Listen to an interview with Ben Vu, the brains behind Battle Bears

For your listening pleasure, here’s SkyVu Entertainment founder Ben Vu’s radio spot from Saturday on the Mulberry Lane Radio Show on 1290 KKAR in Omaha. Vu (left), who heads up SkyVu, the Omaha-based mobile games studio that brought the world Battle Bears, covered lots of ground in the course of an interview that ran just…

For your listening pleasure, here’s SkyVu Entertainment founder Ben Vu‘s radio spot from Saturday on the Mulberry Lane Radio Show on 1290 KKAR in Omaha. Vu (left), who heads up SkyVu, the Omaha-based mobile games studio that brought the world Battle Bears, covered lots of ground in the course of an interview that ran just less than 12 minutes.

He provided updates on SkyVu’s team (now 14 strong), location (new digs in Aksarben Village) and downloads (over 14 million of Battle Bears games). He also touched on his company’s core values, the creative process and some gaming industry nuts and bolts, like the free to play movement.

Most interesting was Vu’s discussion of two topics: SkyVu’s Midwestern roots and the company’s future. Regarding the former, Vu offered this:

“I built a really small but very efficient team right here in Omaha with the talent that we have here.”

He continued: “We were lucky enough to find several very faithful and believing Nebraska angels that invested in SkyVu, and we were able to keep ethe company here. And then I was able to recruit, you know, some raw talent that I’ve developed into a really amazing team. And it’s based off of, you know, a lot of their effort and creativity that took the Battle Bears to the next level.”

Vu also made brief mention of what he hopes the future holds for SkyVu, referencing the origins of the Battle Bears series as a movie script:

“We’re still actually pitching the movie out in Hollywood. So it will get made one day; it might end up being a TV series though.”

One thing’s for certain: Vu’s Battle Bears talk made for interesting radio. You can listen to the interview in its entirety using the player below.

Audio from The Mulberry Lane Show by Mulberry Lane

Image credit: Photo from battlebears.com.

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