We are super excited for this episode, as we have Indie Royalty with us today, Operations Manager from Extremely OK Games, Heidy Motta.
Heidy got involved in the Indie Game scene through her friends Pedro Medeiros and Amora Bettany who needed business and operations help with Studio Miniboss in Brazil. With Miniboss’ heavy involvement in Celeste, working alongside Maddy Thorson, Noel Berry, and Lena Raine, Heidy handled Operations Management along with social media and community management for Celeste.
With the success of Celeste, Extremely OK Games was formed in 2019, bringing the entire Celeste team under one company and to one location in their new head office in Vancouver, BC.
The same team of course, also made the popular local multiplayer game TowerFall, which many first learnt of from the Ouya. Towerfall has since made its way to all major consoles and Steam with many updates and new content.
EXOK Games are working hard on their next major release after Celeste, Earthblade. A 2D explor-action game in a seamless pixel art world coming in 2024.
Our conversation included:
Moving to Vancouver, Great Blue Herons and Capybaras
Her journey into the indie game industry
Launching Celeste, that experience, and EXOK Games
Luck and accepting opportunities in life
International Relationships and working globally
Operations Management, Social Media and Community Management Tips
Just how hard finishing is!
Great stories and creating connections
Press kits and localisation
And of course, the top 5 games that influenced her
Resource Links:
Twine Game Engine - https://twinery.org/
Press kit link - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/87lycjzncb0o9ns/AACcA3s5Uyzkeicn3-26qLBWa?dl=0
More on Extremely OK Games:
Website: exok.com
Earthblade on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2239640/Earthblade
Celeste on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/504230/Celeste
Towerfall on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/251470/TowerFall_Ascension
Celeste on Nintendo: https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/store/products/celeste-switch
Celeste and Towerfall are on all major platforms
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heidy_km
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xuwy39H
Heidy on Itch.io: https://heidymotta.itch.io
Heidy’s website: heidy.page
Indie Dev Game Break Podcast Links:
Follow Stray Voltage Games / Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/strayvoltageca
Stray Voltage Games on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2221440/Kip_and_Odosan
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