The product of a 3 person team based in Germany, A Juggler's Tale is a small indie game that is being made by young creatives from the internationally renowned university, "Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg". Still only the studio's first title, A Juggler's Tale has already won the BEST NEWCOMER Award at the German Videogame Award 2019 and is being compared to side-scrolling narrative based platformers such as Limbo, Inside, and Little Nightmares. I spoke to Dominik Schön (Game Design, Gameplay Programming, Level Art) and got to ask him as to what else inspired his team's first title. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkT2srr83Y
How long has A Juggler’s Tale been in development for, and what inspired the game?
Yeah, so we started developing back in 2017 as a student crew. So it was a massive project of ours, and then we did some other study projects. But we always thought about this game, and that there this so much potential within it. So we got the opportunity to take a break-year from our studies after the sixth semester. To take a break, to found a company, and to work full-time on the game for 9 months. That was last year, and the game is still not finished, but we believe in the game and we think that probably around the ...