Angry-Gamer.net have added a new (and funny!) interview with Drew Card, Creative Director for Void Star Creations.

Where did the initial idea come from? Obviously Panel De Pon would be part of the formula, but there's a lot more to Poker Smash than that.

I was initially introduced to Tetris Attack when I started working at Oddworld. We used to have these epic head to head Tetris Attack battles in the office. About the same time we all started playing weekly poker games, so pretty much all we talked about was Tetris Attack and poker. One day it just hit me that we should combine the two. The deeper parts of the game really came from iterating as we developed. We just kept playing over and over and tweaking settings until we found balanced settings that worked.