All About Miner 2049er

Fun Facts

Game that Miner 2049er beat out to claim Game of the Year award in 1984:
Donkey Kong.

Name of the magazine that chose Miner 2049er as their first-ever cover feature:
Electronic Games - the issue sold 225,000 copies!

Artist's reference material for retro version of Miner 2049er mobile:
Emulator developed by Bill Hogue, Miner 2049er's original creator.

Way in which art and design for Miner 2049er mobile retro version was created:
Pixel by pixel.

Record number of consecutive days Wes Tam, lead developer, slept on an air mattress under his desk during work on the new Miner 2049er:
Fourteen.

Success of Magmic's design team in clarifying Bounty Bob's identity as a miner, RCMP Mountie, or both:
None; none at all, in fact.

Cheat code for the new Miner 2049er mobile:
Same as the original - the 1980s phone number of the Big Five Software office.

Minimum number of bags of health food store potato chips eaten each day by Jesse Renaud, co-developer:
One.

Estimated total number of bags of chips eaten by Jesse during development:
114.

Game played by the development team every Friday night on Magmic's giant boardroom projection screen:
Guitar Hero

Other games played by developers throughout Miner 2049er mobile build:
God of War 2, Beyond Good and Evil, Psychonauts, Final Fantasy 12, and - of course! - the original Miner 2049er.

Name of the villain in original Miner 2049er sales materials that does not appear in the original Miner 2049er:
Yukon Yohan

Best development blooper:
WAKE FROM THE DEAD - Bounty Bob tried to jump over an enemy but died in mid-air. His body landed on a slide and then slid down. However, the last tile to complete the level was located at the bottom of that slide. When Bob's body landed on this tile the level was completed. Even though Bob had died, he got up and did his victory animation.

If it were his choice, Wes Tam, lead developer of the new Miner 2049er, would have handled Bounty Bob's deaths:
"Not quite like Mortal Kombat - more Sam and Max with a touch of Itchy and Scratchy."

Methods of death left on the cutting room floor because it wasn't Wes's choice to make:
Exploding Bob into gibs
Dematerialization by transporter
Getting crushed to death in a grinder
Being pulled apart by suction tubes