PAX East 2012: The Man Behind Dust: An Elysian Tail

Well, it seems he's into furries.

The game is great! It's a real treat to have a hand painted game with this much polish on the 360. I hope this guy makes a lot of money so he can get lots of hot young girls to to wear fursuits and suck and fuck him like there's no tomorrow.
He deserves it.
5 stars.

Can't believe one guy did all that.

@brotherstereo said:

Who is the person he mentioned in this video? James Sto??? Around the 1:12 mark of the interview. Thanks in advance.

James Silva with Ska Studios.

Who is the person he mentioned in this video? James Sto??? Around the 1:12 mark of the interview. Thanks in advance.

Great interview as per usual with Brad!

Dude seemed cool and fun, and so did the game.

@Neonie: Word.

Hearing the GB guys hype this game in their PAX chat was encouraging, but now seeing it in action I can really see what they were talking about.

This game looks crazy and I can't wait to play it. Taketh mine dollars!

I'll give him kudos for putting so much time and effort into pursuing his dream and making a game. I'll give him my money because his game looks fucking awesome.

I love hearing stories like this! I totally hope that this game sells really well because he deserves it after that much work.

Brad is a fantastic interviewer.

Time will tell how fun this game is, but even to get it to where it is now is a massive achievement. Even if I don't buy this, I'm glad there are people around who will follow through on stuff with this much dedication.

I don' tknow if the game is for me, but the dude deserves my 15$

Woah.. I will so buy this..

Good interview, Brad

This is exactly what I'm hoping to do. I'm in school for game design right now, but I'm wanting to do more indie games. I'm not so hot at drawing and the art side of it, but I still want to do at least a little bit of everything.

Great interview, Brad. This game looks very promising. I'll definitely be checking this out.

aww man, a new jazz jackrabbit would be awesome!

reminds me of the vanillaware games,im really looking foward to this game.

Great content GB.

Brad had well planned, precise questions and Dean was well spoken and interesting to listen to. Loved it.

Brad is really one of the better interviewers around on the web :) Loved it!

Animation and graphics are amazing, too bad the guy ruined it with furries. I wouldn't mind cat people, but the floating one with human breast that's just wierd, cats DON'T have monkey tits!

Incredible dedication. I wish I had his focus >.<

impressive. i'll give him my money.

he's doing what i aspire to.

@Winternet: he's putting 16 hours a day in now not the whole time

"When I hit guys I wanna see numbers pop off of em, when I kill them I want money to fall out"

A man after my own heart.

...you know, except for the furries.

The game looks good, but fuck furries.

@WilliamHenry said:

@LooseChange said:

@Winternet said:

How did he get paid for 4 years?

It was given a contract by Microsoft so my guess is they funded his project which also means he split some into his own personal finance?

Probably had a day job while working on the game the majority of the time. Since he is the only one working on the game, all of the money Microsoft paid went into his own personal finance. Sure, some of that was used for things relating to the game, but its not like he had employees to pay.

He said he put 16 hours a day into making the game so I don't think he had any day job. But, if in fact Microsoft was funding this, then that's how he got paid.

Great interview. That guy is living the dream, solo!

Brad is really one of the better interviewers around on the web :) Loved it!

@Nac said:

Shame about the furries. :\

Yeah, really turns me off from the game.

Shame about the furries. :\

One of my favourite things is watching Brad interview developers. More please!

Also if this is what an Xbox exclusive looks like nowadays, I'll take it!

Damn this game looks sweet. Will get it when it comes out.

This whole interview struck me as really well done. Great questions from Brad. Keep up the good work.

That looks disturbingly like a Hypercolor shirt.

@LooseChange said:

@Winternet said:

How did he get paid for 4 years?

It was given a contract by Microsoft so my guess is they funded his project which also means he split some into his own personal finance?

Probably had a day job while working on the game the majority of the time. Since he is the only one working on the game, all of the money Microsoft paid went into his own personal finance. Sure, some of that was used for things relating to the game, but its not like he had employees to pay.

Is it crazy for me to call this guy my hero?

@Dezztroy said:

Hopefully we'll see a Steam release not too long after the XBLA one.

Amen to that

@Winternet said:

How did he get paid for 4 years?

It was given a contract by Microsoft so my guess is they funded his project which also means he split some into his own personal finance?

That's bananas. I wanna buy this game just to support that guy. Also it looks great.

jajajajaja

This man is an inspiration.

I hope there's a switch to turn the UI down a bit. I don't really want numbers all over the screen covering all the beautiful artwork I'm killing.

Game looks great. I remember following the development a bit when it was still planned for XBLIG. Looks so different now.

The game still looks a bit too much like a furries' wet dream to me but the combat seems really fluid and cool.

Respect for this guy, game's definitely looking beautiful. Also grizzled Brad is my fave

Fantastic, very inspirational.

There's something extremely satisfying about seeing a very nerdy guy get to live out his fantasy of making video games. I hope he gets ALL the moneys.

Hopefully we'll see a Steam release not too long after the XBLA one.

@drewbert said:

@DSale said:

Guessing this got lost in the shuffle of the site-move.

Vinny: "Hey, what's this on this hard drive? Oh man, hey Brad, you still want to post this?"

Brad: "Yeah! That guy was really badass, let's give him some props!"

It has more to do with the fact that I left for North Korea the day after PAX East and Vinny was on leave. I edited the panel video on the plane back from Boston, but anything after that had to wait until we both got back in the office and had time to work PAX stuff into our production schedule.

So does this mean there is MORE?