Demo Night VI
by Drew Sikora

Contents   Introduction   Frontlines: Fuel of War   Blackwell Unbound   U.B. Funkeys   Marathon: Durandal   Casablanca   Dogfights   Conclusion   Printable version   Discuss this article

Dogfights

The last game of the night fell into yet another category, this time it was through a partnership with the History Channel to release small multiplayer online games based on the scenarios depicted in their weekly television series Dogfights. This is branded gameplay taken to a new level, where you just don't have a game based on a show, you have a game based on individual episodes of a show. You can imagine the development schedule of keeping up with a weekly TV series, but Kuma has the tech for the job, as they explain.

Game Data

Dogfights is the History Channel’s top show in terms of viewers Season 2 premiered in July. Kuma releases Dogfights game episodes as the shows air on TV. The game is primarily a multiplayer experience but with each multiplayer map we also release a single-player training map.

Company: Kuma
Release Date: July 6, 2007
Platform: PC
Dev Time (calendar): 4 months to date
Team Size (full time): 3
Team Size (total): 6
Budget: not sure
Fun Fact: Flight game built on a 1st person shooter engine (i.e. Source)

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