“So I sat down and looked at all the word games that people liked and started to do some research into the field to try and understand why it was that my friend really enjoyed this game, while I really didn’t like it. So to build something that I considered to be real rubbish that a friend of mine thought was brilliant was hard to wrap my mind around. “Because when you’re making things you think you have a pretty keen sense of what is good and what isn’t. “That was a really weird experience for me,” said Gage. When working on a prototype of SpellTower he “thought the prototype really sucked,” but was encouraged to continue by a friend who was fond of word games. However, Gage’s unique approach to exploring games in this way came about almost by accident.
To build something I considered to be real rubbish that a friend of mine thought was brilliant was hard to wrap my mind around. “That paired with my enjoyment of exploring these old style contexts, like cards, pool, words or newspaper games, led to this weird career of exploring these overlooked or old conventional games and bringing them into the video games space by making them accessible.” “I discovered that specific set of experiences was helpful in terms of designing games that were comfortable to interact with and that could convince people who may not necessarily be interested in playing video games that these things were friendly and enjoyable,” Gage tells PocketGamer.Biz. That, and the attraction of bringing them to non-traditional gamers. While experience in creating alluring visuals helped Gage find a foothold in the indie scene, it was the vivid spirit of artistry found in reinventing old bar games that kept him there. Really Bad Chess randomises the player's chess pieces while Sage Solitaire combines the luck of Klondike with the depth of Poker. The games he crafts on the other hand tend to take old vintage favourites, such as chess and poker, and give them life anew by adding modern yet straightforward twists. More specifically it is stylised as conceptual art, which means that concepts and ideas take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical and material concerns. Just some of his artistic endeavours include sculpting and photography. While Zach Gagemay be known to most as a games developer, the New Yorker came to the medium through fine arts.
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