Unknown Worlds, creators of Natural Selection, were at PAX East this year. It was their first experience at PAX, and with that comes a lot of lessons. A bunch of programmers had to play carpenter that weekend to set up their presentation booth before a rush of gamers came to try their games.
Wow, did Charlie Cleveland ever surprise me at PAX East. I don’t know the guy, and I didn’t pay much attention to the game his studio was showing off at the big show in Boston. Not at first.
We get to see behind the scenes at big game development studios all the time. Independent studios working on the sequel to a mod that was made for someone else’s game? That’s a side of game development we don’t normally get to see.