BlackFireGames.com: An Interview With Roberto Koci

As I imagine you've guessed from my positive experience with the demo I wrote about earlier this week, I was psyched to purchase the full game and finish off those pesky invaders!  I also had questions about the game and it’s developers.  Fortunately, Roberto Koci, the CEO of Black Fire Games was kind enough to satisfy my curiosity.

The following is a short interview:


Procrastination Domination:  

What can you tell me about the development of your latest title?  How large is the Black Fire Games development Team?

Roberto Koci:  

Black Fire Games, team of two dedicated people, were working hard for the past 8 months to bring you our first commercial title "Alien Dominion: The Acronian Encounter".  It's a 3d space shooter with very high intensity action, nice graphics, silly voice-overs and weapons to shoot all day! It's a rail shooter so you need to take down all the targets to pass, with prioritizing the ones that shoot at you.

Procrastination Domination:  

Do you have plans to move your game to other on-line distributors such as Stardock's Impulse or Valve's Steam service?

Roberto Koci:  

Of course. It largely depends on the community's response and reviews that are yet to come. These distribution giants also have internal evaluation systems, so I hope we shall pass the tests there.

Procrastination Domination:  

Is there any DRM in the game aside from a serial check?

Roberto Koci:  

:)

(Note:  I'm sure that whatever they are using, it's a million times better than the Ubisoft DRM which makes my brand new Splinter Cell Conviction game unplayable! But that's another story altogether.)


Procrastination Domination:  

Will there be any modding supported in the future?

Roberto Koci:  

We have not planned to support modding, however we are already working on some game enhancements based on comments we received on various sites. So, soon there is going to be a patch, a new installer, and an even better A.D. We are also working with the Linux community to be able to run the game using Wine on Linux.

Procrastination Domination:  

Who holds the high-score for Alien Dominion?

Roberto Koci:  

I hold the highscore. I used an EMP blast in the final section of the game (level 6) to clear out all the enemies before ending the game - that put me on top :) 

Also, I was curious as to who did the voice overs, as they are quite funny :).  The credits list both Roberto Koci and Budimir Mrkobrad.  I'd like to commend him on the great work.  My favorite line so far from the game is:  "You have a fatal exception!"  I can't help but smile at that, finally a windows error I can smile about!  :) hehe.  Roberto confirmed this in saying that "the voiceover was done by my friend, credited in the credits section in the game. He also did the music."


Do you have a question for Roberto about Alien Dominion?  You can contact him from their contact page.