Hello everyone!<\/p>\n
This is Simon Kratz and in this post I\u2019d like to shed some light on the studio and people responsible for games like our award-winning PC and console couch-coop game Shift Happens<\/a><\/em> (a game I already talked about in this post<\/a>).<\/p>\n My colleagues and I started studying game development together in Munich, Germany at the local Mediadesign Hochschule in 2010. After three years of creating small student projects together, finding teammates and building some (humble) strategies for a future indie studio we founded Klonk Games in 2013 after graduating together.<\/p>\n Starting was pretty tough as we basically had no budget to keep a company running (let alone create a game). Luckily we made enough money from frequent contract work projects so we could keep our company alive and still have a bit of progress on the prototype that would later become Shift Happens<\/em>.<\/p>\n At that time I was already starting to take a liking to Sketchfab and its already rich feature set. We were focused on learning Blender on a production-ready level and everyone in my art department built a small scene to learn the tools and do some experimenting with our set style. I decided to put my model on Sketchfab after it was done. It\u2019s still the most-viewed model on my account :D<\/p>\nEarly steps and Sketchfab<\/h3>\n