![]() ![]() If you love Super Ghouls N Ghosts or the original Castlevania, this is your game," explains Gee. " harkens back to the day of old-school, tough, side-scrolling action platformers. They don't have to be funny Volgarr is just a straight-up old school side-scroller, for example. Instead, Gee has tried to make Adult Swim Games simply about great games. Even games based on shows from Adult Swim's parent company Cartoon Network, like Adventure Time and Regular Show, are released by D3 Publisher. You'll notice none of the games are based on Adult Swim shows. Soundodger+, Super Combo Man, and JazzPunk are still on the schedule for the latter part of the year. Super House of Dead Ninjas, Fist Puncher, and Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe launched earlier this year, while Volgarr the Viking launches on Steam today. Yeah, it's pretty hard, but it doesn't cost you any quarters.Īnd so Gee grew his operation to the point where Adult Swim Games is now a legitimate publisher the division has seven games that have launched or will be launching on Steam in 2013. Let's find that and let's take them to more core platforms." There's a great wealth of indie talent out there these days. My job is finding great indie games to bring out to the world. We made a few million, now we want to make more.' Coming over, one of the things I wanted to do was move from just doing games for casual gamers and - I hate to say it like this - stoners who are up late at night playing games on the website. ![]() "In hiring me, they said, 'Hey, we want to blow it up. People at Adult Swim were like, 'Holy crap, we can make money off this!' So they decided to grow a game publishing company within a TV company." They had Robot Unicorn Attack and Amateur Surgeon, and then they started doing games on iPhone. "Then they wanted to have some original content that fit the theme and brand of Adult Swim: bizarre and absurd humor. "Before I came to Adult Swim, they had some games on the website, some show-based stuff," he says. Gee's an enthusiastic guy when he's talking about games - he's been in the industry for nine years - and he talks quickly when I ask him about what he's building inside of Adult Swim. Gee left his native California to come to Georgia and become a product manager at Adult Swim, handling their developer relations and trying to find great indies. ![]() That changed when Adult Swim hired Steve Gee two years ago to run their Games division. I mean, it's part of a television company, right? It's not like they're going to take games seriously. If you do think of anything else, it's probably quick, browser-based games like Robot Unicorn Attack or Amateur Surgeon. Shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, and Venture Bros. If I say Adult Swim, you'll probably think of some cartoons. ![]()
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