If you played ilomilo you might have noticed the orchestra talking in the song “music school”. That was initially an attempt to give voices to ilo and milo, as one of the an ideas was to have them sound like Winnie and Piglet from the russian version of Winnie the Pooh.
That did turn out a bit too extreme for little ilo and milo, in the end we even felt like they should be all silent. But I really liked how the voices came out so I decided to add them in that song as the musicians talking to each other after messing up the groove.
I also made a pipe smoking, coughing, tea drinking reader for the story parts. He used the same fake russian language made to sound similar to the narrator of Winnie Pooh. But that was cut out in the end. Sad face.
In a way I guess that’s okay because it makes Sebastian even more special as he is the only actively talking character in the game. Except for curious, angry and singing cubes.
ilomilo WP7 won three pocket gamer awards this year! One for “Best Casual/Puzzle Game”, one for “Most Innovative Game” and also the “Windows Phone 7 Game of the Year” award!
Oh, glorious day!
On a different note, I’m going on vacation for 3 weeks now, so the blog updates won’t be so frequent during that time. My colleague Daniel take over the blog-writing while I take some time in the sun.