In this in-Depth Developer Interview with Jamie Gavin AKA Enigma Studio , we talk in great depth about developing the rich world of Mothered, The Enigma Machine & Echostasis and how these games are linked by rich lore and storytelling. The idea that games are an art form in their own right has become less and less controversial in recent years I think. Ever since I first played Dear Esther and everybody's gone to the rapture both by the Chinese room I thought a lot about what you could do with a game as a medium of storytelling.
This inevitably led me to looking at the work of various solo and small team independent developers who are doing more and more interesting things with gameplay. I absolutely love indie games, they're one of the last forms of true auteur art where one person can do everything and create an entire atmosphere and world. It's such a phenomenal medium for that and there's nothing else quite like it. I discovered a thing a few years ago called the haunted PS1 demo disc which was all games that had a kind of retro PlayStation feel but were horror, and on that I found a game called Echostasis prologue by a guy called Jamie Gavin, who's also known as Enigma Studios.
He's made five a sort of trilogy of five: two prologue demos, a game called Mothered - where you hound your bizarre mannequin mother, a game called Enigma Machine, and Echostasis, both of which let you explore bizarre digital memories through communicating with a kind of ever more chaotic computer. A kind of cyber horror deconstruction of what the human being is and what the player is and what the relationship between the player and the game is and so on - all very intelligent and interesting stuff that was fun but very immersive and powerful.
They also all have a really unique graphical style. So I decided I wanted to talk to him and ask him as many questions as I could about the games, about the philosophy behind them development itself, and more. So what follows is a quite a long conversation between me and him at a place called the Amaze festival in Sheffield where we talk about all of that for quite a long period of time
ENIGMA STUDIO:
http://linktr.ee/ENIGMA_STUDIO
http://patreon.com/ENIGMA_STUDIO
FILM BY HARDINGMAL: https://www.hardingmal.com
STEAM LINKS:
Mothered - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1830720/MOTHERED__A_ROLEPLAYING_HORROR_GAME/
The Enigma Machine - https://store.steampowered.com/app/977810/THE_ENIGMA_MACHINE/
Echostasis - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1558000/ECHOSTASIS/
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