Popgeeks Interview: The Knights Behind Dungeons & DoomKnights
The new Switch / Steam game Dungeons & DoomKnights doesn’t just look retro, it’s 100% authentically the real deal. The game was developed in Assembly language on the original NES by Adam Bohn, better known as “Artix,” and Dale Coop (who’s been behind Kubo and other major NES homebrew releases). We caught both of them for an interview about the making of this game and what inspired it. My first question is for Artix….Dungeons and Doomknights is far from your first game; you’re mainly known for an MMO called AdventureQuest. Take us back to the beginning. ARTIX: All my life I have been obsessed with video games– my dream was to make one. In 2002, with the goal of getting just 100 people to play it, I created a web game which would be called AdventureQuest. The silly and bizarre game attracted a lot of attention and went viral. Over 200 million accounts were created by players across the world. The original AdventureQuest has been updated every single week with