Monday Night Combat Today

Today sees the release of the fourth title in Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion. Monday Night Combat is a manic, class-based combat game with a sports TV feel to it and a healthy sense of humour. In celebration of the game’s release we’ve got (via the Xbox Community Network) some interesting/funny/bizarre facts from Uber Entertainment about the development.

• Uber Entertainment started in a two bedroom apartment two years ago with six developers, now their office is 16 people strong.
• Monday Night Combat was code named “Hostile” – for obvious reasons – internally for the first year of development
• Uber loves all things bacon including bacon doughnuts, bacon flavored mayonnaise, bacon flavored envelopes.  They celebrated finishing the game with bacon flavored vodka!
• The Mascot in Monday Night Combat was inspired by the Tron suit guy, Richard Simmons, and the King from Burger King.
• Some of the people working at Uber include an improv teaching barista, a wall running ninja, and a belly dancer that raises alpacas…
• During production there were two babies born and two marriages.. but not in that order.
• There are over 2000 animations in Monday Night Combat, mostly done by a single animator.
• Monday Night Combat has been played for over 16,768 hours by the Uber team during development
• During development over 5200 lattes were consumed. Number of toilet breaks is still unconfirmed.
• Some of the inspirations for the Monday Night Combat include Idiocracy, Running Man, Robocop, GI Joe, A-Team, Wall-E, and The Incredibles.

Update: I’ve added a video because I heard a couple of people saying they hadn’t seen this is motion yet. Looks good, doesn’t it?