Then to watch Twitch streams and hear the players calling them by name, that’s a really, really fulfilling thing to hear.” That’s a tall order, so I’m pretty proud of that. It’s learning to work together, build the rules of this IP together and get it out the door on time. I’m really proud of the game and I’m proud of the team for sure. You’re putting together a new company, a new team and building an original IP. It’s really accessible and easy to get into but what’s super cool is the characters are also unique, they play all differently and whilst they’re easy to pick up and play they’re really hard to master. “The team we’ve put together and the game we’ve created together as a real collaborative team. Final Strike Games is a relatively new team of 50 people making a completely new IP, which is a pretty intense thing to do for your first game. The thing Dev is proudest of highlighted the team he works with. I’m biased but I also think that they’ve done brilliant work and I’m thrilled to be involved.” I’d like there to be a tourist mode where you can just walk around these environments because they’re so beautifully done and there’s such detail in everything. As a newcomer to this medium and as a fan of artwork, to me, this is like feature quality animation. There’s always this listening to the feedback, trying to improve what’s there.” What are you proudest of?Īs our interview wrapped up I wanted to find out what they were most proud of with the game so far, early on in its life. It’s still early on and everything but the Discord group, the Reddit threads. We are really lucky to have one of the most incredible communities.

For better or worse you launch with something and you get to improve it with player feedback. That’s actually one of the coolest things about a live service. It’s like anything, it’s this ongoing thing. You’re trying to pull it all together as you’re developing it. With that there’s no doubt plenty of technical headaches and Dev gave me an insight into how the team works. One thing Rocket Arena does is offer a variety of game modes from the get go. No matter how hard I tried they wouldn’t tell me any more. He does a voice for us and that’s all I can say.” He’s the guy who does the all weird alien voices on Ben 10. Kimberly Brooks, I worked with her years ago on Static Shock, she’s the voice of Mysteen.Ĭoming down the pike there’s a character we can’t name yet in public who’s voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, who you’ve heard on games and animation. Jahto is voiced by James Arnold Taylor who’s the voice of Obi Wan in the animated Star Wars series. “We’ve got Kari Wahlgren as the voice of Flux. I asked Dev how the team went about making a game that could appeal to such a wide audience. One thing I’d experienced when playing Rocket Arena is the range of people that were playing it. In fact he was one of the co-creators of the stealthy critter. He’s also had a long history in gaming, working on the likes of Plants vs Zombies and the Sucker Punch classic, Sly Racoon. Dev’s career has seen him work across comics, with beloved characters like Batman, Judge Dredd and many more. Part of that is down to the wonderful work of Dev and his team.

It sounds like an experience that was hugely positive for Len transitioning into a new medium for the first time. What a way to get introduced to a whole new world!” Credit: Dev Madan Based on their foundation I got the chance to work on the characters more and their inner relationships. There was this beautiful design Dev and his team had created this feature quality animation, these beautiful environments and these hilarious characters. They had spent probably 2 years already, before I came on board, designing this world. “They were fans of mine and I quickly became a fan of what they were doing. It’s easy to see why the team at Final Strike Games reached out to him to help bring Rocket Arena’s characters even more to life and give him his first video game credit.

Then, in the 00s he was writing iconic episodes of Static Shock and Ben 10. Len’s credits include episodes of many classic Disney channel cartoons such as DuckTales and Chip ‘n’ Dale. The team hired Emmy-nominated writer Len Uhley to help expand its game world and lore, whilst adding personality to the characters. Rocket Arena captures the spirit of 90s and 00s cartoons with its characters. It’s a fairly unique take on the arena shooter, with game modes and frequent updates adding more variety, but that’s not the only thing that helps the game stand out. Build up a damage meter to send your opponent flying further, until they fly off the map. On the surface it’s an arena shooter, but underneath there is a layer normally reserved for fighting games like Smash Bros. Rocket Arena takes inspiration from a lot of things.

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