 The company's Tim Stellmach later said that this setup was "a real pain for [the team] in some ways".Looking Glass signed a multi-game publishing deal with Electronic Arts in May 1998, and that company became the publisher of "Flight Combat".The team "undersold" the game to Electronic Arts, and James Sterrett of the fansite Through the Looking Glass believed that the team "gambled that it could get the game out the door faster than the budget actually called for".