In an increasingly technologically enabled word the control of certain industries is being challenged by the formerly passive consumers. Independent films have existed for years but now thanks to better quality digital cameras and video editing software included for free on some computers anyone with a vision can bring it to life. Musicians have been at this for quite some time, though the advent of the internet and sites like Myspace and Youtube made it incredibly easy to spread your music to waiting ears.

Now the gaming industry is seeing lots of small studios making games for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Store. WXP Games has been working on an FPS titled Exod Intervention for ten years, with full production having started two years ago by a team of nine people. As with most FPS games it has a decidedly sci-fi bent, though it’s a bit more interesting than the standard alien invasion idea. Facing their imminent demise, humanity sends out an ark designed to find a habitable planet and resurrect humanity. The name of this last hope? Project Exod.

After a century of drifting through space the ark has found a suitable planet called Dagoth. You play the Planetary Custodian, a bioengineered creature designed to prepare the new human homeworld. To assist in this end you’ve been equipped by the ‘BioCode’ with a bug-like weapon that can evolve over time. Of course there’s something else on this planet, a lifeform that wants to destroy all other life. The game is set to release this fall.