Got any questions for NinjaBee?
Steve Taylor volunteered to be my next interview victim. Not that I usually throw many hardballs at my interviewees, but since he's the source of my paychecks and everything, I thought I'd open things up a little this time and see if there are any questions you guys would like answered about NinjaBee. That way you can keep me honest, and if any of the questions make him mad, I can blame it someone else.

By way of background, NinjaBee now has two games currently available for XBox Live Arcade, and another one (Band of Bugs) which has been announced for the 360 and is an Independent Games Festival award nominee. They are the creators of the absolutely awesome (and funny) space station tycoon game, Outpost Kaloki, for the PC, as well as the best-selling XBox 360 version, Outpost Kaloki X. After that, they followed up with this year's popular Cloning Clyde, and we were also contracted to develop the newly announced Massively Multiplayer Real-Time Strategy game, "Saga" (now with an HTML version of the website for those of you who didn't want to wait for Flash to load). Outpost Kaloki, Kaloki X, and Band of Bugs were fully indie projects, paid for internally and by investors. No publishers were harmed in the creation of these games. Saga is technically independent too, but we were contracted as the development house on that one.

We've got more games in development right now, too, but I already know I can't talk about THEM yet.

I'll be asking Steve about the origins of the company, and a lot of questions about what it takes to get indie games released on the consoles.

So --- what would YOU like to ask him about? Fire away! I'm going to try to get him the questions by Wednesday. Assuming I can actually get out of the office between then and now.

Labels: Indie Evangelism

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