We spoke to the brilliant people behind Mothmen 1966 and the Pixel Pulp series
It doesn't take long in a conversation with the people behind LCB Game Studio for them to start recommending books. The two-person team is based in Argentina where they make the Pixel Pulp games, ingenious and quietly literary visual novels with that splinter of shock and spooky sensationalism that would have made Walter Gibson very happy. Writer and game designer Nico Saraintaris tells me he is proud of Argentina's literary heritage.
Okay, enough analogies. So I got Mothmen a little bit wrong at first, even if I loved it. One thing I did understand even back at the start, though, was that a game like this must come from a place of deep memory. Is that right? "My grandfather was very fond of computers," says Saraintaris, picking up Ruppel's thread with the ease you get with people who have worked very closely, very intently together."I remember mostly things like the Spectrum, having cassettes and waiting for them to load. I remember all those games, and I remember that time before genres were ossified, and you have all these programmers creating stuff.
Arms crossed."So that's how we work, and because we're not editing too much we have to write more in order to correct and not erase - so that's where the layers of the game come in. So maybe we decide to write a scene and maybe it sounds great, so we write it and illustrate it, but after some chapters, it's not what we thought about initially, so we start correcting the background and context to make the scene better." He pauses again.
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