We already know that Uber Entertainment's class-based, third-person shooter Monday Night Combat is available right now on Xbox LIVE Arcade, and that it looks like a ton of fun, but here's a few finer details you may not have known about the developer and their latest creation, courtesy of XCN:
- Uber Entertainment started in a two bedroom apartment two years ago with six developers, now their office is 16 people strong.
- Monday Night Combat was code named "Hostile" - for obvious reasons - internally for the first year of development.
- Uber loves all things bacon including bacon doughnuts, bacon flavored mayonnaise, bacon flavored envelopes. They celebrated finishing the game with bacon flavored vodka!
- The Mascot in Monday Night Combat was inspired by the Tron suit guy, Richard Simmons, and the King from Burger King.
- Some of the people working at Uber include an improv teaching barista, a wall running ninja, and a belly dancer that raises alpacas...
- During production there were two babies born and two marriages.. but not in that order.
- There are over 2000 animations in Monday Night Combat, mostly done by a single animator.
- Monday Night Combat has been played for over 16,768 hours by the Uber team during development.
- During development over 5200 lattes were consumed. Number of toilet breaks is still unconfirmed.
- Some of the inspirations for the Monday Night Combat include Idiocracy, Running Man, Robocop, GI Joe, A-Team, Wall-E, and The Incredibles.
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