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Naturally it has faced and is still facing many challenges. Lots of hidden achievements not necessary for completing the game were added.īaziCenter: Have you faced any tough challenge while developing Samorost 3?Īmanita Design: Samorost 3 has been in development for 5 years it is our largest and most ambitious project so far. But this time we wanted to put emphasis on playfulness and simply enjoying the atmosphere of all Samorost 3 locations and planets. It is more complicated to self-publish than to go via publisher but the positives of being fully independent are predominant.īaziCenter: Is Samorost 3 going to introduce new gameplay mechanics or element to the series?Īmanita Design: The gameplay design is similar to previous Samorosts, it’s a point-and-click adventure game where player is exploring locations, solving puzzles, collecting and using items. Amanita managed to self-publish all titles on almost all digital distribution platforms, which is the way we recommend to any indie developer. Competition on indie game scene is getting tougher each year and number of indie studios which manage to achieve financial independence is very low. We try to keep the company size small with family-like atmosphere and without stressing people with strict deadlines.īaziCenter: In your opinion, is operating in the indie games scene a better position for a creative studio like Amanita Design or collaborating with big publishers?Īmanita Design: Amanita was lucky to release titles which became very successful and enabled it to become financially self-sufficient. The company vision remained unchanged from it’s beginning: Let’s make games we love to play.

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It’s a nice Czech only word which has various meanings.īaziCenter: Since the release of first Samorost game until now that you are developing the third entry, how has Amanita Design changed besides increasing its staff?Īmanita Design: Samorost series were interrupted by developing Machinarium and Botanicula – two biggest Amanita’s hits, which helped Amanita to become world renowned indie game studio and gain financial independence. Lot of inspiration came from old computer games, adventure games and most importantly by nature itself, from forests, rotten wood as well as old machinery, and rusty things and stuff like that.īaziCenter: Does the name Samorost mean anything special?Īmanita Design: “Samorost” in Czech language means a root or piece of wood which resembles a creature but it is also a term for a person who doesn’t care about the rest of the world. Samorost was inspired by sci-fi books, old animated films by authors like Jan Švankmajer, Karel Zeman and others.

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It was created in Adobe Flash and was (and still is) playable for free on-line. Amanita’s most successful titles so far are Machinarium (2009) and Botanicula (2012).īaziCenter: How did Samorost came to life and what inspires these peculiar ideas of Amanita Design’s games?Īmanita Design: The first Samorost game was Jakub’s thesis project at the Academy of Arts in Prague (Czech Republic). Besides making computer games, the studio has also created music videos, websites, animated works, and illustrations and has done production design as well.

Since then, Amanita Design team has expanded further to include several excellent collaborators – musicians Floex and Dva, programmers David Oliva, Peter Stehlík and Jan Werner, painter Adolf Lachman, sound effects expert Tomáš Dvořák and animator Jaromír Plachý. In 2005, animator Václav Blín joined the studio and Samorost 2 was created. So we decided to arrange an interview with Amanita Design to see how is the development going and what has been the formula behind Amanita’s success.īaziCenter: Please tell us about Amanita Design and how it came to existence.Īmanita Design: Amanita Design studio was established by Jakub Dvorský after finishing his university studies back in 2003. After the second Samorost, and working on another art fields, Amanita is now developing Samorost 3.

Back in 2003 that the first Samorost came out, not so many of the gamers community were familiar with Amanita Design, until the year 2009 that Machinarium was created, the Studio became world-renowned.

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