In this interview, Gamasutra talks to Kloonigames' Petri Purho about Crayon Physics, a 2D physics-based game where crayon-sketched objects can solve puzzles.
Purho is a computer science student who, although he's worked at Finnish indie studio Frozenbyte, mostly likes to think of game development as a hobby, albeit a time-consuming one. In the spirit of developing his hobby, he started the Kloonigames blog, with the aim of creating and publishing a new game prototype every month.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
Gamasutra: "What motivated you to make Crayon Physics and Crayon Physics Deluxe?"
Petri Purho: "Crayon Physics was a prototype I created in May as a part of my monthly prototypes. It's hard to say what motivated me to do it. Probably the fear of public humiliation for not coming up with a game on time.
Crayon Physics Deluxe, which is the proper game based on the prototype, was mostly motivated by the popularity of the prototype. And also by the fear of public humiliation."
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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I really am interested in how it turns out.Very Creative and fresh [I know about Drawn to Life, it's actually on the IGF Mobile Game Section but this one I prefer]