On surrealism via Chile: an interview with ACE Team

Interview by Matt S.

Chilean developer, ACE Team, unveiled its latest project in partnership with publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment a couple of weeks ago: The Eternal Cylinder, a highly surrealistic open world survival game, featuring art clearly inspired by Salvador Dali, and the looming threat of an apocalypse via giant, rolling cylinder.

We love everything that ACE Team puts its name to, because this developer is, for want of a better word "unsettled." ACE Team is always finding new and creative ideas to pursue, and it has one of the most eclectic libraries of all game developers a a result. One of the few mid-tier developers to really be able to push for its own ideas, ACE Team is one of those rare developers to have been able to remain truly independent and focused on their art.

We had the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with ACE Team co-founder, and head of game art and design, Carlos Bordeu, about where the inspiration for The Eternal Cylinder came from, and what it's like to have been on the forefront of South American game development over so many years now.

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