Review Fix Exclusive: Inside ‘Invasion Day’

July 21, 2016 Patrick Hickey Jr. Video Games 0

Review Fix chats with “Invasion Day” developers Simon Spreckley and Samuel Goldenbaum who discuss the mobile RTS and its development and goals for the future.

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Review Fix: What is Invasion Day?

Simon Spreckley: Invasion Day is a highly stylized, humorous mobile RTS  game that pays homage to classic science fiction like Mars Attacks and War of the Worlds. Players choose to play as the Martian empire invading earth or the Marines defending humanity against the Martian Attack. It’s Ray Guns, UFO’s and Tripods against Machine Guns, Tanks and Giant Robots in this classic sci-fi throwback.

Review Fix: What was development like?

Samuel Goldenbaum: It’s a big, ambitious project that we have been developing for almost 2 years now. It’s been an incredible experience to journey from conceiving characters, their personalities and unique skills through to seeing them living and interacting in-game.The team had so much fun conceptualizing for Invasion Day as it’s such a great genre and one we all love.

Review Fix: Bottom line, why must someone play this game?

Spreckley: We feel Invasion Day is an evolution of an exciting genre. With two factions featuring their own quirky infantry, vehicle and aircraft along with unique economies, there is a lot of game for players. We have focussed on fun, innovative features that aren’t currently available in other games to create a rich ecosystem with really cool PVP battle functionality all living in a fully immersive 3D world.

Review Fix: How do you want this game to be remembered?

Goldenbaum: As an epic title that continues to grow and evolve with its players over the years to come. To be remembered as that super-fun title that evolved the genre.

Review Fix: What are your goals for this game?

Spreckley: We’d like our quirky characters to work their way into the hearts of players around the globe as Invasion Day becomes a household brand…

Review Fix: What’s next?

Goldenbaum: For now we’re focussing on the players and responding to feedback as we improve features and fine tune balancing. We are excited to grow the Invasion Day universe and will continue to release new characters and gameplay regularly.

Review Fix: Anything else you want to say?

Spreckley: Get ready for the Invasion and pick a side!

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13870 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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