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 The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. Last year, InstantAction also launched the browser and Facebook-based music game Instant Jam, which also shuttered.InstantAction also aimed to NBA Live Coins deliver large-download games faster than current solutions through progressive downloads.IAC is the large internet-specific conglomerate that also owns sites including CitySearch and Match.com.The parent company reported a 27 percent year-on-year rise in Q4 revenues to $451.4 million.

 

Losses were $21.4 million, an improvement over losses of $1.03 billion for the same quarter a year ago.Fiscal year sales for IAC were up 22 percent to $1.6 billion, and profits were $49.8 million, up from Buy NBA Live Coins a $1.04 billion loss the year prior.As part of a series of "Road to the IGF" interviews with 2011 IGF finalists, Gamasutra speaks with Alex Neuse of Gaijin Games about the runaway success of IGF finalist BIT.TRIP.RUNNER.]Gaijin Games was founded in 2007 by industry veteran

 

Neuse, and has since gone on to develop the popular BIT.TRIP rhythm game series for WiiWare.BIT.TRIP.RUNNER is the fourth in the saga, and has been nominated for the Excellence In Visual Art award at this year's Independent Games Festival, thanks to its quirky retro stylings.In this "Road to the IGF" interview, Alex Neuse talks us through his positions prior to founding Gaijin Games, discusses elements that were removed from RUNNER before release, and why the indie

 

scene is out of control.What is your background in making games?I started in QA at LucasArts back in 1997 and have bounced all over the industry since then. From LucasArts, I moved to Activision, and then to nba18mt Santa Cruz Games before founding Gaijin Games with the hope of finding creative freedom.I've held jobs in QA, Production, Business, Management, and Design. By far my favorite is in Design, and it is the discipline that I call my home.How did you come up with the