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Pre-Alpha footage: A team in action

Almost five months ago now, Rickard Edén posted the first of many development updates following his upcoming Applet based game, Hostile Sector. He has since become a core contributor to jMonkeyEngine, freely sharing useful experience and code. Yesterday we had an extensive talk about Rickard’s on-going project and the challenges it presents. Considering I’m in Norway and he’s in Sweden we could have practically carried out this interview with two cans and a string, but then I wouldn’t have this handy transcript to share with y’all.

I already know you’ve got an impressive background in games. But why don’t we start by recapping that for the reading monkeys

Rickard: Ok, not sure where to start… Yes. I’ve been in the industry for a while, mostly working with level design and later game design and production on some of the scandinavian developers

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