Beatnik Games is an indie games company based in London. It's first game - a stunning 3D beat-em-up - Plain Sight, is soon to be released on the Xbox 360. It focusses on the Machiavellian tendencies of a little sword-wielding robot with suicidal tendencies. The Guardian spoke with Beatnik's Robin Lacy to find about the joys of the Microsoft's free XNA development platform - a boon for indie developers - the relative merits of Xbox360 distribution over PC, and more.
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indiePub has published an interview with Beatnik Games, the independent development team that created Plain Sight.
From the interview:
"indiePub: Please describe Plain Sight...
Sherif Aziz: Suicidal Ninja Robots in Space. You only bank your points once you detonate.
Damien Cerri: Plain Sight was our first game which kind of evolved during development. It was very experimental and started out as something totally different and got to where it is with trial and error."
