One Trick Entertainment sit down to discuss indie development and finding a fresh approach to horror

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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 several past Big Indie Pitch contestants to offer their views.

Today, we're speaking to Esko Maijala from One Trick Entertainment, who submitted Lempo to The Very Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2022 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?

Esko Maijala: "One Trick Entertainment makes carefully crafted premium video games for PC and consoles, based on Finnish mythology. In the future, One Trick aims to be a remarkable employer in Finland."

I was born in 1991 in Finland. Since my early childhood, I got dragged into the world of video games via NES and tabletop games, like DnD and Warhammer - mostly because of my elder siblings. It was love at first sight although it took me 30 years to realize I could do something I love for a living.

My good friend from my teenage years, Valtteri (our CEO) contacted me one day in 2020 and quite randomly asked if I would be interested in joining him in creating a video game. He has a strong professional background in software