The game's lead programmer Sal Fileccia isn't shying away from comparing the game to Nintendo's own recent smash hit.

But my lead programmer was really into them, and he had a bunch of friends at MIT who were studying them in a big way.

We spoke with lead programmer Salvatore "Sal" Fileccia about the game, which has been in development at Rare in secret for the past two years.

As Lead Programmer, NBA Jam developer Mark Turmell's fingerprints were all over this game and it shows.

Besides helping to organize Share, Matters is one of the lead programmers for GDAM, which stands for Geoff and Dave's Audio Mixer.