Old School Gamer Magazine Exclusive: Inside ‘Miles & Kilo’

Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Four Horses director Mick Waites, who discusses the indie smash hit “Miles & Kilo” on the Nintendo Switch, inspired by the “Adventure Island” and BIT.TRIP RUNNER, it’s the perfect combination of old-school fun and modern-age indie game development.

About Miles & Kilo:

Miles & Kilo is the sequel to Kid Tripp. Whilst out for a flight with his dog, Kilo, Miles gets trapped in a storm when a mysterious character appears and causes them to crash land on a haunted island. To make matters worse, this character and his cronies steal various vital parts of Miles’ plane. Take control of Miles and Kilo to run, jump, bounce, swing, roll, surf, crash, smash and hop your way through 36 challenging levels across five beautiful hand-drawn worlds.

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Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born?

Mick Waites: I started working on Miles & Kilo pretty soon after I released Kid Tripp on the App Store back in 2013. Kid Tripp’s initial reception far surpassed my expectations, so I was really eager to jump right back in and make a bigger and better sequel.

Old School Gamer Magazine: What was development like?

Waites: Development was fun! I worked on the game in my free time during my last three years as an undergraduate in college. I was of course learning a lot about programming then, and often when I learned a useful new technique I’d go back and rewrite a large chunk of Miles & Kilo’s code to apply it. Those rewrites always paid off big time too, since the code became more manageable and easier to add on to. In retrospect, it was really great to have this project going on during that time – I wasn’t in a rush to finish the game, I just took my time and had fun with it.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 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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