![]() ![]() See where this is going? I pitched the idea of placing the game in a cottage with three witches shooting bubbles from their cauldron. Pratchett’s take on Macbeth centred on his trio of Wyrd Sisters. And I read his wonderfully absurd Discworld books. I have never read any Shakespeare, but Terry Pratchett did. “When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” I had this fantastic opportunity to come up with whatever I felt like modelling and drawing, as long as it fit the audience, of course. It was Sebastian Knutsson who designed the game, a bubble shooter, and my first order of business was to set a theme for the game and make a rough layout in a few days. A lot of fun, and a lot of new stuff to learn! The brand that almost wasn’tĪs far as I remember the original Bubble Witch on Royal Games was the second game I worked on at King (the first was a Blackjack game exclusive to the Italian market, it’s a long story). It meant I had a lot of influence over the visual themes and got to make all the required artwork characters, backgrounds, game elements, animations and visual effects. Games were pitched by a designer and developed by one coder and one artist. As it were, actually all game artists at King had that title. ![]() My new title was Art Director, not bad for a former AAA environment artist. ![]() King was very different back then, with about 80 people in the Stockholm office. They made casual competitive skill games, which was an unknown genre to me, on a web platform called (later renamed Royal Games). ![]() I had just started working at this company in Stockholm called King. It was released on Facebook in September 2011 (according to Google, I was never that great with dates) and as it turned out, became a very successful game for King.īut I’ll start a bit further back, in February 2010. My name is Jörgen Wänerskär and I was the Art Director for that game during its development and first two years as a live game. In the beginning of October, a game called Bubble Witch Saga was retired after nine years of duty. ![]()
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