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Renegade Kid gives Treasurenauts update, European release talk, new games, Mutant Mudds update
A portion of a Nintendo Life interview with Renegade Kid's Jools Watsham...
NL: Are you and the team excited about the progress so far on Treasurenauts, perhaps even nervous about its release next year?
JW: Yes, I am very excited about Treasurenauts. It covers many different personal development goals for me, and continues to surprise me in terms of where progress in development takes us. It is a very inspirational game for me, one that has a lot to offer in terms of personal satisfaction. I am always nervous about the release of our games. How players and press respond to our games is important to me.
NL: I have to ask, will it be making its way to Europe in good time? For those that don't know, can you explain the challenges that have held back some games from Europe?
JW: I sincerely hope so.
Being such a small team, we have little time to handle non-game development tasks, such as age rating companies. The ESRB in the US has made this process amazingly quick, simple, and free. I got the ESRB rating for Mutant Mudds Deluxe in 10 mins - no exaggeration.
There are multiple age rating companies in Europe and Australia/New Zealand: PEGI, USK, and COB. Each company requires a substantial payment to review your game, an online questionnaire, and a DVD sent to them with gameplay footage for them to review. This may not sound like much, but it is for us when we need to focus on the development of our games and not dancing with the age rating companies. The ESRB have made this much more difficult for us to swallow, due to how easy it is with them in contrast. The European age ratings companies are slow bureaucratic dinosaurs. If we had a mature game on our hands, I would understand more, but I don't think a kid-friendly game like Mutant Mudds, ATV Wild Ride, or Bomb Monkey should not have to jump through so many hoops.
NL: So is 2014 the year of new games, ultimately?
JW: Yes, we'll have at least 2 or 3 new games released in 2014, which we're very excited about.
NL: Can I check whether the 3DS Mutant Mudds update has a target release window, or would you rather just say 2014?
JW: We're hoping it will be Q1 2014 - closer to Easter / Spring time.
Full interview here
NL: Are you and the team excited about the progress so far on Treasurenauts, perhaps even nervous about its release next year?
JW: Yes, I am very excited about Treasurenauts. It covers many different personal development goals for me, and continues to surprise me in terms of where progress in development takes us. It is a very inspirational game for me, one that has a lot to offer in terms of personal satisfaction. I am always nervous about the release of our games. How players and press respond to our games is important to me.
NL: I have to ask, will it be making its way to Europe in good time? For those that don't know, can you explain the challenges that have held back some games from Europe?
JW: I sincerely hope so.
Being such a small team, we have little time to handle non-game development tasks, such as age rating companies. The ESRB in the US has made this process amazingly quick, simple, and free. I got the ESRB rating for Mutant Mudds Deluxe in 10 mins - no exaggeration.
There are multiple age rating companies in Europe and Australia/New Zealand: PEGI, USK, and COB. Each company requires a substantial payment to review your game, an online questionnaire, and a DVD sent to them with gameplay footage for them to review. This may not sound like much, but it is for us when we need to focus on the development of our games and not dancing with the age rating companies. The ESRB have made this much more difficult for us to swallow, due to how easy it is with them in contrast. The European age ratings companies are slow bureaucratic dinosaurs. If we had a mature game on our hands, I would understand more, but I don't think a kid-friendly game like Mutant Mudds, ATV Wild Ride, or Bomb Monkey should not have to jump through so many hoops.
NL: So is 2014 the year of new games, ultimately?
JW: Yes, we'll have at least 2 or 3 new games released in 2014, which we're very excited about.
NL: Can I check whether the 3DS Mutant Mudds update has a target release window, or would you rather just say 2014?
JW: We're hoping it will be Q1 2014 - closer to Easter / Spring time.