My New Project! Patreon Early Access

The next project from Nara Makes Games will be the official Game Boy experience for the film "Hippo". Hippo was produced by Rough House Pictures (Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill) and directed by Mark H. Rapaport, who is somebody I had the pleasure of working with in the past in my professional graphic design work. (Before I dove head-first into retro gaming and game development, I was a professional graphic designer and web programmer with a lot of my work in the film industry.) So it was totally serendipitous that I spent the past few years developing a Game Boy title and his film features a character who is obsessed with retro video games. It is a match made in heaven.

This will be the first time my game development and graphic design careers officially converge on a professional level. And it couldn't have come at a better time. This project will take priority over my personal projects (Sen'i), since it actually pays my bills. And honestly... I feel really excited and inspired to work on it, where my own projects still have some hesitation. It will be nice to turn my attention to something very different than what I've been so focused on for the past few years.

I watched Hippo before taking the project on, and boy oh boy... this is an amazing film. Imagine Napoleon Dynamite meets The Lighthouse. With great acting, great cinematography, and an absolutely wild story. So we are hoping to create a video game experience equally wild and different. Our goal is to launch the game at the end of the year, which is obviously a pretty short deadline. But we've already got a plan and it is all sounding super fun. I can't freakin' wait for you guys to see the film and for you to see what I do with the game.

More Info on Hippo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-051Y3nTUU
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15468190/
https://www.instagram.com/hippothemovie/