We’re Amanita Design, an indie studio from Czech Republic, and you will have heard about our video games comparable to Machinarium, Botanicula, Samorost and now additionally CHUCHEL. So far we have been specializing in level’n’click on journey video games emphasizing imaginative worlds, authentic artwork model as effectively sound design. I’m Lukas and my job right here at Amanita is all about speaking with folks:)

You simply launched CHUCHEL, what has that been like?

Pretty good! CHUCHEL is by far our craziest, silliest sport to this point, so we have been very inquisitive about how our followers and group would settle for this. Because, let’s be trustworthy, the distinction between CHUCHEL and for instance Samorost, is kind of huge. But solely at first sight. Once you play it, you may notice that these two even have many issues in frequent – sturdy artwork route, emphasis on animation, sounds and music or exploration. So though it is wacky, foolish and perhaps a bit deranged, it’s nonetheless an Amanita sport and the reception has been beautiful. Also it appears to be the most well-liked Amanita creation amongst streamers. Can’t clarify why although:)

CHUCHEL is a sport with a really explicit humorousness. What drew you to make a comedy sport? Would you describe CHUCHEL as a comedy sport?

Yeah, we like to explain CHUCHEL as a comedy sport. The fundamental cause for doing that is that we (or Jaromir Plachy, the inventive mastermind behind CHUCHEL) felt like there’s simply too little video games centered merely on humor. Jaromir is a really entertaining particular person, all the time able to make you snicker with a ridiculous joke or his actions… similar to Chuchel. So it’s pure to see him give you this sort of sport. Fun reality: the persona of Chuchel was impressed by Jaromir himself and his variety canine Anca.

All of the Amanita video games have actually distinct artwork types, CHUCHEL appears to be like approach completely different than your earlier outings. How did you develop this artwork model?

CHUCHEL is a creation of Jaromir’s thoughts, similar to Botanicula, and it completely represents his distinctive model. He’s been doing this sort of stuff for years in his animated motion pictures and comedian books. When he began engaged on CHUCHEL, it appeared a bit like a Botanicula sequel with its vibrant and dense backgrounds, however later we determined to go together with a extra minimalistic design. There are 2 fundamental causes for that – 1) we wished Chuchel, his actions and the humor to be the star of this sport, not the backgrounds, 2) since we have constructed up a large viewers on cellular, we wished this sport to be completely playable on all display screen sizes. The plan is to deliver CHUCHEL to cellular gadgets earlier than this summer time.

Speaking of your previous video games, how have you ever grown as builders? You concentrate on journey video games, how has your design sensibilities modified over your careers?

Our strategy to sport design is continually altering and evolving. I suppose you possibly can say that proper now we’re extra considering playfulness and interplay with surroundings quite than robust challenges. But after all completely different guidelines apply for every sport, so you’ll in all probability see some harder Amanita video games sooner or later. What hasn’t modified a single bit is our philosophy – we preserve making the video games primarily for ourselves and we will solely hope that there are all the time sufficient folks with the same style, keen to leap into our worlds.

This interview has been edited for size and readability.