WHO IS THE TEAM BEHIND OCEAN MASTER?
Nikola : The team behind Ocean Master is called FunAttic.
Besides me, there are 2 former students of SEDC as well as a 2D artist.
Bojan complemented Nikola and told us that the FunAttic team are passionate game lovers who decided to make their own game for mobile devices.
Nikola is a Unity Developer, Bojan and Nebojsha are Game Design/Level Designers, and Alec is a Games Artist.
HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE IDEA TO MAKE THE OCEAN MASTER GAME?
Bojan : Our initial idea was to make an interesting mobile game that will be played with one hand and where players will feel comfortable playing it in any location, whether they are traveling, sitting in their homes or out for a walk.
When we found the right gameplay for the game, we decided to set it in an ocean underwater world that we were all missing at the time due to the pandemic and the whole setting fit perfectly.
NAME OF YOUR NEXT GAME :
Nikola and Bojan : We are still researching the trends and haven’t decided which direction we will take our game, and usually the name of the game only comes at the end when the whole idea is finalized.
FAVORITE PART OF CREATING A GAME :
Nikola : For me personally, Game Mechanics development.
Bojan : The whole process is mainly interesting and many things depend on each other, but I can single out the GDD document as a concept by which we are all guided to finalize a game.
NIKOLA,YOU ARE A TEAM OF MENTORS AT THE GAME DESIGN ACADEMY, WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON YOU’VE LEARNED FROM YOUR STUDENTS?
A disciplined average person always succeeds more than a talented procrastinator!
NIKOLA, WHAT IS IT THAT SETS GAME DESIGN AND THE SEDC ACADEMY OUT OF THE OTHERS ?
SEDC’s Game Design Academy is the only one that offers an introduction to Game Development and where we teach students to develop a game without writing code (using visual scripting).
BOJAN , WHY WAS THE GAME DESIGN ACADEMY IN SEDC CHOICED?
SEDC is the only Academy in Macedonia that includes in its program the complete process of creating a game, so the choice was not difficult for us.
BOJAN, IF THE KNOWLEDGE GAINED HELPED YOU IN OPENING YOUR FUNATTIC STUDIO AND YOUR FIRST GAME?
The knowledge gained helped a lot!
The FunAttic team is composed of 3 members who are directly involved in the Academy itself, i.e. 2 students and a mentor. The excellent communication we had during the lectures itself translated into the idea of creating the studio. In the creation of our game, we were familiar with almost all the steps, primarily due to the fact that we had already created 3 demo games as part of the Academy, so we wasted more time on the game idea itself than on the realization.
IS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED BEFORE ENROLLING IN THE ACADEMY?
Nikola : No, you just need a good computer, after all, this is gaming, who knows what game.
Bojan : No prior knowledge is required. The only thing that can be said as an advantage is that the student plays games regardless of their genre or whether they play them on a PC, a mobile device or a console, and all the steps in creating the game are taught in the Academy, which is led by excellent mentors .
FINALLY, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO STUDY GAME DESIGN?
Nikola : Game Design & Game Development is a vast industry, the beginning can seem scary for everyone. Give yourself time and you will experience a eureka moment after which you will never doubt yourself.
Bojan : The industry itself is huge, one of the fastest growing industries in the world and one of the few that experienced significant growth during the pandemic.
Anyone who wants to work in this field will enjoy creating games and get paid well.
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