Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Sobaka Studios’ Head of Studio Dean, who details the REMEDIUM: Sentinels’ development cycle and the buzz leading up to its release this Summer.
About REMEDIUM: Sentinels:
Defend new areas of a plague-ridden continent with more mighty metallic machines to choose from. Devastate never-ending masses of mindless chimeras and brand new bosses with a wider variety of scientifically modified weapons.
Developer Sobaka Studio and publisher ESDigital Games have added several new weapons, enemies, bosses, maps, and more during its period in Early Access, with HUD and interface improvements as well as world wide leaderboards debuting with 1.0.
Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born?
Dean: Hello! We can think of some main factors that motivated us.You see, we are working on several big projects – some of them announced. At some point, each project enters a phase where there are many routine processes, but the team wants more action nevertheless :) At the same time, the development method of early access is becoming more popular. Moreover, our team fell in love with Vampire Survivors and can’t get over it… All of this said, we decided to start a new project inspired by Vampire Survivors.
In parallel, the release of our big game REMEDIUM is approaching. Then, a thought came to mind. Why don’t we develop the same universe and lore in several projects? Usually, a prologue is created to answer lingering questions, but we thought: “let’s make it another project or maybe not just one :)))”.
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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