Season 1 · Episode 13
Hyper Meteor
Mo Fikree of Vertex Pop talks about the design and development of Asteroids homage Hyper Meteor, including the hardest part—choosing a name!
September 27, 202227m 34s
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Show Notes
Mo Fikree—designer, developer, and CEO of Vertex Pop—talks about why he loves arcade-style games, and the ups and downs of creating the “Asteroids” homage “Hyper Meteor”, including one of the hardest parts of programming: naming things!
Show Notes
- Mo Fikree on Twitter
- Robby Duguay on Twitter
- Halina Heron on Bandcamp
- Vertex Pop on Twitter
- Vertex Pop
- Asteroids on Wikipedia
- Play Asteroids on the AARP Website
- Plastic Fern
- Ground Kontrol
- MAME
- Super Hexagaon
- Teenage Engineering
- Panic Podcast
- Playdate Podcast Episode 1: The Story of Playdate
- Hyper Meteor game page on Playdate’s website
- Episode Transcript
Topics
playdatehandheld gamesarcade gamesarcade-style gamesasteroidspanicone-bit artindie gamescrankgame developmentvertex pop