Recently Adam Riley and Mike Mason of Nintendo website Cubed3 got the chance to speak to Jon Hare, the creator of Sensible Soccer and co-founder of Sensible Software. In this exclusive interview he discusses some of his development history, what he's up to now and his frustrations with the industry.

"As we were finishing Mega-Lo-Mania off, we started to play around with putting football men into it. I drew sprites that looked like Mega-Lo-Mania guys with football kits on and they were running around the little Mega-Lo-Mania world." Already having experience with the style, they used "the same viewpoint, same sprites, same angle, everything. I think it just happened to work from the Mega-Lo-Mania perspective. We sized the pitch up so you could always see the goal or the centre circle wherever you were running". The Sensible development team at this time was "really small", only creeping up to six members as the games continued coming.

mfcx42 via cubed3.com »