Flying Squirrel Entertainment developed the multiplayer third-person shooter Over The Top: WWI with just four people. The game features battles for up to 200 players in a fully destructible WWI environment. The game's success proves the team right, as our interview with Maxim Munnig Schmidt shows.
Over The Top: WWI from Flying Squirrel Entertainment, based at the Swiss Games Hub in Zurich, was a huge success, peaking at over 7,000 concurrent players on Steam. In this interview, we speak to Maxim Munnig Schmidt, owner and game programmer at Flying Squirrel Entertainment, about the highly competitive shooter market, focusing particularly on third-person shooters. He discusses the success of their game, explaining how he and his team of just four people managed to develop a 200-player WWI sandbox game heavily influenced by the original Star Wars Battlefront titles.
Maxim Munnig Schmidt also talks about the importance of historical authenticity, given that he and his colleagues are progressive/hardcore re-enactors who participate in living history events across Europe. Finally, he explains why it is important to include a single-player component, even in multiplayer games.
Maxim Munnig Schmidt (Owner and Game Programmer) at the launch event for Over The Top: WWI at the Swiss Game Hub © Flying Squirrel EntertainmentT
GamesMarkt: How would you explain the huge success of Over The Top: WWI? Did you expect it to be so successful?
