NewGen discuss learning from the past and creating a new kind of social deduction experience
The 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 a number of past Big Indie Pitch contestants to offer their views.
Today, we're speaking to Seif Ben from NewGen, who submitted West Hunt to The Digital Big Indie Pitch (PC+Console Edition) #13, and walked away as the joint second place 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?
Seif Ben: My name is Seif and my background is as a software engineer, I started learning game development in 2010, and have experience making a variety of different kinds of games including browser, mobile, console, and of course PC games.
I founded NewGen Studio in 2016, and since then with my team, we have experienced different challenges working on different games including both those for clients and our own games. Through this variety of projects, we reached a level where we felt nothing is impossible, especially after making Clash: Mutants Vs Pirates (a PC MOBA game) which was a huge challenge for us.
Our inspirations are wide and different, we don’t have any specific taste for specific game genres, and find all games
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