Chicken Scratch sit down to discuss creating fresh multiplayer experiences
pcgamesinsider.bizThe Big Indie Pitch is a regular event run by the makers of Pocket Gamer and PC Games Insider. It sees indie developers engage in a speed-dating-styled pitching competition for fame and those sweet, sweet promotional packages.
The event gives indies five minutes to pitch their games to a panel of press, publishers and industry pundits. The judges then pick three winners and everybody gets valuable feedback.
The indie view
The Big Indie Pitch is getting bigger and bigger as we bring it to events all across the world. To give you an idea of what the event is like, who attends the events and the games on show, we've sat down with several past Big Indie Pitch contestants to offer their views.
Today, we're speaking to Keely Brown from Chicken Scratch, who submitted Chicken Scratch to The Very Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto 2023 and walked away as the runner-up.
Sophia Aubrey Drake: Tell us a little about yourself and your indie studio - who is on the team, and what are their inspirations?
Keely Brown: We're a ragtag team of developers who came together to create something fun and unique.
Mat Belanger is the artist and it was his decision that the players take the role of birds working in an office. Pretty early on it was decided that each player would be given a colour, birds provided us with a veritable rainbow of characters. Birds also have a lot of personality that makes them fun to draw. He feels they must look at us with a sort of strange resentment. They were once dinosaurs, uncontested rulers of the earth. Our place as the dominant species is a blip in time compared to the millions of years they reigned Supreme. Birds are beautiful but in their eyes, he sees a deep hatred. Putting them
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