BEAST BREAKER
Mouse versus monsters in another cracker from the Threes creator
Developer/ publisher Vodeo Games
Format PC, Switch
Origin US
Release Q3
We ask Vollmer for an explanation of his studio’s name, for which Beast Breaker will be the debut release. “You can actually pronounce it ‘vo-day-o’ games if you want to be fancy, but it’s really just videogames with an ‘o’,” he says. And it’s got the ‘Vo’ of my surname in it. So it’s a dumb joke and it’s vain and it’s pretentious is the answer to that,” he laughs. You can sneak up on each beast to start a battle with an extra attack action, though if it sees you first, it launches an ambush and you’re thrust straight into the thick of itH ow do you follow a phenomenon such as Threes? Asher Vollmer’s mobile smash left him puzzled about where to go next. “It’s been this giant presence in my life that I’ve been trying to navigate around,” he admits. Vollmer started making minimalist strategy Close Castles, before putting it on hold. He founded Sirvo Studios and began work on the story-led Guildlings, but concedes that a year into development he’d begun to hate working on it: “There was no toy, no quick bite of game that I could play and tune and refine.” He stepped down from his role, and subsequently considered leaving the industry – yet after dabbling with making non-gaming apps, he tired of that, too.