IndieSider #51: Pankapu — developer interview
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Pankapu is a family-friendly episodic platformer. The land of Omnia is being invaded by Nightmares, so Iketomi, the god of dreams, creates Pankapu, an avatar charged with bringing hope back to the realm. Only by discovering the three Aegis will Pankapu master the abilities needed to access all of the land and save his friends.
In this podcast interview, studio co-founder Jimmy Kalhart discusses how Pankapu changed as a result of these crowdsourcing opportunities; how his team's background in MMORPG development lent itself to creating a 2D platformer; why the game is wrapped in the context of a story a father tells his child, and whether modern games need narrative; and whether Pankapu will be a launch title for the Nintendo NX console in 2017.
Get Pankapu at http://pankapu.com/
Links mentioned in this episode can be found at http://indiesider.net/51
The audio edition of this interview is available in iTunes: http://www.indiesider.com/itunes
IndieSider combines Let's Plays with developer interviews for an inside look at the latest indie games. New episodes air every other Wednesday and can be found at http://www.indiesider.com/youtube
Intro music is "The Ken Song" by jdproject: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01266
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