MINI MAKER: MAKE A THING
Letting creativity flourish between expectations and reality
Developer/ publisher Casa Rara
Format PC Origin Canada
Release Q1/2 2022
During the early stages of the pandemic, many of us found ourselves with time on our hands, and set about finding ways to fill it, often in the form of new hobbies. Syd Lazarus, comms manager of Montreal-based indie studio Casa Rara, says a lot of their friends started playing games or finding something tactile with which to occupy themselves. “I wonder what it is about those times when you’re left to your own devices, how you start just creating,” they say. “Or maybe it’s about no longer fearing that judgement of what the outside world thinks.” For Mini Maker: Make A Thing creative lead Ruben Farrus, this “wonky workshop mmaculate Minecraft recreations of Notre-Dame de Paris and dazzled by the level-building talents of Super Mario Maker 2 users. “The problem is, I thought I was going to make something great on my first attempt; that it was going to “People have mentioned that they feel like it’s as if Spore Creature Creator and