The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Pixeljam co-founder Miles Tilmann discusses the philosophy behind Potatoman Seeks the Troof, which we learned about through this intense trailer. What’s your game called and what’s it about?
The game is called Potatoman Seeks the Troof. It’s about an anthropomorphized potato that decides to leave the comfort of his family farm in search of enlightenment. Although, for some reason, almost everything he meets along his journey is trying to kill or mislead him.
What inspired you to make Potatoman?
The Potatoman character himself. Rich (Pixeljam’s lead artist) had created him as just an animated gif years ago, and it was hard to look at him and not want to give him his own game.
Also, in October we had just finished a very long series of games for other companies (Adult Swim, etc.), and were itching to release something of our own. We were working on multiple things at once – Glorkian Warrior, Gamma Bros iOS, Dino Run iOS – but none were anywhere close to completion, and at the time it seemed that we would run out of funds before any of the games could reach a state acceptable to us for release. So we tried something we had always talked about: pour our time and hearts into a very short game and get it done in about two weeks. Several months later, the game was done.Continue reading The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Potatoman Seeks the TroofThe Joystiq Indie Pitch: Potatoman Seeks the Troof originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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