Motiviti took (at least) 11 years to make point-and-click adventure game Elroy and the Aliens

Elroy and the Aliens recently debuted on Steam this month as a new hand-drawn point-and-click adventure that was inspired by classic LucasArts titles and sanguine storytelling from the 1990s. What’s remarkable is that two friends, Tadej Gregorcic and Jernej Kocjancic, got the idea for the game back in 2009. They started it and worked on it on and off, and really got going in 2014. And 11 years later, after self-funding the title through co-dev work, they’ve launched it as an $18 Steam title. It’s amazing to see something as complex as a game get built by a small team of developers over 11 years. In this age of triple-A games with hundreds or even thousands of developers on a game, it’s hard to work on games with a tiny staff. Yet it’s not so rare an event among the passionate people in gaming. Stardew Valley was made by a single developer, as was the award-winning Balatro. Billy Basso, the creator of Animal Well, told me at the Dice Summit that it took him seven years to finish the ... Read full article.