I had never been to E3, but we went in 2019 to unveil the game. I had been going for several years, so to be able to talk was incredible. To be honest, that was a dream come true. It was really interesting because that was the first year I had a talk at GDC. Lots of publishers were interested, but Modus made an offer we thought was really good. Then, in 2018, we participated in Game Connection and won a lot of awards. Now a lot of people look at the idea and think it's great, but at the time it was an unproven idea, so folks were hesitant. In 2017 we tried to show the prototype to a lot of interested partners, and some people thought it was interesting, but they didn't sign to it. Since I had a lot of people working at Dreams, we had the muscle to develop a bigger game.Ī: And I haven't even told you about how we had a hard time at the beginning. So we bootstrapped the concept for Cris Tales and joined with Dreams Uncorporated, which became my new company.
We saw that the prototype had a lot of potential and some publishers were interested.
That way we could have innovation in the main mechanic, but also the advantages of working on something well-known. I also had a hard time understanding what I was doing, so I just tried to encapsulate everything into the RPG genre. I understood as a creator that it's great to be innovative, but sometimes I was way too innovative and the team had a hard time understanding what we were doing. I came up with a fantasy concept that encompasses it all, and we started playing with the idea of breaking things into a triangle so you can see past, present, and future.Įventually, I came up with the idea of making it into an RPG because it's a genre I love. There's mountains of references to Colombia within the game the salt mines are based on a mine here with a cathedral inside, Rainbow Lake is based on a real lake. Matias is based off the golden frog, one of the most poisonous frogs in the world. Yaddir came up with this idea of, "What would a Disney Princess look like if she was from Colombia?" That's how we created Crisbell, and her castle was imagined to be the Las Lajas Cathedral.Ī lot of stuff we did is like that. It was a really weird idea, and we were working on several concepts for Colombian culture. We started working around this idea I had about seeing past, present, and future on the same screen. I dedicated this game to him, and one character is based off his personality. Kamilo, the fourth member, is my brother. It's called SYCK because Sebastian, Yaddir, Carlos, and Kamilo. They were both very interested in forming a company with me, so we started an experiment called SYCK. I met with the talented Sebastian and Yaddir, who became art director and gameplay director. When we were finishing up that game, I was coming up with another idea I wanted to experiment with. As a designer I try to explore unique ways of interacting. So if you get on top of the word "fire" you get burned, and then to put it out you get on top of the word "rain." I'm used to making weird games, and I love weird mechanics. It's a pretty weird game, you literally walk on top of words. How did the project start and grow?Ī: I had a previous company called Below The Game and we were just finishing up a game called Haimrik. Q: There are two development teams attached to Cris Tales (Dreams Uncorporated and SYCK).
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