Digital Hippos: Interview with Cold Beam Games’ Steve Hunt

Steve Hunt is an impressive figure in the world of game developers. He published his first game, River Rally for the Atari 800/400, at the age of 14, and then did it again with Planet Attack at the age of 19. It would be entirely reasonable to say that this Brit has been a part of the video game industry for as long as there has been a video game industry. Recently, he transitioned back out of working for development studios and founded his own independent studio, Cold Beam Games. This year Cold Beam Games released its first product, Beat Hazard, which takes any song from your PC or Xbox 360 and turns it into the stage of a 2-D shoot-em-up that increases in intensity with the intensity of your music.