News & Updates
Woven – Gameplay update
Gameplay Update If you missed the news, we are working hard on developing Woven with the help of a Publisher. It’s been a while since the pre-alpha demo and some parts of the games have been changed quite a lot. The big picture is still the same though; explore a...
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Interns Talk: Martin’s Monster Maze
Play online: Welcome to Interns Talk. The moment we let our interns show off some of the stuff we've been teaching them to make. Enjoy! Hello! My name is Quoc. Alterego Games gave me the opportunity to make a small but enjoyable game. The requirement was that it had...
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Woven is Happening
Woven, it is happening! Woven; our unique adventure game where a seemingly safe woollen world is actually being threatened by metal insects. (Shush, spoilers!). The game that lets you puzzle and explore your way through a rhyming story by changing the body parts of...
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Rob Talk: Joining AEG & AR
Hello! I'm Rob, the first full-time employee of Alterego Games and this is my very first blog post! As a game developer at Alterego my job consists of programming games and apps, designing mechanics, testing our games and doing research on emerging...
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Interns Talk: Influence of AR and VR in the game industry
Claudia Welcome to Interns Talk. The moment we let our interns show off some of the stuff we've been teaching them to make. Enjoy! Hello! My name is Claudia and I’m an intern at Alterego Games. I study IT: Game Development at Amsterdam University of...
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Interns Talk: Catta! Run
Play Web Demo: Welcome to Interns Talk. The moment we let our interns show off some of the stuff we've been teaching them to make. Enjoy! Hello! Interns Claudia and Lucila calling for duty! Today, we really wanted to share a new game that we made together!...
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Gamejam Update: The True Tales of Bloodstreet 13 – Chapter 1 is released!
Available for free on: Around two years ago, our office was still located in Hilversum. We became good friends with two other game studio’s (Sneaky Mammoth and Lunar Brothers) who also worked there. One day we were having lunch together which brought us...
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Interns Talk: Bugs in localWorld Space
Play Web Demo: Welcome to Interns Talk. The moment we let our interns show off some of the stuff we've been teaching them to make. Enjoy! Hi there, Lucila and Pip here! We had the opportunity the create a game of our own design here at Alterego Games....
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Project Explained: Spider Phobia VR
Available for Free on: With AR and VR still in their infant stages of development, companies are continuously experimenting with new implementations for these techniques. This is no different at Alterego Games. We want to do more than just use it as a...
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New Website is Online
We’re online! After lots of designing, coding, writing and hard work in general, the new website is completed. Every part of the website was updated, but the biggest change is to the content we showcase. Even the most recent project on our old website was over two...
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We’ve got a new Employee!
Introducing Jaapie! Our very much appreciated new member of the team. He doesn’t create bugs, he doesn’t mess up his textures, he eats only what we leave behind and he’s very quiet during the day. He’s perfect. He’s a vacuum cleaning robot, and also mops the floor....
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When is it too late to hold your office warming party?
Never! We’ve been so busy from summer to winter that we haven’t found the time to properly celebrate our new office space! The walls have been painted, the HTC Vive has been charged, the plants have been watered, the catering has been ordered, the games have been made...
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It’s Time for VR
We spend a lot of time at the office talking about VR, and sometimes, luckily, enjoying it as well as we challenge each other to beat the highscores on Space Pirate Trainer, or when we dabble into building Vive VR prototypes ourselves. There are a lot of opinion about...
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Escape the Office
Today two of our teammembers were saying goodbye, and we decided to give them a good sendoff. Rogier van der Helm is a gamedesigner and projectmanager with considerable escape room experience on is resumé (he had a big hand in Prison Escape!) and Boy Voesten is a...
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Two become Three
It’s been a long time coming. Our one and only full time developer at Alterego Games has stopped his own freelance company and merged with us as one of the heads of the company! After over 15 years of freelancing, Vincent found his place at our company and we welcomed...
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We’re Moving… Again!
It's only been half a year on Kwekerijweg 2C, and we’ve had another Moving Day, again already now. We’ll have to prepare for a long journey, as we are moving all our PC’s, files, desks, lamps and plants from Kwekerijweg 2C, Zeist, aaaaaaaaalllll the way to the other...
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It’s Moving Day!
Today we could announce the happy news to the team; no work today. No endless lines of code, no artwork to make, no android builds to build. No, not today. Today everybody gets to haul boxes and cram furniture into the van! Yes, we’re leaving our office in Hilversum,...
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Being an all-round game developer in the game industry
In my opinion there are two ways you can go as a game developer. You can either be an all-round one, or a specialist. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I myself am most definitely an all-round game developer. I’ve been making games professionally for more...
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They’re in!
A few months ago the filming crew of SBB dropped by to interview us, our interns, and shoot a cool video showing of what internships look like for Gamedevelopers and Game artists. The video’s are now completed and we’ve put them up in the new and improved “Jobs...
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Stream the Stream, Listen to our Music!
Through our years as a Game studio, we have developed lots of small games, and each of those games needed a soundtrack. Some are small and simple, some grand! So we proudly present our Spotify music list. To be updated with all our new music. Check it out!...
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Gamejam: Truetales of Bloodstreet 13
Preparation of T13 is underway. We are still live! We have survived a 120 hour long gamejam. Normal Gamejams last for a day, or a weekend, and are creative outbursts in which new game concepts are developed. You start early, you end late. You don't sleep...
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Intrigo: Mutineers of the Seven Seas
1000 handfolded boxes, contents included! Mutineers of the Seven Seas, (Muiters van de zeven Zeeën) is our first ever game, and its a cardgame! Inspired by nightlong game sessions with our friends playing intrigue games, Dominic and Matthijs created their own...
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