What with the first ever three-way Indie Kombat coming up soon (Chevy Ray vs Sophie H vs Arthur Lee, if you hadn’t heard), I figured it’d be fun to get in touch with the three participants and see if they’d be interested in some pre-game smack-talking.

The first reply I got was from Sophie Houlden, and it lived up to all my hopes and dreams. Here it is, in full:


Hey Nick,

Well, I can appreciate you think the bytejacker readers will be interested (on account of how I’m taking part) but I don’t want anyone getting too excited, thinking there will three really great games coming out of this because, let’s face it, Arthur Lee And Chevy Ray are quite incapable of making games that are even remotely entertaining.

I mean, if it was a competition in ripping off cave story, or ripping off flixel then maybe, just maybe, these guys could do something remotely on a par as the awesomeness my entry will be.

but don’t fear, I shall make sure it stays entertaining, and by entertaining I mean making a game so awesome the other guys will be painfully embarrased to even call themselves game makers, it will make the parents of Arthur and Chevy want to go after them with chainsaws so they can give the ‘having children who don’t suck’ thing a fresh start.

suffice to say whether or not those babies can, I most certainly will, bring it.

(if they have a problem with that, they will have to tell it to the cleaning lady on monday)

love,
Sophie Houlden

Damn. She brought it. Your moves, Arthur and Chev.