Xona Games - CBC TV News (Duality ZF) (Jason & Matthew Doucette)

Ryan Pierce (CBC) picked up the Duality ZF story after it placed 2nd in Canada and 7th in the world in the Dream Build Play 2009 Challenge, Microsoft's global Xbox 360 game contest for independent developers.

He interviews lead programmer and co-founder of Xona Games, Jason Doucette, and game producer and co-founder, Matthew Doucette.

Duality ZF on CBC website:
http://xona.com/2009/09/23b.html

Duality ZF on CBC radio (.mp3):
http://xona.com/2009/09/23.html

Duality ZF official site:
http://dualityzf.com/

Xona Games official site:
http://xona.com/

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[ArcadeMeister]

Wow! That's great how you made it onto the (national?) news. That'll definitely help you with the sales of the game. :)

I will definitely have to think about getting it. ;)

[mythrium]

Wooow!!! This is really great guys, you were able tp pass on CBC, its seems the marketing for Duality ZF is on a roll ;-).

[matthewdoucette]

@arrogancy Thank you! Still shocks me to watch this!

[arrogancy]

Nice media coverage here.

[matthewdoucette]

@Xenophon821 No release date yet, but it is coming to the PC via Steam!

[Xenophon821]

Give me a release date and I'll buy it for PC!

[ytc3d]

I am soooo jealous. This kind of coverage is unheard of for indie games. Well Done!

[matthewdoucette]

thank you Conor! What are you working on now? You had more than a few projects I was more than interested in!

[m0n0RAIL]

Hey Matthew - great to see your game getting mainstream TV coverage!

[matthewdoucette]

And he (Ryan Pierce) actually caught on to the trend that we are going back to our roots before we realized that's what we are doing. We just do what we like, but he made the connection that our games are back to the local-multiplayer cooperative style we enjoyed as kids! Contra would have been a great example to use, as well!

[matthewdoucette]

I think you are just poking fun, but Ryan Pierce actually really knows his games. Had he not "found" us, we would never have got TV coverage. Think about how often mainstream (non-gaming) media covers games. Never, or when they do it's negative. So props to Mr. Pierce for breaking it down to the non-gaming audience.

[MattTheSpratt]

"It all started with the classics, like Super Mario, Pacman and Space Invaders"

*HURF*

Oh god, that writing almost gave me a hernia. D: