![]() ![]() I was with Yager for seven years and I wouldn’t have stayed there so long if it hadn’t been good. Why did you leave a major studio to launch your own very small one? What’s important for me, at least as far as our games are concerned, are interesting, relevant contents with socially critical or cultural references. “The game is still in its initial stages. Riad sees parallels to the present in the interwar period: Disillusionment with politics, escalating extremism, the collapse of democratic systems, coupled with extreme partying, hedonism and drug use. Crime stories set in the Weimar Republic are explored. “This time around, you explore characters, not landscapes,” explains Riad. ![]() The current titleonce again relies on procedural contents – in other words on set pieces that the computer recombines in continually new ways. They are now developing their ideas in a new direction. Riad and Johannes built up a fan community over several years and marketed the game very successfully. In the nineteenth century, gamers travel to distant lands and experience all manner of terrors and wonders there. The title in retro optics is a kind of board game for one person. Under their studio name Maschinen-Mensch the duo developed The Curious Expedition (TCE). But with this Co-Working-Space, Riad has regained conviviality and company.īut the lonesome times with colleague Johannes Kristmann also served to establish Riad. Saftladen Berlin | Photo: Jan Bojaryn With his Saftladen Riad Djemili has solved a problem: his departure from the renowned game studio Yager was a path to creative freedom, but also to loneliness. Chatting is done in English, readily with thick accents. Inside about 20 headset-wearing members from various studios sit brooding before their monitors. The grey building is to be found behind a grey gate and a grey parking lot in the midst of a swarm of cafés, snack stalls and congested traffic. It is tucked away in Berlin at the Kottbusser Tor. The collective was founded by Riad Djemili. Now there is a sequel.īerlin’s Saftladen is one of the leading addresses for indie games from Germany. "The Curious Expedition" was a surprise hit. ![]() Riad Djemili left one of Germany’s top studios to co-develop a digital board game together with a friend. ![]()
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