Space Captain Steve

im watching gameoverse {about 13 minutes in} and i cant help but miss kit ballard when i see this... i think about kit ballard a lot she's so important

Was there any particular development philosophy that you guys took to making Ty 3? I know you said y’all wanted to immediately start work on it after finishing 2, and I recall something you said how that was a quickly made game, made with 2’s engine, and to fix any bugs you guys had with 2, do whatever you guys could with a smaller budget. Was that all intentional, by design, or was it something that just kinda was happenstance, or developed naturally?

Slightly less serious question this time: out of the Ty cast, who do you think canonically likes Vegemite?

I was having a rough day and over-ate on cereal BUT then I saw you talking about your inspirations on my feed and it cheered me right up. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and work 💪 🌅

Another behind the scenes question to ask, what was the process of maintaining the rights to the Ty series? As in, the first two were published by EA, the third by Activision, and then all three were re-released by Krome, alongside the fourth game. What was the history behind that, were there any particular waiting periods where you guys had to wait for certain licenses from the publishers to expire? I figure EA and Activision are both kinda infamous for holding onto IPs firmly, so I’m interested how Ty managed to slip through their fingers, as it were.

I've always admired your mecha designs, ever since I was a boy playing TY 2 and seeing the battle bunyip for the first time. It's something about the way you can give a mecha Gundam-like machinery yet retain a kind of cartoonishness and zoomorphism. It's sort of similar to Akira Toriyama's mechs, or maybe Jhonen Vasquez's. More generally, I also like the ratio of roundness to hard angles in your designs. Did you have any special inspirations when you were first developing your ideas for mecha?

Strange question, not so about the lore, moreso a production thing: I noticed over the course of the games that, as far as voice acting goes, it seemed to be a combination of Australian actors, but also a lot of the LA voice acting scene (you can’t hide Charlie Adler from me, I know that man’s voice when I hear it). I was wondering how exactly did that process work? Was it a union thing, something mandated by EA/Activision, etc.?

Would you ever go back to cons like Supanova in the future or if your health allows it? I’d love to see one of my favourite comic artist and video game creator there again!

recently played through all the ty games (even the gba ones!) and totally fell in love with all the characters and that world! anyway this is a weird thing to bring up, but i learned real tasmanian devils actually have long, plump tails, but ranger ken's tail is cute and stubby, was that just a mistake that stuck, or was there going to be some gag there that never made it into the games? personally i always imagine it got snapped up by a crocodile he was trying to bring in for rehab lol

Whenever the next Ty game is made, will the characters in Gunyip! be repurposed and introduced?