Birth of a Game

I’m only just starting to recover from PAX East 2010 in Boston. What a TREMENDOUS show!! PAX is without a doubt the best industry show there is, especially as digital distribution takes off. This is an important point because while other shows have us hawking our wares to press and publishers, PAX allows us to interact directly with our customers. Uber’s intent with going digital only is to maintain as close a connection to the consumer as possible. We don’t want various layers of middlemen diluting our offering, which is what happens you have to appease the publishers and retailers. PAX is a natural extension of this same core philosophy and we’re grateful that it exists.

Thank you so much to Tycho and Gabe for organizing the event, and extra thanks to Tycho for giving us such tremendous support there. He’s such an incredibly genuine human being that happens to love Monday Night Combat. Jerry, we love you too and in no small part due to Child’s Play (Sammy @ PAX East 2010 — this is a MUST watch and why Uber is an avid supporter of Child’s Play).

Thank you to our fans, old and new, that made our PAX East trip a resounding success. I’m sorry not everyone got to play the game. We had 12 stations set up for 6v6 multiplayer and the line at each station was 3-4 deep the entire show (45-60m wait). All of us at Uber had an absolute blast there interacting with the community and even playing matches against tournament winners! I am so amped right now and am having a hard time thinking about anything but what needs to be done to finish the game. Of course it just so happens that several months ago my wife planned a trip back home to Japan and now I find myself having to leave the country when all I want to do is work on the game! I’ll bring the laptop, but I doubt I’ll be able to accomplish much there.

Thanks again Jerry and Mike, we appreciate what you’ve done for the industry as a whole!

Uber releaed a new video for Monday Night Combat, a third person class based shooter for Xbox Live Arcade that will be out later this year.

The AmmoMule video showcases a battle between Gunner and Support and one of thirty fictitious sponsored upgrades that players can buy for each of the six character classes in Monday Night Combat XBLA.

The AmmoMule upgrade increases clip size for any weapon and character class.

AmmoMule,  “Keep your Ammo cold… and your bacon hot”  Official Cooler of Monday Night Combat

Ammo and Bacon, friends for life.

Video Details:

The video was produced in house with a small team at Uber and rendered in real-time through the game engine using game assets with 2d overlays done in post.  The music was produced by Chris Velasco and Robert Navarro of Monarch Audio who composed music for God of War 1, 2, 3, Darksiders and Borderlands.  Banjo and steel stringed guitar played by Bill Knopf, a former banjo player for the original Dukes of Hazzard TV Show.  Did we mention that we love bacon.

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