Steven Peeler Interviewed at GameBoomers
GameBoomers has an interview with Steven Peeler of Soldak Entertainment (maker of Depths of Peril and Kivi's Underworld, as well as the upcoming Din's Curse).

GameBoomers Interviews Steven Peeler

An excerpt on why he left a cushy mainstream game job and went indie:

"I started Soldak for many reasons, but it really boils down to I wanted to do my own thing. For example, I really wanted to create an RPG. I was never going to be able to do that at Ritual and even if Ritual had made an RPG, I would probably not have been the lead designer. Starting Soldak allowed me to work on games I want to play. I also will no longer hear excuses like your company doesn't know how to make that type of game, there are already too many RPGs, we should make a clone of last years best seller, no one has done that before, no one likes Sci-Fi, and many other terrible reasons not to make a game."

Amen and preach on, brother Peeler!

There was also the tantalizing tidbit that he hopes one day to make a turn-based game. Not that his action-RPGs have been anything but fun!

He also notes that he's shooting for a December release, though that is admittedly not the best time of year to release an indie game.

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