Gametraders Live September Magazine

First off, tell me a little bit about
yourselves. Who makes up
Bromio and what do you all do?
Antonio: Hi! We are 9 people
working at Bromio - Samir as
Product Manager, Luis as Lead
Programmer, Heri as Game
Designer/Technical Artist,
Colette as Animator/Illustrator,
Emma as 3D Modeler, Joaquin
as Progammer/QA, Abraham as
Illustrator/Community Manager,
David as Programmer and myself
(Antonio) as Game Director/
Programmer. In the development
of Pato Box we also worked with
Cesar from 2think Design Studio
and Controvol.
Can you tell me about the history
of your studio? How did you first
get started in videogames?
Antonio: We started development
of games in 2013, we were focused
on mobile games as a learning
point since getting our game
released on the AppStore and the
Google Play Store was easier at that
time than Steam. After developing
a couple of mobile games we
wanted to make a bigger game and
that’s when we started developing
Pato Box.
What made you decide on
Kickstarter as a means to fund
Pato Box? Did you find it
difficult to pitch the game to
traditional publishers?
César: We wanted to maintain
all the freedom we could in
the development. While we
had some money saved for
the project we knew that the
development time could be
reduced by the help of backers
turning it into a crowd funding
project and also use it as a tool
to let more people know about
our dream and help us make it
happen.
What made you decide on
Vita as a target platform
for the game?
Antonio: We were able to
get in touch with Sony some
time ago and we got access
to dev kits pretty early on.
Unfortunately we weren’t
able to develop a game for
it until Pato Box and we saw
that the gameplay would be
perfect to have on the go
and that’s why we decided
to support the Vita.