so this is almost final draft of the cover we've got our own boxes produced we've got our own cartridge mold produced those not too

upset saiga we've got our own logos on them big evil corporation cartridges thirsts

So the physical side of it is nearly ready to go want you to do now is finish the game

we caught up with you

how long ago was it i

finished the first level which is split into three acts and it's got most of the main mechanics running thank you a bachelor when the

kickstarter right it was mid kickstarter yehud kickstarter yeah yeah yeah and obviously

for those who haven't seen that video your kickstarter was successful which congratulations

Thank you very much wait with it then what's happening with the game um yeah it's taken just over a year so far to get

To this this point from the kickstarter we're about 90% finished there's a few audio things to fix up

Some bugs and it's going to head for closed beta testing

So i expect in the next couple of months we should have our gold build i understand things took off quite recently with

yeah

You got a bit of exposure when perhaps expect yeah i did an interview for the bbc i had a pr campaign

Planned to drop at the same time as the video

it went a bit earlier than i expected i was on my way to an event called play expo in blackpool and i got a

phone call saying that was on the tv so i have to quickly pull over on the motorway at the

starbucks and quickly launch our website it was a bit of a hairy move

have you had a lot more interesting start there

Yeah, it's been quite mani the past couple of weeks since that interview went life how other people contact me for magazine interviews and videos

and podcasts and things like that it's been non-stop

For the past couple of weeks let's be frank now did you quit your job for this yes i did quit my job for this

for better or worse

So what's what's going on long term then long term

Once we finished up releasing the megadrive version we're going to port it's the dreamcast

And then it's coming to modern consoles hopefully if the publishers are on board with it

After that we've got another two games up our sleeves so we can do this all over again

you're saying we and does um you work with people on this are they sort of like

characters you work with all the time or yeah for the first game i work with some contractors

it was mostly myself making the game though

For the next one i'm not sure i could stomach it again so i think i'm gonna hire some stuff

We see quite often people indie games producers

getting stuck in a rabbit hole of working on their own game for years and years and years how do you avoid that

Do you know you don't

but you

Know i suppose the question is it looks like you're getting near to completion so

it feels like there is light at the end of tunnel where as we hear of games getting stuck in

development hell for want of a better word

Is do you think this is something to do with the

limitations of the devices you're working on rather than

yeah

I think that play some part and there's only so much we can do on the rugged drive

and we can't upgrade the graphics engine we can't

add much more to it we're out of rom space we're using all four megabyte of the cartridge so

There's nothing more we can do to the game we've got, no space in ram rom we've got

no, cpu cycles left we've maxed the whole thing out

Which is a both a curse and a blessing because we have to say this is it now we've got

To polish this up and release it and feature creepers is not an issue here

when's the when you slated for release what's the latest kind of eta the plan is mid

2018 where we're penciling in late may early june at the moment

and it has its own set of registers

These aren't general-purpose registers for adding numbers and stuff each one has a specific purpose so one will be in control of the background-color

16 to d1 so we can see that d1 changes to 16 in hex and then add the two together