Vlambeer started in September 2010. Since then, we made Super Crate Box, in which you can never predict what’s next due to the randomness, but you can learn how the system works to gain situational awareness. We’re still wrapping up LUFTRAUSERS, a game that focuses on customization and finding something that fits your own playing style. We made Ridiculous Fishing, a game in which we integrated a deep fiction into an otherwise simple game design.
These games are all explorations of things we find interesting or cool or weird. Things we ran across in a documentary, or while watching a movie, or reading a book, or browsing the internet.
When we originally made Wasteland Kings in 72 hours for Mojang’s charity game jam, the limited amount of time just meant we made something that felt natural to us. We’re good at arcade action gameplay, so we ended up making that. Jan Willem had been toying around with random generation a lot, so that went in. We’re both fans of bad science fiction, so the game is very much inspired by sci-fi movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s
