Good evening.

You are listening to Three Moves Ahead.

I'm your host, John Bolding.

And tonight we have a bit of a treat as we have an interview with a up-and-coming game designer.

We have here, Mr.

Go ahead and introduce yourself.

Hello, I'm Kyle Cookstow.

I am working on the strategy video game

cantata uh i'm glad i get to be the treat on three moves ahead it's exciting to be you get just

a little bit of indie strategy developer as a treat just a little bit just a little bit a little tiny bit in these this year of massive

releases too oh man stuff coming out left and right right yeah but uh kyle is with uh after

school studio and he is planning you all are planning how many people are there at after school

studio so we're um excuse me sorry

we're so we're three full-time people um it's me and two other programmers um but then the

the team working on cantata is about uh like eight to eleven ish um and that's with people in varying capacities of part-time stuff so that's people

doing audio sound effects the pixel art character art writing uh yeah and we have a publisher

and they have their own you know team size so we're not it's not just me. I don't want to make sure that's clear, but it was just me for a pretty long time. And then we've been working in this and more full-time capacity for about the past twoish years. So small thing, but not the smallest for sure. Yeah, definitely not the smallest.

And cantata seems to be a game of extreme scope in many ways. It's very groundbreaking. It has a lot of

interesting things going on, which is sort of like my catnip. So can you go ahead and give us the the high level overview

of what Kentata is? I will. I think just to nail what you're saying, too, about this scope,

I think that the biggest realization in the past six months for me has been realizing how big

this game is. It's sort of like, not like shooting myself in the foot,

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