He states that "everyone in the company has a very strong input into how the game is made" and that they make an effort to "ensure that everyone's views and opinions are taken equally".Ĭalling it the best part of working in an indie gaming company, it was this sort of collaborative mindset that set them to create their hit game Cat Quest. Immediately, there was a stark difference in terms of working environment and experience.ĭesmond points out that with a smaller game development team, the biggest difference is "the contribution and involvement you feel with every project". Is it any wonder then that he and his two Gentlebros co-founders left Tecmo Koei Games in 2015 to start their own gaming company? "You don't really feel like you are contributing much to the overall vision, you're just there to complete the work and move on," shares Desmond matter-of-factly.
It was here that Desmond met his two other GentleBros co-founders Leon Ho and Nursyazana Zainal, and gained invaluable experience working on international game titles like the Dynasty Warriors, Dead or Alive and Fatal Frame.ĭespite working on such marquee games, he likens his experience in working for a major game company as being "a very small cog in a huge machine".Įlaborating further, he tells us that each employee works on very specific parts of a game character, like, say, the clothes and this means that he didn't feel a lot of "investment" in all the stuff he created. So after completing his degree in Digital Art and Animation, the DigiPen Institute of Technology graduate managed to land a job at major gaming studio Tecmo Koei Games as a computer graphics (CG) artist. "My parents' reaction to me wanting to go into game development was not great," shares Desmond.īut after some coaxing and support from his school teacher, he managed to convince them that if he was doing what he loved, then he would naturally do better in it. His first hurdle, convincing his parents on his chosen path.
It was then that the he first decided to take on game design as a career. Press start to playĪ post shared by The Gentlebros work is no stranger to Desmond from a young age the self-confessed perfectionist has been busy scribbling away in his sketchbooks "designing game levels" since his secondary school days. The fact that they are the only game company nominated certainly is also indicative that they are held in similar high regard as other crucial fields such as medical and engineering.īut most importantly, Desmond says "getting nominated for the Emerging Enterprise Awards was definitely validation for all the hard work that put in" and that Gentlebros is "able to stand toe-to-toe with all these other industries". So after such a remarkable turnaround, perhaps it is fitting that The GentleBros, the company which Desmond co-founded with two of his former work colleagues, have been rewarded as one of the Emerging Enterprise 2022 Award finalists. With two successful game titles under the company belt, Cat Quest and its sequel Cat Quest 2 have raked in $8.5m in gross profits with 2.5m copies sold. These days, however, Desmond, who is the Chief Executive Officer of local indie gaming company The Gentlebros, doesn't have to worry about finances just as much.
The local game developer behind the award-winning role-playing game shares with AsiaOne that there was a lot of uncertainly before finding success. "We actually ran out of money like near the end, so Cat Quest was really do or die," exclaims Desmond Wong.
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