“For Kona, it took about three years and two failed projects to get to know ourselves and our limits, to find a concept that was ambitious enough to motivate us as a team and simple enough to be handled by only three developers (which over time grew to six, fortunately),” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n “It is no surprise that we are making a game with survival elements; we had to find creative ways to survive our first three years as a company.”<\/span><\/p>\n Originally the team started doing contract work to fund a game that ultimately failed. However, they tried again, and slowly built Kona with more contract work, crowdfunding and the Canadian Media Funds which allowed them to accumulate a $600,000 budget in\u00a0two and a half year’s of development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The initial idea of Kona came from a small prototype the team’s programmer made which was a simple snowmobile simulator. From there Parabole’s art director made a vintage 1960’s Skidoo to make the simulator more exciting.<\/p>\n “Several brainstorming sessions later, we had a writer and a band on board to make a surreal adventure game set in the 1970’s Northern Canada,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n “We always wanted to explore our own territory, so we kept everything from the writing to the music a local affair.”<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Screenshot02\"](\"http:\/\/ezramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screenshot02.png\")
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