Making VR games is tough when you’re living in Brazil — just ask this former pie seller

Ana Ribeiro gave up everything to learn game design. She quit her steady government job, abandoned her flourishing empada business, sold her possessions, and left Brazil behind to study in the U.K.. So it’s perhaps no real surprise that the former pie maker didn’t let an expired U.K. visa stop her from building her innovative virtual reality game, Pixel Ripped 1989.

[ColManischewitz]

She's also a Samus cosplayer.

[StormSailor]

I know her, she lived in my town and was player of Counter Strike. She was known as "Diabla" xD

[christian hour]

“Some of them asked, ‘What if the game was an MMO [massively multiplayer online game]?’ or ‘What if people could pay monthly?'” said Ribeiro.

This is why thigns like Kickstarter came about in the first place, investors are horrible people who don't care about the quality of a product, jsut how much money they can get out of it. Fair play to Ana Ribeiro for having a back bone and telling em to hump off.

I wish her and her co developer all the best in getting their brainchild off the ground running, i'm always amazed at the lengths indie developers go to just to get their vision made. It shows true love and passion and it's one of the reasons I get so pissed when people dismiss indie developers.

People who do that are just plain ignorant and clearly do not understand art or passion or commitment, they only understand commercialism and commodities and their a bane to society. Rocket to the sun for them!

[midnightambler]

I played this game last year at EGX and it pretty much blew my mind. Hopefully it will get some attention when VR hits the mainstream at the end of the year.

Sadly, the Kickstarter looks like it needs a lot more help.

[SmokingMonkey]

"Kero Maiz" is a nice play on words, translates to; "I want more"

I love Pastels in Brasil so good!

[dr_shtoop87]

Pastéis is the plural for Pastel

[dr_shtoop87]

These guys are either very gullible, or have done no background fact checking whatsoever on this story.

Trying to spin this thing as a humble beginnings entrepreneur woman with a passion for games, what a joke. Only complete outsiders to Brazil would buy that load of crap, specially that whole “no internet in the beach where I live” shtick.

She most certainly comes from a wealthy northern family, one of the few up there, and as such should be ashamed of herself by opening a kickstarter for seed money

[ShaunCameron]

Her having had a steady government job gave it away for me. Why do for self when the state will provide for you (on the backs of private sector employers, the people that work for them and those that can do for self)?

[dr_shtoop87]

I couldn't have put it better thsn this

[TeamLeaptrade]

I figured investors would try to change the actual game. Glad she stuck with her original idea and didn't change for them. Great article. Glad to hear she got things rolling.