With this rise of indie games, comes possibilities for smaller teams from around the world to shine.” Those rely mostly on fresh ideas and a tighter grasp of the game design nuances. “While the big budget games are an awesome thing, there has emerged a market for smaller and more experimental games. “People are looking for entertainment,” said Iwanicki. With big-budget games reaching million dollar budgets, they are becoming more conservative in their approach. SuperHot’s Iwanicki sites the game industry is changing as a whole. He compared their style to other timeless art forms such as Russia’s fairytales with dragons and the Czech Republic’s classic puppetry. Our focus is a simplified concept, like a ‘Choose your own adventure’ game, with impactful 2D animation.” “When I look at intricate 3D design in games, or for that matter in film, I think that will look out of date in a few years. “We want our design to be everlasting,” said the game’s developer Peter Stehlik. His idea turned into the successful game Botanicula, that has garnered awards for Excellence in Audio at Independent Games Festival 2012, Story/World Design Award at IndieCade 2012 and Best European Adventure Game at European Games Awards 2012. I am most interested in visual style, and I wanted to find a way to formulate basic movements into a video game structure.” “Music, video, gaming, movement – everything is interconnected for us at Amanita. Holding a degree in fine arts, he has made several animated shorts and music videos, one of which was in the music video competition at Fest Anca. Jaromir Plachy, an animator at Czech Republic’s Amanita Design, looks at things differently. He is referring to their video game adaptation of Conan the Barbarian, that required in depth licensing approval for adjustments made to design and functionality. For us, there doesn’t seem to be a need to integrate with film, particularly when liaising with studios can be a slow and painful process.” Any clever programmer can make his own game.
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The owner of the company, Marian Ferko, continued, “Since developers these days just need inexpensive software and tools, there is no shortage of ideas. Slovakia’s first game development company Cauldron, set up in 1994, also conceded that narrative in films don’t always work for video games. Since that is already working for our players, we want to build on that.” “When it comes to smaller games - we explore the game aspect first, and try things that are not possible in other mediums. “‘Movie-like games’ require huge resources to do well, and that’s what’s done best by big studios,” said Poland’s Peter Iwanicki, developer of Polish video game SuperHot.
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