STP: If you’ve played the mind-bending iPad game Wonderputt, then you know developer Damp Gnat has a unique way of looking at the world. Their next game is called iCycle. It’s a side-scrolling platformer with about as much in common with other platformers as Wonderputt has with a real putt putt course. In other words, not much.
Icycle is kind of a racing puzzle game, where you're riding a bicycle through an icy landscape and you have to find out (sometimes through patience, sometimes through trial and error) how to get from the left side to the right side. It was certainly a hard sale for me, I didn't think it would be a very good game when I picked it up.
I was happily incorrect.
Grab It Magazine has published a snippet from its interview with developer Damp Gnat on its indie iOS classic Icycle that answers this burning question.
Damp Gnat's Reece Millidge talks about the difficulties of wearing multiple development hats during indie creative projects. And about burning down your shed.
"You’re ambitious. You want to make something amazing and like nothing else out there. But your skill set is only as big as your modest crew size; perhaps only you. What if the things you make depend on the diversity of hats you wear?"
