Brigade of combat cooks Developer Trinket Studios is back, this time with a card-based RPG called Aces in battle suit. Card games and giant robots are catnip to senior editor Bryant Francis, so we were glad that Trinket Studios co-founders Tom Eastman and Ben Perez were willing to stop by and talk about the making of this game, published by Outersloth.
It turned out to be not just a story about prototyping, iteration and bug fixing, but also a race against time to restore the rights to Brigade of combat cooks from collapsing publisher Adult Swim Games. But with that race behind them, Eastman, Perez and co-founder Eric Huang could focus on creating an addictive game with a storyline inspired by the anime you may have once watched on Adult Swim.
Listen to the entire episode if you're interested in how developers can use card game mechanics to present large-scale bot battles and what makes for a good publisher-developer relationship.
About the Game Developers Podcast
The Game Developer Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast that chronicles the triumphs, disasters, and everything in between game development, while also sharing lessons and strategies fellow developers can use to hone their craft. A podcast for game developers hosted by Bryant Francis, edited by Pierre Landrieu, and featuring music Mike Meehan.
