Then I started sketching and making draft art to put in the prototype, so we could see what the experience would be like in interactive form. I started making storyboards for how the game could unfold while engineers worked on building prototypes. Spiciness is somewhat of a universal, comical experience, which I think opened the door for us to do something we usually might not be able to, like a fighting game. From the start it was clear it was going to be a chance to do something fun. He is perhaps best remembered for his organoleptic test, which uses human testers to measure pungency in peppers.ĭoodler Olivia When has been thinking about Scoville and his test since last summer. His book, The Art of Compounding, makes one of the earliest mentions of milk as an antidote for pepper heat. The doodle team thought his work in this field-and the development of his eponymous Scoville Scale-deserved some recognition.īorn in Bridgeport Connecticut on January 22nd, 1865, Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was a chemist, award-winning researcher, professor of pharmacology and the second vice-chairman of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Before Wilbur Scoville, however, no one knew how to measure a pepper's “heat”. People have known about the tongue-burning, tear-inducing qualities of peppers long before Columbus reached the Americas.

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