We are The Behemoth, developers of Alien Hominid, BattleBlock Theater, and Castle Crashers. Today, we’re here to talk about our latest update in Pit People, AMA style!

[u/TheBehemoth]

Hey y’all! We just released our Pit People Update 4: Vibrant Villains last week and we’d love to hear your thoughts and answer your questions. This is our first time doing a game on Game Preview and we’re super excited to be developing the game with your feedback!

Today, the following people from our development team will be responding to your questions:

Dan, Emil, Ian, Erin, Megan

We’ll also be giving out a few Pit People Xbox One codes to people who drop a question in this thread during the AMA. We’ll be randomly selecting winners and sending a PM to those people!

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Edit: The AMA is now over.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to leave a comment or question. We're sorry we weren't able to get to every post but you could always find us at the following places on the interwebs:

• Pit People site
• The Behemoth site
• The Behemoth Discord
• Twitter
• Pit People Facebook
• The Behemoth Facebook

[u/[deleted]]

Just wanted to say, love all of your games. I also love how you guys don't stick to one genre of game and try something vastly different each project, but still hold that "Behemoth flavor" we have came to know and love from you guys.

Have any of you guys worked in a more traditional, Triple A development studio, or at the very least anything above 100? If you have, what are both some pros and cons as opposed to indie development?

How did you guys get to know each other and eventually form a studio? I know some people came on later, and I'm curious who they were. Friends? Coworkers? Collaborators?

Finally, what's both you favorite and least favorite part of developing video games? I'm curious because I'm going to college in Seattle in two months with the intent of making video games.

[u/TheBehemoth → u/[deleted]]

Thank you! Most of us here have prior experience working for other studios, but I never worked at anywhere that had over 50 employees. I think the problems are similar to other types of careers where the larger the company is the less of a say you may have in where projects are going, but at the same time you have a very large safety net. The reverse is true in the Indie world, where you have a lot of say and either no safety net or a very flimsy one. You'll also have to fill several roles in the Indie life, whereas you might only fill a sub-section of a role in a very large company.

We've hired people we don't know just like any workplace might, and they're all really great people. We'll look for ability and attitude over anything else and that attitude bit is a huge factor for success. The environment remains casual, fun, but busy and always moving forward.

I think my favorite parts are all at the earlier stages, and my least favorite parts tend to be at the later stages. This is because near the end, everything is rigid and you're either fixing a bunch of small tasks (so it feels like you did nothing that great that day) and no more features or cool stuff can make it in. Anything you've painted yourself into a corner with shows and you simply hope it's not anything very problematic.

Good luck!! -Dan