Review Fix’s Patrick Hickey Jr. chats with “NHL 2K†Producer Robert Nelson, who discusses the game’s return to mobile after a three-year exodus, as well as its development process and for the first time ever, the inclusion of the MyCareer mode in an NHL game. The only complete NHL game on the iOS and Android, the once legendary 2K series looks to make a big time return on your favorite mobile devices.
What has the development process been like for this game?
Robert Nelson: It has been exciting. It has been a long time since we’ve gotten a chance to work on an NHL game. As a developer we’ve worked on a number of mobile games since NHL 2K11 was released and we’ve learned a lot about what is important to gamers on that platform. Knowing which features mean the most to someone playing a sports game on a mobile device. We have added all sorts of tools in our tool belt over the last few years and it was really fun to get a chance to use them all on an NHL game.
Will this game feel similar to older games in the series or has it been rebuilt?
Nelson: After reviewing all of the feedback we received on NHL 2K11 we realized that what we had was really fun gameplay that people still enjoy playing to this day, but it was ancient in terms of mobile focused features. As I said we have learned a lot over the years about what matters to mobile gamers. Our goal this year was to keep the gameplay fun and accessible while bringing the entire game up to the modern age of mobile games. Our focus during development was on making a few key changes to what the original game did so well so that it maintained what people loved about it, while making big changes to the areas it was lacking.
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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.
Review Fix’s Patrick Hickey Jr. chats with “NHL 2K†Producer Robert Nelson, who discusses the game’s return to mobile after a three-year exodus, as well as its development process and for the first time ever, the inclusion of the MyCareer mode in an NHL game. The only complete NHL game on the iOS and Android, the once legendary 2K series looks to make a big time return on your favorite mobile devices.
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