The team started out as two people, just Dan and his composer, flashygoodness. The development process has been a bit all over the place. The choice to put the game through Early Access has made financial burdens for such a small team easier, but itвЂ™s definitely added a workload to their time. Rivals of Aether is in the same genre of the Smash games that is available currently on XBLA and Steam through a program called вЂњEarly AccessвЂќ. The Logo Art for Rivals of Aether itselfвЂ‹ Since he still wanted to base himself in the Seattle area and had previous qualifications, he was a perfect fit to help start the program with Rivals of Aether. He worked with Chris Charla on the XBLA team and was excited to hear about the program (The XBLA teamвЂ™s successor) when it started up. When Xbox One production was starting up, he was assigned to Killer Instinct, and thanks to his work with Microsoft and Double Helix he learned a ton about traditional fighters. His job was to give design feedback to some of the games coming through the pipeline on Xbox 360 he was lucky enough to be put on some great titles when he first started out: those include Trials: Evolution and Mark of the Ninja. It took about 6 months to complete it, and a few more months to make a nice trailer and release it.ДЇrom there on, after college, he worked as a Game Designer on the former XBLA team. He collaborated with two musicians, inversphase and flashygoodness, but handled the rest of the project himself. He stashed the game he was working on and set out to work on Super Smash Land.

His friends liked it and told him he should turn it into a game he realized it went hand-in-hand with his want for a solo project. He tried to make something that was simple graphically in scope, and after playing Tower of Heaven by askiisoft, inspired by the Gameboy aesthetic of the game, he made a mockup for a Gameboy-style Smash Bros. He started by making a few games, but he did a solo project for a game jam and had a lot of fun, so he wanted to try the solo route again. Rivals of Aether next to Super Smash LandвЂ‹Дan Fornace started as a student in Drexel University in Philadelphia as a solo Game Dev.

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