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Martin Kess, one of the founding members of CompSci.ca, has been busy working on a fantastic looking game for the BlackBerry platform: Addictive Tower Defense. This isn’t the first of the quality games to come from the CompSci.ca community members, but it certainly raises the bar once again.
I’ve been playing the beta version of the game for a while, and I am blown away by the level of detail put into this game, just by a couple of indie developers. So I caught up with Martin to talk about the game.
What inspired you to make a commercial game, while still being a student?
Well, my main goal in life is to have a wikipedia page that doesn’t get deleted within 30 minutes of its creation.
I was working at Sybase, and Mike, my boss at the time, decided that in his spare time he wanted to do a project on the BlackBerry, and so we started throwing game ideas back and forth. The real inspiration thought were stories of John Carmack and John Romero (co-founders of id Software and yes, those are links to their Wikipedia pages) putting everything aside to make awesome video games.
And why commercial? Well, I thought that there was an off chance …