And finally, to tie it all together with a bold, minimalist art style thatĬonveyed a lighthearted charm and a little hidden depth… The environment and characters felt like just a small part of a much larger world, with it’s

Stylised approach – to try and capture the feeling of being high up in the mountains, where I thought about it, the more I wondered how the game could look if we took a more sensitive,

Pardon the pun) and I began to wonder if I was really the right guy for the job. I know almost nothing about snowboarding, and I’m typically notĪ fan of extreme sports games, so at first glance it all left me feeling rather cold (if you’ll It was an incredibly enticing proposition, but I have toĪdmit that initially I was unsure. Keen to give me creative freedom to design the entire look and feel, including characters, Ryan first reached out to me back in January 2013 with the seed of an idea: toĬreate an endless 2D snowboarding game that involved landing backflips and jumpingĪpart from a few rough sketches, the game was pretty much a blank canvas, and Ryan was You canĬheck out the launch trailer and some screenshots below: The game featuresįluid physics based gameplay and a fully dynamic time-of-day lighting and weather system. Your runaway llamas while boarding down a variety of fun and challenging terrain. You play as a young shepherd, tasked with rescuing Go into, so for now I’ll start with a quick introduction.Īlto’s Adventure is an endless snowboarding odyssey set against aīeautiful and ever-changing alpine landscape. It’s hard to know exactly the kind of things that would be of interest, or how much detail to Together a series of posts detailing our experiences and some of the challenges we faced. In addition to that, I’ve been thinking about putting Thank you to everyone who’s downloaded and played the game. How I feel about everything that’s happened so far, but I’ll start by saying a huge It’s been a wild ride, and I’m not sure I can adequately put into words Poured my absolute heart and soul into over the last two years – was finally released to the A few weeks ago, I reached the end of a long and exciting journey.

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