While working with a sound designer on Wandersong, I started to notice all the things that GameMaker’s audio editor lacks. Was there something GameMaker was not able to provide?
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I still like GameMaker today, as a full time developer, just because it has all the tools I need to make the games.Ĭhicory: A Colorful Tale, available on Steam and PlayStation Store
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I never thought of myself as having a technical brain and the idea of making a game was so daunting! However, GameMaker looked like something I could learn, so I got into it, and with time even learned how to program. When I was starting out, the biggest help was the fact that it didn’t require programming. I’m impressed with how well GameMaker scales when you start out - from knowing nothing to getting familiar with it. What did GameMaker help you with the most at the beginning of your career? It’s very natural for me to sit down and start using it. Now that I've been using it for more than 15 years my brain has become “GameMaker-shaped”. Though I now know enough to try other gaming engines, I really like the way GameMaker is designed. Were you thinking of switching to another engine? I Googled “game making” and that’s how I found GameMaker. Back then I was drawing Someplace Else, a webcomic, and was interested in making a game based on it. I first got GameMaker in 2005, when I was 13. Wandersong, available on Steam, PlayStation Store and Nintendo Store It was a huge jump in visibility for my work and myself. Wandersong changed my position in the industry - before it I was a nobody, making games for maybe hundred or so people. Do you consider it your first big success? Many people know you first and foremost as the developer behind Wandersong. The title might be horrible, but the game itself was great One of my very first commercial projects was Pollushot, a mobile game designed with the iPhone version of GameMaker back in 2011. I was making a lot of commercial games, but they were always very, very small or had a mixed reception. I always worked in small teams or just by myself, so I didn’t need to sell a million copies just to make rent. Was it difficult to make a living as an indie game developer? It was a fifteen-year old’s first platforming adventure game, so it was pretty dorky - you know, a platformer guy with a sword type of a game. In 2008 I finished my first game, Assassin Blue. I had big ambitions to make RPGs and stuff that I would try and fail to make. I spent many years as a hobbyist before becoming a professional. It was always a thing I was doing for fun any time I had a spare moment. I really love making and learning how to make games. How did your career in game development start? Let’s pause and go back to the very beginning. A very sweet, smart and sneaky dog - she loves to steal stuff! The player character of Chicory is depicted as a dog. I’m not sure if Chicory fits with all the other projects featured in the Game Awards, but it feels nice to be recognized by the cool kids of the industry! It is, and it feels strange to be a part of it because I don’t see my games that way. We’ve been to the Indie Games Festival and all those other amazing gaming events, but Game Awards is on another level. The Game Awards are a different type of thing than what we are used to. No, we did not expect to win anything! We were up against Mario! I was honored to get the nomination but I figured they wouldn't hand the Family award to a dinky personal game like ours.Īre you used to getting to this sort of recognition? since we really didn't know what to expect as it all comes down to the juries who deliberate on these things.ĭid you expect to win in the BAFTA's Family category? Before that we submitted our game and crossed our fingers. Yes, we found out about our nomination when they announced it publicly to everybody - we were very honored and our parents were very proud. Were you notified about the BAFTA nomination in the same way? It doesn’t always mean you’ll be nominated, but I think we were being prepared for the nomination. It wasn’t the biggest surprise, because our team was told by the Game Awards people to save the date. ĭid you find out about the nomination Chicory: A Colorful Tale received from the Game Awards at the same time as the rest of us? We had a delightful chat with Greg about the two awards, history with GameMaker, plans for the future and his opinion on Hawaiian pizza.
His most recent game Chicory: A Colorful Tale, received a Game Awards nomination for the Game for Impact 2021, and won a Family Game BAFTA award in 2022. Greg Lobanov is a well-known figure in the GameMaker community.
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