"After AutoAssault, we thought about what we wanted to do next. We always kinda toyed with the idea of redoing Jumpgate, and seeing what we could turn it into, and so that became more and more real as we worked on it. There are a lot of lessons we've learned over the past 10 years that we wanted to apply, and see how that worked in a sort of microscope type of environment. When you have your own project that you're funding on your own, you're forced to do it in a less grandiose way, in terms of team size, so you have to focus more, so it ended up being a great thing."

"It's amazing what you can do with a small team, when there's a lot of focus. We were very much committed to creating a game that was visually compelling, but ran on lots of systems - I think that's critical to commercial success. Most people don't spend $3000 on a computer every year, so to require that means that you've taken your audience and shrunk it a little bit. So we wanted to reach a lot of people - but that doesn't mean we wanted the graphics to be bad. These were conflicting directives for the development team - we had to be very creative about making good looking, low-poly, low-texture resolution types of visuals, and it's a hard thing to convince developers to do because - as a developer, your natural inclination is to always push the envelope as far as you can, because that's where the interesting things happen, and to sort of say 'No, no, no - we're pulling back, but we're going to do the same thing, be very innovative, but we're going to do it in a very constrained way'. It's really interesting to see the culture change, because as that policy got adapted, and people now sort of live in that way of thinking, it becomes like a challenge now - to make things that look really good but still don't require a lot of horsepower. As a result, the visuals in the game have become stronger and stronger - it's pretty exciting.

"Basically, the other side of what we changed, going from the original game, was the accessibility factor. We were making a game that's intuitive for people to play, so they can just pick it up, and have a good time right off the bat. They don't need to take an hour-long tutorial, they don't get punished... I think too many games turn into the developer punishing the player, and teaching them by smacking them with a stick, and you're much better giving them little pellets of sugar, in order to get them to play the game that way. We very consciously focussed on those two things in particular, but still maintaining a sort of space feel."