Tag Archives: When We Made

We take a look behind the scenes of Asteroid Base’s co-op shooter. Discussing its debt to both Star Wars and Star Trek, its modest launch, why it wanted to be a tough roguelike, but how it eventually found success as a family favourite

We take a look behind the scenes of Popcannibal’s BAFTA-winner, its surprisingly political beginnings and why it’s the perfect game for the current crisis with over 1.6 million messages sent to date

"Extremely skilled people intentionally breaking their work to make it better is an absurd design dynamic."

We take a look behind the scenes of Metro 2033 as it celebrates its tenth birthday, and sees how it laid the groundwork for the highly successful franchise

We take a look behind the scenes of Outer Wilds, the BAFTA-winning title from Mobius Digital, that began life as a Masters’ thesis project

We take a look behind the scenes of Light Brick Studios’ debut title

“Finding high quality pixel artists and getting them to stick with your project is extremely difficult”

We take a look behind the scenes of Night School’s narrative adventure Oxenfree

We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Ape Out. Gabe Cuzzillo talks about how he developed the game in Unity despite not knowing how to code and how the procedurally generated soundtrack came about

We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Baba is You. Developer Arvi ‘Hempuli’ Teikari talks about how he built layers upon layers of complexities – and thought it better to leave it unexplained to the player