Now who - or what - is Toby? Toby, or rather The Toby Game was one of the first things Stellar Jockeys ever produced. TTYSF was originally concepted as a Castle Crashers clone, an image of which we showed at the top, but here's another for good measure. At the same time, Dale Kim was graduating and, following another pitch by Hugh in 2011 for a project called That Thing You're Searching For (or TTYSF), Zach was also signed on to work with Stellar Jockeys. In the fall of 2011, Zach was a freshman at the University of Illinois studying Computer Science and also attended ACM GameBuilders. Roughly two years after that fateful 2009 meeting a fourth figure comes into the story: Zach Reizner. The title of this student project? Stellar Jockeys. Effectively it was a clone of the original Star Control game from 1990. But what even was that game? Unfortunately, we don't have any images of it. Given the team had managed to pull off the project, Harry, Dale and Hugh realized they could probably make more games in the future, so they stayed in touch. A small group formed to work on the project for the rest of the school year, culminating in them managing to show off the project at the university's engineering student showcase event called Engineering Open House. Reminiscing on the event, Dale explained that out of the majority of the pitches, Hugh's idea was not only clearly described but also actually achievable.
Hugh was there at that 2009 meeting to pitch - Dale and Harry were there to listen.
Hugh, meanwhile, was working at the high school associated with the University of Illinois, which granted him credentials to use academic facilities. Both Dale & Harry were the original engineers of Brigador's custom engine and were studying Computer Science at the time. In attendance among others at this 2009 meeting were three people: Hugh Monahan, Dale Kim and Harry Hsiao. ACM GameBuilders is a community of student game developers at the University of Illinois and is a spin off of the ACM (or the Association for Computing Machinery [which has a number of chapters both across the United States and the rest of the world. It might not be as riveting as this excellent retrospective on Diablo II [but if for some reason you’re wondering how someone even gets into game development, this was how (some of) that happened.īefore talking about Brigador, we ought to talk about the origins of the company and where its name came from.īack in the fall of 2009, at the University of Illinois, the second meeting of ACM GameBuilders was held wherein people could pitch game ideas. And no – we're not just talking about how the game’s name changed from its original title of Matador. We’ll be unable to recount the whole story – certainly not in one post – because so many people have touched what you now know as Brigador: Up-Armored Edition in those past ten years. This is about all the pain, patience, frustration, creativity, sacrifice, and love that go into making games.So with about a decade behind us, in this post we’ll recount a couple of the first key events and the people that led to where we are now, or at least the start of it. This is about helping future studios as encumbered as we are with inexperience to succeed. We don't have the luxury of hindsight, or the comforting knowledge that everything will work out in the end, at least not yet.
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This isn't the retrospective of some proven developer, full of knowing speeches about their path to success or platitudes of hard work and discipline. Upon reading that you might be wondering how, so it’s high time we actually made good on a post from June 2012, wherein studio CEO Hugh Monahan wrote the following in a since-dead blog: Once upon a time Stellar Jockeys’ first game was going to look something like this…
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