I didn’t know how people would react to it, which I think is normal, but I worried.” He spent much of launch day in and out of sleep, checking streams to see if it was being played yet, waiting for the hour his publisher would launch it. “I built up resentments and worries on the way, that Iconclasts was weird, too specific to me. “It’s not healthy to make a game on your own,” Sandberg says. He spent the time testing and trying to promote it, contacting streamers and press, but he was feeling extremely anxious. The side effects might make the game worse.”įor Joakim ‘Konjak’ Sandberg, the final weeks of making the sprawling platformer adventure Iconoclasts, which he created entirely on his own for eight years, were quieter. “But even at that point, you know there’s stuff you want to change but it takes a lot of work and it’s not worth it. “It’s a super-intense period, but nice because we could tick off individual problems to tackle,” programmer Jens Andersson says.
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Yoku's Island Express, a pinball adventure.įor team Villa Gorilla, the multiplatform release of its wonderful pinball-platformer Yoku’s Island Express was handed by its publisher, Team 17, who governed a carefully plotted series of submission deadlines. Our only concern was to deliver on what we had set out to do.”
We didn’t have time to feel anything at that point.
“We were all really burned out by the time we were close to the finish line and it in many ways didn’t feel like it was going to be real. He and his four-strong team worked practically every waking hour to make the deadlines for its physical release. “The final push was probably some of the most emotionally draining and turbulent months of the entire nine-year development cycle,” Andersen says of the final few months working on Owlboy. I built up resentments and worries on the way, that Iconclasts was weird, too specific to me. It’s not healthy to make a game on your own. After you've put all of yourself into a game, what comes next? Life before launch This is true for almost all modern game developers, but it's especially dramatic for indies who have spent half a decade or more quietly working on their dream project. It’s the start of something else, and with that fresh start come many struggles that are born in the intensity of game development.
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