're quite excited to see what games might come next from the designer of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, especially as it seems that one of his next games might be for the iPad.
"When I first got an iPad," Devine continued, "I was sold on it being the ultimate piece of science fiction technology for gaming. I think it is the most interesting new technology product I've worked on in years, and I really wanted to make games for it."