Interview extra: Mattia Traverso

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🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In this interview special, Ryan talks to Mattia Traverso (@MattiaNotFound) about the 2016 Kinect oddity FRU, on which he is one of the designers. They chat about finding inspiration for games, developing for unique hardware, and balancing multi-modal challenges. Mattia also gives a detailed history of developing a Kinect game at a time when Microsoft was just about ready to pull the plug on the peripheral. They dive deep to get to the bottom of what makes FRU such a special and effective game. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_mattia_traverso_interview.mp3 Edited by Ryan Hamann (@InsrtCoin). To request a free game key for Xbox One (and Kinect), email Mattia at [email protected] Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read out on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Canon Rinse podcast. Today we have a special interview with one of the
0:24.4	designers of one of last year's most interesting and maybe underappreciated games. We'll get to that
0:32.0	in the moment here. We have in the studio now, Matia Traverso, is that the correct way to pronounce the last name there?
0:40.2	That's perfect. I mean, I've heard much worse, so this is fantastic.
0:45.6	All right, and you are with Thru Games.
0:49.2	Exactly, yes.
0:50.0	And you just last year put out a really interesting, I would describe it as a puzzle platformer called Frue.
0:58.5	Exactly. Actually, we really like the pun that the name of the game is Thru, but the name of the studio is Thru, which I have a hard time pronouncing.
1:07.5	I actually did it to trick my fellow Italians. I knew that they wouldn't be
1:11.5	able to distinguish the difference. That actually caused us some problem with people
1:15.3	were trying to send us emails, but that's another story. Let's give a little bit of an introduction
1:19.8	to you. You say that in the little green room chat that we had before recording, you said
1:25.7	that you have lived in Italy for the past
1:28.2	year. Where were you before that? Right. So I'm actually from Italy, but I've moved to the
1:34.0	Netherlands four to five years ago. I actually went there to study. I had my degree in game design.
1:41.4	I was an independent developer before then, and I made flash games. One of
1:46.4	them is called One and One Story, and it's another puzzle platformer. I guess I'm cursed to only
1:52.5	make puzzle platformers. It's not a bad curse to have, though. I guess, but we'll see for the next
1:58.7	game. But besides, it's basically a puzzle platformer about a relationship,
2:04.0	and the mechanics of the game will change depending on the story of this relationship
2:07.8	between this boy and this girl.
2:09.6	Interesting.
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