Within a matter of weeks we had a contract together and it was signed. It really was that simple – greenlit there and then. I’m not even a football fan but as soon as Jops showed me the mock-ups we both burst out laughing and it was instantly a ‘this game has to be made’ moment.
He’d taken the little Mega lo Mania character sprites and drawn football kits on them. TB I was in the Sensible offices one morning and Jops was doodling away on DPaint. Mirrorsoft’s producer, Tony Beckwith, has come to see Jon Hare, who’s busy playing around with little digital men, dressing them up in sporty costumes … After 18 months of hard graft, Sensible Software’s epoch-spanning real-time strategy title Mega lo Mania is almost in the bag and ready to be handed over to a publisher with the potential to turn it into the company’s first real financial success.
