Jip Crombag is a Technical Game Designer at Starbrew Games. He founded Starbrew Games with five friends during their graduation year at Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas). Together they have been working on their debut title Duck Side of the Moon for the past two and a half years. Duck Side of the Moon is an exploration game about an overworked duck who crash-lands in a mysterious galaxy. As a technical Game Designer at Starbrew, Jip tackles a multitude of tasks, from creating gameplay systems to implementing UI, as well as helping out with the business side of things.
In this talk Jip Crombag gives insight into the journey Duck Side of the Moon went through from a student prototype to a fully fledged game. Touching upon both great successes and challenges, like switching genre mid development and self-funding the development of their debut title.