Sam Eng

@bysameng.com

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solo game developer SKATE STORY @skatestory.com published by @devolverdigital.com

screenshot of spotify of the Vanilla Club Podcast, episode 26. Sam Eng: On Indie Games and Skating Through Hell. Episode Description: What does it take to build a work of art by yourself, on a macbook, in a Brooklyn rare oatmilks only coffee shop, with zero team, no water cooler, no corporate handbook, and no guarantee whatsoever it'll work? That's the question at the heart of this conversation with Sam Eng, the rad indie game developer behind Skate Story - one of the most visually and emotionally striking games to come out in recent years. With an 85 on Metacritic and a perfect ten on Steam, Skate Story puts you in the shoes of a glass demon skating down into the underworld. It's part Dante's Inferno, part vapourwave fever dream, part meditation on fear and fragility. And I love it.
the pigeon asking "what should i do today?" in an orange field of grass under a night sky of crimson stars. a glowing floating letter "K" stirs in the foreground. the pigeon is looking at it, wings stretched wide, claws in the grey orange grass, in fear and hope spinning around a single letter
sam working on his laptop behind the booth next to his game