August 2005 Sputnik Summary

 

Here's the story of a game named Brady - A Postmortem Pedro Margate, Mobliss

 

Developers from mobile content provider Mobliss speak about their experiences creating the grooviest cell phone fighting game of all time, Brady Bunch Kung Fu. The presentation covers many of the realities, pitfalls, and tribulations of producing a game: balancing characters, working with licensors, and changing teams midstream, not to mention the many and varied challenges unique to the mobile platform.

 

Pedro Margate has been involved in the computing field for over 9 years, specializing in networked applications. In 2003, he made the jump into games by founding Terrapod Games, a development studio dedicated to PC games. Most recently, Pedro has been working as a programmer at Seattle-based Mobliss, where he helps to develop game software for release in the burgeoning cell phone market.